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An Authoritarian Dress Rehearsal

The spectacle of Trump’s Washington takeover may be fascist pageantry, but it’s also something more.

Alberto Toscano

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Conservatives’ Long War on Free Thought

Trump’s escalating attacks on higher education represent a centuries-long drive to kill the Socratic spirit.

Matt McManus

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Zohran’s Political Revolution

Mamdani's win in the New York City Democratic primary shows that the old tricks of the political establishment are dying out—and something new is being born.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

LaborPolitics

Republicans Are Attacking the “Idle” Poor, But the Real Freeloaders Are the Rich

The GOP is defending its cruel budget bill with ancient tropes about the industrious rich and “undeserving” poor. It’s time to reverse the script.

Conor Lynch

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America for Sale! Everything Must Go!

Trump’s "Big, Beautiful Bill" trades tax cuts on millionaires for the dissolution of society

Hamilton Nolan

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Zohran Mamdani's Win Is the Beginning of the End of the Old Democratic Party

Mamdani's NYC primary victory shows that the old tricks of the political establishment are dying out—and something new is being born.

Hamilton Nolan

HousingPolitics

Will NYC's Long-Suffering Tenants Carry Zohran Mamdani to Victory?

A close look inside the campaign that has helped turn New York City renters into a force to be reckoned with.

Thomas Birmingham

DispatchPolitics

“No Kings” Seeded a Mass Movement Against Trump, Backed by Labor

The major protests in mid-June rallied millions in defense of immigrant workers and against authoritarianism. Now what?

Luis Feliz Leon

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Zohran Mamdani Can Become Our Generation’s Bernie Sanders

Mamdani is a young socialist politician with the potential for national appeal. But to transform New York City, he’ll have to build a wider base.

Bhaskar Sunkara

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Built to Dominate

Palantir is designing the infrastructure of repression—and telling us why.

Alberto Toscano

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“I Am Not Afraid”

The Trump administration is attacking protesters from all angles. Activists refuse to back down.

Adam Federman

InterviewPolitics

The Christian Right’s 250-Year Fight Against America

Many religious groups have wanted to destroy liberal democracy, explains author Jerome Copulsky. But before Trump, none had taken power.

Kathryn Joyce

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No Wheat, Milk, Rice, Medicines: How the U.S. and Israel Are Starving Yemen

The Trump administration announced a truce with the Houthi rebels on May 6, but this was after the United States had already bombed critical infrastructure for importing food and fuel.

Sarah Lazare

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Two Years After Electing a Mayor, Chicago’s Left Keeps Contesting for Power

Movement-backed Mayor Brandon Johnson and a record class of progressive alders took office exactly two years ago. I spoke with more than a dozen organizers about what we’ve won, what we’ve learned about power and what’s still to be done to deliver a more equitable city.

Asha Ransby-Sporn

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She was tracking post-Roe abortions. The government just pulled her funding.

Diana Greene Foster, who was behind the landmark Turnaway Study, wanted to study the health and economic impacts of the loss of abortion access.

Shefali Luthra, The 19th

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Chris Rufo and the Burger Kings

An extremely online debate reveals fractures in the MAGA coalition and low-status yearnings for a white aristocracy.

Matt McManus

PalestinePolitics

The New Face of Christian Zionism

A rapidly growing Christian Right movement has become a driving force behind unqualified U.S.—and global—support for Israel.

Frederick Clarkson and Ben Lorber

InterviewPolitics

Trump and the Rise of the Multiracial Right

Scholars Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes on the plastic politics of race in today’s GOP.

Alberto Toscano

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The Strange Bedfellows Fighting School Vouchers

In the roiling politics of so-called “school choice,” public school advocates have some unexpected allies on the Right.

Jennifer Berkshire

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Gaping at the Cult of Trump

Trump's address to Congress was a reminder that the school bullies are now in charge.

Hamilton Nolan

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“The Oligarchs Can Be Beaten”: Bernie Sanders Responds to Trump’s Speech

In his address to Congress, President Trump ignored the concerns of working people and boasted about his billionaire-run government. In a response, Bernie Sanders says while the fight for a progressive future may feel hopeless, “despair is not an option.”

Bernie Sanders

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MAGA’s Latin American Models

Latin America offers more telling parallels for what to expect from U.S. authoritarianism—and better lessons on how to fight back.

Naomi Braine

PalestinePolitics

Sanders Moves to Block Weapons Sales to Israel

The Vermont Senator filed resolutions that would block $8.5 billion worth of offensive weapons from being used in the genocide of Palestinians.

Sharon Zhang

LaborViewpointPolitics

The Democratic Capitulation Point

Hope begins when Democratic Party leadership gives way to the Left. Unions can make it happen.

Hamilton Nolan