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DispatchThe Right-Wing Issue

Conservatives Want to Destroy Public Schools. Communities are Fighting Back.

“The decision to hate your neighbors and reject your public school isn’t actually the most affordable, practical or preferable path for most people.”

Jennifer Berkshire

Bright yellow book jacket with the book title Practical Radicals: Seven Strategies to Change the World. The authors names, Deepak Bhargava and Stephanie Luce, are printed below the titled. list

Interview

Our Political Opponents Know How to Build Power. We Should, Too.

“We owe it to ourselves to understand our opponents much better than we do.”

Emma Tai

Unpacking the Underlying Political Tensions Driving the Effort to Repeal Chicago’s Sanctuary Status

An incident involving Carlos Ramirez-Rosa—that led to his resignation as Floor Leader—underscores the political circus threatening Chicago progressives who recently gained political power.

Tonia Hill

ViewpointThe Right-Wing Issue

National Conservatives, Postliberals and the Nietzschean Right: Meet Today’s Terrifying GOP

The New Right is mad, organized and wholly unafraid to wield state power.

Matt McManus

ViewpointThe Right-Wing Issue

How Colleges Became Recruitment Hubs for the Gen-Z Right

Right-wing Zoomers are outflanking their MAGA elders in enthusiastic embrace of radically anti-democratic, exclusionary and bigoted beliefs.

Ben Lorber

An image of Bernie Sanders in a suit and tie, briefly pausing on his walk to Senate chambers.

ViewpointPalestine

Bernie Sanders Has Finally Called for a Cease-Fire. Sort Of.

Prior to today's letter, the senator had urged for a “humanitarian pause.”

Mindy Isser

The cover of a book reads, “Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate Justice in the Arab Region.” At the bottom of the cover, there’s a picture of women sitting down in a desert, one of them holding a megaphone. In front of the book, there’s a picture of Hamza Hamouchene with his arms crossed and of Manal Shqair smiling.

PalestineInterviewClimate

From Gaza to Atlanta, There is No Climate Justice on Occupied Land

An interview with Hamza Hamouchene and Manal Shqair on the militarization of climate politics

Ivonne Ortiz

FeatureThe Right-Wing Issue

We’re in an Epidemic of Right-Wing Terror. Won’t Someone Tell the Press?

More than a decade of media malpractice enabled January 6. Has the media learned its lesson?

Rick Perlstein

A worker holds a sign reading: We're on ULP strike!

Labor

Starbucks' Offer to Resume Contract Talks Comes with Some Serious Fine Print

Starbucks says it wants to bargain. Its behavior suggests otherwise.

Steven Greenhouse