CNN Surrenders to Trump CNN Surrenders to Trump

The corporate media’s commitment to fighting autocracy proves fickle.

Jeet Heer

Keep Going: Our Mission Has Not Changed Keep Going: Our Mission Has Not Changed

We owe it to our forebears, our families, our communities, and future generations to keep fighting for just causes, writes Nina Turner. We, too, shall overcome.

Nina Turner

Trump Is Trying to Destroy Public Health in America Trump Is Trying to Destroy Public Health in America

The administration has forced crucial scientific activity to grind to a halt. It’s an act of national suicide.

Gregg Gonsalves

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Trump’s All-Out Assault on American Democracy Has Begun Trump’s All-Out Assault on American Democracy Has Begun

Jan 24, 2025 / Sasha Abramsky

“The New York Times” Refused to Run Our Ad About the Gaza Genocide “The New York Times” Refused to Run Our Ad About the Gaza Genocide

Jan 24, 2025 / Joyce Ajlouny

Fixing the Student Loan Crisis Starts With Defending the Department of Education Fixing the Student Loan Crisis Starts With Defending the Department of Education

Jan 24, 2025 / StudentNation / Sabrina Cereceres

It’s Time to Stand Up Against Trump 2.0 It’s Time to Stand Up Against Trump 2.0

Jan 24, 2025 / Mark Hertsgaard

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High-Tech Militarists Are Hijacking the Trump Administration

High-Tech Militarists Are Hijacking the Trump Administration High-Tech Militarists Are Hijacking the Trump Administration

Breathtaking conflicts of interest are lining oligarchs’ pockets with our tax dollars.

William D. Hartung

Trump’s Inauguration Revealed Whom He Really Serves: the Billionaires and the Crypto Bros

Trump’s Inauguration Revealed Whom He Really Serves: the Billionaires and the Crypto Bros Trump’s Inauguration Revealed Whom He Really Serves: the Billionaires and the Crypto Bros

In front of Trump stood a handful of CEOs whose combined wealth topped $1.2 trillion. They and the crypto scammers are the true beneficiaries of Trump’s second term.

Chris Lehmann

Former president Donald Trump holding a microphone in front of a crowd.

Trump’s Military Is a Disaster Waiting to Happen Trump’s Military Is a Disaster Waiting to Happen

Fighting endless wars in distant lands is not the solution here. It’s the problem.

William Astore

Books & the Arts

Caroline Blackwood, 1953.

Caroline Blackwood’s Graceful Nightmares Caroline Blackwood’s Graceful Nightmares

The writer and socialite’s gothic fictions were also cutting works of social comedy.

Books & the Arts / Isabella Trimboli

David Lynch, 2002.

David Lynch’s Guts David Lynch’s Guts

His visceral films, which reflect the best and worst of American life, affected viewers in realms both conscious and unconscious.

Books & the Arts / Vikram Murthi

Andrei and Gyuzel Almarik upon arriving in the Netherlands in 1976.

The Often Misunderstood History of the Soviet Dissidents The Often Misunderstood History of the Soviet Dissidents

In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself at key junctures and eventually to great effect.

Books & the Arts / Michael David-Fox

World

Free Ismail Lghazaoui!

Free Ismail Lghazaoui! Free Ismail Lghazaoui!

Morocco sentenced the Palestine solidarity activist to prison just for protesting. But the trail of his persecution runs from Israel across the Atlantic to New Jersey and Texas.

Nasreen Abd Elal and Rayan El Amine

A child recovers books from the rubble of a building hit in Israeli strikes the previous night in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, on January 16, 2025.

A Ceasefire Won’t Stop the War on Palestine A Ceasefire Won’t Stop the War on Palestine

The agreement may reduce the intensity of Israel’s killing spree, but it is likely to usher in a grueling new phase of ethnic cleansing, with Trump’s full support.

Tariq Kenney-Shawa

Let’s call the whole thing off: Justin Trudeau shaking hands with Donald Trump at a NATO summit in London to mark the alliance's 70th anniversary in December 2019.

Justin Trudeau’s Fecklessness Made Him an Easy Target for MAGA Manifest Destiny Justin Trudeau’s Fecklessness Made Him an Easy Target for MAGA Manifest Destiny

The United States probably won’t annex Canada. But Trump’s imperial dreams are already destabilizing the world.

Jeet Heer

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Kamala Harris Was Poised to Crush the Women’s Vote. What Went Wrong?

Kamala Harris Was Poised to Crush the Women’s Vote. What Went Wrong? Kamala Harris Was Poised to Crush the Women’s Vote. What Went Wrong?

Once Harris became the nominee, women voters surged behind her. But on Election Day, she won a smaller share of them than Biden did. This is how it fell apart.

Feature / Joan Walsh

Jazz Off the Record

Jazz Off the Record Jazz Off the Record

In the late 1960s, the recording industry lost interest in America’s greatest art form. But in a small, dark club on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, jazz legends were …

Feature / Ethan Iverson

How Biden’s Foreign Policy Destroyed His Presidency

How Biden’s Foreign Policy Destroyed His Presidency How Biden’s Foreign Policy Destroyed His Presidency

Biden’s domestic agenda was the most progressive of any president since Lyndon Johnson. But it was entwined with a foreign policy that leaves his legacy drowned in blood.

Feature / Jeet Heer

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