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Bernie Sanders speaks during his “Fighting Oligarchy” tour in Iowa City, Iowa, on February 22, 2025.

Bernie Sanders Is Sending a Piercing Message About Musk and the Oligarchy Bernie Sanders Is Sending a Piercing Message About Musk and the Oligarchy

The senator is on the road explaining exactly what happens when the richest man in the world starts buying power.

Feb 26, 2025 / John Nichols

Ronald Johnson

Ronald Johnson’s American Romanticism Ronald Johnson’s American Romanticism

Books & the Arts / February 26, 2025 Ronald Johnson’s American Romanticism An inheritor of a distinct tradition that stretched back to Coleridge and Emerson, Johnson’s natu…

Feb 26, 2025 / Books & the Arts / David B. Hobbs

Donald Trump sits at a desk, signing a document. Behind him, a map reads

Greenland! Canada! The Panama Canal! The Gulf of America! Gaza! Greenland! Canada! The Panama Canal! The Gulf of America! Gaza!

Manifest Destiny gets a reboot under President Donald Trump.

Feb 25, 2025 / William J. Astore

Linda McMahon, now Donald Trump’s nominee for education secretary, poses for a portrait when she was president and CEO of the World Wrestling Federation, on December 12, 1999.

Linda McMahon’s Only Qualification as Education Secretary Is a History of Spreading Hate Linda McMahon’s Only Qualification as Education Secretary Is a History of Spreading Hate

Even in Trump’s cabinet of hucksters, reality-show stars, and drunk white nationalists, Linda McMahon is a bizarre choice for education secretary.

Feb 25, 2025 / Dave Zirin

People rally in Lansing, Michigan, to oppose President Trump, Elon Musk, and Project 2025.

How Healthcare Workers Are Defending Their Transgender Patients from Trump’s Attacks How Healthcare Workers Are Defending Their Transgender Patients from Trump’s Attacks

As the Trump administration targets trans people, healthcare workers are mobilizing to support their patients’ ability to get the care they need.

Feb 25, 2025 / Sarah Lazare

Protect Peace in Palestine

Protect Peace in Palestine Protect Peace in Palestine

Keep hope for peace alive.

Feb 25, 2025 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo

Joy Reid hosts “The ReidOut on February 24, 2024.

The Value of Joy The Value of Joy

By canceling Joy Reid’s cable news show, MSNBC has not only silenced a brilliant host: It’s silenced the next Black voice you haven’t yet heard.

Feb 25, 2025 / Elie Mystal

Picket signs lie on the ground as Amazon workers organized by the Teamsters Union go on strike in front of the DBK4 Amazon facility on December 20, 2024.

Trump Is Fumbling the NLRB. But Amazon Workers Can Still Build Momentum. Trump Is Fumbling the NLRB. But Amazon Workers Can Still Build Momentum.

Amazon Teamsters’ December strike was the biggest in the company’s history. What does their future look like under Trump 2.0?

Feb 25, 2025 / Ella Fanger

Senator Bernie Sanders speaks during a protest against the nomination of Linda McMahon to serve as President Donald Trump's education secretary, outside the US Capitol on February 12, 2025, in Washington, DC.

We Shouldn’t Be Afraid to Call the US What It Really Is: an Oligarchy We Shouldn’t Be Afraid to Call the US What It Really Is: an Oligarchy

Across the ideological spectrum, anger toward the superrich is a major source of movement energy.

Feb 25, 2025 / Chris Lehmann

Djuna Barnes, 1922.

Djuna Barnes’s Playthings Djuna Barnes’s Playthings

Her short fiction provides an odd glimpse at a writer whose interests move beyond the human and into something more inchoate.

Feb 25, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Missouri Williams

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