Harvard Stands Up Harvard Stands Up
Very real pain is about to be inflicted on students, staff, researchers, and faculty. At least for now, most of the people here are willing to bear that price.
Apr 18, 2025 / Richard Parker
The People Are Resisting While the Elites Are Surrendering The People Are Resisting While the Elites Are Surrendering
The Ivy League is silently complicit in Trump’s war on international students.
Apr 14, 2025 / Jeet Heer
Bond Vigilantes Are Now the Unchallenged Kings Thanks to a Feckless Congress and Reckless Trump Bond Vigilantes Are Now the Unchallenged Kings Thanks to a Feckless Congress and Reckless Trump
A president who bullies Congress kowtows to the bond market.
Apr 11, 2025 / Jeet Heer
The Epidemic of Capitulation Suggests the Liberal Order Has Been Rotting From Within The Epidemic of Capitulation Suggests the Liberal Order Has Been Rotting From Within
What old-school civics taught us about checks and balances isn’t working. The absence of a will to fight, to defend the institutions of liberal democracy, is breathtaking.
Apr 8, 2025 / Jodi Dean for The Nation
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
Worse Than McCarthyism: Universities in the Age of Trump Worse Than McCarthyism: Universities in the Age of Trump
The target then was the nonexistent threat of Communist teachers; today, it’s the supposed radicalism of the academy and its alleged failure to fight antisemitism.
Apr 3, 2025 / Ellen Schrecker
Cory Booker Makes History. Donald Trump Will Never Erase It. Cory Booker Makes History. Donald Trump Will Never Erase It.
The New Jersey senator broke Strom Thurmond’s record for speaking on the Senate floor. May Booker break the back of the neo-segregationism that Trump represents.
Apr 2, 2025 / Joan Walsh
Pramila Jayapal: “We Have to Stand Up and Fight Back” Pramila Jayapal: “We Have to Stand Up and Fight Back”
The former leader of the Congressional Progressive Caucus discusses her recently launched “Resistance Lab,” where Democratic leadership is failing, and what must be done.
Mar 27, 2025 / Q&A / Joan Walsh
Project 2025’s Fascism Parallels Project 2025’s Fascism Parallels
Billboard, Grand Avenue, Phoenix, AZ, March 2025.
Mar 26, 2025 / OppArt / Karen Fiorito