The Blockheaded Thinking Behind Trump’s Plan for a Hormuz Blockade The Blockheaded Thinking Behind Trump’s Plan for a Hormuz Blockade

The president’s latest proposal to force Iran to negotiate an end to his feckless war somehow makes less sense than all the other ones.

David Faris

To My Fellow Journalists: We Need to Do Better To My Fellow Journalists: We Need to Do Better

In an election year under an administration that has wreaked record-setting havoc, journalism is more important than ever—and we need to act like it.

Arnold Isaacs

Inside Yale’s Hasan Piker Spectacle Inside Yale’s Hasan Piker Spectacle

The Twitch streamer’s invitation to debate at the Yale Political Union drew the ire of Laura Loomer, Rick Scott, and Turning Point USA.

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Politics

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

Wisconsin State Supreme Court Justice-elect Chris Taylor takes a picture with constituents after speaking on Tuesday, April 7, 2026, in Madison, Wis.

Just How Big Could Democrats Win in 2026? Just How Big Could Democrats Win in 2026?

The results from an important race in Wisconsin this week suggest the Republicans could be in very big trouble.

John Nichols

Hasan Piker

Hasan Piker Threatens the Establishment. That’s Why They Want to Destroy Him. Hasan Piker Threatens the Establishment. That’s Why They Want to Destroy Him.

Critics are leveling baseless charges of antisemitism and bigotry at the mega-streamer. But they’re really scared of the challenge he poses to their power.

Daniel Denvir

Books & the Arts

Larry McMurtry, 1978.

Larry McMurtry’s Tall Tales Larry McMurtry’s Tall Tales

By questioning the myth of the cowboy, he offered a different kind of legend, one more suited to this country and its contradictions.

Books & the Arts / Gus O’Connor

The Strange Afterlife of Confederate Monuments

The Strange Afterlife of Confederate Monuments The Strange Afterlife of Confederate Monuments

“Monuments” an exhibition in Los Angeles, interrogates the changing meanings of Civil War-era statues and their ability to shape historical narrative.

Books & the Arts / Pujan Karambeigi

A Bundist march on May Day in Poland, 1930.

The Enduring Lessons of the Jewish Bund The Enduring Lessons of the Jewish Bund

A conversation with Molly Crabapple about “Here Where We Live Is Our Country,” her history of Bundism, and what we can learn from their socialist and anti-Zionist example.

Books & the Arts / Ishan Desai-Geller

World

Ali Abbud, who lost three family members in simultaneous Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon on April 8, takes part in the search and rescue operations in hopes that his sister Zehra will be rescued from the rubble of a building hit in Beirut, Lebanon on April 12, 2026.

In Lebanon, Grief Is Everywhere. But So Is Our Defiance. In Lebanon, Grief Is Everywhere. But So Is Our Defiance.

We are reeling from Israel’s massacres. But people are tirelessly organizing on the ground, and are not giving up.

Christina Cavalcanti

Right-wing populist Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban reacts as he speaks to voters at an election campaign rally in Szekesfehervar, Hungary, on April 10, 2026, two days before parliamentary elections, in which he suffered a crushing defeat.

Orbán Is a Loser Orbán Is a Loser

Hungary shows how to beat an autocrat at the ballot box.

Paul Hockenos

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán appears during a rally ahead of the general election in Budapest, Hungary, on March 15, 2026.

In Hungary’s Steel City, Layoffs Hurt Orbán’s Appeal In Hungary’s Steel City, Layoffs Hurt Orbán’s Appeal

Why didn’t Orbán’s government, once a critic of what it called a “bad privatization,” save jobs?

David Broder

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AI for the People

AI for the People AI for the People

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

Feature / Rep. Ro Khanna

The Great AI Grift

The Great AI Grift The Great AI Grift

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

San Diego’s AI Battlefield Heats Up

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The city is at the forefront of the fight against using big tech to surveill residents. But AI poses new threats.

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