How to Not Lose It Completely During Trump’s Second Presidency How to Not Lose It Completely During Trump’s Second Presidency
If we can’t count on this country’s vaunted checks and balances to either check or balance the power of an absurdist president, where else can we look?
Jan 9, 2025 / Rebecca Gordon
We Must Defend DACAmented Community Members We Must Defend DACAmented Community Members
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program will likely end under President-elect Donald Trump’s next term. What comes next is up to all of us.
Jan 9, 2025 / Bruna Sollod
Jimmy Carter’s Biographer on the Late President’s Biggest Regret Jimmy Carter’s Biographer on the Late President’s Biggest Regret
Carter summoned Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat to Camp David to make peace, not apartheid, in the Middle East. But the Israeli president broke his promise to freeze settlements.
Jan 9, 2025 / Kai Bird
The MAGA Think Tank Behind Linda McMahon’s Education Agenda The MAGA Think Tank Behind Linda McMahon’s Education Agenda
The WWE executive has no real background in education, but she proved a loyal administrator of Trumpworld’s pet think tank, the America First Policy Institute
Jan 9, 2025 / Christopher Lewis and Jacob Plaza
What Do We Want From Bob Dylan’s Story? What Do We Want From Bob Dylan’s Story?
In James Mangold's film A Complete Unknown, we get a cautious and reverent story of a musician who has always sought to transcend the limits imposed upon him.
Jan 9, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Sam Adler-Bell
Donald Trump’s 21st-Century Colonialism Donald Trump’s 21st-Century Colonialism
Trump’s obsession with claiming Greenland and its people for the US is just a new version of the same old imperialist story.
Jan 9, 2025 / John Nichols
What Adorno Can Still Teach Us What Adorno Can Still Teach Us
A conversation with Peter Gordon about the enduring influence of the Frankfurt School's leader, the future of critical theory, and his recent book, A Precarious Happiness.
Jan 9, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
The Trump Sanewashing Begins Anew The Trump Sanewashing Begins Anew
New year, same media strategy: Downplay Trump’s most dangerous, extreme ideas as “trolling” or even “branding.”
Jan 8, 2025 / Joan Walsh
The Toxic Legacy of Jean-Marie Le Pen The Toxic Legacy of Jean-Marie Le Pen
The elder Le Pen is dead, but far-right populists across the world still echo his mix of violent rhetoric, brazen lies, and outreach to mainstream conservatives.
Jan 8, 2025 / Obituary / David A. Bell