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opinion

The Right’s New Higher-Ed Target: Community Colleges

NOT JUST THE IVIES

Right-wing anger at ‘leftist’ institutions is no longer limited to Cambridge and Palo Alto and New Haven. It just spread to Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.

Richard A. Greenwald | Published Apr 03, 2021
opinion

The Capitol Rioters-Pro-Life Extremist Connection Is Real

SAME SWAMP

The Jan. 6 insurrectionists included some anti-choice extremists. This is not a coincidence.

Julie A. Burkhart | Published Apr 03, 2021
opinion

‘Women’s Empowerment’ Was Ivanka’s Biggest Grift of All

FREE-MARKET FEMINISM

Ivanka Trump, global champion of women? A new General Accounting Office report says otherwise, and in a big way.

Erin Gloria Ryan | Published Apr 02, 2021
opinion

Infrastructure Week Is Finally Here. Let’s Have This Fight.

BUILD BACK BETTER

With this package, corporations are being pressed to put up or shut up. An economy that serves all Americans costs money—and it needs to come from them that’s got it.

Michael Tomasky | Published Apr 01, 2021
opinion

Lara Trump’s Fox Gig Will Be One Big Campaign Ad—for Herself

FOXY LADY

Developing!: Lara is changing her career, from Republican propagandist to... uh, Republican propagandist.

Molly Jong-Fast | Published Mar 30, 2021
opinion

Powell’s ‘Just Kidding’ Defense Is Seriously, Literally Nuts

‘NO REASONABLE PERSON’

When people enter into the political arena, invent crazy conspiracy theories, and stoke violence and sedition, millions of Americans do take them seriously.

Matt Lewis | Published Mar 28, 2021
opinion

We’re on the Cusp of a Lost COVID Generation—Do We Care?

CRISIS TIME

If so, here’s what colleges need to do: vastly improve their mental health outreach and other forms of student support.

Richard A. Greenwald | Published Mar 27, 2021
opinion

Finally, Under Biden, America Is Catching Up to New Zealand

CATCHING UP

While you-know-who was talking up Clorox injections, the Kiwis relied on science. And it worked. Finally so are we. Better late than never.

Margaret Carlson | Published Mar 26, 2021
opinion

GOP Rule: White People Can Shoot, Black People Can’t Vote

PRIORITIES...

With each passing week, they make it more obvious. Whiteness, particularly of the conservative stripe, reigns supreme.

Kali Holloway | Published Mar 25, 2021
opinion

The GOP Is the Party of No Hope—and Endless Mass Murders

IT GETS WORSE

Now out of power, congressional Republicans have transformed themselves into the Helpless Caucus: Yes, there are problems, but no, we can’t do anything about them!

Molly Jong-Fast | Published Mar 25, 2021

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