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Kat Abughazaleh.

What’s Kat Abughazaleh’s Deal? What’s Kat Abughazaleh’s Deal?

She’s a 26-year-old social media star challenging a progressive stalwart in a congressional district she doesn’t live in yet. We asked her why.

Apr 7, 2025 / Elsie Carson-Holt

Two cutouts of US President Donald Trump and a cutout of White House 'border czar' Tom Homan stand alongside photos of former US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris behind bars at a

Trump Has Created a Legal Nightmare Trump Has Created a Legal Nightmare

The president is using obscure statutes in shocking ways as part of his anti-immigrant witch hunt.

Apr 7, 2025 / Gaby Del Valle

The leader of the new Syrian administration, Ahmed al-Shara, waits to greet a Ukrainian delegation ahead of a meeting to help strengthen ties between the two countries in December 2024 in Damascus, Syria.

Syria’s New Rulers Get a Makeover Syria’s New Rulers Get a Makeover

The country’s new leader, Ahmed al-Shara, has donned a suit, trimmed his beard, and dropped his nom de guerre. But Syrians are still afraid.

Apr 7, 2025 / Charles Glass

Shanette Williams at the Abortion in America conference in February.

Abortion Bans Upended Their Lives—Now They’re Fighting Back, One Story at a Time Abortion Bans Upended Their Lives—Now They’re Fighting Back, One Story at a Time

Across the country, abortion storytellers are putting the struggle for reproductive freedom into powerful new words.

Apr 7, 2025 / Feature / Regina Mahone

Donald Trump and Roy Cohn at a press conference.

Donald Trump’s Long Con Donald Trump’s Long Con

Trump’s “Art of” trilogy may be full of willful exaggeration but the books also reveal how the 1980s and ’90s formed his dog-eat-dog worldview. 

Apr 7, 2025 / Books & the Arts / John Ganz

President Donald Trump holds a reciprocal tariffs poster during a tariff announcement in the White House on April 2, 2025.

A Cowardly Congress Is Letting Trump Crash the Economy A Cowardly Congress Is Letting Trump Crash the Economy

The president’s tariff war is also a constitutional crisis.

Apr 4, 2025 / Jeet Heer

The flags of all EU member states fly outside the European Parliament building in Brussels, Belgium, on November 20, 2024.

Is Europe the Last Champion of Liberal Democracy? Is Europe the Last Champion of Liberal Democracy?

At the moment, unfortunately, it seems more likely that Europe will be the last powerful holdout in a world entering a new political Dark Age.

Apr 4, 2025 / John Feffer

Loot Hauley

Loot Hauley Loot Hauley

Not disappeared.

Apr 4, 2025 / Steve Brodner

California Governor Gavin Newsom looks on during a press conference on February 1, 2023, in Sacramento, California.

Governor Newsom, It’s Time to Get Off the Sidelines Governor Newsom, It’s Time to Get Off the Sidelines

The California governor was careful not to provoke Donald Trump after the election, but that didn’t stop the president from launching a full assault against his state.

Apr 4, 2025 / Sasha Abramsky

Billionaires Suck

Billionaires Suck Billionaires Suck

Public action, visibility brigade, Route 4, Paramus, New Jersey, January 2025.

Apr 4, 2025 / OppArt / Karen Guancione

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