Politics

Reflecting on the Corruption of an Office

Reflecting on the Corruption of an Office Reflecting on the Corruption of an Office

There is no precedent for Trump’s damaging presidency.

Aug 10, 2026 / OppArt / Jeff Danziger

Matt Bennett, Jonathan Cowan, and Jim Kessler, three of the five cofounders of Third Way.

Centrist Democrats Are Rolling Up Their Sleeves and Punching Left Centrist Democrats Are Rolling Up Their Sleeves and Punching Left

The Third Way think tank is pouring millions of dollars into combatting not the GOP but the DSA.

Aug 10, 2026 / Chris Lehmann

Columbia University, March 2025.

What Happened to the American University? What Happened to the American University?

Once the envy of the world, higher education in the United States is now in a state of endless crisis.

Aug 10, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Bessner

Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed.

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

Still from “The Odyssey.”

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

El-Sayed Wins

El-Sayed Wins El-Sayed Wins

 The big melt.

Aug 7, 2026 / Steve Brodner

Todd Blanche during a news conference at the Department of Justice in Washington, DC, on August 5, 2026.

Todd Blanche Wants to Finish What “Dobbs” Started Todd Blanche Wants to Finish What “Dobbs” Started

In a private call before his confirmation vote, the acting AG said Trump officials aim to make the decision ending the national right to abortion “permanent in every single state....

Aug 7, 2026 / Rachel Rebouché

Children at a Head Start program at the Kedren Community Health Center in Los Angeles.

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

No Hospital Workers for You

No Hospital Workers for You No Hospital Workers for You

Have a nice day.

Aug 7, 2026 / OppArt / Bill Bramhall

A scene from the film

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

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