Trump

The Boomerang Comes Back

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

  • Noura Erakat

The New MAGA Coalition

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

  • David Austin Walsh

Resisting Trump’s Immigration Machine

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

  • Lauren Carasik

The Real Economics of Visas and Tariffs

Setting the record straight.

  • Dean Baker

Blood Ties

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

  • Jeanne Morefield

Notes on Fighting Trumpism

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

  • Robin D. G. Kelley

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The Eighteenth Brumaire of Donald J. Trump

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

  • Peter E. Gordon

The Right Comes for Milwaukee

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

The False Promise of Opportunity Zones

Tax breaks for investors don’t help poor communities.

  • Timothy Weaver

Watergate’s Ironic Legacy

It has only gotten harder to hold presidents accountable.

  • Stuart Streichler

“The People Really Have the Power”

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

  • Noam Chomsky
  • David Barsamian

Where Trumpism Lives

Pro-Trump support remains driven by relatively well-off whites in fast-growing, diversifying suburbs—not by Rust Belt economic despair.

  • Jacob Whiton

The Fight Ahead

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

  • Bernard E. Harcourt

Against Returning to Normal

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

Biden Must Put Democracy First

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

Democracy Hangs in the Balance

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

  • Reed Hundt
  • Joshua Cohen

COVID-19 Provides All the More Reason to Tax the Rich

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

When Democracy Ails, Magic Thrives

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

  • Samuel Clowes Huneke

The Real Reason the GOP Suppresses the Vote

The party’s fifty-year strategy has reached an electoral dead end.

  • Yochai Benkler

Donald Trump, Our Prophet of Deceit

The Frankfurt School on the appeal of authoritarianism—and how to counteract it.

  • Charles H. Clavey

Toward a Global History of White Supremacy

The simultaneous success of Trump and Brexit was no coincidence.

  • Daniel Geary
  • Camilla Schofield
  • Jennifer Sutton

Democracy Is on the Ballot

Understanding Trump's strategy.

  • Reed Hundt
  • Joshua Cohen

Democracy for Losers

Some candidates who lose elections strengthen democracy, but others threaten the democratic system itself.

  • Jan-Werner Müller

An End to Totalitarianism

On the role government should play in times of crisis.

  • Samuel Clowes Huneke
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