Trump’s Tantrum Tariffs Will Not Renew US Manufacturing Trump’s Tantrum Tariffs Will Not Renew US Manufacturing
Gimmicks like Trump’s economically ignorant, politically jingoistic, and personally self-serving tariff agenda won’t help workers in the US or abroad.
Apr 7, 2025 / John Nichols
Why Universities Must Start Litigating—and How Why Universities Must Start Litigating—and How
The litigation would afford schools a high-profile venue in which to detail the Trump administration’s lawlessness and aggression.
Apr 7, 2025 / David Pozen, Ryan Doerfler, and Samuel Bagenstos
Trump’s Trade Wars Hark Back to an Economy That No Longer Exists Trump’s Trade Wars Hark Back to an Economy That No Longer Exists
The administration’s slapdash tariffs plan is an unworkable wish-fulfillment fantasy.
Apr 7, 2025 / Dean Baker
A Pro-Palestinian Activist Lost His Case, but the “Fight From Below” Continues A Pro-Palestinian Activist Lost His Case, but the “Fight From Below” Continues
Cornell University student Momodou Taal self-deported just weeks after he sued the federal government in response to Trump’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian protest.
Apr 7, 2025 / StudentNation / Benjamin Leynse and Avery Wang
What’s Kat Abughazaleh’s Deal? What’s Kat Abughazaleh’s Deal?
She’s a 26-year-old social media star challenging a progressive stalwart in a congressional district she doesn’t live in yet. We asked her why.
Apr 7, 2025 / Elsie Carson-Holt
Trump Has Created a Legal Nightmare Trump Has Created a Legal Nightmare
The president is using obscure statutes in shocking ways as part of his anti-immigrant witch hunt.
Apr 7, 2025 / Gaby Del Valle
Syria’s New Rulers Get a Makeover Syria’s New Rulers Get a Makeover
The country’s new leader, Ahmed al-Shara, has donned a suit, trimmed his beard, and dropped his nom de guerre. But Syrians are still afraid.
Apr 7, 2025 / Charles Glass
Abortion Bans Upended Their Lives—Now They’re Fighting Back, One Story at a Time Abortion Bans Upended Their Lives—Now They’re Fighting Back, One Story at a Time
Across the country, abortion storytellers are putting the struggle for reproductive freedom into powerful new words.
Apr 7, 2025 / Feature / Regina Mahone
Donald Trump’s Long Con Donald Trump’s Long Con
Trump’s “Art of” trilogy may be full of willful exaggeration but the books also reveal how the 1980s and ’90s formed his dog-eat-dog worldview.
Apr 7, 2025 / Books & the Arts / John Ganz
A Cowardly Congress Is Letting Trump Crash the Economy A Cowardly Congress Is Letting Trump Crash the Economy
The president’s tariff war is also a constitutional crisis.
Apr 4, 2025 / Jeet Heer