Politics

Free Ismail Lghazaoui!

Free Ismail Lghazaoui! Free Ismail Lghazaoui!

Morocco sentenced the Palestine solidarity activist to prison just for protesting. But the trail of his persecution runs from Israel across the Atlantic to New Jersey and Texas.

Jan 22, 2025 / Nasreen Abd Elal and Rayan El Amine

Former senator (D-WI) Russ Feingold testifies before a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing in 2014.

Russ Feingold Is Clear: “The ERA Is Part of the Constitution” Russ Feingold Is Clear: “The ERA Is Part of the Constitution”

The head of the American Constitution Society says President Biden is right: The ratification standard has been met.

Jan 22, 2025 / John Nichols

Santa Ana Families for Fair Elections launching a campaign to expand local noncitizen voting in September 2023.

The Case for Letting Noncitizens Vote The Case for Letting Noncitizens Vote

Measures to allow local noncitizen voting failed in the last election, but that hasn’t always been the case throughout American history.

Jan 22, 2025 / StudentNation / Fatimah Azeem

Donald Trump points at a group of photographers and says, “Fake news” while posing with the National Border Patrol Council during a campaign rally on October 13, 2024, in Prescott Valley, Arizona.

How We Got Here, and Thanking the Undocumented How We Got Here, and Thanking the Undocumented

On this episode of Start Making Sense, Harold Meyerson analyzes how Trump “won,” and Gustavo Arellano pays tribute to the immigrants Trump says he’ll deport.

Jan 22, 2025 / Podcast / Jon Wiener

The Troubles Begin

The Troubles Begin The Troubles Begin

Trump’s second term will bring enormous challenges for the nation and for the world.

Jan 21, 2025 / OppArt / Judy Polstra

Andrei and Gyuzel Almarik upon arriving in the Netherlands in 1976.

The Often Misunderstood History of the Soviet Dissidents The Often Misunderstood History of the Soviet Dissidents


In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself at key junctures and eventually to great effect.

Jan 21, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Michael David-Fox

Trump’s Inauguration Revealed Whom He Really Serves: the Billionaires and the Crypto Bros

Trump’s Inauguration Revealed Whom He Really Serves: the Billionaires and the Crypto Bros Trump’s Inauguration Revealed Whom He Really Serves: the Billionaires and the Crypto Bros

In front of Trump stood a handful of CEOs whose combined wealth topped $1.2 trillion. They and the crypto scammers are the true beneficiaries of Trump’s second term.

Jan 20, 2025 / Chris Lehmann

Cecile Richards Saved the Day for Us

Cecile Richards Saved the Day for Us Cecile Richards Saved the Day for Us

The crusader for women’s and workers’ rights died Monday after a cruel illness. She inspires us to do the work ahead.

Jan 20, 2025 / Joan Walsh

President-elect Donald Trump takes the oath of office during the 60th Presidential Inauguration, in the Rotunda of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025.

Trump’s Supposed Unity Message Is a Gloating Threat of MAGA Triumphant Trump’s Supposed Unity Message Is a Gloating Threat of MAGA Triumphant

The new president uses shock and awe to claim a mandate over demoralized Democrats.

Jan 20, 2025 / Jeet Heer

Leadership and Resistance, Now More Than Ever

Leadership and Resistance, Now More Than Ever Leadership and Resistance, Now More Than Ever

Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Jan 20, 2025 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo

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