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Letters From the April 2025 Issue Letters From the April 2025 Issue

Come gather ’round, people… Constitutional machinations… Executive removal (online only)…

Mar 11, 2025 / Our Readers and Eric Foner

Can Zohran Mamdani Really Win?

Can Zohran Mamdani Really Win? Can Zohran Mamdani Really Win?

The socialist New York City mayoral candidate has galvanized support with an energetic, creative campaign. Will it be enough?

Mar 11, 2025 / Grace Byron

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk leaves a meeting with House Republicans in the basement of the US Capitol on March 5, 2025, in Washington, DC.

Elon, Phone Home! Your Businesses Are Imploding. Elon, Phone Home! Your Businesses Are Imploding.

While the billionaire messes, illegally, with our federal agencies, no one seems to be minding his store.

Mar 10, 2025 / Joan Walsh

Biden Pentagon

Democrats May Denounce Trump, but Their Militarism Paved His Way Democrats May Denounce Trump, but Their Militarism Paved His Way

Democrats in Congress have long denounced Trump as an enemy of democracy, but they haven’t put any sort of brake on American militarism.

Mar 10, 2025 / Norman Solomon

Elon Musk at the first Trump cabinet meeting.

The Cossacks Work for the Czar—and Musk Works for Trump The Cossacks Work for the Czar—and Musk Works for Trump

The president’s narcissistic management style is at the root of cabinet infighting.

Mar 10, 2025 / Jeet Heer

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY (L) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) speaks at a press conference to introduce the Stop The Steal Act at the U.S. Capitol on February 04, 2025 in Washington, DC.

The Failures Democrats Must Confront The Failures Democrats Must Confront

The party is not in inevitable decline, but it is in crisis.

Mar 10, 2025 / Jee Kim and Waleed Shahid

Putin’s Puppy Love

Putin’s Puppy Love Putin’s Puppy Love

Trump sells out Ukraine and the United States.

Mar 10, 2025 / OppArt / Leonard Stokes

Person walking by a store. A sign readers

How Trump Plans to Manipulate US Economic Data to Gaslight the Public How Trump Plans to Manipulate US Economic Data to Gaslight the Public

The president and his GOP cronies want to tamper with government statistics and use deceptive budget gimmicks to lie about the impact of their massive tax and budget cuts.

Mar 10, 2025 / Sam Gustin

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris attend the inauguration ceremony of Donald Trump in the US Capitol Rotunda on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC.

Why Democrats Are Losing My Generation Why Democrats Are Losing My Generation

Hint: It’s not because they didn’t go on Joe Rogan.

Mar 10, 2025 / Joshua A. Cohen

The Cruel World According to Stephen Miller

The Cruel World According to Stephen Miller The Cruel World According to Stephen Miller

How did he become the Trump era’s architect of hate? 

Mar 10, 2025 / Books & the Arts / David Klion

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