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Organizing on the DL

Amber A’Lee Frost

July 04, 2018

There are a lot of things you can do to fight ICE that would be less likely to expose you or your loved ones to surveillance.

The Last Temptation of Paul Schrader

Sam Thompson

July 04, 2018

The actor is powerless, caught in a net of deceit. Here we are again: predestination and grace.

No Really, You Don’t Need a Weatherman

The Nostalgia Trap

July 03, 2018

The Nostalgia Trap podcast, hosted by David Parsons and produced by Peter Sabatino, features weekly conversations about history and politics with some of the left’s most incisive thinkers, writers, and extremely online personalities, exploring how individual lives intersect ...

Projections of Melania

Tom Carson

July 02, 2018

The left’s most persistent—and giddiest—Melania fantasy: that she’s secretly one of us, can’t stand Trump either, and will go rogue one glorious day.

The Border and the American Imagination

Michelle García

July 02, 2018

“Immigration crisis” ignores the fact that “fighting Mexicans” is essential to the construction of the United States and its identity—and the culture of violence it celebrates.

American Jekyll, American Hyde

Jonathon Sturgeon

June 29, 2018

How the civility police attempt to make us partners in Trump's politics of chaos and domination.

Reimagining the Middle Class

Ann Neumann

June 26, 2018

We need to reimagine what it means to be successful, what it means to be middle class.

They Want New Blood

Nathan Taylor Pemberton

June 25, 2018

Is the Suraj Patel campaign offering progressive politics as sanitized global design?

Out of Sight, Out of Our Minds

Ed Burmila

June 20, 2018

The people in Australia's island detention facilities have been exploited at every turn. They're a model of where we're headed.

On the Way to Mexico’s Vote

Joseph Huff-Hannon

June 19, 2018

The coming July 1 election has brought out fake TV ads, robocalls, and a leading populist candidate.

Writing Attica’s History

The Nostalgia Trap

June 19, 2018

The 100th episode of The Nostalgia Trap with Heather Ann Thompson, author of "Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy."

Can Liberals Give Peace a Chance?

Max B. Sawicky

June 18, 2018

There is no threat to the U.S. for the simple reason that all parties understand that any use of nuclear weapons would invite total destruction. Deterrence is a given.