Trump and RFK Are Presiding Over a Massacre of the Innocents Trump and RFK Are Presiding Over a Massacre of the Innocents
The president’s dangerous misinformation about Tylenol is only the latest threat this government poses to infant and maternal mortality.
Sep 25, 2025 / Gregg Gonsalves
The World’s Newsrooms Can Learn From Bill McKibben’s Climate Journalism The World’s Newsrooms Can Learn From Bill McKibben’s Climate Journalism
Traditional journalists complain that he is an advocate—the same criticism Woodward and Bernstein faced during Watergate.
Sep 25, 2025 / Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope
Britain’s Democracy Is in Genuine Peril Britain’s Democracy Is in Genuine Peril
A bitterly divided democratic camp, a constitutional setup with few guardrails and a surging extreme right spell trouble ahead for Britain’s political institutions.
Sep 24, 2025 / Luke Cooper
How the Kimmel Controversy Echoes Disney’s Dirty China Deal How the Kimmel Controversy Echoes Disney’s Dirty China Deal
Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner berated the company’s capitulation before authoritarian MAGA threats, but in many ways, he set the example.
Sep 24, 2025 / Ben Schwartz
Trump’s Slumlord Administration Is Gutting the Fair Housing Act Trump’s Slumlord Administration Is Gutting the Fair Housing Act
There can’t be true desegregation without ending discrimination in housing—which is precisely why the administration is rolling back enforcement of the FHA.
Sep 24, 2025 / Elie Mystal
Farm Workers Feed America. It’s Time to Protect Them. Farm Workers Feed America. It’s Time to Protect Them.
Lobbying groups like the Florida Chamber of Commerce, which represents Publix, blocked a Florida bill that would have guaranteed heat protections for outdoor workers.
Sep 24, 2025 / OppArt / Motyko Morales
How Capitalism Survives How Capitalism Survives
According to John Cassidy’s century-spanning history Capitalism and Its Critics, the system lives on because of its antagonists.
Sep 24, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Erik Baker
The Right Wants to Exterminate Trans People. Liberals Are Helping. The Right Wants to Exterminate Trans People. Liberals Are Helping.
After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the conservative movement has accelerated its war against trans people. And too many centrist Democrats have kept up their trans bashing.
Sep 24, 2025 / Jack Mirkinson
Robert Redford Sounded the Alarm About Our Corrupted Politics Over 50 Years Ago Robert Redford Sounded the Alarm About Our Corrupted Politics Over 50 Years Ago
The late legend's 1972 classic The Candidate was an urgent warning about how money-driven, TV-obsessed campaigns would devastate democracy.
Sep 24, 2025 / John Nichols
Where Did All the Youth Climate Activists Go? Where Did All the Youth Climate Activists Go?
The “Make Billionaires Pay” march might hint at where the climate movement is headed—away from fossil fuel divestment and toward broader resistance, with fewer young people.
Sep 24, 2025 / StudentNation / Heather Chen