Archive - Flux

Obsessed with dominating Iran through unmitigated violence, Trump channels age-old American pathologies

To derail and defeat Trump, we need a broader public awareness of how the president's sociopathy synergizes with long-standing, malevolent conceptions…

10 hrs ago • Jim Carroll

Is liberal Christianity making a comeback?

Alan Elrod on James Talarico and why the U.S. left needs to speak to all Americans

Apr 3 • Matthew Sheffield

56:29

Pam Bondi’s DOJ abandoned 23,000 criminal investigations in shift to immigration

Even investigations into fraud and abuse were dropped

Apr 2

Eddie Dalton isn’t real, but what does that mean?

Computer-generated soul music is taking over the internet, raising questions about where humans think art lives

Apr 2 • Matthew Sheffield

10:34

March 2026

Christian nationalists discuss praying to ‘kill’ political opponents and stop them ‘by any means necessary’

‘We want him crucified—with Christ,’ former Pete Hegseth pastor Brooks Potteiger says of Texas Democrat

Mar 31

What imagining aliens can teach us about philosophy of science

Particle physicist Daniel Whiteson on his new book, ‘Do Aliens Speak Physics?’

Mar 27 • Matthew Sheffield

1:07:11

Dobbs v. Jackson was just the beginning of the reactionary assault on women

Susan Rinkunas discusses the sprawling effort to eliminate birth control, abortion pills, and women’s rights as a whole

Mar 25 • Matthew Sheffield

46:58

As Trump's illegal attack on Iran goes sideways, Democrats must fight further war funding

The case for Democrats opposing budgetary support for more mayhem in the Middle East (and very possibly beyond) is overwhelming

Mar 22 • Jim Carroll

Women have remade adult media and some people are very upset about it

Siri Dahl on how new labor dynamics and AI have changed sex, porn, and dating

Mar 20 • Matthew Sheffield

1:04:10

Caving to the radical right’s cultural demands doesn’t work, but some Democrats keep wanting to do it anyway

A conversation about language, media, and politics

Mar 18 • Matthew Sheffield

1:19:36

Democrats are on an election win streak despite having a badly damaged brand, what’s going on?

David Atkins on the contradictory signals Americans are sending about Democrats and Donald Trump

Mar 16 • Matthew Sheffield

1:15:40

The women of QAnon

Author Noelle Cook on her book, The Conspiracists: Women, Extremism, and the Lure of Belonging

Mar 14 • Matthew Sheffield

1:10:48

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