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A protest in the Meatpacking District, Manhattan, New York, on Saturday, March 29, 2025.

You Don’t Get Trump Without Gaza You Don’t Get Trump Without Gaza

Fascism doesn’t just appear. It must be invited in—and the bipartisan repression of the anti-genocide movement did just that.

Apr 3, 2025 / Ben Ehrenreich

Representative Byron Donalds stands in the crowd as Donald Trump speaks in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, October 19, 2024.

Black MAGA Supporters Have Made Their Peace With Racists Black MAGA Supporters Have Made Their Peace With Racists

The silence of Black MAGA supporters in the face of Trump’s and Vance’s bigotry during the campaign has carried over to the second Trump era.

Apr 2, 2025 / Clarence Lusane

President George W. Bush speaks at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC, in 2007.

Trump Is Exploiting the Paranoid Fantasies that Drove the War on Terror Trump Is Exploiting the Paranoid Fantasies that Drove the War on Terror

The antidemocratic policies put in place after 9/11 have come home to roost.

Apr 1, 2025 / Karen J. Greenberg

Right-wing leader Marine Le Pen leaves the courtroom early, sentenced to imprisonment and disqualified from holding office for embezzlement charges.

In the Le Pen Verdict, the French Far Right Sees a Political Declaration of War In the Le Pen Verdict, the French Far Right Sees a Political Declaration of War

A French court rules to bar Marine Le Pen from seeking office for five years.

Apr 1, 2025 / Harrison Stetler

Elon Musk wields a chainsaw as he leaves the stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel And Convention Center on February 20, 2025

Why Musk and Trump Really Want to Gut the Government Why Musk and Trump Really Want to Gut the Government

Dismantling the civil service isn’t just a tactic. It’s a necessity for their efforts to entrench white racial and economic supremacy.

Apr 1, 2025 / Kali Holloway

A student walks past the Rotunda, under renovation, on the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville.

Trump’s Academic Purge Will Make America Stupid and Provincial Again Trump’s Academic Purge Will Make America Stupid and Provincial Again

The administration’s targeting of international students is a return to a disgraced tradition of xenophobic anti-intellectualism.

Mar 31, 2025 / Jeet Heer

Alireza Doroudi on the University of Alabama’s campus.

Alabama Won’t Say Alireza Doroudi’s Name. We Must. Alabama Won’t Say Alireza Doroudi’s Name. We Must.

The Iranian PhD student is one of several abducted by ICE in the past month—a pattern we cannot become numb to.

Mar 28, 2025 / Dave Zirin

All Vance Is Saying Is Give Peace a Chance

All Vance Is Saying Is Give Peace a Chance All Vance Is Saying Is Give Peace a Chance

The vice president has doubts about the Yemen war, but will Democrats find the courage to oppose it? The GOP’s fractures offer a chance to push for an anti-interventionist agenda....

Mar 28, 2025 / Jeet Heer

Official seal. Border says Federal Mediation & Conciliation Service. In the center a golden eagle perches on a pair of shaking hands against a blue background.

Donald Trump Is Shuttering a Little-Known Labor-Management Agency That Supports Collective Bargaining Donald Trump Is Shuttering a Little-Known Labor-Management Agency That Supports Collective Bargaining

The administration’s latest assault on independent agencies is also an attack on working people.

Mar 28, 2025 / Lynn Rhinehart

A Yemeni walks over the debris of a destroyed building after it was struck by US air strikes in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, March 24, 2025.

Bombing Yemen: Signalgate Deserves to Be a Major Scandal Bombing Yemen: Signalgate Deserves to Be a Major Scandal

But the assault on Yemeni civilians the hapless conspirators discussed in their private chat group is an even bigger disgrace—though so far the press haven’t paid much attention.

Mar 27, 2025 / Phyllis Bennis

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