Opinion

How to Beat the “King” of Debt at His Own Game

The Trump Administration will drive everyday Americans dramatically deeper in debt. But we can fight back.

Jason Wozniak

3 Ways Workers’ Rights Are on the Chopping Block Under President Trump

Judging by the first Trump administration, workers and unions are set to face new attacks and a rollback of rights.

Samantha Sanders

Out of the Ashes

Democratic failure gave rise to the second round of Trumpism. Collective action is the way out.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

The Power of Dumb

In the Second Trump Era, don't expect reality to be realistic.

Hamilton Nolan

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