Trump Could Soon Strip Student Loan Forgiveness From Millions of Borrowers Trump Could Soon Strip Student Loan Forgiveness From Millions of Borrowers
Changes to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program could deem organizations and governments “ineligible employers” if they don’t align themselves with the president’s agenda.
Sep 10, 2025 / StudentNation / Ángel Rentería
What Was the Cracker Barrel Skirmish Really About? (Hint: Distracting From Real Crises Facing the Heartland.) What Was the Cracker Barrel Skirmish Really About? (Hint: Distracting From Real Crises Facing the Heartland.)
Trump is repaying rural voters’ loyalty by shafting them.
Sep 9, 2025 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
William F. Buckley Jr.’s Friends and Enemies William F. Buckley Jr.’s Friends and Enemies
What was it about Buckley that made him so attractive to liberals—and what was it about liberals that caused them to be attracted to conservative figures like Buckley in the first...
Sep 8, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Jeet Heer
The “Refugee Pipeline” Has Been Abandoned The “Refugee Pipeline” Has Been Abandoned
Since Trump took office, assistance for refugees has largely been revoked or suspended, with many recent arrivals from Afghanistan unable to bring their families.
Sep 8, 2025 / StudentNation / Ava Menkes
Sisterhood Could Be Powerful Sisterhood Could Be Powerful
The victims of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislane Maxwell’s sex-trafficking scheme are increasingly banding together—and could wind up outing more famous Epstein customers on their own....
Sep 3, 2025 / Joan Walsh
Stephen Miller Calls Democrats a “Domestic Extremist Organization” Stephen Miller Calls Democrats a “Domestic Extremist Organization”
Congressional Democrats should demand that he retract his grotesque claims or resign.
Sep 3, 2025 / Anthony Barnett
Trump’s Release of the MLK Jr. Files Was a Pathetic Gamble Trump’s Release of the MLK Jr. Files Was a Pathetic Gamble
The move is only more proof of the desperation behind Trump’s Epstein Distraction Campaign.
Sep 2, 2025 / Clarence Lusane
Trump’s War on Workers Trump’s War on Workers
Buried beneath the bluster is a systematic assault on labor.
Aug 29, 2025 / Robert L. Borosage and Sara Steffens
American Democracy, RIP American Democracy, RIP
The bulwarks of self-government have given way under multiple MAGA putsches. Instead of pledging to protect our democracy, Democrats need a plan to restore it
Aug 26, 2025 / David Faris
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.