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In July 2025, Omar Fateh won the Minneapolis Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party endorsement for mayor, which the state party revoked.

People “Are Tired of Backroom Decisions”: A Conversation With Minneapolis’s Omar Fateh People “Are Tired of Backroom Decisions”: A Conversation With Minneapolis’s Omar Fateh

The Minnesota state senator won Minneapolis’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party endorsement for mayor—but the state-level party revoked it.

Sep 5, 2025 / Q&A / Peter Lucas

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., US secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, August 26, 2025.

RFK Jr., American Psycho RFK Jr., American Psycho

He needs to go. Now.

Sep 4, 2025 / Gregg Gonsalves

Representative Ro Khanna speaks during a news conference with alleged victims of Jeffrey Epstein outside the Capitol on September 3. Khanna and Representative Thomas Massie have introduced the Epstein List Transparency Act to force the federal government to release all unclassified records from the cases of Epstein and his associate, Ghislaine Maxwell.

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 Interviews with CNN

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

California Governor Gavin Newsom greets Donald Trump at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California

What the Democrats Can Learn From Gavin Newsom’s Trump Mockery What the Democrats Can Learn From Gavin Newsom’s Trump Mockery

As Democrats sharpen their online game, Gavin Newsom’s Trump-style jabs reveal both the risks and rewards of fighting fire with fire in an attention economy built for bluster.

Sep 3, 2025 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

A billboard in Times Square calls for the release of the Epstein files. July 23, 2025, in New York City.

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

People attend a rally on August 28, 2025, at Pasadena Auto Wash, where six employees were detained in an immigration raid last weekend.

The Terror and Cruelty of Trump’s Deportation Machine The Terror and Cruelty of Trump’s Deportation Machine

The administration’s immigration policies have gone from awful to monstrous, culminating with this weekend’s move to send roughly 600 unaccompanied children back to Guatemala...

Sep 1, 2025 / Column / Sasha Abramsky

AFGE President Everett Kelley speaks during the Hands Off! day of action against the Trump administration and Elon Musk on April 5, 2025, in Washington, DC.

“They Will Attack Every Organized Worker in America” “They Will Attack Every Organized Worker in America”

Talking to the head of America’s largest union of federal workers about Trump’s assault on his members and all of labor.

Sep 1, 2025 / John Nichols

The DC Night Patrols Are Showing Cities How to Fight Trump’s Occupation

The DC Night Patrols Are Showing Cities How to Fight Trump’s Occupation The DC Night Patrols Are Showing Cities How to Fight Trump’s Occupation

With only their cell phones, medical kits, and the confidence to assert their rights, volunteer night patrols follow and record the armed troops who have taken over the capital.

Aug 29, 2025 / Dave Zirin and Chuck Modiano

Profiles in Courage

Profiles in Courage Profiles in Courage

Hans and Franz.

Aug 29, 2025 / Steve Brodner

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