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US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks at a podium during a news conference.

Why Does Pete Hegseth Have to Make His Desperate Need for Masculine Validation Our Problem? Why Does Pete Hegseth Have to Make His Desperate Need for Masculine Validation Our Problem?

America has been burdened with the unresolved issues of a man driven by his poorly disguised sense of embarrassment and emasculation by the utter failures of the wars he fought in...

May 27, 2026 / Jasper Craven

Demonstrators hold signs in support of Black voting rights outside the Supreme Court on October 15, 2025.

Jim Crow Just Suffered a Temporary Setback—in Alabama Jim Crow Just Suffered a Temporary Setback—in Alabama

A federal district court struck down the state’s new congressional map as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.

May 27, 2026 / Elie Mystal

International Solidarity

International Solidarity International Solidarity

In Barcelona, walls become voices for Palestine.

May 27, 2026 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo

Dr. Harry Edwards is inducted into the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame in San Francisco on May 15, 2025.

Dr. Harry Edwards on the NAACP’s Call to Boycott Gerrymandering States Dr. Harry Edwards on the NAACP’s Call to Boycott Gerrymandering States

The 83-year-old sociologist and activists reflects on what is missing in the current effort to organize athletes politically.

May 27, 2026 / Dave Zirin

A Renault SA logo above the automobile plant in Flins, France, on December 20, 2024.

Drones? Europe’s Automakers Are Taking Orders. Drones? Europe’s Automakers Are Taking Orders.

French car company Renault seeks a foothold in rearmament.

May 27, 2026 / Harrison Stetler

Louis Marcoussis, “Le Lecteur,” 1937.

The Rise of the Sensitivity Reader The Rise of the Sensitivity Reader

Adam Szetela’s That Book Is Dangerous! examines the emergence of a new job in publishing—secondary readers who comb through books for possible offenses.

May 27, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Kyle Paoletta

Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, left, hold signed documents during an Abraham Accords signing ceremony event on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, September 15, 2020.

Trump’s Abraham Accords Fantasy Will Only Cause More Suffering Trump’s Abraham Accords Fantasy Will Only Cause More Suffering

Any expansion of the alleged peace agreement would lock the Middle East into endless apartheid, despotism, and militarism.

May 26, 2026 / Jeet Heer

Waiting

Waiting Waiting

In the dark.

May 26, 2026 / OppArt / Nasrin Sheykhi

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt shows an artist’s rendering of the arch.

How Trump Got His Tacky Arch Approved How Trump Got His Tacky Arch Approved

Neoclassical revivalists had to sell their souls.

May 26, 2026 / Kate Wagner

California Democratic gubernatorial candidate and billionaire Tom Steyer speaks during a press conference with union workers at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, on May 18, 2026.

Aren’t Billionaires People, Too? Yes, but… Aren’t Billionaires People, Too? Yes, but…

When ordinary Americans are forced to skip meals to afford healthcare, it’s vital that the Democratic Party resist retreating from small “d” populist policies.

May 26, 2026 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

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