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Jerusalem Demsas, editor of the newly launched Argument, at a 2024 Atlantic Festival panel.

A Losing “Argument” A Losing “Argument”

The buzzy new publication devoted to “libbing out” reprises the mistakes of the longstanding alliance between neoliberalism and Beltway journalism.

Aug 22, 2025 / Jacob Silverman

Israeli military vehicles are positioned along the border with the Gaza Strip on August 21, 2025.

Israeli Soldiers Abused Me Before. I’m Terrified That They’ll Do It Again. Israeli Soldiers Abused Me Before. I’m Terrified That They’ll Do It Again.

Israel is invading Gaza City again. The trauma of what they did to me and my family during their last invasion haunts me every single day.

Aug 21, 2025 / Ali Skaik

Tyrant

Tyrant Tyrant

In the wild.

Aug 21, 2025 / OppArt / Mark Kaplan

Two men row a boat on a flooded street in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, on October 4, 2015.

The Invisible Snakes of Climate Change The Invisible Snakes of Climate Change

Tony Bartelme’s new book shows how great storytelling can wake people up.

Aug 21, 2025 / Mark Hertsgaard

Jerry Jones as Ed Rooney, Ferris Buehler's bumbling nemesis.

Democrats’ Failed Bueller Strategy on Voting Rights Democrats’ Failed Bueller Strategy on Voting Rights

Party leaders are talking tough about retaliatory gerrymandering—but like Principal Rooney, they're unable to fight back effectively

Aug 21, 2025 / David Daley and David Faris

The Harvard Graduate Student Union–United Automobile Workers during a rally in 2021.

Trump’s War on Higher Ed Comes to the Bargaining Table Trump’s War on Higher Ed Comes to the Bargaining Table

As two of the nation’s largest private graduate student unions fight for new contracts, their members have been among the most vulnerable to the president’s attacks on universitie...

Aug 21, 2025 / StudentNation / Amann Mahajan

The Empty Provocations of “Eddington”

The Empty Provocations of “Eddington” The Empty Provocations of “Eddington”

Ari Aster’s farcical western is billed as a send-up of the puerile politics of the Covid years. In reality, it’s a film that seems to have no politics at all.

Aug 21, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Kelli Weston

Donald Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office at the White House on August 18, 2025, in Washington, DC, for a bilateral meeting and later an expanded meeting with European leaders to discuss a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.

The Ukraine Peace Process Is Moving Quite Fast The Ukraine Peace Process Is Moving Quite Fast

Here are the openings—and obstacles.

Aug 20, 2025 / Anatol Lieven

Unhealthy Head of Health

Unhealthy Head of Health Unhealthy Head of Health

RFK Jr. dismantles vaccination programs.

Aug 20, 2025 / OppArt / David Small

Workers prepare turkeys to be chilled in Orefield, Pennsylvania.

Eating Meat While Deporting Those Who Produce It Eating Meat While Deporting Those Who Produce It

The people who do the dirty work of killing and processing animals hold up our food system. Trump is putting them in danger.

Aug 20, 2025 / Alice Driver

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