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Donald Trump throwing hats at crowd

Project 2025 Is Coming for Your Rights Project 2025 Is Coming for Your Rights

The wholesale capture of the state is the ultimate goal of its Christian nationalist architects.

Aug 8, 2024 / Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis and Shailly Gupta Barnes

Kamala Steps Up…

Kamala Steps Up… Kamala Steps Up…

And Tim Walz joins her!

Aug 8, 2024 / OppArt / Jody Hewgill and Josh Gosfield

Members of the GMB union who work at Amazon picket outside the online retailer's site in Coventry.

For Amazon Workers, $30 Is the New $15 For Amazon Workers, $30 Is the New $15

Recent skirmishes signal the growing confidence of Amazon workers, demonstrating that withdrawal of labor can force even the most powerful company in the world into concessions.

Aug 8, 2024 / Jonathan Rosenblum

Alice Hu of the Summer of Heat campaign speaks to the camera as she is arrested at Citigroup's Manhattan headquarters on July 22, 2024, in a Stop the Money Pipeline video on Instagram.

Climate Justice Organizer to Citi CEO: “Talk Is Cheap” Climate Justice Organizer to Citi CEO: “Talk Is Cheap”

An interview with Alice Hu, one of the lead organizers of the “Summer of Heat” campaign targeting Wall Street fossil fuel financiers.

Aug 8, 2024 / Wen Stephenson

Governor of Pennsylvania Josh Shapiro speaks at a rally for Kamala Harris and new vice presidential candidate Tim Walz in Philadelphia on August 6, 2024.

No, Josh Shapiro Wasn’t Snubbed for VP Because He's Jewish No, Josh Shapiro Wasn’t Snubbed for VP Because He's Jewish

Republicans and some journalists are pushing the cynical and false narrative that antisemitism doomed Shapiro's candidacy.

Aug 8, 2024 / Emily Tamkin

An opponent of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's government steps on an election campaign poster with the image of Maduro during a protest at the Petare neighborhood in Caracas on July 29, 2024, a day after the Venezuelan presidential election.

What’s Next for the Left in Venezuela? What’s Next for the Left in Venezuela?

If revolution is to win again in Venezuela, its backers at home and abroad must first recognize that they lost.

Aug 8, 2024 / Alejandro Velasco

A Vibe Shift Won’t Save Gaza

A Vibe Shift Won’t Save Gaza A Vibe Shift Won’t Save Gaza

Kamala Harris must move from words to deeds to stop Israel’s war crimes.

Aug 8, 2024 / Jack Mirkinson

Helen Stephens winning the Women's 100m at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

The Trans Panic in Sports Is Nearly a Century Old The Trans Panic in Sports Is Nearly a Century Old

Michael Waters’s eye-opening history of gender and athletics in the lead-up to the 1936 Olympics reveals just how old this reactionary movement in athletics is.

Aug 8, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Ben Kesslen

Republican vice presidential nominee Senator JD Vance speaks at a campaign event in Shelby Township, Michigan.

JD Vance Is on a Stalker Tour of Swing States JD Vance Is on a Stalker Tour of Swing States

Following Kamala Harris and Tim Walz on the campaign trail, Vance just reinforces the notion: He’s creepy.

Aug 7, 2024 / Joan Walsh

Vice President Kamala Harris and Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Governor Tim Walz during a campaign event at the Liacouras Center at Temple University in Philadelphia on August 6, 2024.

Harris and Walz Kick Off Their Sprint to the White House With a Celebration of Philadelphia Freedom Harris and Walz Kick Off Their Sprint to the White House With a Celebration of Philadelphia Freedom

Democrats are going to have to cope with an unfamiliar emotion: hope.

Aug 7, 2024 / D.D. Guttenplan

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