Nearly Every Member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus Still Takes Corporate PAC Money
The Congressional Progressive Caucus as an institution has stopped taking corporate money. The members of that institution are a different story.
Politics
Max Boot Is Very Sorry for Backing the GOP and the Iraq Invasion. Why Is He Being Praised for This?
The conservative intellectual is forgiven by his media peers for errors of immense and tragic consequence. Boot's new book is a problem.
Seed, Pesticide, and Banking Monopolies — Not Immigrants — Are Destroying Farm Country. An Iowa Insurgent Hopes That Message Can Dethrone Steve King.
Steve King spends so much time stirring up outrage that he doesn’t have anything left to attend to local needs, J.D. Scholten is arguing.
Wall Street Is Spending Big to Protect Its Ability to Jack Up Rents in California
The world’s largest real estate management firm has spent $7 million against a ballot measure that would allow cities to re-establish rent control laws.
Making a Killing
Is This the Beginning of the End of the U.S.-Saudi Alliance?
Lobbying firms, tech companies and politicians are under pressure to break with the increasingly rogue state.
Deconstructed Podcast
Are Democrats Ready to Get Radical?
Will the Democrats use their impending majority in 2019 to not just restrain or even impeach Donald Trump, but to push for a more progressive agenda?
Voices
Mental Health Professionals Denounce CNN and Don Lemon's Show for Mocking and Stigmatizing Kanye West's Hospitalization
Just four months after the tragic suicide of their own colleague, Anthony Bourdain, CNN promotes a dangerous segment that weaponizes mental health struggles for cheap political gain.
Voices
Don't Call Nikki Haley a Moderate. She's an Extremist on Israel, Iran, and Human Rights.
Trump's outgoing U.N. ambassador is getting applause from the media for being so moderate. But Haley has been a champion for right-wing causes.
Dianne Feinstein Finally Agrees to “Debate” Senate Challenger, While Ensuring Almost No One Watches It
It’s on a Wednesday. At noon. Livestream only. You have to register to watch it. Oh, and it’s not a true debate.
Voices
Donald Trump, Brett Kavanaugh, and the Rule of Pampered Princelings
Donald Trump and Brett Kavanaugh are what we get when a country is ruled by coddled, overconfident men who have never been permitted to fail.