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No Kings, International Movement

No Kings, International Movement No Kings, International Movement

No Kings demonstration June 14, 2025, Barcelona, Spain, 2025.

Jul 2, 2025 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo

Zohran Mamdani attends the 2025 New York City Pride March on June 29, 2025.

New Yorkers Aren’t Afraid of a Democratic Socialist Mayor New Yorkers Aren’t Afraid of a Democratic Socialist Mayor

Andrew Cuomo's allies spent a fortune shouting that Zohran Mamdani is a socialist. Result? A Mamdani landslide in the Democratic primary.

Jul 2, 2025 / John Nichols

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes speaks into a microphone with a banner in the background that reads “It’s better in a Union.”

As Federal Chaos Ensues, Trustbusters Rise in the States As Federal Chaos Ensues, Trustbusters Rise in the States

With Trump’s antitrust appointees more concerned with scoring points in MAGA culture wars than restraining corporate abuses, officials in the states are keeping up the fight.

Jul 2, 2025 / Ron Knox

New York City Council member Chi Osse speaks at the New York Working Families Party rally in Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn, New York.

Chi Ossé Is Tired of the Same Old Nonsense Chi Ossé Is Tired of the Same Old Nonsense

From Kirsten Gillibrand (“she should resign”) to Eric Adams (“a power-hungry, egotistical man”) to the Democratic establishment, NYC’s Gen Z political star doesn’t hold back.

Jul 2, 2025 / Q&A / Andrew Sciallo

Joan Didion, 2007.

Joan Didion Undone Joan Didion Undone

Notes to John, posthumously published journal entries chronicling Didion’s therapy sessions, is a peek into the myths and fears that animated her writing life.

Jul 2, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Emma Hager

ICE in Newark

Trump’s Big Bill Is Building a Big Police State Trump’s Big Bill Is Building a Big Police State

Meanwhile, the Democratic Party’s floundering over immigration leaves it without an opposition strategy.

Jul 1, 2025 / Chris Lehmann

Thom Tillis (R-NC) takes the elevator at the US Capitol on June 30, 2025, in Washington, DC.

Thom Tillis Figured Out How to Tell the Truth in Trump’s GOP Cult: Quit Thom Tillis Figured Out How to Tell the Truth in Trump’s GOP Cult: Quit

The Republican senator dropped his reelection bid rather than lie about the devastating damage Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” will do to Medicaid.

Jul 1, 2025 / John Nichols

Associate Justice Samuel Alito poses for an official portrait.

Samuel Alito Takes Pride in Gay-Bashing Samuel Alito Takes Pride in Gay-Bashing

With his majority opinion in Mahmoud v. Taylor, Alito gave bigoted parents a big, fat kiss—and changed the nature of public education.

Jul 1, 2025 / Elie Mystal

Greenpeace activists deploy a giant banner at St. Mark’s Square in Venice on June 23, 2025.

Bezos Does Venice Bezos Does Venice

Back in New York City, Mamdani’s win shows even billionaires don’t always get what they want.

Jul 1, 2025 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Members of the University of Oregon Student Workers during its historic strike.

Inside One of the Largest Student Worker Strikes Ever Inside One of the Largest Student Worker Strikes Ever

Around 4,000 members of the University of Oregon Student Workers went on strike in April, winning the first contract that covers every undergraduate worker at a public university....

Jul 1, 2025 / StudentNation / Andrew Berka

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