All older articles that appeared in this section through December 31, 2012 can be found in our archives.

HOW THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION'S FOREIGN BUSINESS TIES COULD UPEND U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY
BY KURT EICHENWALD
"Trump’s global deals would make it impossible for him to conduct foreign policy in many countries without padding or depleting his wallet."

How Donald Trump retooled his charity to spend other people’s money
By David A. Fahrenthold

Clinton’s health is Obama’s birth certificate all over again: A barely disguised way for conservatives to wallow in bigotry
By AMANDA MARCOTTE

The Disgraced and Little-Known Generals Backing Donald Trump
Retired military leaders who have been brushed by scandal and even talked about America’s war with Satan are among those backing his campaign.
By NANCY A. YOUSSEF

America the Plunderer
By Timothy Egan
"As with everything in Trump’s world, his solution is simple: loot and pilfer."

Bad business as usual: Anyone who thinks Trump can run the country must look at how he’s run his campaign
By HEATHER DIGBY PARTON

Trump and the media: An outrageous celebu-candidate, plus the debased culture of journalism, produced this disaster
By ANDREW O'HEHIR

Media misfeasance on the campaign trail: Free pass for Trump on his taxes and health, but Hillary is hounded
By BOB CESCA

Newsweek opens a can of whoop-ass on Trump.
By Fokozatos Siker

Can You Have a Good Life if You Don’t Have a Good Job?
By MICHAEL LIND

Abbreviated pundit roundup: The Trump-Bondi bribery scandal
By Georgia Logothetis
"In the heat of a presidential campaign, you’d think that a story about one party’s nominee giving a large contribution to a state attorney general who promptly shut down an inquiry into that nominee’s scam 'university' would be enormous news."

Poll panic is here! Yes, Trump is closing, but here’s why it’s meaningless
By GARY LEGUM

It’s Not Just About the Tacos
Editorial Observer
By LAWRENCE DOWNES

Donald Trump’s Latest Birther Lie
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD

North Korea’s Nuclear Enabler
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD

Michigan Prosecutors Defy the Supreme Court
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD
"Young people convicted of murder should be justly punished, but Michigan’s approach isn’t close to what the Supreme Court envisioned."

Trump targets “the FDA Food Police,” calls for elimination of food-safety regulations in new tax plan
By SOPHIA TESFAYE

The Trump-Ailes Buddy Act
Editorial Observer
By ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON
"Mr. Trump may be looking to convert his campaign supporters into the audience for a new media company, and speculation about that has simmered throughout the summer."

Capitalism at its worst: The 5 deadly sins of Big Pharma
By PAUL BUCHHEIT, ALTERNET

Donald Trump’s spineless foes: Lurking within the Republican Party is deadly silent opposition
By GARY LEGUM

The Bitch America Needs
By ANDI ZEISLER
"For those who want her to be president, which is not synonymous with liking her, she’s the human embodiment of a shrug emoji, dodging flamethrowers from both sides and continuing to take care of business."

Donald Trump’s Rough Rider
By Mimi Swartz
"To those who concede that the Republican nominee, Donald J. Trump, is not entirely prepared for the presidency but argue that he would — of course! — surround himself with admirable advisers, I have one name for you: Sid Miller."

Hacked emails reveal Colin Powell called GOP Benghazi investigation a “witch hunt,” Trump a “national disgrace and an international pariah”
By SOPHIA TESFAYE

First step toward a safer country: America needs to destroy its cult of guns
KATHY KIELY, BILLMOYERS.COM

The Rise of Presidential Extremists
By LARRY M. BARTEL
"Yet the striking fact is that presidential candidates are frequently even more extreme than their own party’s core supporters, who have also become more extreme in recent decades."

Did You Hear the Latest About Hillary?
By Zeynep Tufekci
"But there’s also no amount of disclosure that would change the minds of people who think she’s been hiding epilepsy, Parkinson’s and dementia, thanks to her secret hypnotist and persuasive body double."

Recession hangover and the rise of Trump: His rise is fueled by an anger based on fiction
By HEATHER DIGBY PARTON

Back to the Stone Age
By Emma Roller

Will Speaker Paul Ryan Stand Up to the Freedom Caucus?
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD

The erosion of truth: Trump’s surrogates are Fox-ifying mainstream television news
By CODY CAIN

Mohammad Javad Zarif: Let Us Rid the World of Wahhabism
By MOHAMMAD JAVAD ZARIF

Privacy, the forgotten issue: Apathy is making Americans vulnerable
By THOR BENSON

What Trump Supporters Want You to Believe
By Andrew Rosenthal
"The ideas that have turned this election into such a farce are not just dangerous and appalling by the standards of American democracy and political traditions. They also violate just about every principle the Republican conservatives have been voicing since the days of Ronald Reagan, whom the Grand Old Party still claims as its icon."

