The Trump Regime Intensifies Its War on Activism—but Dissent Is Always Possible The Trump Regime Intensifies Its War on Activism—but Dissent Is Always Possible
The president is presiding over suppression unseen in the US for decades.
Sep 29, 2025 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
How Should We Remember the Art of Ben Shahn? How Should We Remember the Art of Ben Shahn?
Caught between his political and aesthetic commitments, the painter, photographer, and illustrator has suffered the fate of misapprehension.
Sep 29, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Pujan Karambeigi
The Shortest Presidential Campaign The Shortest Presidential Campaign
Kamala Harris’s 107 Days offers a devastating indictment of Joe Biden. It also documents the limits of her own politics.
Sep 26, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Jeet Heer
Paul Thomas Anderson’s Wild American Epic Paul Thomas Anderson’s Wild American Epic
One Battle After Another, a sensational adaptation of a Thomas Pynchon novel, captures the manic energies of a country on the brink.
Sep 25, 2025 / Books & the Arts / John Semley
On the Road With Joe Westmoreland On the Road With Joe Westmoreland
The writer’s only novel, Tramps Like Us, is a classic of queer literature—one that crystallizes the agony and the ecstasy of coming of age during the HIV era.
Sep 25, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Sasha Geffen
How the Kimmel Controversy Echoes Disney’s Dirty China Deal How the Kimmel Controversy Echoes Disney’s Dirty China Deal
Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner berated the company’s capitulation before authoritarian MAGA threats, but in many ways, he set the example.
Sep 24, 2025 / Ben Schwartz
How We Defeated Trump on Jimmy Kimmel—Plus, the Attacks on Harvard, Past and Present How We Defeated Trump on Jimmy Kimmel—Plus, the Attacks on Harvard, Past and Present
On Start Making Sense: Bhaskar Sunkara analyzes the resistance to Trump’s attacks on freedom of speech, and Beverly Gage talks about Anti-intellectualism in American Life.
Sep 24, 2025 / Podcast / Jon Wiener
How Capitalism Survives How Capitalism Survives
According to John Cassidy’s century-spanning history Capitalism and Its Critics, the system lives on because of its antagonists.
Sep 24, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Madeleine Baker
Kimmel Canceled Kimmel Canceled
Corporations bow to an autocrat’s whims.
Sep 23, 2025 / OppArt / Steve Brodner and Peter Kuper
The Supreme Court Has Always Been This Bad The Supreme Court Has Always Been This Bad
From allowing segregation to gutting abortion rights, the court’s reactionary streak runs deep. A new collection shows why calls for reform are as old as the court itself.
Sep 23, 2025 / Richard Kreitner