Is Political Violence Ever Acceptable? Is Political Violence Ever Acceptable?
Natasha Lennard argues that it’s harmful to acquiesce to the state’s determinations of violence, while David Cortright writes that violent acts prevent mass resistance movements.
Mar 14, 2025 / The Debate / Natasha Lennard and David Cortright
DOGE’s Private-Equity Playbook DOGE’s Private-Equity Playbook
Elon Musk's rampage through the government is a classic PE takeover, replete with bogus numbers and sociopathic executives.
Mar 12, 2025 / Maureen Tkacik
How Covid Sickened the National Psyche How Covid Sickened the National Psyche
While the US was a troubled nation long before the coronavirus, our failure to treat the pandemic as an enduring emergency helped birth this nasty moment.
Mar 12, 2025 / Jeet Heer
Trump’s Dirty Tricks Were Tried in Argentina First Trump’s Dirty Tricks Were Tried in Argentina First
Eviscerating the public sector? Javier Milei showed Trump and Musk how it’s done.
Mar 11, 2025 / D.D. Guttenplan
The Failures Democrats Must Confront The Failures Democrats Must Confront
The party is not in inevitable decline, but it is in crisis.
Mar 10, 2025 / Jee Kim and Waleed Shahid
How to Organize Our Way Out of the Trump-Musk Putsch How to Organize Our Way Out of the Trump-Musk Putsch
A plan to harness grassroots energy—and to hold Democratic leaders accountable.
Feb 19, 2025 / Ezra Levin, Leah Greenberg for The Nation
Trump Is Outdoing Himself Trump Is Outdoing Himself
In the malignity of his intent and the scale of his graft, the second term is significantly worse. But it’s also his last.
Feb 11, 2025 / D.D. Guttenplan
Trump Doesn’t Have the Authority. What Happens When He Does It Anyway? Trump Doesn’t Have the Authority. What Happens When He Does It Anyway?
The American experiment depends on institutional checks on power’s exercise. If there are no checks, then these indeed will be devastating times.
Feb 11, 2025 / Michele Goodwin and Gregory Shaffer
Trump Already Has Blood on His Hands Trump Already Has Blood on His Hands
The president is taking a chain saw to our public health infrastructure—and people will die as a result.
Feb 10, 2025 / Gregg Gonsalves
Resistance 2.0 Is Already a Systems Failure Resistance 2.0 Is Already a Systems Failure
With Trump back in the White House, the Democrats are floundering instead of fighting.
Feb 10, 2025 / Chris Lehmann