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Inaugural Brawl Inaugural Brawl
Check out all installments in the OppArt series.
Feb 4, 2025 / OppArt / Steve Brodner
![Grassroots action: Our Revolution at the Democratic National Committee leadership election on Saturday.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/our-revolution-protest.jpg)
Defeating the Democratic Party Elites Is Just the First Step Defeating the Democratic Party Elites Is Just the First Step
The party faces a choice: Will it embrace the grassroots energy behind its newly elected leadership? Or allow Trump and his corporate allies to tighten their grip on the country?
Feb 4, 2025 / Joseph Geevarghese
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Abdominal Snowman Abdominal Snowman
Three Danish cartoonists look at Trump’s Manifest Tonsillectomy.
Feb 4, 2025 / OppArt / Per Marquard Otzen, Jens Julius Hansen, Lars Andersen
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Parenting In the Age of Trump Parenting In the Age of Trump
Like Sarah Connor, the heroine of the Terminator movies, Elie Mystal is trying to figure out how to prepare his children for the dystopian future.
Feb 4, 2025 / Elie Mystal
![Kendrick Lamar performs during halftime in Super Bowl LVI on February 13, 2022, in Inglewood, California.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Kendrick_Lamar-Super_Bowl_LVI-getty.jpg)
The Super Bowl Will Be a Spectacle of Black Excellence, but You’ll Need to Tune Out MAGA’s White Whine The Super Bowl Will Be a Spectacle of Black Excellence, but You’ll Need to Tune Out MAGA’s White Whine
The NFL, to my shock, has not prematurely surrendered to Trump and Elon Musk’s agenda of Black erasure.
Feb 4, 2025 / Dave Zirin
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What the Neocons Do—and Don’t—Explain About Trump What the Neocons Do—and Don’t—Explain About Trump
The president’s foreign policy agenda remains unpredictable, but his war on liberal culture has deep roots.
Feb 4, 2025 / David Klion
![Employees and supporters gather to protest outside of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) headquarters on February 3, 2025, in Washington, DC.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GettyImages-2197460320.jpg)
Signs of a New Anti-Trump Opposition Amid Elon Musk’s Coup Signs of a New Anti-Trump Opposition Amid Elon Musk’s Coup
Legislators and grassroots groups are showing new muscle in the wake of Musk’s weekend usurpation of power. It needs to ramp up, and quickly. And the media needs to cover it.
Feb 4, 2025 / Joan Walsh
![“Summer Interior” by Edward Hopper, 1909. Located at the Whitney Museum of American Art.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/GettyImages-544173004.jpeg)
Vigdis Hjorth and the Novel of Ugly Love Vigdis Hjorth and the Novel of Ugly Love
In If Only, the Norwegian novelist distills a story of romance into all its private discomfort and claustrophobia. Its intense ambivalence in regards to love feels truer to life. ...
Feb 4, 2025 / Books & the Arts / David Schurman Wallace
![Harvard’s New Speech Rules Continue Their Pattern of Repression](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Harvard-University-Palestine-Protest.jpg)
Harvard’s New Speech Rules Continue Their Pattern of Repression Harvard’s New Speech Rules Continue Their Pattern of Repression
The university’s adoption of the IHRA definition of anti-semitism conflates critique of Israel with antisemitic speech, directly attacking pro-Palestine activism and academic free...
Feb 4, 2025 / StudentNation / Shraddha Joshi and Asmer Asrar Safi
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The MAGA Assault on the Media Is Picking Up Steam The MAGA Assault on the Media Is Picking Up Steam
Paramount’s settlement negotiations with President Trump are just one example of the administration’s encroaching suppression of free speech.
Feb 3, 2025 / Chris Lehmann