Politics

Children's clothes hang on the branch of a tree on the bank of the Guadalupe River near Camp Mystic on July 6, 2025, in Hunt, Texas.

Summer Camp Kids Did Not Have to Die in the Texas Floods Summer Camp Kids Did Not Have to Die in the Texas Floods

The deadly consequences of Trump’s National Weather Service budget cuts.

Jul 7, 2025 / David Dickson and Mark Hertsgaard

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks at a podium during a news conference.

Pete Hegseth Is Unleashing Chaos at the Pentagon Pete Hegseth Is Unleashing Chaos at the Pentagon

Trump’s defense secretary loves taking selfies while presiding over administrative anarchy.

Jul 7, 2025 / Jeet Heer

GOP Cuts Health Insurance

GOP Cuts Health Insurance GOP Cuts Health Insurance

Republicans Make Healthcare Access Impossible

Jul 7, 2025 / OppArt / David Small

Jürgen Habermas in Berlin, Germany, 2018.

Jürgen Habermas Still Believes in Modernity Jürgen Habermas Still Believes in Modernity

A conversation with the German theorist about the history of Western philosophy and more.

Jul 7, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins

Donald Trump stops in the White House Cross Hall to listen to the band at the conclusion of a “One, Big, Beautiful” event.

How Republicans’ Endowment Tax Will Hurt Higher Education How Republicans’ Endowment Tax Will Hurt Higher Education

As the Trump administration escalates its campaign to reshape education, a provision in the “Big Beautiful Bill” will raise the tax on select private colleges’ endowments.

Jul 7, 2025 / StudentNation / Owen Dahlkamp

Say Their Names

Say Their Names Say Their Names

Not Giving Away Our Shot.

Jul 4, 2025

America, Country for Immigrants?

America, Country for Immigrants? America, Country for Immigrants?

ICE is making more arrests than ever, the vast majority of people detained this fiscal year had no criminal convictions, and Trump is pushing for more enforcement.

Jul 4, 2025 / OppArt / Felipe Galindo

Fourth of July reenactors march through Massachusetts

Fake Patriots Are Destroying Everything That Made America Great Fake Patriots Are Destroying Everything That Made America Great

By attacking equality of citizenship, MAGA is smashing the foundations of national pride.

Jul 4, 2025 / Jeet Heer

Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) speaks with reporters as she boards the Senate subway after a vote in the US Capitol on Wednesday, May 14, 2025.

Spineless Republicans Are Part of a Bigger Problem Spineless Republicans Are Part of a Bigger Problem

Issues once thought long settled are now up for grabs again. But “they’re not going to get what they want,” says Omar Jadwat of the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project.

Jul 4, 2025 / Sasha Abramsky

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA), surrounded by Republican members of Congress, signs President Donald Trump's signature bill of tax breaks and spending cuts, July 3, 2025, at the Capitol, Washington, DC.

Republicans Just Voted to Do Immoral and Irreparable Harm to the United States Republicans Just Voted to Do Immoral and Irreparable Harm to the United States

Politics / July 3, 2025 Republicans Just Voted to Do Immoral and Irreparable Harm to the United States The GOP chose to betray both morality and economic common sense by approv…

Jul 3, 2025 / John Nichols

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