Republicans’ “Big Beautiful” Medicaid Cuts Spur Rural Organizing Innovation Republicans’ “Big Beautiful” Medicaid Cuts Spur Rural Organizing Innovation
Taking away healthcare coverage isn’t just “morally wrong and politically suicidal,” in Senator Josh Hawley’s apt phrase. It’s also putting pressure on rural members of Congress.
May 30, 2025 / Erica Etelson
The Trump Administration’s Education Agenda: A Tragedy in 2 Acts The Trump Administration’s Education Agenda: A Tragedy in 2 Acts
The Trump administration’s funding cuts and attacks on public education are just the beginning.
May 29, 2025 / Jack Schneider and Jennifer C. Berkshire
McCarthyism 2.0: Reflections on Testifying in the House Antisemitism Hearings McCarthyism 2.0: Reflections on Testifying in the House Antisemitism Hearings
I soon realized that neither the law nor the facts matter to the Committee on Education’s Republican inquisitors.
May 28, 2025 / David Cole
Who Will Protect Judges From Trump’s Incitement? Who Will Protect Judges From Trump’s Incitement?
A threatened judiciary cannot rely on cops controlled by the White House.
May 26, 2025 / Jeet Heer
HUD and ICE Collude to Target Mixed-Status Families HUD and ICE Collude to Target Mixed-Status Families
In a move that will have major impact in New York, California, and Texas, the two agencies recently agreed to work together in ways that threaten thousands of Americans.
May 23, 2025 / Eileen Markey
The Daily Wire’s Doomed Quest for Pop-Culture Relevance The Daily Wire’s Doomed Quest for Pop-Culture Relevance
Ben Shapiro’s aspiring entertainment empire can’t stop trolling to its base.
May 23, 2025 / Ben Schwartz
Trump Wants Thousands of Migrant Children to Represent Themselves in Court Trump Wants Thousands of Migrant Children to Represent Themselves in Court
The administration’s funding cuts would force unaccompanied migrant children, from infants to toddlers to teenagers, to navigate complex and punishing legal procedures entirely al...
May 23, 2025 / StudentNation / Maggie Grether
A Competitive Reality-TV Show for Citizenship? I Wouldn’t Put It Past Them. A Competitive Reality-TV Show for Citizenship? I Wouldn’t Put It Past Them.
A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson called the idea “a celebration of being an American.”
May 23, 2025 / Sasha Abramsky
Trump’s Big and Ugly Crypto Con Trump’s Big and Ugly Crypto Con
Why are 16 Democrats abetting this great sting?
May 22, 2025 / Robert L. Borosage
We Can’t Afford to Let the Fourth Estate Topple We Can’t Afford to Let the Fourth Estate Topple
For all the deserved criticism of the American media, it remains one of the strongest pillars propping up what’s left of democracy in a time that’s been anything but good for the ...
May 21, 2025 / Nan Levinson