![Frances Perkins in 1933, just before becoming secretary of labor for Franklin D. Roosevelt.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-515129012.jpg)
We Need a Project 2025 for the Left We Need a Project 2025 for the Left
The right has a blueprint for the future. Where’s ours?
Jun 13, 2024 / Gregg Gonsalves
![Under Trump, the DOJ Will Become the Legal Wing of the MAGA Movement](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/RODRIGUEZ-mystal-project2025-ftr.jpg)
Under Trump, the DOJ Will Become the Legal Wing of the MAGA Movement Under Trump, the DOJ Will Become the Legal Wing of the MAGA Movement
Should Trump win, conservatives have a plan to use the DOJ to make their darkest desires legal, while removing the legal means to stop them.
Jun 7, 2024 / Feature / Elie Mystal
![The Theocratic Blueprint for Trump’s Next Term](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GOODMAN-Lehmann-Project2025-ftr.jpg)
The Theocratic Blueprint for Trump’s Next Term The Theocratic Blueprint for Trump’s Next Term
How the Christian nationalist vanguard would pursue unprecedented power over all branches of government.
Jun 6, 2024 / Feature / Chris Lehmann
![Trump Wants to Be America’s Landlord](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/BECK-Abramsky-project2025-ftr.jpg)
Trump Wants to Be America’s Landlord Trump Wants to Be America’s Landlord
Project 2025 calls on Trump to run the country the way he did his businesses: as a crooked real estate mogul.
Jun 6, 2024 / Feature / Sasha Abramsky
![Conservatives Are Gearing Up for a Major Military Expansion Under Trump 2.0](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/STAUFFER-Hartung-Project2025-ftr.jpg)
Conservatives Are Gearing Up for a Major Military Expansion Under Trump 2.0 Conservatives Are Gearing Up for a Major Military Expansion Under Trump 2.0
If Project 2025 gets its way, a second Trump term will funnel more money to the Pentagon, dwarfing even the Biden administration’s spending.
Jun 5, 2024 / Feature / William D. Hartung
![Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2017. Project 2025 commits the US to a state of permanent belligerence toward China.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-905930816.jpg)
A New Chinese Exclusion Act A New Chinese Exclusion Act
Demonizing China allows Republicans to unite around an authoritarian agenda at home—and provides a convenient rationale for unfettered Pentagon profiteering.
Jun 5, 2024 / Feature / Jake Werner
![The Planet Could Bear the Scars of a Second Trump Term... Forever](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/KUPER-McKibbon-project2025-ftr.jpg)
The Planet Could Bear the Scars of a Second Trump Term... Forever The Planet Could Bear the Scars of a Second Trump Term... Forever
With help from Project 2025, Trump will stall all attempts to avert the climate crisis, accelerating a catastrophe that we have only a few years to prevent.
Jun 5, 2024 / Featured / Bill McKibben
![Under a Second Trump Term, the DHS Will Be Even Harsher Than Before](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/WEINSTEIN-Del_Valle-project2025.jpg)
Under a Second Trump Term, the DHS Will Be Even Harsher Than Before Under a Second Trump Term, the DHS Will Be Even Harsher Than Before
Project 2025 lays out a vision of a new immigration enforcement agency that will be more effective than ever in deporting, detaining, and denying entry to immigrants.
Jun 4, 2024 / Feature / Gaby Del Valle
![Looking up at the sign outside the Department of Health and Human Services building, against a sunny sky.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/hhs-building-gt-img.jpg)
Project 2025 Has Bad Medicine for HHS Project 2025 Has Bad Medicine for HHS
Under Trump, the Department of Health and Human Services would become the “Department of Life” once again—and worse.
Jun 4, 2024 / Feature / Joan Walsh
![A Trump-themed flag is flown by supporters across the street from Trump Tower in New York City on May 31, 2024, before former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump holds a press conference following his felony conviction for falsifying business records.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-2154788905.jpg)
Project 2025’s Guide to Subverting Democracy Project 2025’s Guide to Subverting Democracy
A second Trump administration could weaponize existing government agencies to dismantle democracy itself.
Jun 4, 2024 / Feature / John Nichols