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
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”
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
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
RFK Jr. dismantles vaccination programs.
Aug 20, 2025 / OppArt / David Small
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
The Rot at Fort Bragg The Rot at Fort Bragg
Seth Harp exposes how all the death and crime surrounding one military base is not an aberration but representative of the fratricidal impulse of the armed forces at large.
Aug 20, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Lyle Jeremy Rubin
Trump Targets Mail-In Voting, and the Democrats Phone in Their Counter-Strategies Trump Targets Mail-In Voting, and the Democrats Phone in Their Counter-Strategies
Trump has launched an all-out assault on civic freedoms, but the Democrats aren’t yet giving their base something to vote for.
Aug 19, 2025 / Chris Lehmann
Shocking: The Trump Administration Grabs the Third Rail With Both Hands Shocking: The Trump Administration Grabs the Third Rail With Both Hands
Our grandparents would urge us all to defend and strengthen Social Security.
Aug 19, 2025 / June Hopkins, Henry Scott Wallace, and James Roosevelt Jr.
I Went to the “Free Press” Party for Under-30s. All I Got Was Ennui. I Went to the “Free Press” Party for Under-30s. All I Got Was Ennui.
At Bari Weiss’s “Cheers to the Republic” mixer, I met anti-vaxxers, was recruited for a trip to Israel, and heard the word “heterodox” more than I would have liked to.
Aug 19, 2025 / Sophie Hurwitz