Category archives: Politics

Vikrant Reddy on conservatism, criminal justice reform, and just what to do about America’s prisons

Trump seems to have changed his long-held position about U.S. policy on Syria 180 degrees in the course of about 36 hours

There’s a workshop on gender identity in Leesburg, VA; a march for progressive policy reform in Tallahassee, FL; a seminar about social justice and climate change in Tempe, AZ; and we’re looking ahead to comedians working for reproductive justice at th…

Democrats decision to filibuster Neil Gorsuch was smart politics for seeking credibility with younger voters.

The Trump administration wants to expand electronic searches at the border. Congress wants to make sure Americans aren’t swept up in those searches without a warrant.

The complete list of issues President Trump has entrusted to his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, includes all the most intractable problems facing America today, except how to fold fitted sheets (which, who knows, maybe that’s next week)

Sometimes, you have to eat a sausage on white bread, because you have to

How Republican infighting illuminates the current state of America’s most screwed-up social network

Marion Barry told D.C. that he would stand up for the city when no one else would. He was lying.

The most recent GOP attack is a Georgia Representative’s attempt to make reporting campus sexual assault to the police mandatory