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E. Jean Carroll leaves the courthouse on September 6, 2024 in New York City.

How E. Jean Carroll Beat Trump in Court—Plus, What Really Happened In the 2024 Election How E. Jean Carroll Beat Trump in Court—Plus, What Really Happened In the 2024 Election

Podcast / Start Making Sense / Jun 25, 2025 How E. Jean Carroll Beat Trump in Court—Plus, What Really Happened In the 2024 Election On this episode of Start Making Sense, E.

Jun 25, 2025 / Podcast

Disgraced former New York governor Andrew Cuomo addresses the media following a speech on June 22, 2025, in New York City.

The Defeat of Andrew Cuomo Would Be a Devastating Loss for Scumbag Centrism The Defeat of Andrew Cuomo Would Be a Devastating Loss for Scumbag Centrism

A vote for Zohran Mamdani is a vote against the Democratic Party’s reactionary center and for a more hopeful future.

Jun 24, 2025 / Dave Zirin

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents knock on the door of a residence during a multi-agency targeted enforcement operation in Chicago, Illinois, on Sunday, January 26, 2025.

The Supreme Court Just Cosigned One of Trump’s Most Lawless Immigration Moves The Supreme Court Just Cosigned One of Trump’s Most Lawless Immigration Moves

Deporting people to countries where they might be tortured or killed? All good, according to the six GOP justices.

Jun 24, 2025 / Elie Mystal

Pastor John Hagee speaks during the March For Israel at the National Mall on November 14, 2023, in Washington, DC.

These Trump Supporters Hope Bombing Iran Will Trigger the Apocalypse These Trump Supporters Hope Bombing Iran Will Trigger the Apocalypse

For many ardent evangelicals and Christian nationalists, a military confrontation with Iran is the fulfillment of a biblical prophecy.

Jun 24, 2025 / Chris Lehmann

Portland Street Response crisis worker Angela Sands and EMT Kaya Ascott respond to a 911 call in Portland, Oregon.

This Organization Proved There Was an Alternative to the Police. Now It’s Being Defunded. This Organization Proved There Was an Alternative to the Police. Now It’s Being Defunded.

In Eugene, Oregon, CAHOOTS, a decades-old crisis-response program, may disappear, but the programs it inspired have spread across the United States, including to nearby Portland.

Jun 24, 2025 / Kaia Sand

Pride Everywhere!

Pride Everywhere! Pride Everywhere!

Barcelona, Spain, 2025.

Jun 24, 2025 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo

Left: Ford to City: Drop Dead reads front page of the New York “Daily News” for October 30, 1975. Right: Felix Rohatyn seated in front of a microphone.

The Death and Rebirth of New York City The Death and Rebirth of New York City

A new documentary about the 1975 fiscal crisis, Drop Dead City, is entertaining to watch but dangerously misleading as history—or politics.

Jun 24, 2025 / Doug Henwood

A veiled Iranian art student waves a country flag while standing on symbolic debris of a destroyed building as she performs in an anti-war conceptual play at a square in downtown Tehran, Iran, on June 21, 2025.

Why Congress Needs to Vote on My Bipartisan War Powers Resolution Why Congress Needs to Vote on My Bipartisan War Powers Resolution

America cannot afford another endless war in the Middle East.

Jun 24, 2025 / Rep. Ro Khanna

Bryan Scalia of Enfield, foreground, shouts out while on the picket line with other members of machinist local 1746 picket on day two of the machinist union strike on Tuesday, May 5, 2025, in front of Pratt &Whitney plant on Main Street in East Hartford.

The Math That Gave Us Trump The Math That Gave Us Trump

The party that built the New Deal now manages the raw deal. But there’s hope.

Jun 24, 2025 / Corbin Trent

Exterior of The Bitter End coffee house, a venue specializing in live acoustic folk music, Greenwich Village, New York City, 1960s.

J. Hoberman’s Lost New York J. Hoberman’s Lost New York

In Everything Is Now, the veteran film critic looks back at the downtown art scene of the 1960s.

Jun 24, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Andrew Marzoni

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