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President Donald Trump poses for a selfie with Gianni Infantino, the president of FIFA, during the FIFA World Cup 2026 Official Draw on December 5, 2025, in Washington, DC.

2 FIFA Rulings on Israel, 1 Familiar Deference to MAGA 2 FIFA Rulings on Israel, 1 Familiar Deference to MAGA

The world’s soccer governing body reminded fans what its theoretical commitment to “neutrality” means in practice: siding with the genocidaire.

Mar 24, 2026 / Jules Boykoff and Dave Zirin

No Safe Ground for Iranian Women

No Safe Ground for Iranian Women No Safe Ground for Iranian Women

Oppression at home, bombs from abroad.

Mar 23, 2026 / OppArt / Adriana Mosquera Soto

Marc Andreessen holding forth at TechCrunch Disrupt 2016 in San Francisco.

Marc Andreessen’s Dangerously Unexamined Life Marc Andreessen’s Dangerously Unexamined Life

The tech mogul has declared himself an enemy of introspection, and that conveniently erases considerations of conscience from his amoral investment empire.

Mar 23, 2026 / David Futrelle

Student “ICE Out” protests at UCLA in January 2026.

How Can Universities Protect Their Immigrant Students? How Can Universities Protect Their Immigrant Students?

With federal cuts and heightened fear on campus, first-generation students at schools like UCLA are asking their institutions to defend and expand their right to education.

Mar 23, 2026 / StudentNation / Lucy Wong Ryniejski

From Foreign Correspondent to Uber Driver

From Foreign Correspondent to Uber Driver From Foreign Correspondent to Uber Driver

I once documented human displacement and desperation. Now, due to a crumbling media ecosystem, I am living it.

Mar 21, 2026 / Feature / Steve Scherer

Donald Trump Throws Another Big Tariff Tanty

Donald Trump Throws Another Big Tariff Tanty Donald Trump Throws Another Big Tariff Tanty

And other essential news of the week—including new legislation on prediction markets and a threat to the critically endangered Rice’s whale.

Mar 20, 2026 / Elie Mystal

Seventeen-year-old Ayman Nasir al-Nunu, who suffered from malnutrition, receives treatment at the Patient Friends Association Hospital in Gaza City, Gaza on October 29, 2025.

The Hunger Era The Hunger Era

In Gaza, we watch people being starved by Israel. In rich countries, we watch people starving themselves. The situations are completely different—but they are also connected.

Mar 20, 2026 / Francesca Newton

People take part in a protest outside the New York Times Building on February 26, 2017, in New York.

The Trump Administration Is Casually Torching the First Amendment The Trump Administration Is Casually Torching the First Amendment

If he can’t stop the bad news from happening, the least an authoritarian can do is try to stop the dissemination of that bad news.

Mar 20, 2026 / Column / Sasha Abramsky

Cesar Chavez speaks at a 1988 rally in McFarland, California.

What We Must Learn From the Revelations About Cesar Chavez What We Must Learn From the Revelations About Cesar Chavez

The sexual predations of the late labor leader follow a depressingly familiar pattern in left organizing circles.

Mar 19, 2026 / Mel Buer

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., US secretary of Health and Human Services, left, and Brooke Rollins, US agriculture secretary, stand during an event at the Health and Human Services headquarters in Washington, DC, on February 11, 2026.

Is Your Diet a Little Bit Fascist? Is Your Diet a Little Bit Fascist?

The right is summoning its armies via their stomachs. When we dismiss food politics, we risk missing what’s being stirred when a group coheres itself around the table.

Mar 19, 2026 / Amber Husain

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