Promiscuous Networks of Care
Two new books about the politics of love stress the importance of intimate relationships as part of organizing for a better world.
Rule by Contractor
DOGE is not about waste and efficiency—it’s about privatization.
Charging Down
Trump’s energy policy is hurting red states. Do they care?
The Trump Factor in the Middle East
Alternately belligerent, self-enriching, militaristic, and realist, Trump’s haphazard path is different from the establishment’s slow road to obliterating Gaza.
How to Throw a Measles Party to Remember
A MAHA mom’s guide
Trump’s Simple Racism
The real targets of the war on DEI include civil rights enforcement, federal outlays that serve Black communities, and Black workers in and out of government.
A Conversation With Randall Kennedy
How shall we redeem the deferred promise of civil rights and racial justice?
An Abundance of Credulity
They want abundance. But they ignore who profits most from scarcity.
Bubble Trouble
An AI bubble threatens Silicon Valley, and all of us.
The Blue State Power Index
We reviewed 17 states with Democratic trifectas to see what they did with that power.
How to Use Your Power
Blue states have many options for progress, if they commit to actually governing.
For a Left Nationalism
Trump’s ‘America First’ nightmare isn’t the only way to think about U.S. identity.
Cold War Kids
Apple’s hit show ‘Severance’ was originally about the class struggle; Season 2 stifles that in favor of corporate crisis management.
VA Research Funding Slashed
Though not as prominent as the NIH, VA researchers play a major role in advancing basic health science. Hundreds of projects have been cut.
