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As people are being deputized to do violence, building connections is political resistance.
From Trump to Milei, the far right is betting that spectacles of revenge will compensate for steep economic sacrifice.
Conciliation only fuels Trump’s momentum and accelerates our constitutional decline.
Public science too often serves private profits, making it vulnerable to attacks like Trump’s.
Trump’s plans for Gaza crystallize the dreams of empire.
How the U.S.-backed war on Palestine is expanding authoritarianism at home—from Project Esther to violence at the border.
There are tensions in his motley coalition, but left-liberal fractures may be even worse.
It faces serious obstacles, but the uncertainty and terror it has already unleashed is real—indeed, part of the point.
To mobilize the abandoned working class, we need to revive the idea of solidarity.
The tragic reascent of Trump is not an anomaly to democracy but its fatal flaw.
Why did the blue city agree to host the Republican National Convention—and to suspend a hard-won police reform for its duration?
Tax breaks for investors don’t help poor communities.
It has only gotten harder to hold presidents accountable.
Noam Chomsky on the Capitol coup attempt, 2020 unrest, and the Biden administration.
Support for pro-Trump Republicans remains driven by relatively well-off whites in fast-growing, rapidly diversifying suburbs—not by rural America.
The Republican Party has become a white nationalist party. If old-fashioned politics can’t change that, we must consider alternatives.
Joe Biden positioned himself as the “return to normalcy” candidate. But normalcy is not something we can afford—we must actively resist it.
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.
Part two of a conversation on voter turnout, vote counting, and what we can expect now.
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.
West German witchcraft trials after World War II reveal how political rupture can fuel magical thinking.
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