I left America in 2017 to flee an authoritarian government and the culture it facilitated. What I found in Berlin was not all that different.

In this week’s Elie v. US, our justice correspondent schools Democrats on the propers response to Trump’s speech. Plus: Where have all the African American baseball players gone?

A man of few spoken words, on the page he was a marvel.

Foreign malign intelligence.

Not even Fox News buys Trump’s new lies, but they will be used to undermine the midterms.

Yet Democrats such as Haley Stevens, Angie Craig, Wesley Bell, and Greg Stanton are still voting for blank checks. Their primary rivals have something to say about that.

Two young Bangladeshi American men were shot by the NYPD. One of them died. Their families are demanding justice and reform.

SNAP-Ed helped children in food-insecure Los Angeles neighborhoods grow fresh produce. Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill cuts have ended the program that made those gardens possible.

Trump’s attacks on Somali kindergarteners, immigrants, and the rule of law form a coherent authoritarian project. But voters and the courts are pushing back.

These destructive behemoths are part of a broader model of total extraction—particularly in rural areas.

A World Cup victory will not just feel like a soccer triumph but a national triumph. For that reason, fans should support Pedro Sánchez’s Spain over Javier Milei’s Argentina.

From Korea to the Strait of Hormuz.

An expensive, ruinous conflict resumes for no other reason than one octogenarian narcissist’s inability to face reality.

Fifty years after Pinochet’s henchmen assassinated her and Orlando Letelier, finally a judicial reckoning.

Gen Z is playing an instrumental role in propelling Mamdani, his slate of candidates, and his progressive vision to office.

And they’re trying to silence whistleblowers.

Interviews across this crucial swing state offer lessons for Democrats hoping to flip the House.

The broad swath of centrist Democrats and conservatives who have hoped to wound Mamdani enough to sap him of political capital are still figuring out how to land real blows.

Sanders is responding to the deceptive narratives floated by the industry. AOC is talking to experts who really understand how AI works.

Israel is carrying out its Gaza strategy in yet another war.

The senator’s infamous cry of rage spoke not only to his cruelty but also to his larger role in changing the court.

At a time when the Trump administration is endangering women’s health, more than half the states, red and blue alike, have introduced menopause legislation.

There is so much more to be done to seize power from landlords and real estate directly.

The first rule of its kind at the municipal level will help customers avoid paying recurring and junk fees.

Life after Platner.

If the pointless war on Iran is a historical marker equivalent to Suez in ignominy, the question becomes, what do we do with this “Decline of Empire” moment?

The Palmetto State will let primary voters nominate Graham’s successor. Maine, on the other hand, is letting a party convention pick Graham Platner’s replacement.

Conspiracy theorists liked to say that Graham’s Trump sycophancy was a result of blackmail. But the truth is worse: He stuck with Trump to keep the US war machine going.

Caddies—workers tasked with everything from carrying golfers’ bags to giving them armchair therapy—won out after a recent change to their employment structure.

A conversation with philosopher Robin Dembroff about their new book, Real Men on Top, identity categories, and the possibility of undoing patriarchy.

As unprecedented US sanctions push Cuba deeper into crisis, Havana is embracing sweeping market reforms while insisting it is not abandoning socialism.

For 90 minutes, the World Cup gives us something the genocide has tried to take away: a sense of community, a sense of normality, and a moment of pure celebration.

By placing the burden of maintaining one’s health on individuals, we obscure the broader environmental, political, genetic, and social forces that affect our well-being.

Democratic leaders have rightfully lost credibility. But that’s no excuse for political adventurers to seize the moment and pump up false saviors.

ICE kills again.

Trump’s constant cruelty can make it all seem routine.

High cost of living and political turmoil are forcing climate change to the back burner, exposing a massive voter turnout problem for the environmental movement.

It’s no coincidence that the Supreme Court’s decision allowing trans sports bans echoes the work of Reem Alsalem, the UN special rapporteur on violence against women and girls.

Inexperienced and improperly vetted, the candidate was a disaster in the making.

Though the speech broke from a failed approach toward Israel, it was still based on flawed and tendentious attitudes and history.

“Now our country is run by people who really believe in crushing the poor and killing them.”

