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The president wants to resume nuclear testing. 
Is he a warmonger or just an idiot?

Edward Markey

What Black Youth Need to Feel Safe What Black Youth Need to Feel Safe

Young people are facing a mental health crisis. This group of Cincinnati teens thinks they know how to solve it.

Feature / Dani McClain

Trump’s Death Eaters Are Coming for Our Kids Trump’s Death Eaters Are Coming for Our Kids

After taking countless lives around the world, RFK Jr. and his ghoulish compatriots want American children to suffer too.

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Politics

Vice President JD Vance speaks during a news briefing in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on January 8, 2026.

Renee Good’s Killing Has Unleashed MAGA’s Misogyny Renee Good’s Killing Has Unleashed MAGA’s Misogyny

To defend the indefensible, the right is going after white women as race traitors.

Jeet Heer

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) addresses a rally against the Republican spending bill in May.

Elizabeth Warren’s Plan for a Revived Democratic Party Elizabeth Warren’s Plan for a Revived Democratic Party

The Massachusetts senator argues that, in order to prevail in the midterms, the party needs to recover its populist roots—and fighting spirit.

Elizabeth Warren

Attorney General Pam Bondi, Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem flank Donald Trump during an executive order signing in the Oval Office, on August 25, 2025.

It Would Be Madness to Give Trump and His Toadies Even More Power It Would Be Madness to Give Trump and His Toadies Even More Power

And yet, that’s what the Supreme Court appears prepared to do.

Sasha Abramsky

Books & the Arts

A scene in The Paper.

“The Paper” and the Return of the Cubicle Comedy “The Paper” and the Return of the Cubicle Comedy

The new show from the creators of The Office reminds us that their comedic style does now work in every “workplace in the world.”

Books & the Arts / Jorge Cotte

Seymour Hersh during his New York Times days.

The Endless Scoops of Seymour Hersh The Endless Scoops of Seymour Hersh

Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus’s Cover-Up explores the life and times of one of America’s greatest investigative reporters.

Books & the Arts / Adam Hochschild

World

Students in Khartoum hold up the Sudan flag during a protest on November 3, 2025, against atrocities committed by the Rapid Support Forces in El Fasher .

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The ongoing genocide has been largely overlooked by the international community.

Rebecca Gordon

Trump speaks at a NATO Summit

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Donald Trump is sowing division in the European Union, even as he calls on it to spend more on defense.

David Broder

Jose Antonio Kast delivers a speech in front of his supporters after being elected.

Chile at the Crossroads Chile at the Crossroads

A dramatic shift to the extreme right threatens the future—and past—for human rights and accountability.

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How LA Defeated Donald Trump

How LA Defeated Donald Trump How LA Defeated Donald Trump

And how the rest of the country can too.

Feature / Bill Gallegos

Mayor of LA to America: “Beware!”

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Trump has made Los Angeles a testing ground for military intervention on our streets. Mayor Karen Bass says her city has become an example for how to fight back.

Feature / Gail Reed

A still from the video of the 1992 police beating of Rodney King. LAPD chief Daryl Gates defended the department’s racist police regime until he was forced out in the wake of King’s beating.

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How the late-20th-century battles over race and policing in Los Angeles foreshadowed the Trump era.

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