America’s Mr. Diplomacy
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD
"Even as President Obama sought to keep America out of new military entanglements, Mr. Kerry has been determined to keep the nation engaged diplomatically and lead the world toward constructive results, despite times when the problems seem intractable."

God Loves Donald Trump. Right?
By Thomas B. Edsall
"The religious right was never about the advancement of biblical values. The modern, politically conservative evangelical movement we know is a movement rooted in the perpetuation of racial segregation, and its affiliation with the hard-right fringes of the conservative movement in the late 1970s produced a mutant form of evangelicalism inconsistent with the best traditions of evangelicalism itself."

In Wells Fargo Scandal, the Buck Stopped Well Short
By SUSAN M. OCHS

Mike Pence’s Illegal Treatment of Syrian Refugees
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD

Pardon Edward Snowden
By KENNETH ROTH and SALIL SHETTY

Anti-Trump Republicans: Don’t Waste Your Vote. Trade It.
By JOHN STUBBS and RICARDO REYES

NBC’s wasted opportunity: The “Commander-in-Chief” forum was a complete bust
By SIMON MALOY

The Bondi situation: Somehow Teflon Trump takes no damage from alleged bribery scheme
By GARY LEGUM

The Disgraced and Little-Known Generals Backing Donald Trump
Retired military leaders who have been brushed by scandal and even talked about America’s war with Satan are among those backing his campaign.
By NANCY A. YOUSSEF

Mission impossible: What the U.S. military doesn’t know (and neither do you)
By NICK TURSE, TOMDISPATCH.COM
"These increases offer a window into the rising importance of such missions by U.S. Special Operations forces (SOF) around the world, including their increasingly conspicuous roles in conflicts from Iraq and Syria to Yemen and Afghanistan."

Can Trump Win on Native Soil?
By Thomas B. Edsall

Similarities between Hillary Clinton, Tom Brady: The media’s presumption of guilt
By NEAL GABLER, BILLMOYERS.COM
"But Brady and Clinton actually share a rather significant experience: They both have been condemned by the media’s kangaroo court."

Self-proclaimed “genius” reaches new highs in stupidity: Trump puts his incompetence on full display
By HEATHER DIGBY PARTON
"That comment 'I’m good at war' says everything about Trump as he demonstrated last night at the town hall forum that he is indeed unfit to be president of the United States. "

The Paranoid Style in American Politics Is Back
By Thomas B. Edsall

Apple, Congress and the Missing Taxes
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD
"Apple has engaged in increasingly aggressive tax avoidance for at least a decade, including stashing some $100 billion in Ireland without paying taxes on much of it anywhere in the world, according to a Senate investigation in 2013."

The President, the Prosecutor, and the Wheel of Fortune
By Linda Greenhouse
"So Bill Clinton appears well on his way back to the White House (albeit in a different capacity) while Kenneth W. Starr, the independent counsel who pursued him and his sexual indiscretions all the way to his impeachment, is out of a job."

Donald Trump’s Deportation Nation
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD
"It’s ridiculous that Donald Trump’s immigration proposals — not so much a policy as empty words strung together and repeated — should have propelled him as far as they have."

Press, lies and Hillary’s campaign: Years of smears have created a fictional version of Clinton. They’re also a disservice to voters.
By HEATHER DIGBY PARTON
"Some members of the press are not just commenting on a reality; they are pushing the theme of two equally unpalatable candidates and it just isn’t true.."

Voter Suppression in North Carolina
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD

Why Did Peña Nieto Invite Trump to Mexico?
By IOAN GRILLO
"The curious thing about Mr. Peña Nieto’s latest debacle is how, unlike his other woes, it was totally self-inflicted."

Donald Trump, Deporter in Waiting
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD
"Don’t be confused by the days of mixed messaging from Donald Trump’s campaign, or the head-feint trip to Mexico, where he was polite to the president."

Moderate Republicans, Unite!
By MICHAEL TOMASKY
"The central question here is, why can’t the two sides get along? Or more accurately, why has the Republican Party become so resolutely obstructionist?"

All older articles that appeared in this section through December 31, 2012 can be found in our archives. Starting in 2013 we will no longer be archiving articles in this section.