How Philadelphia Is Fighting Back Against Donald Trump’s Anti-Worker Crusade How Philadelphia Is Fighting Back Against Donald Trump’s Anti-Worker Crusade
The Protect Our Workers Enforce Rights Act can serve as a model for cities all across the country.
May 8, 2025 / Kendra Brooks
Is California’s Plan to Trump-Proof the State Enough? Is California’s Plan to Trump-Proof the State Enough?
California officials shored up the state’s defenses to respond to Donald Trump’s lawless actions. But can their “Trump-proofing” strategy hold the line?
May 8, 2025 / Sasha Abramsky
To Suppress the Latest Protest, Columbia Unveils a Violent New Form of Campus Policing To Suppress the Latest Protest, Columbia Unveils a Violent New Form of Campus Policing
Protestors rechristened the Lawrence A. Wien Reading Room “Basel Al-Araj Popular University” in honor of the late Palestinian writer before Public Safety and the NYPD arrived.
May 8, 2025 / StudentNation / Lara-Nour Walton
A GOP Scheme to Steal a North Carolina Supreme Court Seat Has Been Foiled A GOP Scheme to Steal a North Carolina Supreme Court Seat Has Been Foiled
A Trump-appointed federal judge rejected a bizarre GOP attempt to disenfranchise voters after they cast their ballots.
May 8, 2025 / John Nichols
Trump Has Made His First Round of Judicial Picks—and They’re Terrifying Trump Has Made His First Round of Judicial Picks—and They’re Terrifying
The appointments—which include an attorney who helped steer a major anti-trans case—are about the failures of the Democrats as much as the ruthlessness of Republicans.
May 8, 2025 / Elie Mystal
Trump’s Tax Plan Trump’s Tax Plan
A disastrous tax plan favors corporations and the wealthy.
May 8, 2025 / OppArt / Felipe Galindo
Inside the Bloodbath at the NIH Inside the Bloodbath at the NIH
Sources say that a climate of fear has spread throughout the agency as the Trump administration takes a hatchet to its core functions.
May 8, 2025 / Gregg Gonsalves
Is It Time for Unions to Rethink Everything? Is It Time for Unions to Rethink Everything?
As union membership declines and regulators turn against workers, maybe we need to start talking about some radical change to the way the labor movement works.
May 8, 2025 / Jacqui Germain
All Options Are Open in the Papal Conclave All Options Are Open in the Papal Conclave
The next leader of the Catholic Church is unlikely to be either a progressive reformer or a hard-line conservative.
May 7, 2025 / Pablo Castaño Tierno
The Culture-War Furies Behind Trump’s Film-Tariff Plan The Culture-War Furies Behind Trump’s Film-Tariff Plan
The president doesn’t have the authority to impose tariffs on movies produced abroad, but he still wants to be the right’s designated culture commissar.
May 7, 2025 / Ben Schwartz