The Fierce and Joyous Face of LA Resistance The Fierce and Joyous Face of LA Resistance
What we can learn from a great American city’s refusal to bend to Trump’s invasion.
Dec 16, 2025 / Feature / Katrina vanden Heuvel and John Nichols
How LA Defeated Donald Trump How LA Defeated Donald Trump
And how the rest of the country can too.
Dec 16, 2025 / Feature / Bill Gallegos
Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff’s Sweeping Anti-War Novel Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff’s Sweeping Anti-War Novel
Your Name Here dramatizes the tensions and possibilities of political art.
Dec 16, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Jess Bergman
Mahmood Mamdani’s Uganda Mahmood Mamdani’s Uganda
In his new book Slow Poison, the accomplished anthropologist revisits the Idi Amin and Yoweri Museveni years.
Dec 16, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Howard W. French
Ars Poetica with Backup from The Clark Sisters Ars Poetica with Backup from The Clark Sisters
after “Is My Living in Vain?”, 1980
Dec 16, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Karisma Price
Indiana’s Gerrymander Victory Won’t Save Us Indiana’s Gerrymander Victory Won’t Save Us
The Hoosier State’s Senate showed rare backbone in resisting the Trump White House’s demand for a mid-cycle gerrymander. But the Roberts court gets the final say.
Dec 15, 2025 / David Daley
In America, Mass Shooting Survivors Can Never Know Peace In America, Mass Shooting Survivors Can Never Know Peace
A growing number of US residents have lived through more than one massacre.
Dec 15, 2025 / Jeet Heer
What the Noam Chomsky–Jeffrey Epstein E-mails Tell Us What the Noam Chomsky–Jeffrey Epstein E-mails Tell Us
Chomsky has often suffered fools, knaves, and criminals too lightly. Epstein was one of them. But that doesn’t mean Chomsky was part of the “Epstein class.”
Dec 15, 2025 / Greg Grandin
Have We Normalized Nuclear War? Have We Normalized Nuclear War?
If anything, the widespread lack of comprehension (and so protest) is one big reason nuclear war remains so chillingly possible.
Dec 15, 2025 / William Astore