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A United Jewish Appeal sign outside a synagogue.

Israel’s Supporters Are Playing Into the Hands of the Antisemitic Right Israel’s Supporters Are Playing Into the Hands of the Antisemitic Right

By conflating Judaism and Zionism, institutional leaders have made Jews everywhere less safe.

May 13, 2026 / David Klion

Washington Wizards' John Wall, left, and NBA Deputy Commissioner Mark Tatum, pose for photos after Tatum announced that the Wizards had won the first pick in the NBA basketball draft lottery in Chicago, Sunday, May 10, 2026.

The NBA Lottery, Those Nova Knicks, and Movies We Love to Hate The NBA Lottery, Those Nova Knicks, and Movies We Love to Hate

Arya Shirazi joins the show to talk NBA lottery and movies.

May 13, 2026 / Podcast / Dave Zirin

Separated at Birth?

Separated at Birth? Separated at Birth?

De-evolution under the leadership of a raptor.

May 13, 2026 / OppArt / Leonard Stokes

A “Vote Yes” sign urging voters to support a referendum to redraw Virginia's congressional map.

The Democrats Are 5 Years Too Late to the Voting Rights Fight The Democrats Are 5 Years Too Late to the Voting Rights Fight

Virginia Democrats’ appeal to the Supreme Court to save their state’s new congressional map is a sad case in point.

May 13, 2026 / Elie Mystal

Democratic South Carolina State Representatives Hamilton Grant and Annie McDaniel look over a proposed congressional map during a meeting in the Blatt Building at the South Carolina State Capitol in Columbia on Friday, May 8, 2026. Some observers worry that the recent wave of gerrymandering across the country will help deepen polarization among voters and entrench lawmakers in a way that makes them less accountable to constituents.

The Right Wants to Erase Minority Representation. We’ll Register Millions to Stop Them. The Right Wants to Erase Minority Representation. We’ll Register Millions to Stop Them.


Their insult will arouse us—and put Republican incumbents’ own seats at risk.

May 13, 2026 / Yusef D. Jackson

Still from “The Fence.”

Claire Denis’s Haunting Neocolonial Drama Claire Denis’s Haunting Neocolonial Drama

Compared to her other films, The Fence is a minor work. But it contains within it a set of expansive themes.

May 13, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Lovia Gyarkye

A boycott of Cleveland Public Schools found this group of students and teachers at a Freedom School at the Friendship Baptist Church, on April 20, 1964.

Democracy Is Not Self-Executing Democracy Is Not Self-Executing

Michelle Adams’s Hillman Prize remarks.

May 13, 2026 / Michelle Adams

House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) speaks at a press conference with other members of the Congressional Black Caucus on the Supreme Court decision in “Louisiana v. Callais,” at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on April 29, 2026.

Democrats After the Voting Rights Act—Plus, Jewish Anti-Zionism Democrats After the Voting Rights Act—Plus, Jewish Anti-Zionism

On this episode of Start Making Sense, Harold Meyerson argues Democrats remain likely to win the House in November, and Adam Hochschild talks about the Bund in prewar Europe.

May 13, 2026 / Podcast / Jon Wiener

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. answers a question on the Hantavirus during an event with President Donald Trump on maternal healthcare in the Oval Office of the White House on May 11, 2026.

The Hantavirus Isn’t the Biggest Threat We’re Facing The Hantavirus Isn’t the Biggest Threat We’re Facing

The government’s destruction of our pandemic preparedness is.

May 13, 2026 / Gregg Gonsalves

An anti–Iraq War demonstration in New York City on February 15, 2003.

To Build the Anti-War Movement of the Future, We Must Learn From the Past To Build the Anti-War Movement of the Future, We Must Learn From the Past

What history can teach us about where the anti-imperialist left should go now.

May 13, 2026 / Van Gosse and Bill Fletcher Jr.

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