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Former US president Donald Trump greets US Senator and vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance as they attend their first campaign rally together.

Why JD Vance Is Unpopular and Project 2025 Has Gone Underground Why JD Vance Is Unpopular and Project 2025 Has Gone Underground

The Heritage Foundation’s attempt to produce an intellectual and wonkish Trumpism turns off voters.

Aug 9, 2024 / Jeet Heer

South Sudan War

The War in Sudan Is Causing Mass Starvation The War in Sudan Is Causing Mass Starvation

If we don’t start paying a lot more attention to it soon—as in right now—it’s going to be too late. 

Aug 9, 2024 / Stan Cox and Priti Gulati Cox

The US Military Is Still Not Taking Suicide Prevention Seriously

The US Military Is Still Not Taking Suicide Prevention Seriously The US Military Is Still Not Taking Suicide Prevention Seriously

The unanticipated toll of suicides by troops and veterans has become another Pentagon failure.

Aug 7, 2024 / Nick Turse

A CCTV surveillance camera watches the Olympic crowds with a statue of the Grand Palais Olympic site in the background in Paris on July 22, 2024.

The Olympics Have Turned Paris Into a Panopticon The Olympics Have Turned Paris Into a Panopticon

The omnipresent high-tech surveillance introduced for the Games normalizes incursions on civil liberties.

Jul 31, 2024 / Jules Boykoff and Dave Zirin

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks during a news conference with House Democrats to announce the reintroduction of the Medicare for All Act, outside the US Capitol on May 17, 2023, in Washington, DC.

What Happens to American Healthcare After November? What Happens to American Healthcare After November?

While Trump’s platform is a serious threat, Harris’s remains uncertain.

Jul 31, 2024 / Adam Gaffney

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Letters: Writing About Science Letters: Writing About Science

Readers disagree with criticism of recent opinion pieces in The New York Times about the origins of Covid-19 and the public health response to it.

Jul 31, 2024 / Our Readers, Gregg Gonsalves, and John P. Moore

Enemy of progress: Linkedin founder Reid Hoffman at the Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho.

Kamala Harris Needs to Put Arrogant Plutocratic Donors in Their Place Kamala Harris Needs to Put Arrogant Plutocratic Donors in Their Place

Wealthy centrists are already pressuring Democrats to give up their progressive achievements.

Jul 29, 2024 / Jeet Heer

President Joe Biden is returning to the White House after a COVID isolation period in Delaware

Why Covid Keeps Winning Why Covid Keeps Winning

We didn’t learn a thing.

Jul 29, 2024 / Gregg Gonsalves and Walker Bragman

Workers digging a hole to install a cable

Working-Class Americans Prefer a “Hand Up” to a “Handout” Working-Class Americans Prefer a “Hand Up” to a “Handout”

Working- and middle-class Americans take pride in their work. If Democrats want to win their votes, they need to acknowledge and appeal to that pride, not dismiss or patronize it....

Jul 23, 2024 / Column / Erica Etelson

Reflected on a mirror, then–Vice President Joe Biden speaks during an event to unveil a report with analysis related to Recovery Act investments in innovation, science, and technology on August 24, 2010, at the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC.

The Democrats Have a Two-Biden Problem The Democrats Have a Two-Biden Problem

And so does the president. As he decides his future, Joe Biden has to come to terms with the war within himself.

Jul 19, 2024 / Jeet Heer

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