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Eric Adams, mayor of New York City, speaks at a press conference on February 8, 2024.

Eric Adams Is the Lying Face of the Campus Crackdown Eric Adams Is the Lying Face of the Campus Crackdown

New York’s mayor is the right man for the job of standing up for the indefensible.

May 3, 2024 / Jeet Heer

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange (L) and former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan (R)

If Joe Biden Really Wants to Celebrate Press Freedom, He Should Free Julian Assange If Joe Biden Really Wants to Celebrate Press Freedom, He Should Free Julian Assange

Joe Biden will celebrate World Press Freedom Day tomorrow. But it is a safe bet that he'll have nothing to say about Assange or Imran Khan, both behind bars for defying the US.

May 2, 2024 / Charles Glass

Rep. Pramila Jayapal at a press conference on the upcoming debt limit in Washington, DC

Despairing? Here’s a Bold, Populist, Popular, and Progressive Domestic Agenda for 2025 and Beyond. Despairing? Here’s a Bold, Populist, Popular, and Progressive Domestic Agenda for 2025 and Beyond.

How the Congressional Progressive Caucus is driving the center of the Democratic Party in a new direction.

Apr 29, 2024 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

The Crackdown on Campus Protests Is Happening Everywhere

The Crackdown on Campus Protests Is Happening Everywhere The Crackdown on Campus Protests Is Happening Everywhere

Across the US, pro-Palestine students have faced repression, suspension, and arrest. We asked more than a dozen students to share how their schools have restricted the right to pr...

Apr 26, 2024 / StudentNation / StudentNation

Representative Summer Lee (D-PA), speaks during a rally in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on April 21, 2024.

Summer Lee Proves That “Opposing Genocide Is Good Politics and Good Policy” Summer Lee Proves That “Opposing Genocide Is Good Politics and Good Policy”

Last week, the Pennsylvania representative voted against unconditional military aid for Israel. This week, she won what was supposed to be a tough primary by an overwhelming margi...

Apr 24, 2024 / John Nichols

Pro-DACA protest

Without Expanded DACA Protections, Undocumented Students Are Being Left Behind Without Expanded DACA Protections, Undocumented Students Are Being Left Behind

Around 80 percent of the nearly 120,000 undocumented students who graduated high school in 2023 don’t qualify for DACA.

Apr 24, 2024 / StudentNation / Lajward Zahra

Sarah Lloyd works on her farm in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin

Here’s What a 21st-Century Rural New Deal Looks Like Here’s What a 21st-Century Rural New Deal Looks Like

A strategy for building a rural-urban working-class coalition.

Apr 23, 2024 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Trump leaving court

Is Donald Trump on Drugs? If Not, He Should Be. Is Donald Trump on Drugs? If Not, He Should Be.

His true addiction explains the president’s doziness.

Apr 22, 2024 / Jeet Heer

Police patrol outside Columbine High School on April 17, 2019 in Littleton, Colorado, the site of the deadly school shooting in 1999.

25 Years After the Columbine Massacre, Is There Any Hope to End America’s Epidemic of Gun Violence? 25 Years After the Columbine Massacre, Is There Any Hope to End America’s Epidemic of Gun Violence?

With the National Rifle Association now weaker than it has been in decades, progress is possible—if politicians are willing to seize the time.

Apr 19, 2024 / Peter Dreier

Woman walks by photo of Iranian missiles

Joe Biden Is Destroying His Own Foreign Policy by Giving Israel Impunity Joe Biden Is Destroying His Own Foreign Policy by Giving Israel Impunity

World / April 19, 2024 Joe Biden Is Destroying His Own Foreign Policy by Giving Israel Impunity The administration’s blatant double standard demonstrates that the new “liberal…

Apr 19, 2024 / Jeet Heer

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