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Left: Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) consults his adviser, Silvio Dante (Steven Van Zandt) in The Sopranos. Right: President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance attend the presidential Inauguration.

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

Bill de Blasio

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

California Governor Gavin Newsom signs bills related to redrawing the state’s congressional maps on August 21, 2025, in Sacramento, California.

“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

Democratic candidate for Virginia House of Delegates Kimberly Pope Adams with voters.

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

An airplane after taking off after sunrise, 2022.

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

Dog being cared for by veterinarians

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

Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner speaks at a town hall in Ogunquit, Maine.

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 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? 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

President Donald Trump speaks to members of the military aboard the USS George Washington, an aircraft carrier docked at an American naval base, in Yokosuka, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025.

We Have to Talk About Donald Trump’s Brain We Have to Talk About Donald Trump’s Brain

Are we just going to sit around and pretend that the president isn’t having a lot of… questionable moments these days?

Oct 29, 2025 / Rafi Schwartz

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