Social Justice

‘Fund the Police’ Backfired — and Gave Trump More Power Than Ever

In the past four years, mainstream Democrats have: nominated a former prosecutor for president; elected an ex-NYPD officer to run New York City; campaigned on deporting more people; funneled...

Don’t Panic

The following story is co-published with Freddie deBoer’s Substack. Look, the reelection of Donald Trump is bad news. A lot...

The Billion-Dollar Tumble

Kamala Harris’ devastating loss to Donald Trump was a catastrophic failure for the Democratic Party and the consultant...

Threats to the First Amendment in the Age of Trump

I thought I was done with free speech. For nearly two decades, I reported on it for the...

A Moment for Determination, Not Fatalism

When some leading thinkers at the London School of Economics saw fascism take hold in the 1930s, Oxford...

Trump’s Army of Social Vigilantes Are Ready To Exact Their Revenge

It was a little after 1 a.m. when I left the Real News Network studio in downtown Baltimore. Our team spent the whole night there, anxiously watching election results roll...

The Billion-Dollar Belly Flop

Kamala Harris’s devastating loss to Donald Trump last week was a catastrophic failure for the Democratic Party and the consultant class that has long...

Activists Call on House To Stop Bill Enabling GOP Attack on Nonprofits

The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote soon on legislation that would further empower President-elect Donald Trump, who won a new term last week...

Texas Will Be on the ‘Front Lines’ of Mass Deportation

This article was originally published by the Texas Observer, a nonprofit investigative news outlet and magazine. Sign up for its weekly newsletter, or follow it on Facebook and X. In...

A New Wave of Movements Against Trumpism Is Forming

For many of us, the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump’s decisive electoral victory has been a time of deep despair and mourning. There has...

The Real Lesson

A political disaster such as what occurred Tuesday gains significance not simply by virtue of who won or lost, but by how the election...