Political Ideologies

A community member holds a candle by the “Say Their Names” art installation cemetery with headstones representing Black people killed by police, during a vigil marking the fifth anniversary of George Floyd's death, at George Floyd Square in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 25, 2025.

It Has Never Been Easy to Be Both Black and American It Has Never Been Easy to Be Both Black and American

The administration knows that subduing history as it is doing works to keep people of color in this country disunited and at odds with each other.

Jul 28, 2025 / Keenan Norris

A four-panel comic from Action Comics 8, 1939. Superman destroys slum housing to force the government to build public housing for the poor.

The New Deal and the Popular Front Gave Us Superman The New Deal and the Popular Front Gave Us Superman

The real Man of Steel wasn’t woke, but he was radical.

Jul 25, 2025 / Jeet Heer

A deportation officer holds a young woman’s arm as they walk down a hall of Federal Plaza courthouse.

Punished for Playing by the Rules: the Deliberate Cruelty of Trump’s Deportation Regime Punished for Playing by the Rules: the Deliberate Cruelty of Trump’s Deportation Regime

Migrants who show up for their court dates now routinely face arrest by ICE. But failing to appear triggers a deportation order.

Jul 24, 2025 / Eileen Markey

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks to a full auditorium as part of the “Fighting Oligarchy” tour on April 14, 2025, in Nampa, Idaho. According to event organizers, 12,500 people attended the rally.

Working-Class Voters Are Not Centrists Working-Class Voters Are Not Centrists

A new report shows there is absolutely a winning constituency for economic and social progress. But Democrats aren’t pursuing it.

Jul 22, 2025 / Isaac Rabbani

President Biden and Kamala Harris stand next to each other at the White House.

The Democratic Party Remains Committed to Learning Nothing From Its 2024 Defeat The Democratic Party Remains Committed to Learning Nothing From Its 2024 Defeat

The Democratic National Committee’s forthcoming “autopsy” is a cover-up to protect the failed leaders who twice lost to Trump.

Jul 21, 2025 / Jeet Heer

A group of pro-Palestinians holds a press conference and rally in front of the City University of New York.

CUNY’s Repression of Pro-Palestine Students Continues in Front of Congress CUNY’s Repression of Pro-Palestine Students Continues in Front of Congress

By placating House Republicans during a hearing on antisemitism, CUNY’s Chancellor left students and faculty to fend for themselves.

Jul 21, 2025 / StudentNation / Luca GoldMansour

Katie Wilson prepares canvassers in Seattle

Katie Wilson of Seattle Shows Zohran Mamdani Is Not Alone Katie Wilson of Seattle Shows Zohran Mamdani Is Not Alone

She’s running on a populist economic message that puts affordability of care at its heart and mobilized young grassroots organizers.

Jul 18, 2025 / John Burbank

A woman in a dark coat walks by a Dollar General store in New York City

This Viral Speech Shows How We Win Back Rural America This Viral Speech Shows How We Win Back Rural America

Voters aren’t tuning out because they don’t care. They’re tuning out because they’ve been exhausted by fake choices, sold out by both parties, and tired of inauthenticity.

Jul 18, 2025 / Kaniela Ing

Community and immigrant rights organizations rally in Oakland’s Latino Fruitvale district protesting immigration raids. One sign says “For my father, who was deported. Watch me from Heaven, Papa. This is Our War!”

Why Did This Farmworker Die in an Immigration Raid? Why Did This Farmworker Die in an Immigration Raid?

With Trump and Stephen Miller cheering on ICE’s terror tactics, Jaime Alanis Garcia’s fatal fall in the raid on Glass House Farms was the most recent example of a death foretold.

Jul 17, 2025 / David Bacon

Donald Trump and his then-girlfriend Melania Knauss with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at the Mar-a-Lago club, Palm Beach, Florida, in February 2000.

Trump’s Deep-State Conspiracy Theories Are Getting Beyond His Control Trump’s Deep-State Conspiracy Theories Are Getting Beyond His Control

The president’s denial of the existence of government material on Jeffrey Epstein isn’t going over well with his followers.

Jul 15, 2025 / Chris Lehmann

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