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Not satisfied with controlling the federal government, the shadow president’s political action committee is suddenly spending big on a crucial Wisconsin Supreme Court election.

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Shield Laws Are the Fault Line in the Battle Over Abortion Access Shield Laws Are the Fault Line in the Battle Over Abortion Access

New York’s shield law was designed to protect providers mailing medication abortion pills out of state. But a New York provider is facing legal action in Louisiana and Texas.

Rachel Rebouché

The Harrowing Ardor of Heather Lewis The Harrowing Ardor of Heather Lewis

Her fiction was miscast as merely transgressive. Rather, her novels were interested in understanding life in its most unvarnished and unmediated.

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Gwynne Wilcox in front of American flag.

How Donald Trump Dismantled a Worker Protection Agency With One Late-Night E-Mail How Donald Trump Dismantled a Worker Protection Agency With One Late-Night E-Mail

By firing Gwynne Wilcox, Trump is hoping the Supreme Court will overrule 90 years of legal precedent and give him the authority to fire members of independent boards.

Lynn Rhinehart

A protester at Washington, DC’s “Not My President” rally on February 17.

How to Organize Our Way Out of the Trump-Musk Putsch How to Organize Our Way Out of the Trump-Musk Putsch

A plan to harness grassroots energy—and to hold Democratic leaders accountable

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How Democrats Can Fight Back How Democrats Can Fight Back

Jamie Raskin lays out the legal strategy to oppose Trump but says, “We’re not going to sue our way out of a political crisis”—Democrats need a political organizing strategy.

Q&A / Chris Lehmann

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The Harrowing Ardor of Heather Lewis The Harrowing Ardor of Heather Lewis

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Books & the Arts / Gracie Hadland

What the Paiva Family Means to Brazil

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In I’m Still Here, one Brazilian clan’s confrontation with the military dictatorship dramatizes the last half-century of Brazil’s democratic travails.

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Beatriz Nascimento’s Histories of Afro-Brazilian Rebellion 

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The scholar, poet, and filmmaker devoted her life to sketching out a revisionist historiography of resistance in Latin America but also the world.

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Celebrations erupted around Syria and crowds ransacked President Bashar al-Assad's luxurious home on December 8 after Islamist-led rebels swept into Damascus and declared that he had fled the country, in a spectacular end to five decades of Baath party rule.

What’s Next for Syrian Refugees? What’s Next for Syrian Refugees?

While Syrians around the world are celebrating the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, they are still cautious about what comes next.

Helen Benedict

People hold banners during a rally in support of Ukrainian POWs near the railway station on February 16, 2025, in Odesa, Ukraine.

A New International Campaign Rises in Ukraine A New International Campaign Rises in Ukraine

Its goal is unmistakable: let Ukrainian civilian prisoners go.

Mary Kaldor and Luke Cooper

Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni posts a picture of herself with Elon Musk in Brussels, Belgium, on her personal X account on January 6, 2025.

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As Musk wrote in a January post, “From MAGA to MEGA: Make Europe Great Again.”

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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s Voice From the Past

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The Pakistani qawwali icon sang words written centuries ago and died decades ago. He’s got a new album out.

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The Settler Plot to Recolonize Gaza

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Since Israel invaded Gaza in 2023, far-right settlers have set their sights on the Strip—and they have no intention of letting a ceasefire stand in their way.

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It’s Time for the Democrats to Throw Off the Dead Hand of Clintonism

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