No, Woke 1 Was Not Crazy No, Woke 1 Was Not Crazy
AOC and others are laughing off 2020 as a wild, isolated moment. None of that is true.
Aug 20, 2026 / Zito Madu
Meet Alissa Ellman, Rust Belt Populist Meet Alissa Ellman, Rust Belt Populist
“You have to talk about these issues like a human being, and not like an MSNBC host on TV.”
Aug 19, 2026 / Jim Shultz
From Urban Housing to Rural Nursing Homes, the Working-Class Fight to Protect Public Goods From Private Buyers From Urban Housing to Rural Nursing Homes, the Working-Class Fight to Protect Public Goods From Private Buyers
Public goods were meant for us, but corporate interests want to take them away.
Aug 17, 2026 / Gwen Frisbie-Fulton
Russell Vought’s Project 2026 Russell Vought’s Project 2026
A shadow president undoing democracy.
Aug 14, 2026 / OppArt / Peter Kuper
The New Right’s Toxic Addiction to Racial Conflict The New Right’s Toxic Addiction to Racial Conflict
A former fellow with the Claremont Institute explains how white nationalist dogma sets the terms of political belonging on the MAGA right.
Aug 14, 2026 / Pedro Gonzalez
Trump’s Iran Disaster Is Making All His Cronies Look Like Fools Trump’s Iran Disaster Is Making All His Cronies Look Like Fools
Two foreign-policy camps are claiming Trump for themselves, while the Middle East fiasco humiliates every single one of them.
Aug 12, 2026 / Column / David Klion
Insurgents Are Revitalizing the Democratic Party Insurgents Are Revitalizing the Democratic Party
And despite all the establishment pushback, voters know it.
Aug 10, 2026 / Katrina vanden Heuvel, John Nichols for The Nation
Do Epics Need Heroes? Do Epics Need Heroes?
In recent years, the online right has contested adaptations of epic in order to make an argument about masculinity. The Odyssey is their latest target.
Aug 8, 2026 / Orlando Reade
Trump’s Deregulation of Head Start Would Lead to Bigger Class Sizes, Lower Quality Trump’s Deregulation of Head Start Would Lead to Bigger Class Sizes, Lower Quality
The administration has now made public a proposed rule to eliminate critical standards for services in the free preschool program.
Aug 7, 2026 / Bryce Covert
Texas’s DNA Doesn’t Run As Red as the Right Wants You to Think Texas’s DNA Doesn’t Run As Red as the Right Wants You to Think
David Griscom’s new book “The Myth of Red Texas” undoes the idea of Texas as a place with conservatism inherent to its political bloodline.
Aug 7, 2026 / StudentNation / Lajward Zahra