What the Democrats Can Learn From Gavin Newsom’s Trump Mockery What the Democrats Can Learn From Gavin Newsom’s Trump Mockery
As Democrats sharpen their online game, Gavin Newsom’s Trump-style jabs reveal both the risks and rewards of fighting fire with fire in an attention economy built for bluster.
Sep 3, 2025 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The French Center Plays Brinkmanship With Fiscal Crisis The French Center Plays Brinkmanship With Fiscal Crisis
Prime Minister François Bayrou is gambling his political survival on a confidence vote, in a probably doomed attempt to force France’s hung parliament to accept an austerity budge...
Sep 3, 2025 / Harrison Stetler
Stephen Miller Calls Democrats a “Domestic Extremist Organization” Stephen Miller Calls Democrats a “Domestic Extremist Organization”
Congressional Democrats should demand that he retract his grotesque claims or resign.
Sep 3, 2025 / Anthony Barnett
Is Tom Cruise the Last Action Hero? Is Tom Cruise the Last Action Hero?
After a strange, controversial career, he has become one of the few figures who upholds the old rules of Hollywood—where the human body is the greatest special effect.
Sep 3, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Vikram Murthi
Here Comes the Sun—Plus, “Our Fragile Freedoms” Here Comes the Sun—Plus, “Our Fragile Freedoms”
On this episode of Start Making Sense, Bill McKibben explains why solar power makes him optimistic, and Eric Foner talks about Trump and history.
Sep 3, 2025 / Podcast / Jon Wiener
Slavery Was Not Just Forced Labor but Sexual Violence Too Slavery Was Not Just Forced Labor but Sexual Violence Too
Calls to attenuate the brutality of slavery in museum depictions is absurd when our institutions already downplay one of its most horrific features.
Sep 3, 2025 / Channing Gerard Joseph
Trump’s Release of the MLK Jr. Files Was a Pathetic Gamble Trump’s Release of the MLK Jr. Files Was a Pathetic Gamble
The move is only more proof of the desperation behind Trump’s Epstein Distraction Campaign.
Sep 2, 2025 / Clarence Lusane
Christianity and 20th-Century European Politics Christianity and 20th-Century European Politics
On American Prestige: Udi Greenberg discusses his new book.
Sep 2, 2025 / Podcast / Daniel Bessner and Derek Davison
The Stereotypes Killing Us Nonspeaking Autistics The Stereotypes Killing Us Nonspeaking Autistics
Another autistic person was left to cook alive in a hot vehicle. Far too often, the so-called normal world treats us as disposable.
Sep 2, 2025 / Jason Jacoby Lee