politics
Germans battle the rise of their own brand of ‘Trumpism’
July 5, 2018Like their counterparts in the U.S., the German right is using anti-immigrant hysteria to draw attention away from the serious threat it poses to democracy and peace.
Read moreAlito’s folly, part 2: SCOTUS abuses history in Janus decision
July 5, 2018Making public institutions untenable by starving them of funding is basically an attack on the public sphere itself.
Read moreSenators oppose Trump family-splitter for top consumer job
July 3, 2018Law students currently doing summer clerkships at the CFPB will have more experience with consumer-credit regulation than the nominee to lead the bureau.
Read more‘The First Purge’: A horror movie terrifyingly close to reality
July 3, 2018Sometimes movies are terrifying not for their monsters and ghouls, but because they hold up a mirror to the atrocities of our reality.
Read moreMovement gears up to stop Trump Supreme Court pick
July 3, 2018"If Trump puts up an anti-choice, anti-collective bargaining, anti-worker nominee, we’re going to have to use whatever mechanism we have to up the volume level.”
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