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Immigration activists rally against the US Supreme Court's ruling on temporary protective status on June 25, 2026 in Washington, DC.

What Trump Lost (and Won) With the Supremes What Trump Lost (and Won) With the Supremes

David Cole breaks down the Supreme Court’s latest rulings, while Amy Wilentz explains what the end of Temporary Protected Status means for Haitian immigrants.

Jul 1, 2026 / Podcast / Jon Wiener

A still from “Disclosure Day.”

Steven Spielberg’s Aliens Steven Spielberg’s Aliens

“Disclosure Day” has plenty of UFOs and extraterrestrial species but very little of the human insights found in the filmmaker’s past work.

Jul 1, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Kearse

Supporters of birthright citizenship rally outside the US Supreme Court on April 1, 2026.

Birthright Citizenship Lives to Die Another Day Birthright Citizenship Lives to Die Another Day

The Supreme Court’s decision upholding birthright citizenship is a victory that may contain the seeds of a future defeat.

Jun 30, 2026 / Elie Mystal

Before Simón Bolívar Could Liberate a Continent, He Had to Fight an Earthquake

Before Simón Bolívar Could Liberate a Continent, He Had to Fight an Earthquake Before Simón Bolívar Could Liberate a Continent, He Had to Fight an Earthquake

How the aftershocks of an 1812 quake that hit Venezuela changed the world.

Jun 30, 2026 / Greg Grandin

The Power of Satire to Threaten Dictators

The Power of Satire to Threaten Dictators The Power of Satire to Threaten Dictators

Artist Robert Kuzovkov was murdered in Poland.

Jun 30, 2026 / OppArt / Paul Karasik

Chicago’s Michigan Avenue in the mid-1920s.

What Makes American Architecture American? What Makes American Architecture American?

It’s never been afraid to play fast and loose and big.

Jun 30, 2026 / Feature / Kate Wagner

Women assemble parts at a General Electric plant in Lynn, Massachusetts, that would figure prominently in the post–World War I labor uprising.

What Is the American Economy? What Is the American Economy?

The gap between what the numbers say and how people are feeling has only grown wider.

Jun 30, 2026 / Feature / Robert B. Reich

The labor-activist group Union Now was founded with support from Zohran Mamdani and Bernie Sanders.

How to Win the Next 250 Years for the Working Class How to Win the Next 250 Years for the Working Class

It begins with building back a strong union movement
rooted in deep solidarity.

Jun 30, 2026 / Feature / Sara Nelson

Associate Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito

A Strategic Alito Retirement Would Confirm SCOTUS’s Complete Ideological Capture A Strategic Alito Retirement Would Confirm SCOTUS’s Complete Ideological Capture

Granting the hard-right jurist power over choosing a successor is a democratic disaster—and a far cry from John Roberts’s fanciful claims of nonpartisanship.

Jun 30, 2026 / David Daley

Workers, tenants and neighbors with Demilitarize Brooklyn Navy Yard picket outside of the Brooklyn Navy Yard during its February 11, 2026, board meeting.

Drones Manufactured in Brooklyn Are Being Used to Bomb Gazans Drones Manufactured in Brooklyn Are Being Used to Bomb Gazans

Newly uncovered documents have provided the first definitive proof that Israel’s largest weapons supplier is purchasing drones built in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

Jun 30, 2026 / Joseph Mogul

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