Calling to mind the subterfuge made infamous by the administration of George W. Bush in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, reports…
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Prof. Francis Boyle is a professor of international law at the University of Illinois Law School with a long career as an anti-war activist and…
How did an ongoing debate about how to deal with a population of 11 or so million undocumented immigrants so quickly turn into calls for…
He’s trailing an openly misogynistic troll doll in the polls, but Jeb Bush has outdone his opponents in the “slavish praise for the government’s surveillance…
Some Very Serious People have decided Governor John Kasich of Ohio is the latest personality to emerge from the field of presidential candidates in the…
Robert Mercer, a Wall Street hedge-fund magnate who started at I.B.M. and made his fortune using computer patterns to outsmart the stock market, has already…
In Thursday’s marathon prime-time Republican debates, climate change was not at the top of the agenda. Aside from a few mentions of “the energy revolution,”…
MOUNT WASHINGTON, N.H.—The wind on the peak of Mount Washington—the East Coast’s highest point, where some of the most erratic and treacherous weather in the…
In the run-up to the first Republican presidential debate, a flurry of news stories about the candidates offered glimpses of oligarchy in action. Consider: …
The numbers are dismaying. According to a new US Census report, only 20% of eligible 18-29-year-olds voted in 2014. It was the lowest turnout in 40…
In year since searing death, Ferguson sees uneven change. Yes, there has been change, but how substantial has it been? Did it take the death…
Trumped and OutFoxed: The Republicans' Undemocratic Debate And a bloviating billionaire shall lead them ... into debate. Welcome to the new world of political discourse,…