NYC Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani Wants You to Have More Money in Your Pocket NYC Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani Wants You to Have More Money in Your Pocket

The New York State Assembly member explains how free buses, free childcare, a rent freeze, and city-run grocery stores would make life easier for working-class New Yorkers.

Q&A / Sumaya Awad

DOGE Is a Massive Scam—Even on Its Own Terms DOGE Is a Massive Scam—Even on Its Own Terms

Even if you believe that Musk is trying to root out waste and fraud (and you really shouldn’t), he and his dweeby hatchet bros are only making things more corrupt and expensive.

Chris Lehmann

Beatriz Nascimento’s Histories of Afro-Brazilian Rebellion  Beatriz Nascimento’s Histories of Afro-Brazilian Rebellion 

The activist scholar devoted her life to sketching out a revisionist historiography of resistance in Latin America but also the world.

Books & the Arts / Yasmina Price

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A Trip Through Hell A Trip Through Hell

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The Great Salt Lake Is a Ticking Time Bomb The Great Salt Lake Is a Ticking Time Bomb

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What We Can Learn About Immigration From an Unlikely Source: Ronald Reagan What We Can Learn About Immigration From an Unlikely Source: Ronald Reagan

Jul 28, 2025 / Brad Swanson

Zohran Mamdani Is Keeping Hope Alive Zohran Mamdani Is Keeping Hope Alive

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Politics

Jamie Raskin

How Democrats Can Fight Back How Democrats Can Fight Back

Jamie Raskin lays out the legal strategy to oppose Trump but says, “We’re not going to sue our way out of a political crisis”—Democrats need a political organizing strategy.

Q&A / Chris Lehmann

Florida resident Ann Richter holds antisemitic flyers she found on her lawn.

Some Inconvenient Truths About Antisemitism and the Left Some Inconvenient Truths About Antisemitism and the Left

By ceding the space on antisemitism—responding when we are accused of it, but not taking up the fight against it as our cause—we’ve created a strategic opportunity for the right.

Rachel Shabi

A sign is seen outside National Institutes of Health headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland.

Trump’s Plan to Defund the NIH Will Ruin a National Treasure Trump’s Plan to Defund the NIH Will Ruin a National Treasure

Trump, Musk, and Vought are purging institutions and cutting off access to educational and research opportunities for anyone who isn’t straight and white.

Gregg Gonsalves

Books & the Arts

An episode of “Shark Tank,” 2015.

Is Pitching a Novel All That Different From “Shark Tank”?  Is Pitching a Novel All That Different From “Shark Tank”? 

Alex Higley’s True Failure, which dramatizes one man’s dream to pitch his business idea on reality TV, slyly compares this bathetic task to publishing literary fiction.

Books & the Arts / Ben Sandman

W.G. Sebald, 1999.

Before Sebald Was Great Before Sebald Was Great

By looking at his early work, we can better understand who the German writer was beyond his persona as the melancholy intellectual and serious man of letters.

Books & the Arts / David Schurman Wallace

Matilde “Sacha” Artes, of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, in Buenos Aires, 1985.

The Argentine Grandmothers Who Resisted the Junta The Argentine Grandmothers Who Resisted the Junta

Haley Cohen Gilliland’s A Flower Traveled in My Blood looks at the efforts of a human rights group to find the children and grandchildren who were disappeared by a dictatorship.

Books & the Arts / Jacob Sugarman

World

Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni posts a picture of herself with Elon Musk in Brussels, Belgium, on her personal X account on January 6, 2025.

Elon Musk Does Europe Elon Musk Does Europe

As Musk wrote in a January post, “From MAGA to MEGA: Make Europe Great Again.”

Harrison Stetler

Displaced Palestinians return to their homes in the north of Gaza on February 3, 2025.

Everything Is Destroyed in Gaza. But I Still Feel the Pulse of Life. Everything Is Destroyed in Gaza. But I Still Feel the Pulse of Life.

When I am finally able to return to the ruins of what was my house, I will do so, not to weep, but to make a promise to rebuild it.

Lujayn

Newspapers inn Tehran, Iran, report that Donald Trump has officially taken office as president of United States, on January 21, 2025.

Can Trump Make a Deal With Iran? Can Trump Make a Deal With Iran?

More likely, things will unravel quickly, with war on the horizon.

Bob Dreyfuss

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The Settler Plot to Recolonize Gaza

The Settler Plot to Recolonize Gaza The Settler Plot to Recolonize Gaza

Since Israel invaded Gaza in 2023, far-right settlers have set their sights on the Strip—and they have no intention of letting a ceasefire stand in their way.

Feature / Joshua Leifer

It’s Time for the Democrats to Throw Off the Dead Hand of Clintonism

It’s Time for the Democrats to Throw Off the Dead Hand of Clintonism It’s Time for the Democrats to Throw Off the Dead Hand of Clintonism

More than 20 years after Bill Clinton left office, Democrats remain in the grips of his New Democrat politics. That’s a serious problem.

Feature / Lily Geismer

How Trump Could Remake the Supreme Court for a Generation

How Trump Could Remake the Supreme Court for a Generation How Trump Could Remake the Supreme Court for a Generation

Donald Trump is poised to become the first president since FDR to have appointed the majority of high-court justices. His potential picks are terrifying.

Feature / Elie Mystal

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