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A protest in the Meatpacking District, Manhattan, New York, on Saturday, March 29, 2025.

You Don’t Get Trump Without Gaza You Don’t Get Trump Without Gaza

Fascism doesn’t just appear. It must be invited in—and the bipartisan repression of the anti-genocide movement did just that.

Apr 3, 2025 / Ben Ehrenreich

The Excesses of “Mickey 17”

The Excesses of “Mickey 17” The Excesses of “Mickey 17”

Bong Joon-ho’s sci-fi blockbuster is both the director’s simplest and most unwieldy feature yet.

Apr 3, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Phoebe Chen

Representative Byron Donalds stands in the crowd as Donald Trump speaks in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, October 19, 2024.

Black MAGA Supporters Have Made Their Peace With Racists Black MAGA Supporters Have Made Their Peace With Racists

The silence of Black MAGA supporters in the face of Trump’s and Vance’s bigotry during the campaign has carried over to the second Trump era.

Apr 2, 2025 / Clarence Lusane

Senator Cory Booker speaks on the Senate floor on April 1, 2025. The New Jersey senator broke the record for the longest Senate floor speech by holding the floor for more than 25 hours.

Cory Booker Makes History. Donald Trump Will Never Erase It. Cory Booker Makes History. Donald Trump Will Never Erase It.

The New Jersey senator broke Strom Thurmond’s record for speaking on the Senate floor. May Booker break the back of the neo-segregationism that Trump represents.

Apr 2, 2025 / Joan Walsh

Danger!

Danger! Danger!

Activism for life.

Apr 2, 2025 / OppArt / Alessandra Mondolfi

Susan Crawford accepts victory in her race for Wisconsin Supreme Court justice on April 1, 2025, in Madison, Wisconsin.

Democracy 1, Elon Musk 0 Democracy 1, Elon Musk 0

The richest man in the world attempted to buy an election in Wisconsin. His effort crashed and burned, establishing a model for the fight against Trumpism.

Apr 2, 2025 / John Nichols

US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem (C), alongside Minister of Justice and Public Security Gustavo Villatoro (R), tours the Terrorist Confinement Center (CECOT) in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on March 26, 2025.

How Trump Is Outsourcing His Mass Deportation Agenda How Trump Is Outsourcing His Mass Deportation Agenda

The government is enlisting—or coercing—other countries into joining its efforts to purge immigrants from the United States.

Apr 2, 2025 / Felipe de la Hoz

Sophomore Kavya Racheetim looks through the first edition of The Retrograde.

Texas Student Journalists Are Being Censored, but That Won’t Stop the Presses Texas Student Journalists Are Being Censored, but That Won’t Stop the Presses

On University of Texas campuses, students have found other ways of newsmaking that free their publications from editorial control by their schools and state.

Apr 2, 2025 / StudentNation / Aaron Boehmer

A man walks past a statue of Charles de Gaulle, with a cardboard speech bubble reading “LONG LIVE THE FREE ZAD” as hundreds of opponents to the Notre-Dame-des-Landes airport and ZAD activists gather to demand a collective management of the land planned for the airport’s construction, 2018.

Living and Learning in the Shadow of the Paris Commune Living and Learning in the Shadow of the Paris Commune

Kristin Ross’s The Commune Form traces a political tradition—based on reimagining class relations—that stretches from the 1871 uprising to the modern-day struggles of ZAD.

Apr 2, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Clinton Williamson

The exterior of the Terrorist Confinement Center as Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem arrives, in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Wednesday, March 26, 2025.

The US Is Now in the Human-Trafficking Business The US Is Now in the Human-Trafficking Business

The Trump administration spent $6 million to knowingly disappear hundreds of people into a foreign prison where they are being made to work, without pay, in torturous conditions. ...

Apr 1, 2025 / Andrew Kornfeld and Esul Burton

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