Trump Is Forcing Millions to Make Cruel Choices Trump Is Forcing Millions to Make Cruel Choices
Do you go to your asylum check-in and risk capture by ICE? Without SNAP, what will you give up to feed your kids? How will you pay for healthcare?
Oct 31, 2025 / Column / Sasha Abramsky
Mike Johnson’s House Is Fox News With a Gavel Mike Johnson’s House Is Fox News With a Gavel
The House speaker admits that his legislative chamber no longer matters. That’s the outcome of a series of deliberate leadership decisions to ensure its powerlessness.
Oct 30, 2025 / Chris Lehmann
Why Trump Is Allowing Food Stamp Funding to Run Out Why Trump Is Allowing Food Stamp Funding to Run Out
I warned that Trump and congressional Republicans could use a shutdown to deny SNAP benefits, but was told there was no way our political system would allow that to occur.
Oct 30, 2025 / Joel Berg
Can Trump’s War Be Prevented? Can Trump’s War Be Prevented?
A congressional war powers resolution could bring pressure and is the best hope for averting another disastrous war.
Oct 30, 2025 / Mark Weisbrot
Immigrants Feed the Country! Immigrants Feed the Country!
Immigrants make up the majority of the US agricultural work force.
Oct 30, 2025 / OppArt / Motyko Morales
Here’s Why Trump Has Been Flirting With a Third Term Here’s Why Trump Has Been Flirting With a Third Term
Trump cannot be president again. But he and his loyal followers have every reason for wanting to make people think he can.
Oct 30, 2025 / Elie Mystal
Will Virginia Democrats Make the State Ground Zero for Trump Resistance Again? Will Virginia Democrats Make the State Ground Zero for Trump Resistance Again?
The state’s Democrats are not complacent this year, fielding candidates for all 100 House districts. Kimberly Pope Adams is one angling to grow the Democratic majority there.
Oct 30, 2025 / Joan Walsh
The Marriage Plot From 50,000 Feet Above The Marriage Plot From 50,000 Feet Above
Kate Folks’s Sky Daddy pokes fun at the need for love at the core of most fiction—dramatizing one woman’s quest for romance through her very literal lust for airplanes.
Oct 30, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Laura Adamczyk
The Real Bill de Blasio Has Something to Say The Real Bill de Blasio Has Something to Say
The Times of London failed to meet even basic journalistic standards. We should demand better from the media.
Oct 30, 2025 / Bill de Blasio
Trump’s Tony Soprano Presidency Is Bleeding the Country Dry Trump’s Tony Soprano Presidency Is Bleeding the Country Dry
The thrill many felt of having a made-for-TV-mobster president is gone.
Oct 30, 2025 / Dave Zirin