A Dangerous and Consistent Misreading of Trump’s Appeal A Dangerous and Consistent Misreading of Trump’s Appeal

Trump didn’t win by moderating. He won by attacking a system millions already believed was broken.

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Have You Paid Your “Intuit Tax”? Have You Paid Your “Intuit Tax”?

Tax prep oligarch Sasan Goodarzi blocks the “public option” for tax filers.

Chuck Collins

How Can Universities Protect Their Immigrant Students? How Can Universities Protect Their Immigrant Students?

With federal cuts and heightened fear on campus, first-generation students at schools like UCLA are asking their institutions to defend and expand their right to education.

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Politics

Marc Andreessen holding forth at TechCrunch Disrupt 2016 in San Francisco.

Marc Andreessen’s Dangerously Unexamined Life Marc Andreessen’s Dangerously Unexamined Life

The tech mogul has declared himself an enemy of introspection, and that conveniently erases considerations of conscience from his amoral investment empire.

David Futrelle

President Donald Trump attends a tour of a Thermo Fisher Scientific facility, to tout his administration's efforts to reduce drug prices in Reading, Ohio, on March 11, 2026.

A Dangerous and Consistent Misreading of Trump’s Appeal A Dangerous and Consistent Misreading of Trump’s Appeal

Trump didn’t win by moderating. He won by attacking a system millions already believed was broken.

Corbin Trent

Former special counsel Robert Mueller testifies before the House Intelligence Committee about his report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, in the Rayburn House Office Building July 24, 2019, in Washington, DC.

Robert Mueller Never Should Have Been a Liberal Hero Robert Mueller Never Should Have Been a Liberal Hero

The cult of Mueller foolishly prioritized legal prosecution over political organizing.

Obituary / Jeet Heer

Books & the Arts

Ruth Asawa, 1973.

Communing With Ruth Asawa Communing With Ruth Asawa

A retrospective of the California artist’s work emphasizes her sense that art should not be frozen in time in a gallery but belongs in the world, at home and in public.

Books & the Arts / Quinn Moreland

Éliane Radigue at the New York Cultural Center, New York, 1971.

The Intermediate States of Éliane Radigue The Intermediate States of Éliane Radigue

On the life and work of the pathbreaking French composer.

Books & the Arts / Nate Wooley

August Macke, “Vegetable Fields,” 1895.

The Hidden History of Free Choice The Hidden History of Free Choice

A conversation with Sophia Rosenfeld about her recent book on the roots of the concept of choice.

Books & the Arts / Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins

World

Will the Iran War Destroy MAGA?

Will the Iran War Destroy MAGA? Will the Iran War Destroy MAGA?

Trump’s coalition is splintering over nationalism and Israel.

Jeet Heer

Ranking Member Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) displays a reimagined depiction of a “Join, or Die” poster displaying country names along a cut-up snake as he speaks during a House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party hearing on Capitol Hill, Washington, DC, on July 23, 2025.

Democrats Have a Chance to Offer a Smarter China Policy. Will They Take It? Democrats Have a Chance to Offer a Smarter China Policy. Will They Take It?

It’s time to pursue a more pragmatic strategy—one that prioritizes domestic strength, targeted competition, and continued engagement.

Nathan Blade-Smith

President Donald Trump delivers remarks to veterans of the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in the East Room of the White House, on September 23, 2020.

Trump’s Plan for “Taking” Cuba Trump’s Plan for “Taking” Cuba

“I can do anything I want with it,” the president says. Can he?

Peter Kornbluh and William M. LeoGrande

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From Foreign Correspondent to Uber Driver

From Foreign Correspondent to Uber Driver From Foreign Correspondent to Uber Driver

I once documented human displacement and desperation. Now, due to a crumbling media ecosystem, I am living it.

Feature / Steve Scherer

Russ Feingold’s New Mission: Preserving Nature to Save the Planet

Russ Feingold’s New Mission: Preserving Nature to Save the Planet Russ Feingold’s New Mission: Preserving Nature to Save the Planet

The former senator has given up campaigning for office to campaign for the natural world.

Feature / John Nichols

The Underground Movement to Spark Union Organizing From the Inside 

The Underground Movement to Spark Union Organizing From the Inside  The Underground Movement to Spark Union Organizing From the Inside 

The labor movement is reviving the practice of “salting” to bring unions to huge new industries.

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