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Bernie Sanders speaks at the Fighting Oligarchy rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on May 2, 2025.

Bernie Sanders: It Is Genocide Bernie Sanders: It Is Genocide

Many experts have now concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. I agree.

Sep 17, 2025 / Sen. Bernie Sanders

Mayor to Mayor: A Conversation Between Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani

Mayor to Mayor: A Conversation Between Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani Mayor to Mayor: A Conversation Between Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani

When the senator came to New York in early September, he had a few spare minutes to talk municipal politics and governance with one of his biggest fans, Zohran Mamdani.

Sep 17, 2025 / Q&A / Zohran Mamdani and Sen. Bernie Sanders

The Police State Presidency

The Police State Presidency The Police State Presidency

Trump’s crime wave to break democracy.

Sep 17, 2025 / OppArt / Clay Bennett

President Donald Trump walks outside the White House en route to a meeting with Polish President Karol Nawrocki.

Trump’s Petty-Tyrant Brand of Fascism Trump’s Petty-Tyrant Brand of Fascism

The GOP president is both a dire threat to democratic governance and a clownish mob boss.

Sep 17, 2025 / Column / John Ganz

President Donald Trump speaks to the press before signing an executive order that aims to end cashless bail, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on August 25, 2025. Also pictured, from left to right, Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, Administrator Drug Enforcement Administration Terry Cole, US Attorney General Pam Bondi, Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem.

Don’t Let Trump’s Henchmen Rewrite History. They’re the Ones Inciting Violence. Don’t Let Trump’s Henchmen Rewrite History. They’re the Ones Inciting Violence.

A brief catalogue of the times Republicans have called for brutal repression makes clear that Trump, not the left, is tearing apart the country.

Sep 17, 2025 / Column / Sasha Abramsky

The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda agreed to a US-backed peace deal meant to end years of deadly conflict and promote development in Congo’s volatile eastern region.

For America’s Congolese Diaspora, Peace Deals Offer Little Comfort For America’s Congolese Diaspora, Peace Deals Offer Little Comfort

The conflict in the Congo is one of the deadliest crises in the world, but many worry that Trump’s interest in the region emphasizes deals for US investors over lasting peace.

Sep 17, 2025 / StudentNation / Hannah Epstein

Open AI CEO Sam Altman speaks during a talk session with SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son at an event titled “Transforming Business through AI” in Tokyo, Japan, 2025.

The True Threat of OpenAI The True Threat of OpenAI

Karen Hao’s recent book on the company argues that its ambitions are not merely about scale or the market but the creation of a global force that rivals a colonial power of old.

Sep 17, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Andrew Deck

House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries speaks to reporters alongside other House and Senate Appropriation Democratic committee members including Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer in the Ohio Clock Corridor of the US Capitol in July 2025 in Washington, DC.

Hakeem Jeffries Is the Kind of Democrat Voters Have Lost Faith In Hakeem Jeffries Is the Kind of Democrat Voters Have Lost Faith In

With most New York Democrats endorsing their party's candidate for mayor, the two minority leaders in Congress remain holdouts.

Sep 16, 2025 / Chris Lehmann

People celebrate and take pictures after occupying Nepal’s Parliament building in Kathmandu on September 9, 2025.

Did Nepal Just Have a Revolution? Did Nepal Just Have a Revolution?

Kunda Dixit, one of Nepal’s top journalists, talks about the stunning turn of events in the South Asian nation and how its society reached the boiling point.

Sep 16, 2025 / Q&A / Wen Stephenson

Judith Butler in Berlin.

Kafka-land at UC Berkeley Kafka-land at UC Berkeley

The 160 members of the university notified that their names were forwarded to the DOE’s Office for Civil Rights were not informed of any specific allegations against them.

Sep 16, 2025 / Judith Butler

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