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Zohran Mamdani and the Politics of Joy
by Katrina vanden Heuvel
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The War on the UAW
by Ella Fanger
UAW president Shawn Fain at a rally in Philadelphia in 2024. (Laura Brett / Sipa USA via AP Images)
Over the past few years, the United Auto Workers, a union representing workers at auto plants, aerospace manufacturers, uni...
What J.M. Coetzee Can Teach Us About ICE
The world inside the South African novelist’s “Waiting for the Barbarians” bears striking resemblance to Trump’s racist empire.
by Pamela Newton
Protecting War Criminals Is As American as Apple Pie
U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Mar-a-Lago on December 29, 2025.
New Jersey made a mistake. Well, more accurately, software used by New Jersey’s Department of Motor Vehicles made a mistake....
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Founded by abolitionists in 1865. Committed to progressive journalism.
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architecture critic at The Nation and essayist
Bhaskar Sunkara is the president of The Nation magazine and the founding editor of Jacobin.
Author of Allow Me to Retort and Bad Law. Class: PLD. Alignment: Neutral Good Str:12 Dex:8 Con:15 Int:13 Wis:10 Char:14
Jules Boykoff is the author of "Red Card: The 2026 World Cup, Sportswashing, and the FIFA Greed Machine" (OR Books, 2026) and "Kicking," a memoir (Duke University Press, 2026). He teaches political science at Pacific University.
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