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Tag: Trump

As people are being deputized to do violence, building connections is political resistance.

Judith Levine

From Trump to Milei, the far right is betting that spectacles of revenge will compensate for steep economic sacrifice.

Verónica Gago, William Callison

Conciliation only fuels Trump’s momentum and accelerates our constitutional decline.

Baher Azmy

Public science too often serves private profits, making it vulnerable to attacks like Trump’s.

Craig Spencer, Eric Reinhart

Trump’s plans for Gaza crystallize the dreams of empire.

Joelle M. Abi-Rached

Introducing our Winter 2025 issue.

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How the U.S.-backed war on Palestine is expanding authoritarianism at home—from Project Esther to violence at the border.

Noura Erakat

There are tensions in his motley coalition, but left-liberal fractures may be even worse.

David Austin Walsh

It faces serious obstacles, but the uncertainty and terror it has already unleashed is real—indeed, part of the point.

Lauren Carasik

Setting the record straight.

Dean Baker

Trump’s “invasion” narrative and the real story of pain in America.

Jeanne Morefield

To mobilize the abandoned working class, we need to revive the idea of solidarity.

Robin D. G. Kelley

The tragic reascent of Trump is not an anomaly to democracy but its fatal flaw.

Peter E. Gordon

Why did the blue city agree to host the Republican National Convention—and to suspend a hard-won police reform for its duration?

Rachel Ida Buff

Tax breaks for investors don’t help poor communities.

Timothy Weaver

It has only gotten harder to hold presidents accountable.

Stuart Streichler

Noam Chomsky on the Capitol coup attempt, 2020 unrest, and the Biden administration.

David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky

Support for pro-Trump Republicans remains driven by relatively well-off whites in fast-growing, rapidly diversifying suburbs—not by rural America.

Jacob Whiton

The Republican Party has become a white nationalist party. If old-fashioned politics can’t change that, we must consider alternatives.

Bernard E. Harcourt

Joe Biden positioned himself as the “return to normalcy” candidate. But normalcy is not something we can afford—we must actively resist it.

David Austin Walsh

Unless we bolster its foundations, our enfeebled democracy won’t be able to solve any of the daunting problems Biden has singled out as priorities.

Archon Fung

Part two of a conversation on voter turnout, vote counting, and what we can expect now. 

Reed Hundt, Joshua Cohen

Tax policies like New Jersey’s new Millionaires Tax are essential—not only for an equitable recovery, but also for reining in pre-pandemic inequality.

Mark Engler, Andrew Elrod

West German witchcraft trials after World War II reveal how political rupture can fuel magical thinking.

Samuel Clowes Huneke

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