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Andrew Cuomo and Donald Trump at the 9/11 Memorial on September 11, 2016.

Andrew Cuomo Has Unmasked Himself as a Full-Blown Trumpist Andrew Cuomo Has Unmasked Himself as a Full-Blown Trumpist

The disgraced former governor is repeatedly proving just how similar he is to the disgraced current president.

Aug 22, 2025 / Jeet Heer

Democratic National Committee chair Ken Martin talks about the economy and immigration at Teresitas Restaurant in East Los Angeles on Wednesday, July 30, 2025.

Democrats Have a Gaza Problem. They Don’t Seem to Want to Fix It. Democrats Have a Gaza Problem. They Don’t Seem to Want to Fix It.

DNC chair Ken Martin is emblematic of the party elite’s decision to cling to the unacceptable status quo on Palestine and Israel—even at the risk of losing more elections.

Aug 22, 2025 / Evan Robins

Trump Wants to Make Art Into a Tool of the State

Trump Wants to Make Art Into a Tool of the State Trump Wants to Make Art Into a Tool of the State

In ordering a review of the Smithsonian, the White House wants to use its power to remake our culture—or to reinvigorate a strain in the culture that has been dormant for a long t...

Aug 22, 2025 / Barry Schwabsky

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

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