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John Ewing pumps his fist after the second round of results are announced at the election night watch party for Ewing for Omaha mayor at the downtown Hilton in Omaha, Nebraska, Tuesday, May 13, 2025.

How Democrats Crushed a Despicable Anti-Trans Campaign and Won a Major Election How Democrats Crushed a Despicable Anti-Trans Campaign and Won a Major Election

The supposedly unbeatable Republican mayor of Nebraska’s largest city used the GOP’s anti-LGBTQ+ playbook in her reelection bid. And lost!

May 16, 2025 / John Nichols

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Letters From the June 2025 Issue Letters From the June 2025 Issue

Boys don’t cry… A call to action… The war party… Traveling to Cuba… Bill vs. Hill… Burning questions… The best medicine… Correction…

May 13, 2025 / Our Readers

A worker assembles components of modular housing in the Capsys factory in the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York in 2016, shortly before it was repurposed as the Nehemiah Spring Creek housing development.

When It Comes to Building New Housing, “Abundance” Is More Like Avoidance When It Comes to Building New Housing, “Abundance” Is More Like Avoidance

Neither Klein and Thompson nor many of their critics on the left offer a robust strategy for actually building affordable homes. Here’s one that has been proven to work.

May 7, 2025 / Mike Gecan

Cruelty Is the Point

Cruelty Is the Point Cruelty Is the Point

Trump’s deportations and defundings = death.

May 6, 2025 / OppArt / Anonymous (NYC)

Riot Platforms cyrptomine property in Navarro County, Texas, on March 30, 2025.

Texas’s Crypto-Mining Racket Texas’s Crypto-Mining Racket

Public officials are propping up a Texas Bitcoin boom that’s threatening water and energy systems while afflicting locals with noise pollution.

May 5, 2025 / Candice Bernd

Construction continues on a mixed-use apartment complex that will hold more than 700 units of housing and 95,000 square feet of commercial space on August 20, 2024, in Los Angeles.

A YIMBY Theory of Power A YIMBY Theory of Power

Pro-housing advocates offer an analysis of class relations that is more sophisticated and has more explanatory power than the one held by many critics of the “abundance agenda.”

Apr 28, 2025 / Ned Resnikoff

Activists hold a rally outside of the US Supreme Court Building on April 22, 2024, in Washington, DC.

Trump Is Waging War on the Poor Trump Is Waging War on the Poor

The current crisis builds on decades of neoliberal plunder and economic austerity authored by both conservative and liberal politicians.

Apr 25, 2025 / Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis and Noam Sandweiss-Back

Saving Sinking Homes

Saving Sinking Homes Saving Sinking Homes

How climate change is escalating a housing crisis in Alaska’s Native villages.

Apr 24, 2025 / Photo Essay / Jess Zhang and Megan Gannon

New York City mayoral candidate and Democratic State Representative Zohran Mamdani campaigns in New York City on April 16, 2025.

Zohran Mamdani Tackles Climate Change and New York City’s Cost-of-Living Crisis Zohran Mamdani Tackles Climate Change and New York City’s Cost-of-Living Crisis

The mayoral hopeful’s Green Schools plan would renovate 500 public schools, build 500 green schoolyards, and turn 50 schools into resilience hubs.

Apr 22, 2025 / Gabriel Hetland

Want to Understand America’s Housing Crisis? Look to Atlanta.

Want to Understand America’s Housing Crisis? Look to Atlanta. Want to Understand America’s Housing Crisis? Look to Atlanta.

A conversation with Brian Goldstone about There Is No Place for Us, a damning account of a city's failure to address homelessness and how it is a microcosm of the rest of the US.

Apr 1, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Elkind

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