Democrats Can’t Avoid a Reckoning With Gaza Democrats Can’t Avoid a Reckoning With Gaza
We can’t defend democracy while upholding elite impunity
May 28, 2026 / Matthew Duss
The Trump Administration Is Refusing to Follow the Laws Protecting Domestic Violence Survivors The Trump Administration Is Refusing to Follow the Laws Protecting Domestic Violence Survivors
The administration has repeatedly failed to disburse funds for services for domestic violence survivors and blocked the enforcement of their rights.
May 28, 2026 / Bryce Covert
Why Does Pete Hegseth Have to Make His Desperate Need for Masculine Validation Our Problem? Why Does Pete Hegseth Have to Make His Desperate Need for Masculine Validation Our Problem?
America has been burdened with the unresolved issues of a man driven by his poorly disguised sense of embarrassment and emasculation by the utter failures of the wars he fought in...
May 27, 2026 / Jasper Craven
Jim Crow Just Suffered a Temporary Setback—in Alabama Jim Crow Just Suffered a Temporary Setback—in Alabama
A federal district court struck down the state’s new congressional map as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.
May 27, 2026 / Elie Mystal
International Solidarity International Solidarity
In Barcelona, walls become voices for Palestine.
May 27, 2026 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo
Dr. Harry Edwards on the NAACP’s Call to Boycott Gerrymandering States Dr. Harry Edwards on the NAACP’s Call to Boycott Gerrymandering States
The 83-year-old sociologist and activist reflects on what is missing in the current effort to organize athletes politically.
May 27, 2026 / Dave Zirin
Drones? Europe’s Automakers Are Taking Orders. Drones? Europe’s Automakers Are Taking Orders.
French car company Renault seeks a foothold in rearmament.
May 27, 2026 / Harrison Stetler
The Rise of the Sensitivity Reader The Rise of the Sensitivity Reader
Adam Szetela’s That Book Is Dangerous! examines the emergence of a new job in publishing—secondary readers who comb through books for possible offenses.
May 27, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Kyle Paoletta
Trump’s Abraham Accords Fantasy Will Only Cause More Suffering Trump’s Abraham Accords Fantasy Will Only Cause More Suffering
Any expansion of the alleged peace agreement would lock the Middle East into endless apartheid, despotism, and militarism.
May 26, 2026 / Jeet Heer
