Politics

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani attends the 2025 New York City Pride March in June.

What Makes Democrats So Afraid of Zohran Mamdani? What Makes Democrats So Afraid of Zohran Mamdani?

With Trump’s power grabs escalating, the Democratic establishment is still taking the time to fret over a rising star in its own party.

Sep 3, 2025 / Chris Lehmann

Tidy Bowl

Tidy Bowl Tidy Bowl

Royal flush.

Sep 3, 2025 / OppArt / Mark Kaplan

California Governor Gavin Newsom greets Donald Trump at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California

What the Democrats Can Learn From Gavin Newsom’s Trump Mockery What the Democrats Can Learn From Gavin Newsom’s Trump Mockery

As Democrats sharpen their online game, Gavin Newsom’s Trump-style jabs reveal both the risks and rewards of fighting fire with fire in an attention economy built for bluster.

Sep 3, 2025 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Stephen Miller Interviews with CNN

Stephen Miller Calls Democrats a “Domestic Extremist Organization” Stephen Miller Calls Democrats a “Domestic Extremist Organization”

Congressional Democrats should demand that he retract his grotesque claims or resign.

Sep 3, 2025 / Anthony Barnett

Here Comes the Sun—Plus, “Our Fragile Freedoms”

Here Comes the Sun—Plus, “Our Fragile Freedoms” Here Comes the Sun—Plus, “Our Fragile Freedoms”

On this episode of Start Making Sense, Bill McKibben explains why solar power makes him optimistic, and Eric Foner talks about Trump and history.

Sep 3, 2025 / Podcast / Jon Wiener

A billboard in Times Square calls for the release of the Epstein files. July 23, 2025, in New York City.

Trump’s Release of the MLK Jr. Files Was a Pathetic Gamble Trump’s Release of the MLK Jr. Files Was a Pathetic Gamble

The move is only more proof of the desperation behind Trump’s Epstein Distraction Campaign.

Sep 2, 2025 / Clarence Lusane

Employees with Project Weber-Renew in Providence, Rhode Island.

This Overdose Prevention Center Isn’t Giving Up on Harm Reduction This Overdose Prevention Center Isn’t Giving Up on Harm Reduction

Over the past decade, overdose protections and programs like Project Weber-Renew have expanded, but with Trump back in office, this trend may be short lived.

Sep 2, 2025 / StudentNation / Fareed Salmon

People attend a rally on August 28, 2025, at Pasadena Auto Wash, where six employees were detained in an immigration raid last weekend.

The Terror and Cruelty of Trump’s Deportation Machine The Terror and Cruelty of Trump’s Deportation Machine

The administration’s immigration policies have gone from awful to monstrous, culminating with this weekend’s move to send roughly 600 unaccompanied children back to Guatemala...

Sep 1, 2025 / Column / Sasha Abramsky

AFGE President Everett Kelley speaks during the Hands Off! day of action against the Trump administration and Elon Musk on April 5, 2025, in Washington, DC.

“They Will Attack Every Organized Worker in America” “They Will Attack Every Organized Worker in America”

Talking to the head of America’s largest union of federal workers about Trump’s assault on his members and all of labor.

Sep 1, 2025 / John Nichols

People march in New York City during a rally calling for the Trump administration not to go to war with Iran, on June 18, 2025. The banner reads: No US-Israel War on Iran.

Preparing for the Next War on Iran Preparing for the Next War on Iran

On The Time of Monsters: Trita Parsi on how wider regional conflict in the Middle East is just starting.

Sep 1, 2025 / Podcast / Jeet Heer

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