Opinion
Don't Despair, Organize
Our job on the left is to translate outrage over Trump's agenda into action toward a truly transformational vision.
Mark Engler and Paul Engler
What’s The Deal With The Latine Vote?
The diverse Latine experience, shaped by factors like immigration status, race and class, is too often oversimplified—both by outsiders and within our own communities.
Briana L. Ureña-Ravelo
What Lesson Should the Dems Take From the 2024 Election? Return to the Working Class
The party should use this inflection point to shift ground—from being the party of well-off college graduates, big corporations, and vacuous “centrism”—to an anti-establishment party ready to shake up the system on behalf of the vast majority of Americans.
Robert Reich
Trump's Army of Social Vigilantes Are Coming for Payback
For four years, disciples of MAGA have been waiting for this moment, stewing on the need for social and political retribution. The wait is over—and we need to be ready.
Maximillian Alvarez
The Rape Culture Election
Across the Right, one refrain resounds: “Your body, my choice.”
Talia Lavin
How Biden, Harris and the Democrats Abandoned the Working Class
Working-class voters didn’t unite behind a Democratic Party that failed to address economic pain—and Trump exploited those grievances to win back the presidency.
Jeff Schuhrke
The Election Is Over and the Bombs Are Still Dropping. We Have to Stop Them.
We must recommit to the fight for an arms embargo.
Saqib Bhatti
Democratic Elites Blame Everyone But Themselves for Historic Collapse
On the blame list: transgender people, “economic headwinds,” ontologically racist voters—anyone but the powerful people tasked with defeating Trump.
Adam Johnson
Labor Now Needs to Be an Anti-Fascist Movement
MAGA forces have begun what they believe to be their final offensive against everything on the Left. One way to fight back is for organized labor to become a conscious anti-fascist movement
Bill Fletcher, Jr.
Democrats Chose to Back a Genocide and Turn Right Over Defeating Trump
By refusing to budge on Palestine, Harris and the Democrats surrendered their moral advantage, forcing them to track right and alienate their base.
Adam Johnson
Now We Will Get What We Asked For
America made its choice: Donald Trump.
Hamilton Nolan
We Resigned Over U.S. Support for Genocide—But Are Voting for Harris
"We are not defending the two-party system whose shortcomings are blindingly clear—but in this election, if Kamala Harris loses, then Donald Trump wins."
Lily Greenberg Call and Harrison Mann
Trump and Musk Want the U.S. to Become a Corporatocracy
The two dangerous demagogues are openly colluding with one another to seize political power so they can milk taxpayers and dismantle government regulations that protect the public.
Sonali Kolhatkar
On Losing a Loved One to Alzheimer's—and Trumpism
I saw in my dying grandfather Trump’s ideal follower—and right-wing media’s ideal viewer.
Maximillian Alvarez
It's Not Too Late for Kamala Harris to Earn Votes Like Mine
Harris can win thousands of votes across the country, including in key swing states, by calling for an arms embargo.
Saqib Bhatti
The Ways We Show Up After November 5
My sights are set on lifting up art that pushes for a world with disability justice and abolition and queer liberation, a future in which Palestine and Sudan and the Congo are free.
Sherell Barbee
“The Children,” James Baldwin Wrote, “Are Always Ours, Every Single One of Them"
Saqib Bhatti laments the unbearable task of parenting during genocide—from the United States to Gaza.
Saqib Bhatti
Democrats Don't Need a Coach, They Need a Teacher
The choice to campaign as "Coach" Walz may be as tactically bankrupt as it is morally so: if Americans truly want an American football coach, isn’t that the "you're fired" persona Trump already embodies?
Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva
We need to be united in the fight against fascism and repression.
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