With Boasts, Threats, and Lies, Trump Proves He’s Always in Campaign Mode With Boasts, Threats, and Lies, Trump Proves He’s Always in Campaign Mode
The president understands that politics never stops. Democrats should do the same.
Mar 5, 2025 / Jeet Heer
To Defeat the Far Right, We Must Adopt an Anti-Fascist Economic Policy To Defeat the Far Right, We Must Adopt an Anti-Fascist Economic Policy
Opposition to the status quo must not be monopolized by the right-wing extremist visions of parties like Alternative für Deutschland.
Feb 28, 2025 / Isabella M. Weber
Trump’s Greenland Obsession Is All About China Trump’s Greenland Obsession Is All About China
Greenland and its resources are merely the latest potential casualty of Trump’s quest for global domination and his fear of China’s economic power.
Feb 27, 2025 / Joshua Frank
Democracy Dies at “The Washington Post” Democracy Dies at “The Washington Post”
…and oligarchy lives.
Feb 27, 2025 / John Nichols
Ro Khanna and Thomas Geoghegan on What Is To Be Done Ro Khanna and Thomas Geoghegan on What Is To Be Done
On this episode of Start Making Sense, Ro Khanna and Thomas Geoghegan talk about how the Democrats can win back working class voters.
Feb 26, 2025 / Podcast / Jon Wiener
Bernie Sanders Is Sending a Piercing Message About Musk and the Oligarchy Bernie Sanders Is Sending a Piercing Message About Musk and the Oligarchy
The senator is on the road explaining exactly what happens when the richest man in the world starts buying power.
Feb 26, 2025 / John Nichols
We Shouldn’t Be Afraid to Call the US What It Really Is: an Oligarchy We Shouldn’t Be Afraid to Call the US What It Really Is: an Oligarchy
Across the ideological spectrum, anger toward the superrich is a major source of movement energy.
Feb 25, 2025 / Chris Lehmann
Trump Is Unpopular—and So Are the Do-Nothing Democrats Trump Is Unpopular—and So Are the Do-Nothing Democrats
The president is increasingly hated, but so is an opposition party that fails to oppose.
Feb 21, 2025 / Jeet Heer
Why Hasn’t Trump Already Closed the Department of Education? Why Hasn’t Trump Already Closed the Department of Education?
Maybe because its support for students is popular with Republicans as well as Democrats. And because cutting that funding would blow a big hole in the budgets of red states.
Feb 21, 2025 / Jack Schneider