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Junior at the dawn of revelation.

Jan 9, 2025

Senator Bernie Sanders speaks about Ralph De La Torre's spending habits during the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Left-Populists—Unshackle Your Imaginations! Left-Populists—Unshackle Your Imaginations!

It’s time to challenge the Democrats’ “business model.”

Jan 7, 2025 / Richard Eskow

A luxury real-estate sign outside a Santa Fe property

How Santa Fe’s Housing Squeeze Nearly Left Me Homeless How Santa Fe’s Housing Squeeze Nearly Left Me Homeless

Thanks to poor administrative decisions at a local housing complex for artists, the city's poet laureate fell into nerve-wracking precarity

Jan 7, 2025 / Darryl Lorenzo Wellington

David Rubenstein, founder of The Carlyle Group, is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Joe Biden in the East Room of the White House on January 4, 2025.

Joe Biden Loves Awarding Participation Trophies to the Failed Establishment Joe Biden Loves Awarding Participation Trophies to the Failed Establishment

Unwavering support for ancien régime restoration means prizes for Liz Cheney, Hillary Clinton, and George Soros.

Jan 6, 2025 / Jeet Heer

Jimmy Carter meets with cabinet members to discuss energy and inflation policy in 1979.

Jimmy Carter’s Ruinous Neoliberal Legacy Jimmy Carter’s Ruinous Neoliberal Legacy

The Democratic president led an ambitious agenda to replace New Deal guarantees of security and fairness with bogus models of "perfect competition." 

Jan 6, 2025 / Jonathan Schlefer

Elon Musk, House Speaker Mike Johnson, and Vivek Ramaswamy arrive for a meeting on Capitol Hill on December 5, 2024.

In the GOP Civil War Over Immigration, Both Sides Are Racists In the GOP Civil War Over Immigration, Both Sides Are Racists

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy want cheap labor—not a multiracial democracy.

Jan 3, 2025 / Jeet Heer

Partners for peace? Trump meeting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in June 2019. Instead of attacking Trump’s diplomatic initiatives as “weak,” Democrats should support negotiations.

Progressives Can’t Afford to Spend the Next 4 Years Just Playing Defense Progressives Can’t Afford to Spend the Next 4 Years Just Playing Defense

Or reflexively denouncing every Trump policy. While we mustn’t underestimate the danger he poses to our democracy, when he says he wants to end war, the left should call his bluff...

Dec 17, 2024 / Matthew Duss

The pure products of America: Roy Cohn and Donald Trump at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Washington, DC, on March 20, 1983.

Donald Trump Is the Authentic American Berserk Donald Trump Is the Authentic American Berserk

Far from being an alien interloper, the incoming president draws from homegrown authoritarianism.

Dec 13, 2024 / Jeet Heer

Will the president use his remaining time in office to make good on his promise? He still can—if he wants to.

It’s Still Not Too Late for Biden to Deliver Debt Relief It’s Still Not Too Late for Biden to Deliver Debt Relief

Four years after hearing the president promise bold action on student debt, most borrowers are still no better off, and many—especially defrauded debtors—are measurably worse off....

Dec 13, 2024 / Astra Taylor

Pay Wall

Pay Wall Pay Wall

High prices.

Dec 12, 2024 / OppArt / Lalo Alcaraz

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