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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

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The Democratic Capitulation Point

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

Hamilton Nolan

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Kings of Capital

The pathological personalization of power is at the core of the far Right’s rise.

Alberto Toscano

LaborPolitics

Elon Musk's DOGE Targets Labor Department

Ahead of a planned Department of Labor visit by Elon Musk’s government-slashing group, unions launched protests and a lawsuit.

Kim Kelly

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They're Not Done Gutting the Programs We Rely On

Trump’s attempt to freeze federal funds for government services was an effort to steal our tax dollars to enrich billionaires. And he’ll try again.

Karen Dolan

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The New DNC Chair Should Put the Working Class at the Center of the Democratic Party

To counter the tech oligarchy of Trump’s second term, Democrats need to offer a clear message: no to corporate power and economic elites, yes to more democracy and worker organizing.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

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Trump Is Already Planning Colossal Tax Giveaways to Corporations and Billionaires

President Trump campaigned on lowering prices for Americans. Instead, his first priority is to cut taxes for the super rich while slashing social programs for working people.

Lindsay Owens

DispatchPolitics

You Are Invited to the Predators' Ball, as Food

At Trump’s second inauguration, no one wanted to admit they were the suckers.

Hamilton Nolan

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Looking for the Resistance

The true believers came out to the People's March in D.C., but a mass movement against Trump 2.0 failed to materialize.

Hamilton Nolan

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Trump's Greenland Problem

As the president-elect's call to buy—or take—a sovereign country moves from punchline to possibility, a look at the real stakes of the Arctic’s mounting cold war.

Adam Federman