Biden Built the Deportation Machine Trump Is About to Exploit Biden Built the Deportation Machine Trump Is About to Exploit
Biden left office as the king of border contracts, creating a massive border-and-deportation arsenal now at Trump's disposal.
Feb 20, 2025 / Todd Miller
How to Organize Our Way Out of the Trump-Musk Putsch How to Organize Our Way Out of the Trump-Musk Putsch
A plan to harness grassroots energy—and to hold Democratic leaders accountable.
Feb 19, 2025 / Ezra Levin, Leah Greenberg for The Nation
Why Democrats Won’t Throw a Real Punch Why Democrats Won’t Throw a Real Punch
Faced with existential threats from the right, the Democratic leadership remains timid; faced with demands for justice from the left, it goes on the attack.
Feb 18, 2025 / Dave Zirin
How Democrats Can Fight Back How Democrats Can Fight Back
Jamie Raskin lays out the legal strategy to oppose Trump but says, “We’re not going to sue our way out of a political crisis”—Democrats need a political organizing strategy.
Feb 14, 2025 / Q&A / Chris Lehmann
Some Inconvenient Truths About Antisemitism and the Left Some Inconvenient Truths About Antisemitism and the Left
By ceding the space on antisemitism—responding when we are accused of it, but not taking up the fight against it as our cause—we’ve created a strategic opportunity for the right.
Feb 14, 2025 / Rachel Shabi
To Go Big Is to Keep It Simple To Go Big Is to Keep It Simple
Reinventing the Democrats as a working-class party.
Feb 13, 2025 / Thomas Geoghegan
Pay Less Attention to That Man in Front of the Curtain Pay Less Attention to That Man in Front of the Curtain
Musk’s machinations and Trump’s daily outrages are meant to be mesmerizing—and paralyzing. But there are plenty of ways to fight back effectively—starting with not panicking.
Feb 13, 2025 / Zephyr Teachout
It’s Time for the Democrats to Throw Off the Dead Hand of Clintonism It’s Time for the Democrats to Throw Off the Dead Hand of Clintonism
More than 20 years after Bill Clinton left office, Democrats remain in the grips of his New Democrat politics. That’s a serious problem.
Feb 13, 2025 / Feature / Lily Geismer
Trump Is Outdoing Himself Trump Is Outdoing Himself
In the malignity of his intent and the scale of his graft, the second term is significantly worse. But it’s also his last.
Feb 11, 2025 / D.D. Guttenplan