Detention was sold as both a law-and-order necessity and an economic opportunity, welding together the racist politics of the drug war with the rise of private prisons.
For half a century, the evidence surfaced after the winners took office. This election may be the first where the public sees it beforehand…
How Reagan’s secret betrayal of America during the Iran hostage crisis helped him win the presidency, killed Carter’s clean-energy revolution, and helped create today’s crisis in the Strait of Hormuz…
The CBS merger isn’t a business deal — it’s a pay-to-play scheme fueling America’s slide into oligarchy…
Too many unions have responded to Donald Trump’s historic attacks on federal workers with little more than words. To beat back his anti-union assault, organized labor needs to break with decades of timidity.
Not satire from Borowitz, but a couple of history lessons. In 1984 after Reagan romped to victory with 59 percent of the popular vote and 525 electoral votes, Reaganism was declared unstoppable. But two years later, Democrats proved the pundits wrong
Fasten your seatbelts
The greatest sin of Reagan is not its (expectedly) warped worldview, but its total lack of drama.
How Democrats learned to tell the plain truth and like it
Ours is a nation built upon a set of ideas — ideas not rooted in bloodlines and burial plots but in values and ideals. Anyone who doesn’t understand something so fundamental about the United States is unfit for high office.
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