Kavanaugh and #MeToo Raise New Questions About Youth Drinking Culture
Reading Time: 14 minutes Fraternities, one of the earliest manifestations of male privilege, remain training grounds for drinking and sexual abuse in a changing era.
Migration Expert Slams ‘Barbarity’ of Trump Policies
Reading Time: 20 minutes Global migration is a huge problem. In order for nations to deal with it effectively and humanely, its root causes and historical lineage must be understood.
Is America Now a Fascist Country?
Reading Time: 14 minutes A look at how a country filled with sexism, racism, nostalgia, and class division is ripe for fascist politics to take over via seemingly democratic means.
The 2008 Crash Was Not a Singular Event
Reading Time: 16 minutes On the tenth anniversary of the 2008 financial crisis, a reinterpretation of what happened — and a warning of the dangers that might lie just ahead.
The Global Elite’s Efforts to Change the World
Reading Time: 19 minutes Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctum of a new gilded age.
Voter Suppression 101
Reading Time: 17 minutes A look at how voting laws are being subverted to suppress minority participation, and at the resultant degradation of democracy.
Quagmire in Afghanistan: 17 Years and Counting
Reading Time: 15 minutes Is there a way forward in Afghanistan? A conversation with Laurel E. Miller, a senior foreign policy expert at RAND.
How Corporations Force States to Stifle Local Rule
Reading Time: 15 minutes The American Beverage Association basically extorted California’s government into preempting the authority of cities and counties to impose soda taxes over the next 12 years. Unfortunately other large corporate interests are also using similar tactics to get what they want.
Temp Work: The Waste Product of the Service Economy?
Reading Time: 17 minutes Cornell professor Louis Hyman explains the history of the unmaking of American work, how temporary work took over the economy, and why the gig economy may yet have a silver lining.
Are Americans Afraid of Optimism?
Reading Time: 18 minutes The US and the world are doing better by almost every metric. So why is there so much pessimism?
The Next Generation of Conservatives Is Hoping to Make Its Mark… After Trump
Reading Time: 17 minutes A look at how the next generation of Republicans is doing in the Trump era.
The Iran Nuclear Deal and the View From Tehran
Reading Time: 16 minutes Want to understand the consequences of pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal? What it means for the US, Iran, and rest of the world? Listen to this conversation with Iran scholar and former Iranian ambassador and government official Seyed Hossein Mousavian.
The Mouth That Roared — How Rush Limbaugh Changed America
Reading Time: 18 minutes How the journey of the most-listened-to national radio talk show host in America may have changed US politics forever.
GDP = Greatly Deceptive Prosperity
Reading Time: 16 minutes In spite of the one quarter GDP increase of 4.1 percent, the economy is not doing well for the majority of middle class Americans. Journalist Alissa Quart goes looking for the real America.
Putin’s Indecent Proposal
Reading Time: 16 minutes Bill Browder talks about being on the top of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most wanted list, his personal safety, and his shock at President Donald Trump’s reaction to Putin’s Helsinki proposal.
There Is More at Stake in WikiLeaks Showdown Than Assange’s Fate
Reading Time: 20 minutes As the fate of Julian Assange appears to be hanging in the balance, Peter B. Collins and State Department veteran Peter van Buren remind us that this case is about much more than just what will happen to the WikiLeaks founder if he is evicted from the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
Michael McFaul Talks Putin, Russia, and the Alt-Right
Reading Time: 13 minutes Former US Ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, who was cast into the spotlight when his name came up during the Helsinki meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, shares deep insights into Russia and its president — in ways that go beyond the current noise.
What Connects FIFA, the World Cup, Trump, Mueller, Comey, Putin, and Christopher Steele?
Reading Time: 19 minutes How the largest sports corruption scandal of all time was uncovered and prosecuted in the US — the country that cares the least about soccer.
When a Virus Hops on a Plane
Reading Time: 21 minutes The next global pandemic is not going to be stopped by a wall, trade barriers, or a travel ban. A look at what has worked and what hasn’t as we face a new Ebola outbreak in Africa.
Prosecutors Who Break the Law Face No Punishment
Reading Time: 19 minutes Prosecutors get away with just about anything, including falsifying evidence, coercing witnesses, and ruining lives — but that may change.