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Volunteers with New York Common Pantry help to prepare food packages on October 30, 2025, in New York City.

Students in New York Are Going Hungry. How Can Mamdani Help? Students in New York Are Going Hungry. How Can Mamdani Help?

With plans for city-owned grocery stores and a focus on affordability, the new mayoral administration offers fresh hopes of successfully confronting the food crisis among students...

Mar 5, 2026 / StudentNation / Nikole Rajgor

The Cinema of Societal Collapse

The Cinema of Societal Collapse The Cinema of Societal Collapse

This year’s Oscar-nominated international feature films—especially The Secret Agent and Sirāt—tackle what it means to live and die under tyranny.

Mar 5, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Vikram Murthi

How the Theatrics of Mamdani’s Trump Meeting Backfired

How the Theatrics of Mamdani’s Trump Meeting Backfired How the Theatrics of Mamdani’s Trump Meeting Backfired

By pandering to the president’s vanity, the New York mayor reinforced Trump’s image as a strongman commanding deference—an especially bad look on the eve of Trump’s war with Iran

Mar 5, 2026 / D.D. Guttenplan

Men watch from a hillside as a plume of smoke rises after an explosion on March 2, 2026, in Tehran, Iran.

The Iran War Is Also a Climate War The Iran War Is Also a Climate War

Climate change is not a peripheral part of what we’re seeing in Iran—it’s structurally embedded in modern warfare.

Mar 5, 2026 / Mark Hertsgaard and Giles Trendle

Anthropic touts its alliance with the American imperium in happier times for the company.

Garbage In, Carnage Out Garbage In, Carnage Out

The harrowing lessons of the Pentagon’s recently dissolved partnership with Anthropic.

Mar 4, 2026 / David Futrelle

US President Donald Trump welcomes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to his Mar-a-Lago club on December 29, 2025.

The Iran War Could Be Catastrophic for the US-Israel Alliance. Good. The Iran War Could Be Catastrophic for the US-Israel Alliance. Good.

As Israel’s role in pushing the war with Iran comes into ever sharper focus, it’s up to us to turn outrage into change.

Mar 4, 2026 / Jack Mirkinson

US President Donald J. Trump sits at a table monitoring military operations during Operation Epic Fury against Iran.

Trump’s Attacks on Voting, and on Iran Trump’s Attacks on Voting, and on Iran

David Cole talks about fighting a coming executive order restricting voting in the midterms, and John Nichols explains a congressional War Powers resolution on Iran.

Mar 4, 2026 / Podcast / Jon Wiener

We Are the Fire That Melts the ICE

We Are the Fire That Melts the ICE We Are the Fire That Melts the ICE

Oaxaca, Mexico, street art.

Mar 4, 2026 / OppArt / Line Marker

Bari Weiss during her interview with Erika Kirk on December 13, 2025.

The Endless Hypocrisy of Bari Weiss The Endless Hypocrisy of Bari Weiss

She claims to be a free speech champion. But as her actions at CBS News keep showing, she seems to think free speech should run only in a rightward direction.

Mar 4, 2026 / Grace Byron

US President Donald Trump wields a gavel during the signing ceremony at the inaugural meeting of his “Board of Peace” at the US Institute of Peace in Washington, DC, on February 19, 2026.

An Unlawful War An Unlawful War

The precedent being set by the US in launching this war of aggression against Iran will long live in infamy.

Mar 4, 2026 / Richard Falk

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