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Why We Must Keep Talking About Abortion Pills Why We Must Keep Talking About Abortion Pills

As part of a delegation to Brazil, I saw how our countries’ respective struggles to maintain and expand reproductive justice are really part of the same fight.

Jun 16, 2025 / Regina Mahone

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson speaks to the media after the House narrowly passed a bill forwarding President Donald Trump’s agenda.

Young People Have the Most to Lose From Trump’s Budget Bill Young People Have the Most to Lose From Trump’s Budget Bill

The proposed “One Big, Beautiful Bill Act” will slow the progress of the next generation for years to come. Here are three of the biggest consequences.

Jun 16, 2025 / StudentNation / Jazmin Kay

How Trump Is Transforming Higher Education: The View from 4 Campuses

How Trump Is Transforming Higher Education: The View from 4 Campuses How Trump Is Transforming Higher Education: The View from 4 Campuses

At universities in California, Illinois, Louisiana, and Texas, students report changes to clubs, diminished research opportunities, and fears for international students’ safety.

Jun 15, 2025 / Steven Yoder, Felicia Mello, Alexandra Villarreal, and Miles MacClure

ABCs of a Coup

ABCs of a Coup ABCs of a Coup

Erection set.

Jun 13, 2025 / Steve Brodner

President Donald Trump wears a baseball cap with military insignia and holds up a fist. He faces away from a crowd of troops at Fort Bragg who wear camouflage-printed fatigues and maroon berets. Some troops hold up their phones or American flags.

Donald Trump Is Running the Military Like a Warlord Donald Trump Is Running the Military Like a Warlord

The quickest way for the United States to become fascist is by politicizing the military.

Jun 13, 2025 / Jeet Heer

Former New York State governor Andrew Cuomo.

How Andrew Cuomo Made Homelessness Worse How Andrew Cuomo Made Homelessness Worse

Cuomo claims that “housing is a top priority.” A dig into his track record says something very different.

Jun 13, 2025 / Tracy Rosenthal

All Mothers Deserve to See Their Daughters Return

All Mothers Deserve to See Their Daughters Return All Mothers Deserve to See Their Daughters Return

A mural in Oaxaca honoring the disappeared women.

Jun 13, 2025 / OppArt / URTARTE

US Senator Alex Padilla speaks to reporters outside of the Wilshire Federal Building, after he was forcibly removed from a news conference being held by Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem in Los Angeles on June 12, 2025.

Trump Lurches Us Toward a Police State Trump Lurches Us Toward a Police State

After law enforcement assaulted Senator Alex Padilla, we know: We are the only guardrails. Show up at a “No Kings” rally Saturday.

Jun 13, 2025 / Joan Walsh

Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg speaks during the opening night of the New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University on March 27, 2025.

How Jeffrey Goldberg and “The Atlantic” Blew “the Biggest Story of the Year” How Jeffrey Goldberg and “The Atlantic” Blew “the Biggest Story of the Year”

Given advance warning of an impending war crime, the former cheerleader for the Iraq war decided his priority was to protect his scoop.

Jun 13, 2025 / JoAnn Wypijewski

President Donald Trump smirks on the Truman balcony of the White House in Washington, DC, on June 4, 2025.

If an Authoritarian Trump Seizes More Power, Should Blue States Secede? If an Authoritarian Trump Seizes More Power, Should Blue States Secede?

Sanford Levinson maintains that a peaceful breakup would be preferable to a divided polity, while Tarence Ray argues that the working class must remain united across state lines.

Jun 13, 2025 / Column / Sanford Levinson and Tarence Ray

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