Hundreds of outlets across the country have joined the “I am the 89%” campaign.

Spain’s prime minister has become a global progressive icon. But at home, his government is hanging by a thread.

In order to make progress on gender equity in sports, we must expand our understanding of trans people.

If Michigan sends a Senator Abdul El-Sayed to Washington, traditional “electability” assumptions will have been shattered for good.

Our universities are selling us out. If we want that to change, we have to change the way they’re run.

A group of YIMBY Big Tech donors took over San Francisco politics. Now they’re setting their sights on the rest of the country.

The Palestinian activist was locked up in an ICE prison for a year. Now she is rebuilding her life, piece by piece and meal by meal.

New work requirements and restrictions on SNAP have kicked millions off the benefit rolls, with more reductions to come.

A historically hot summer is revealing a society massively unprepared for the new climate reality.

How a Trump-centric celebration of the nation’s semiquincentennial succumbed to terrible weather and worse planning.

As AI insinuates itself into every corner of our lives, many of us are growing inured to the push to digitize the whole world—including humanity itself.

FIFA’s new prediction market partners cast a shadow over the people’s game.

After years of criminalization and confiscation, New York’s street vendors have won long-overdue reforms. Now the city must make good on its promises.

The Senate seat can be saved, but the window to act is going to close in days, not weeks.

FIFA has a long history of corruption, and now soccer’s governing body is again bending to the will of an autocrat.

The mayor’s fighting patriotism bested Trump’s rantings and Obama’s evasions.

When violent incidents shatter campuses, universities look to those who have endured similar tragedies for guidance on helping students move forward.

“We see America each time those young and old stand in the beating rain or the stifling heat to cast their ballots.”

I was born in Iranian prison to political activists. Our families’ stories demonstrate that those who expose injustice will always be viewed as threats to the established order.

TR’s revenge.

Martin W. Dolan, New York candidate for Congress, lost his primary by a landslide. But first, he drove me insane.

Moments in time like the 250th anniversary, and the counter-celebrations to the president’s Fourth of July spectacles, come and go. But the work of liberation must not end.

In this week's Elie v. US, our justice correspondent delves into 7 cases that got overlooked in the end-of-term frenzy.

Congress and the courts aren’t going to rescue us—but the public just might.

Inside US efforts to shut down debate at the United Nations on Washington’s economic warfare.

“When people die during heat waves, there’s no sort of gunshot wound.”

The ruling is about whether trans people have the same rights as everybody else—and the court said they don’t.

As Trump went after higher education, Yale built a case for its conservative credentials. The Justice Department came knocking anyway.

Amid all the talk of “electability,” a Midwestern state’s radical history points to what’s possible.

In an exclusive excerpt from his new book, the Georgia senator writes about why we must keep the faith in the promise of our democracy—and fight for that promise to be realized.

Inflating Russia’s military threat could divert resources from social needs while fueling Europe’s far right.

Colorado voters continue the left rebellion in Democratic primaries.

The massive ambiguities in the framework for an Iran peace agreement all leave Tehran with the upper hand.

On this Fourth of July, Minneapolis reminds us of what America can be.

The city's primary winners campaigned on affordability, yet climate change, a major driver of rising costs and inequality, was conspicuously absent from the conversation.

Under Trump, eight Prairieland defendants were sentenced to a combined four and a half centuries in prison.

“Disclosure Day” has plenty of UFOs and extraterrestrial species but very little of the human insights found in the filmmaker’s past work.

The battle between James Talarico and Ken Paxton has been overwhelmed by demagogic gender politics.

The Supreme Court’s decision upholding birthright citizenship is a victory that may contain the seeds of a future defeat.

How the aftershocks of an 1812 quake that hit Venezuela changed the world.

The gap between what the numbers say and how people are feeling has only grown wider.

It begins with building back a strong union movement
rooted in deep solidarity.

It’s never been afraid to play fast and loose and big.

Newly uncovered documents have provided the first definitive proof that Israel’s largest weapons supplier is purchasing drones built in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

Granting the hard-right jurist power over choosing a successor is a democratic disaster—and a far cry from John Roberts’s fanciful claims of nonpartisanship.