Abdul El-Sayed Wants to “Throw Some Righteous Punches” Abdul El-Sayed Wants to “Throw Some Righteous Punches”
As the Democratic Party debates its identity, this progressive primary candidate and doctor is primed for a breakout moment in the race for Michigan’s Senate seat.
Jan 23, 2026 / StudentNation / Heather Chen
The Supreme Court Shows It’s Willing to Thwart Trump—When Money Is on the Line The Supreme Court Shows It’s Willing to Thwart Trump—When Money Is on the Line
The court’s conservatives appear likely to block Trump from firing Lisa Cook—not because they care about principle but because they care about the Fed.
Jan 22, 2026 / Elie Mystal
What It Took to Save a Soccer Field in Palestine What It Took to Save a Soccer Field in Palestine
Europe’s governing soccer body saves a pitch in the West Bank—but is it only because the Swiss Parliament is threatening to pull its tax exemption over its inclusion of Israel?
Jan 22, 2026 / Jules Boykoff and Dave Zirin
Meet the Alaska Student Arrested for Eating an AI Art Exhibit Meet the Alaska Student Arrested for Eating an AI Art Exhibit
A conversation with Graham Granger, whose combination of protest and performance art spread beyond campus. “AI chews up and spits out art made by other people.”
Jan 22, 2026 / StudentNation / Colin Warren
Refusing Despair in a Despairing Time Refusing Despair in a Despairing Time
A Martin Luther King Jr. Day sermon by the Rev. Canon Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas.
Jan 21, 2026 / Rev. Canon Kelly Brown Douglas
Gambling With the Future of Sports—Plus, a Minneapolis Teacher Speaks Out Gambling With the Future of Sports—Plus, a Minneapolis Teacher Speaks Out
Dannu Fun joins Edge of Sports to talk about sports gambling, and we talk to Daniel Troccoli in Minneapolis about what’s happening there.
Jan 20, 2026 / Podcast / Dave Zirin
Springsteen Defends the Promised Land Against ICE’s “Gestapo Tactics” Springsteen Defends the Promised Land Against ICE’s “Gestapo Tactics”
Mourning for Renee Nicole Good, the singer decried the Trump administration and the threat to freedom posed by “heavily armed masked federal troops invading an American city.”
Jan 20, 2026 / John Nichols
Is It Possible for Speech to Ever Be Too Free? Is It Possible for Speech to Ever Be Too Free?
A new history explores the political limits as well as possibilities of freedom of speech.
Jan 20, 2026 / Books & the Arts / David Cole
The Strange Story of the Famed Anti-Fascist Lament “First They Came…” The Strange Story of the Famed Anti-Fascist Lament “First They Came…”
In his celebrated mea culpa, the German pastor Martin Niemöller blamed his failure to speak out against the Nazis on indifference. Was that the whole reason?
Jan 20, 2026 / Feature / Barry Yourgrau
How a Reactionary Peruvian Movement Went Multinational How a Reactionary Peruvian Movement Went Multinational
Parents’-rights crusaders seeking to impose their Christian nationalist vision on the United States took their playbook from South America.
Jan 20, 2026 / Feature / Elle Hardy