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Candidates for DNC chair meet in Detroit on January 16, 2025.

What the Next DNC Chair Must Do to Save the Party What the Next DNC Chair Must Do to Save the Party

Yes, pushing back against Donald Trump is essential. But to do that, the Democrats must turn themselves into a fighting force for economic justice.

Jan 31, 2025 / John Nichols

The US Armed Forces recruiting station in Times Square.

Trump’s Transgender Military Ban Doesn’t Make Sense. It Didn’t the First Time Either. Trump’s Transgender Military Ban Doesn’t Make Sense. It Didn’t the First Time Either.

The ban will only serve to create chaos and risk the health and safety of Americans.

Jan 31, 2025 / Michele Goodwin

Bedlam in the Redrum

Bedlam in the Redrum Bedlam in the Redrum

Voughts and prayers.

Jan 31, 2025

Roberto Marquez from Dallas, Texas, sets up a makeshift memorial for the victims of the crash of an American Airlines flight and a Blackhawk helicopter in Arlington, Virginia.

Trump’s Racist Rants Conceal the Right’s Air Safety Failures Trump’s Racist Rants Conceal the Right’s Air Safety Failures

In the aftermath of the worst air crash in 25 years, the president stokes ugly resentments and conspiracy-mongering

Jan 31, 2025 / Joseph A. McCartin

A DC community organizer holds a sign for the Light Brigade for Reproductive Justice: Your Vote is Your Voice outside of the US Supreme Court on October 17, 2024.

Symbolic Legislation Will Not Get Us Free Symbolic Legislation Will Not Get Us Free

If the Democrats are truly serious about protecting reproductive freedom, they must rise above reactive politics.

Jan 31, 2025 / Larada Lee-Wallace

Drilling in California Central Valley

Trump Is Hitting the Gas on Our Path to Planetary Destruction Trump Is Hitting the Gas on Our Path to Planetary Destruction

The planet’s decline is already deeply underway. Trump’s clearly about to lend it a remarkably helping hand

Jan 31, 2025 / Tom Engelhardt

Still leaning left?: Tulsi Gabbard, Donald Trump’s nominee to be Director of National Intelligence, testifies during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Senate Democrats Are Attacking Tulsi Gabbard for the Wrong Reasons Senate Democrats Are Attacking Tulsi Gabbard for the Wrong Reasons

Preferring to defend spy agencies and line up behind the hawkish consensus, the bipartisan elite ignores the director of national intelligence nominee’s rampant Islamophobia.

Jan 31, 2025 / Jeet Heer

Declaration: Who Gets Redacted ?

Declaration: Who Gets Redacted ? Declaration: Who Gets Redacted ?

A revolutionary document and evidence of many contradictions in the history of the United States.

Jan 31, 2025 / OppArt / Reginald Dwayne Betts and Titis Kaphar

Priscilla Chan, Mark Zuckerberg, Lauren Sanchez, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai, and Elon Musk during the 60th presidential inauguration in the rotunda of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on Monday, January 20, 2025.

The Social Critic Who Predicted Big Tech’s Dark Turn The Social Critic Who Predicted Big Tech’s Dark Turn

Theodore Roszak and the perils of technocracy.

Jan 31, 2025 / Peter Richardson and Michael J. Kramer

Members of the far-right militia group Patriot Front participate in the 2025 March for Life in Washington, DC, on January 24, 2025.

The Trump Administration Has Gone AWOL From the Union The Trump Administration Has Gone AWOL From the Union

This is what it is like to live through a revolution.

Jan 31, 2025 / Sasha Abramsky

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