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America should build things again, and we the people should own what we build.

Corbin Trent

Is This Viktor Orbán’s Last Stand? Is This Viktor Orbán’s Last Stand?

After 16 years in power in Hungary, his Fidesz party is trailing in the polls by double digits behind a new opposition party.

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Why LeBron James Ignores Genocide and Stands With Israel Why LeBron James Ignores Genocide and Stands With Israel

The basketball great once said he wanted to be like Muhammad Ali. He can’t do that and shrug off Israeli war crimes.

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For Jesse Jackson and His Campaign

For Jesse Jackson and His Campaign For Jesse Jackson and His Campaign

Jesse Jackson is a serious candidate for the presidency.

The Editors

The Rev. Jesse Jackson.

Jesse Jackson Is Keeping Hope Alive Jesse Jackson Is Keeping Hope Alive

Veterans of his remarkable insurgent 1988 campaign gather to pay tribute.

Robert L. Borosage

Jesse Jackson speaking into a microphone in 1989.

How Jesse Jackson Transformed American Politics How Jesse Jackson Transformed American Politics

In the face of Reagan’s right-wing presidency, he offered a vision, strategy, and agenda that would have led Democrats and the country in a very different direction.

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Elon Musk peddles his vision of cosmic colonization at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Why Elon Musk’s Latest Mega Merger Is Little More than Vaporware Why Elon Musk’s Latest Mega Merger Is Little More than Vaporware

The tech mogul and would-be space pioneer is mashing up his properties once more in a deal that’s unlikely to achieve escape velocity .

Jacob Silverman

Jeffrey Epstein, along with some of the many plutocratic dopes of his acquaintance.

Epstein Class Clowns Epstein Class Clowns

One key revelation in the wide correspondence of the late pedophile: The rich and powerful just aren’t all that bright.

Elizabeth Spiers

Russell Vought (left), architect of the Mandate for Leadership, more commonly known as Project 2025, and director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), stands alongside Mark Paoletta (right), general counsel at the OMB, during the Trump administration's announcement of the rescission of the Obama-era endangerment finding in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 12, 2026.

The Right Had a Plan. We Need One Too. The Right Had a Plan. We Need One Too.

America should build things again, and we the people should own what we build.

Corbin Trent

Books & the Arts

Sunnyside Yard circa 1971.

Sunnyside Yard and the Quest for Affordable Housing in New York Sunnyside Yard and the Quest for Affordable Housing in New York

Constructing new residential buildings, let alone those with rental units that New Yorkers can afford, is never an easy task.

Books & the Arts / Karrie Jacobs

The Exposure Therapy of “A Private Life”

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In her new film, Jodie Foster transforms into a therapist-detective.

Books & the Arts / Lovia Gyarkye

How Capitalism Transformed the Natural World

How Capitalism Transformed the Natural World How Capitalism Transformed the Natural World

In her new book, Alyssa Battistoni explores how nature came to be treated as a supposedly cost-free supplement of capital accumulation.

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World

A bicitaxi rides along a street in Havana amid nationwide fuel shortages, on February 13, 2026.

Cuba Hunkers Down as a US Oil Blockade Threatens a Humanitarian Crisis Cuba Hunkers Down as a US Oil Blockade Threatens a Humanitarian Crisis

Fear but no panic on the streets.

Marc Frank

Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán arrives at the informal EU leaders’ retreat 2026 summit, at Alden Biesen Castle hosted by the European Council President in Rijkoven Belgium.

Is This Viktor Orbán’s Last Stand? Is This Viktor Orbán’s Last Stand?

After 16 years in power in Hungary, his Fidesz party is trailing in the polls by double digits behind a new opposition party.

Paul Hockenos

A pilgrim approaches the church in the village of Hospital on the Camino de Santiago.

Walking the Camino in the Shadow of Belief Walking the Camino in the Shadow of Belief

I trudged through Spain as a rift grew within American Catholicism. I returned home with a renewed sense and understanding of faith.

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The Long Shadow of the “Jewish Question”

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After the Holocaust, Israel was hailed as the solution to an essentially antisemitic debate. Now, as another genocide unfolds—in Gaza—Jews are once again questioning the question….

Feature / Joseph Dana

How the Far Right Won the Food Wars

How the Far Right Won the Food Wars How the Far Right Won the Food Wars

RFK’s MAHA spectacle offers an object lesson in how the left cedes fertile political territory.

Feature / Annie Levin

How Heidi Reichinnek Saved Germany’s Left

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The co-leader of Die Linke helped rescue the party and make it into a political force. But can she beat back Germany’s ascendant far right?

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