In Trump v. CASA, the court hands the president yet more unaccountable authority—and yanks us into a neo-Confederate legal ...

The legendary journalist believed that speaking truth to power was the essential underpinning of an embattled American ...

Transactional is perhaps generous. Trump doesn’t engage with NATO as a coalition of democratic equals but rather as a ...

Mamdani won by uplifting and uniting some of New York City’s most forgotten voters. His coalition now has a chance to ...

In a rebuke to cynical Democratic insiders and the New York Times editorial page, voters backed a democratic socialist for ...

The court’s ruling in Medina v. Planned Parenthood twists logic, common sense, and the law to further the right-wing assault ...

First, they prevented any Chagossians who had left on vacation or for medical treatment from returning home. Next, they cut ...

In Eugene, Oregon, CAHOOTS, a decades-old crisis-response program, may disappear, but the programs it inspired have spread ...

—the kind of journalism that holds the powerful to account and helps build alternatives to the world we live in now. We have ...

A vote for Zohran Mamdani is a vote against the Democratic Party’s reactionary center and for a more hopeful future.

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Mamdani understood what the people who tried to demonize him did not: that voters aren’t buying the same old smears about ...