Democrats Still Can’t Figure Out What Happened in 2024 Democrats Still Can’t Figure Out What Happened in 2024
A new analysis of voting patterns in the last election suggests that the party is woefully unprepared for the path forward.
May 29, 2025 / Chris Lehmann
Starving Gaza Starving Gaza
Netanyahu escalates the destruction of a people.
May 29, 2025 / OppArt / Tjeerd Royaards
How Charlie Rangel Defied His Party to Save New York From the Reactionary Right How Charlie Rangel Defied His Party to Save New York From the Reactionary Right
The late congressman’s upending of New York politics by choosing progressivism over partisanship offers a lesson for today.
May 29, 2025 / John Nichols
The Trump Administration’s Education Agenda: A Tragedy in 2 Acts The Trump Administration’s Education Agenda: A Tragedy in 2 Acts
The Trump administration’s funding cuts and attacks on public education are just the beginning.
May 29, 2025 / Jack Schneider and Jennifer C. Berkshire
So Much for Saving the Planet. Climate Careers Evaporate for the Class of 2025. So Much for Saving the Planet. Climate Careers Evaporate for the Class of 2025.
The Trump administration is disrupting career paths for new graduates hoping to work in climate and sustainability, international aid, public service, and the sciences
May 29, 2025 / Lawrence Lanahan
McCarthyism 2.0: Reflections on Testifying in the House Antisemitism Hearings McCarthyism 2.0: Reflections on Testifying in the House Antisemitism Hearings
I soon realized that neither the law nor the facts matter to the Committee on Education’s Republican inquisitors.
May 28, 2025 / David Cole
Winning Rural Voters—Plus, J. Edgar Hoover Winning Rural Voters—Plus, J. Edgar Hoover
On this episode of Start Making Sense, Anthony Flaccavento and Erica Etelson explain the Rural New Deal, and Beverly Gage says the FBI’s first Director actually did some good thin...
May 28, 2025 / Podcast / Jon Wiener
Who Will Protect Judges From Trump’s Incitement? Who Will Protect Judges From Trump’s Incitement?
A threatened judiciary cannot rely on cops controlled by the White House.
May 26, 2025 / Jeet Heer
