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Four men in suits sit in the Oval Office.

Group Chat War Plans Provide a Window Into Trump’s Mafia State Group Chat War Plans Provide a Window Into Trump’s Mafia State

American foreign policy is now all about incompetent shakedowns and cover-ups.

Mar 25, 2025 / Jeet Heer

Crowd cheers and does the wave before Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speak at the Fighting Oligarchy: Where do we go from here tour to Arizona State University's Mullet Arena in Tempe, Arizona USA on March 20, 2025.

The Democrats Have Disappeared The Democrats Have Disappeared

As Trump and Musk bulldoze democracy, the Democratic Party is MIA. While Republicans use government to cripple the opposition’s ability to compete, Democrats whine about “no...

Mar 25, 2025 / Corbin Trent

Dodger Jackie Robinson stealing home in a Cubs game on May 1, 1952.

Brooklyn Dodger 1, Draft Dodger 0 Brooklyn Dodger 1, Draft Dodger 0

Donald Trump picked on the wrong athlete. Even though Jackie Robinson died in 1972, last week he bested Trump in a contest about the role of racism and the civil rights movement.

Mar 24, 2025 / Peter Dreier

Despite the massive mobilization of Bernie Sanders’s two presidential campaigns, his supporters remain a junior partner in the Democratic Party power structure.

Time for a Progressive Rethink Time for a Progressive Rethink

Anger at the Democratic Party’s inept leadership and subservience to Big Money has been rising since the election. But the left also must examine our own role in enabling Trump.

Mar 24, 2025 / Jeff Faux

A visitor in silhouette at an art gallery.

We Need to Reengage My Generation In Art Appreciation We Need to Reengage My Generation In Art Appreciation

Art history, once a staple in every college humanities curriculum, is now seen as elitist and futile. With Donald Trump back in the White House, the arts are more at risk than eve...

Mar 24, 2025 / StudentNation / Allegra Devine Lief

JKF riding in a car through a parade.

JFK Assassination: The Final Secrets JFK Assassination: The Final Secrets

The release of the John F. Kennedy papers sets a standard for transparency that must also be applied to the current administration.

Mar 21, 2025 / Peter Kornbluh

Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer listens as President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 4, 2025, in Washington, DC.

Chuck Schumer Is the Weakest Link Chuck Schumer Is the Weakest Link

The Senate minority leader wants to make sure everyone else is fighting for democracy—so he’s not at risk.

Mar 21, 2025 / Jeet Heer

Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 6, 2025.

Trump’s Order Dismantling the Education Department Continues His Attacks on the Agency Trump’s Order Dismantling the Education Department Continues His Attacks on the Agency

The president plans to sign an executive order directing officials to take all “necessary steps” to shut down the department, but a complete closure would require an act of Congre...

Mar 20, 2025 / StudentNation / Owen Dahlkamp

President Donald Trump and White House senior adviser, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk sit in a Tesla Model S on the South Lawn of the White House on March 11, 2025, in Washington, DC.

Trump’s Economics—and America’s Economy Trump’s Economics—and America’s Economy

You can’t make America great again by wrecking the government.

Mar 19, 2025 / James K. Galbraith

Mario Savio, a leader of the University of California Free Speech Movement, center, with Jack Weinberg and Susan Goldberg and other arrested demonstrators during their trial, Berkeley, California, 1965.

America Needs a New Free Speech Movement America Needs a New Free Speech Movement

Donald Trump is showing us what an unaccountable class of corporate decision-makers looks like—and it looks like a lot of fear, and a terrible loss of freedom.

Mar 19, 2025 / Zephyr Teachout

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