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Donald Trump boards Air Force One on July 27, 2026.

Trump’s Caribbean Killing Spree Is a Feckless, Criminal Failure Trump’s Caribbean Killing Spree Is a Feckless, Criminal Failure

Blowing up innocent fishermen hasn’t curbed the drug trade.

Jul 31, 2026 / Jeet Heer

Doherty Tim, senior officer specialist, Federal Bureau of Prisons, chats with Ben Lupo, 64, from Youngstown, Ohio, at Devens federal prison in Massachusetts, on Tuesday, April 22, 2015. (

America’s Crisis of “Death by Incarceration” America’s Crisis of “Death by Incarceration”

The US prison population is aging rapidly, and incarcerated seniors are not getting the care they need.

Jul 31, 2026 / Zoe Beketova

New Order

New Order New Order

ICEcapades.

Jul 30, 2026 / OppArt / Eric Drooker

UAW president Shawn Fain at a rally in Philadelphia in 2024.

The War on the UAW The War on the UAW

The United Auto Workers called for a ceasefire in Gaza. The union’s federal monitor didn’t like it—and now he’s investigating Shawn Fain, just weeks before union elections.

Jul 27, 2026 / Ella Fanger

Samuel Daniell, “Boers Returning From Hunting.”

What J.M. Coetzee Can Teach Us About ICE What J.M. Coetzee Can Teach Us About ICE

The world inside the South African novelist’s Waiting for the Barbarians bears striking resemblance to Trump’s racist empire.

Jul 25, 2026 / Pamela Newton

Screenshot of Zohran Mamdani's video announcing he can't arrest Benjamin Netanyahu.

Mamdani Can’t Arrest Netanyahu. But He Can Still Hold Israel Accountable. Mamdani Can’t Arrest Netanyahu. But He Can Still Hold Israel Accountable.

New York City’s ties with Israel go far deeper than one man, and there are concrete things Mamdani can do to break those ties.

Jul 24, 2026 / Tariq Kenney-Shawa

President Donald Trump at an April press conference about the war in Iran.

For Trump, Every Accusation Is a Confession For Trump, Every Accusation Is a Confession

Like authoritarian regimes elsewhere, the White House is denouncing its opponents for the very abuses it is carrying out.

Jul 24, 2026 / Column / Sasha Abramsky

AI slop depicting caricatured Italian thugs threatening NYC’s mayor.

The Fake Controversy Behind Little Italy’s “Exclusion” The Fake Controversy Behind Little Italy’s “Exclusion”

The Italian American establishment’s hysterical response to Mayor Mamdani’s map of immigrant enclaves reveals a cynical politics of victimhood.

Jul 23, 2026 / Chris Gelardi

A roda de samba (samba circle) at the Pagode do Biro in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Slavery’s Musical Threads Slavery’s Musical Threads

As ICE violence resurges in the US, the musical history of black Brazil offers lessons in resistance.

Jul 22, 2026 / Mark Hertsgaard

Francesca Albanese, United Nations special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, attends the presentation of the book “The Light of Awakening. From Palestine to the Entire World, a Manifesto of Resistance“ and freedom at Spirit de Milan in Milan, Italy, on May 27, 2026.

Francesca Albanese Won’t Back Down Francesca Albanese Won’t Back Down

Talking to the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian Territories about genocide, standing up to the hatred of the establishment, and ending war.

Jul 22, 2026 / Q&A / Katrina vanden Heuvel and John Nichols

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