The Right-Wing Influencers Cashing Checks From Russia The Right-Wing Influencers Cashing Checks From Russia

A DOJ indictment charges MAGA-loyal media figures with delivering talking points furnished by Russian state media.

Chris Lehmann

The Powell Memo Helped Create Project 2025 The Powell Memo Helped Create Project 2025

A new investigative podcast shows the toxic legacy of the founding father of modern American plutocracy.

Jeet Heer

A Year Without Fares: Lessons From New York’s Free Bus Pilot A Year Without Fares: Lessons From New York’s Free Bus Pilot

Albany must embrace transformational change to bring NYC transit back on track and be ready for the challenges of tomorrow.

Zohran Mamdani and Michael Gianaris

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Andy Beshear Is What’s Wrong With the Democratic Party in the Trump Era Andy Beshear Is What’s Wrong With the Democratic Party in the Trump Era

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The Iran War Kills US Troops, the US and Saudi Arabia Strike a Nuclear Deal, Zelensky Fires His Top General The Iran War Kills US Troops, the US and Saudi Arabia Strike a Nuclear Deal, Zelensky Fires His Top General

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2024 Election

Enemy of progress: Linkedin founder Reid Hoffman at the Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho.

Kamala Harris Needs to Put Arrogant Plutocratic Donors in Their Place Kamala Harris Needs to Put Arrogant Plutocratic Donors in Their Place

Wealthy centrists are already pressuring Democrats to give up their progressive achievements.

Jeet Heer

Benjamin Netanyahu and Kamala Harris shake hands during a meeting in the Vice President's Ceremonial Office in Washington, DC, on Thursday, July 25, 2024.

Kamala Harris Will Shift on Gaza Only if We Make Her Kamala Harris Will Shift on Gaza Only if We Make Her

The vice president’s ascension provides an opening for a new approach to the horror in Palestine. But it won’t happen without sustained political pressure.

Y.L. Al-Sheikh and Nickan Fayyazi

A supporter holds a sign as members of the San Francisco Democratic Party rally in support of Kamala Harris on July 22 at City Hall in San Francisco, California.

The Working Families Party Nominates Kamala Harris Ahead of the DNC The Working Families Party Nominates Kamala Harris Ahead of the DNC

The nomination gives the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee a second ballot line in New York and a big organizational boost from the WFP and its allies.

John Nichols

World

New Popular Front deputy Gabriel Amard speaks at an NFP rally.

What the US Can Learn From the French Left What the US Can Learn From the French Left

The New Popular Front bloc denied the far right a victory by doing things the Democratic Party consistently fails to do.

Harrison Stetler

French soldiers stand guard near to Eiffel Tower in Paris on July 21 ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The Appalling Social Cleansing of Olympic Paris The Appalling Social Cleansing of Olympic Paris

In the last year, an estimated 12,500 vulnerable Paris residents were forced from their homes.

Dave Zirin and Jules Boykoff

Palestinian children watch as an Israeli bulldozer works in the West Bank hamlet of Khan al-Ahmar, Thursday, July 5, 2018.

The Horror in Israel and Palestine Began Half a Century Ago The Horror in Israel and Palestine Began Half a Century Ago

From the very start, Jewish violence has accompanied the proliferation of settlements.

Ellen Cantarow

Books & the Arts

Matt Damon as Odysseus in “The Odyssey.”

Impale and Cry: Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” Impale and Cry: Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey”

In the latest rendering of the epic, there is plenty to feel guilty about even if you did not mean it.

Books & the Arts / Christian Lorentzen

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage (right) is interviewed by Jordan Peterson at the annual conference of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship in London, February 18, 2025.

What’s So Scary About the Frankfurt School? What’s So Scary About the Frankfurt School?

In “The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy,” A.J.A. Woods looks at how the Frankfurt scholars became the latest bogeymen for the contemporary right.

Books & the Arts / Michael Shorris

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Emily LaBarge’s Life Stories Emily LaBarge’s Life Stories

In “Dog Days,” LaBarge blurs the lines between memoir and criticism.

Books & the Arts / Sophie Poole

Politics

Bernie Sanders (I-VT) questions witnesses during a hearing about working hours in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol H

Bernie Sanders’s 60-Year Fight Bernie Sanders’s 60-Year Fight

The independent senator from Vermont spoke to The Nation’s president about why he still believes political revolution can change the United States for the better.

Q&A / Bhaskar Sunkara

Trump leans toward J.D. Vance to shake his hand, onstage at the RNC.

The He-Man, Woman-Hater’s GOP Presidential Ticket The He-Man, Woman-Hater’s GOP Presidential Ticket

By picking the banal natalist Senator J.D. Vance as his running mate, Donald Trump seems to be aiming for an even smaller share of the women’s vote than he earns on his own.

Joan Walsh

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Donald Trump Is Not a Friend to American Workers Donald Trump Is Not a Friend to American Workers

Despite Sean O’Brien’s support for Trump at the RNC, let’s be clear: A second Trump term would not be a win for the labor movement.

Larry Cohen

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Kamala Harris Steps Up

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The future of American democracy now rests on the vice president’s shoulders. That’s why it’s more important than ever to understand who she is.

Feature / Joan Walsh

The Rolling Stones Haven’t Missed a Beat

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The world’s greatest rock and roll band is on the road again. This time, they’ve got a new drummer.

Feature / Ethan Iverson

How Microfinance Became the ‘It’ Development Program

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Microfinance has been touted as a miracle cure for poverty in the global south. The reality has been a lot messier.

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