Why Do the Democrats Keep Expanding the Institutions They Claim to Oppose? Why Do the Democrats Keep Expanding the Institutions They Claim to Oppose?

The pattern is always the same: The public demands change, but the Democrats cave to political pressure and maintain the status quo, allowing the machinery to grow.

Scott Hechinger

Trump and Hegseth Are Winning the War Against Their Own Military Trump and Hegseth Are Winning the War Against Their Own Military

The president and the defense secretary are being humiliated abroad, so they’re purging scapegoats at home.

Jeet Heer

Trump Is Wildly Unpopular—but He Remains a Threat Trump Is Wildly Unpopular—but He Remains a Threat

The Trump brand is tarnished, and his grip over the GOP is loosening—but his authoritarian ambitions have not yet been corralled.

Column / Sasha Abramsky

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Politics

California students campaign for the Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act.

How California’s Kids Are Taking On Big Oil How California’s Kids Are Taking On Big Oil

After last year’s devastating wildfires, young Californians are spearheading a growing movement to force polluters—not taxpayers—to pay for the damage.

StudentNation / Padma Balaji

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani delivers remarks at the Union Now Rally to launch a nonprofit organization designed to boost worker power across the nation on April 12, 2026, in New York City.

New York City Finally Has a Rest Hub for Delivery Workers New York City Finally Has a Rest Hub for Delivery Workers

Five years after they began organizing for it, deliveristas have a space to rest and charge their e-bikes.

Prajwal Bhat

“Big Money” Jeff Bezos attends the 2026 Vanity Fair Oscar Party at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on March 15, 2026.

The Bezos “Post” Editorial Page Has Become a Mouthpiece for Pro-Billionaire Propaganda The Bezos “Post” Editorial Page Has Become a Mouthpiece for Pro-Billionaire Propaganda

Jeff Bezos said The Washington Post would no longer publish opinion pieces critical of free markets. Recent editorials show just how seriously the paper has taken this mandate.&nb…

Nathan Robinson

Books & the Arts

Susan Te Kahurangi King’s “Untitled,” 2022.

Revisiting the Advent of the Abstract Revisiting the Advent of the Abstract

A recent gallery exhibition on abstract art and self-taught artists proposes a new story for the rise of abstraction.

Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

Wolfgang Koeppen, 1986.

Wolfgang Koeppen—“Poet of Failure” Wolfgang Koeppen—“Poet of Failure”

The German writer’s postwar works were ruthless in their condemnation of a country that, in its inability to reckon with historical atrocity, was beyond reform.

Books & the Arts / Pankaj Mishra

Georg Simmel, 1914.

The Conflicted Origins of Sociology The Conflicted Origins of Sociology

Kwame Appiah Anthony’s Captive Gods examines how the founders of the discipline responded to a widespread decline in Christianity in the late 19th century.

Books & the Arts / Alec Gewirtz

World

Supporters of the pro-European conservative TISZA party celebrate during the election night on the banks on the river Danube with the Parliament building in the background, in Budapest after the general election in Hungary, on April 12, 2026.

Boris Kagarlitsky on Hungary’s Election Boris Kagarlitsky on Hungary’s Election

Reflections on right-wing populism’s dead end and the window of opportunity for the left.

Suzi Weissman and Boris Kagarlitsky

US President Donald Trump’s sidekick JD Vance attends a campaign rally in Budapest on April 7, 2026, for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who would be crushed in the election some days later.

The Honeymoon Is Over Between Trump and Europe’s Far Right The Honeymoon Is Over Between Trump and Europe’s Far Right


Viewing an alliance with Trumpist America as a liability.

Harrison Stetler

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum speaks to reporters as she arrives at a “Meeting in Defense of Democracy” in Barcelona on April 18, 2026, a gathering of leftist leaders seeking to rally against the far-right threat to democracy.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum at the Summit for Democracy Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum at the Summit for Democracy

“I am a woman of peace.”

Claudia Sheinbaum

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The Death of an AI Whistleblower

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Suchir Balaji sought to expose OpenAI’s data abuses. Did it come at the expense of his own life?

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A manifesto for an AI revolution that works for the many, not just the billionaires.

Feature / Rep. Ro Khanna

The Great AI Grift

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Tech leaders want you to believe that AI is the key to a new golden age. The reality looks more like a bold, government-backed heist.

Feature / Susannah Glickman, Amba Kak, and Sarah Myers West

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