Alleged Free Speech Champions Are Campaigning Against Speech They Don’t Like Alleged Free Speech Champions Are Campaigning Against Speech They Don’t Like
Prominent Republicans are attacking anyone who insists on describing who the late Charlie Kirk and his movement really were, even trying to get them fired.
Sep 15, 2025 / Joan Walsh
Trump Has Destroyed Any Hope of National Healing Trump Has Destroyed Any Hope of National Healing
Charlie Kirk’s assassination is a pretext for a concerted attack on Trump’s enemies.
Sep 15, 2025 / Jeet Heer
Wrecking Freedom of Expression Wrecking Freedom of Expression
The Trump administration has announced plans to audit exhibitions at eight Smithsonian museums. Among the works labeled “objectionable” is an artwork by cartoonist Felipe Galindo F...
Sep 15, 2025 / OppArt / Felipe Galindo
What the Photoshop Panic Should Have Taught Us About AI What the Photoshop Panic Should Have Taught Us About AI
In 2004, a doctored political image caused outrage and confusion. Twenty years later, why hasn’t visual literacy improved?
Sep 15, 2025 / Morgan Barrie
Vanderbilt Uses “Institutional Neutrality” to Protect Against Trump. But Is It Truly Neutral? Vanderbilt Uses “Institutional Neutrality” to Protect Against Trump. But Is It Truly Neutral?
The university has largely complied to the government’s efforts to reshape higher education as critics on campus question the role of neutrality altogether.
Sep 15, 2025 / StudentNation / Arman Amin
The Failures of the Foreign Policy Elite The Failures of the Foreign Policy Elite
On The Time of Monsters: Matt Duss on the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.
Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division.
Sep 12, 2025 / Elizabeth Spiers
How to Canonize a White Supremacist How to Canonize a White Supremacist
On the brutal murder of Charlie Kirk, the certain blowback, and this country’s raging gun problem.
Sep 12, 2025 / Elie Mystal
The GOP’s Bloated Pentagon Budget Is Indefensible The GOP’s Bloated Pentagon Budget Is Indefensible
The House just approved $892.6 billion in military spending—continuing the march toward $1 trillion defense budgets.
Sep 12, 2025 / John Nichols