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
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
We Need to Cut Our Dependence on US Tech. Here’s How to Start. We Need to Cut Our Dependence on US Tech. Here’s How to Start.
On episode 300 of Tech Won't Save Us, Paris Marx on getting out from under American Big Tech's thumb.
Oct 30, 2025 / Podcast / Paris Marx
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
John Roberts Is a Threat to the Health of Every American John Roberts Is a Threat to the Health of Every American
The Supreme Court chief is complicit in the destruction of the federal government’s public health infrastructure.
Oct 30, 2025 / Gregg Gonsalves
“We’re Asking the Voters to Have a Say”: Inside California’s Redistricting Fight “We’re Asking the Voters to Have a Say”: Inside California’s Redistricting Fight
Proposition 50 is an opportunity to “restore fairness in our democratic process,” according to organizers, by countering gerrymandering in other states.
Oct 30, 2025 / StudentNation / Zoya Alam, Rani Chor, and Amara McEvoy
The Billionaire Oligarchs Are Coming for Your Pets The Billionaire Oligarchs Are Coming for Your Pets
And they want to make bigger profits.
Oct 29, 2025 / Chuck Collins
Graham Platner and the Online Rush to Judgment Graham Platner and the Online Rush to Judgment
At some point, we have to recognize that we just don’t know about the Maine Senate candidate’s past motivations—or about much of anything else, either.
Oct 29, 2025 / Ron Currie
Gaza, Heartbreak, and Ruins Gaza, Heartbreak, and Ruins
Israel killed at least 67,000 Palestinians, and left Gaza devastated.
Oct 29, 2025 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo
What Connects the Paris Commune and the George Floyd Uprising? What Connects the Paris Commune and the George Floyd Uprising?
A conversation with the writer and theorist Jasper Bernes about the left after the summer of 2020 and the state of revolutionary politics.
Oct 29, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Clinton Williamson