The Pain and Glory of My Football-Loving Life The Pain and Glory of My Football-Loving Life
A comic about the Eagles, fathers, incarceration, and the holes that sports can't fill.
Feb 6, 2026 / Christopher Blackwell and Solomon J. Brager
How Big Gaming Is Swallowing Up the Big Game How Big Gaming Is Swallowing Up the Big Game
The Super Bowl will showcase the lords of legalized betting, even as they’ve already colonized every other reach of human experience.
Feb 6, 2026 / Matt Alston
Trump’s Denunciations of the Iranian Killings Are Pure Hypocrisy Trump’s Denunciations of the Iranian Killings Are Pure Hypocrisy
The arbitrary arrests and killings committed by agents of Trump’s authoritarian-style rule differ only in number, not in kind, from those in Iran.
Feb 5, 2026 / Juan Cole
Childcare Providers Around the Country Are Being Targeted by Vigilante Surveillance Childcare Providers Around the Country Are Being Targeted by Vigilante Surveillance
In response to bogus allegations of fraud in Minnesota, strangers are filming them, knocking on their doors, demanding to be let in. It’s scaring parents and costing providers.
Feb 5, 2026 / Bryce Covert
Has the Mainstream Media Failed Us? Has the Mainstream Media Failed Us?
Dean Obeidallah and Joy Reid discuss independent media’s role in an increasingly undemocratic world.
Feb 5, 2026 / Q&A / Laura Flanders
Get Ready for This Year’s Undemocratic, Debt-Ridden, and Mobster-Infused Winter Olympics Get Ready for This Year’s Undemocratic, Debt-Ridden, and Mobster-Infused Winter Olympics
ICE thugs in the streets, Mafia meddling, and billions in waste—seems like the Games are off to a great start.
Feb 5, 2026 / Jules Boykoff and Dave Zirin
Trump Ratchets Up Talk of Taking Over Elections Trump Ratchets Up Talk of Taking Over Elections
This is one of many signs that Trump knows his party is in big trouble in the coming midterm elections.
Feb 4, 2026 / Joan Walsh
Jeff Bezos’s Destruction of “The Washington Post” Is a Disgraceful Plutocratic Crime Jeff Bezos’s Destruction of “The Washington Post” Is a Disgraceful Plutocratic Crime
It turns out that democracy doesn’t die in darkness at all—it succumbs to repeated group muggings at the hands of the moneyed power elite.
Feb 4, 2026 / Chris Lehmann