What We Can Learn from Our ‘Radical’ Past What We Can Learn from Our ‘Radical’ Past
The clashes of the past teach us that we must stay committed to a cause bigger than any one person and be willing to fight for years to come.
May 2, 2017 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Trump Administration Is Full of Mind-Boggling Conflicts of Interest The Trump Administration Is Full of Mind-Boggling Conflicts of Interest
But the president, and his family business, seems to be in it for the long haul.
May 2, 2017 / Nomi Prins
Meet Bob Ferguson, the Washington State Attorney General Who Shut Down Trump’s Muslim Ban Meet Bob Ferguson, the Washington State Attorney General Who Shut Down Trump’s Muslim Ban
Now a toast of the progressive community, Ferguson views the law as a profoundly moral enterprise.
May 2, 2017 / Sasha Abramsky
Is This Small City the Future of Democratic Engagement in America? Is This Small City the Future of Democratic Engagement in America?
Activists in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, have embarked on a nonstop campaign to resurrect the practice of progressive politics in the heart of Trump country.
May 2, 2017 / Jimmy Tobias
Trump Wants to Build a Giant Steel Dome Trump Wants to Build a Giant Steel Dome
“And we’ll make the liberals pay for it!”
May 2, 2017 / Tom Tomorrow
What Do Bret Stephens and Dean Baquet Have in Common with Donald Trump? What Do Bret Stephens and Dean Baquet Have in Common with Donald Trump?
The president is not the only one to dress up intellectual dishonesty as bravery.
May 1, 2017 / Joan Walsh
7 Things Donald Trump Gets Absolutely Wrong About Andrew Jackson 7 Things Donald Trump Gets Absolutely Wrong About Andrew Jackson
Trump imagines Jackson, a slaveholder, as a “big hearted” statesman who could have averted the Civil War.
May 1, 2017 / John Nichols
The Chilling of Middle Eastern Studies The Chilling of Middle Eastern Studies
Whether or not Trump’s Muslim ban comes to fruition, the rhetoric around the ban is having widespread consequences on academic exploration at exactly the time it’s needed most.
May 1, 2017 / StudentNation / Mariam Elba
The Day Without Immigrant Workers Has Begun The Day Without Immigrant Workers Has Begun
Immigrant workers and fast-food workers across the country are saying no to exploitation in their workplaces and Trump’s attacks from the White House.
May 1, 2017 / Michelle Chen
The March to Save the Planet The March to Save the Planet
Saturday’s Peoples Climate March brought together activists from indigenous resistance groups to Black Lives Matter to the Boy Scouts, all demanding: Act now.
Apr 30, 2017 / Audrea Lim