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Robert Kennedy’s bizarre obsession with ‘natural’ isn’t going to make Americans healthier

Failing to challenge Trump on immigration, Democrats have given MAGA free rein to redefine American identity

Democrats won’t release their 2024 election autopsy, here is ours

Richest 0.001 percent of people now have more wealth than poorest half of humanity

When Donald Trump attacks Somali immigrants, he attacks America

Web3 has been great for Republican billionaires—and awful for almost everyone else

Republicans actually do have healthcare proposals

In his second term, Trump’s threats against media and tech companies have gotten real results

Trump’s attacks on DEI in college admissions are likely to hurt men

GOP pirates of the Caribbean

Pleasure, pain, and why religion and science have justified women’s suffering

On the Internet No One Knows You’re a “MAGA patriot” in Lagos

Threatening to execute Democratic officials, Donald Trump tacitly acknowledges he can't beat them politically

Trump isn’t just attacking the Department of Education, he’s going after all public schools

A well-deserved victory for Jeffrey Epstein’s victims

Jeffrey Epstein and the ‘crisis of elite impunity’

Democratic performance in off-year elections demonstrates Trump and MAGA's weakness

How the American left became post-political, and how to change that

When it comes to privacy, low expectations become reality

Fascist podcaster Nick Fuentes proclaims victory over Republican rivals

3 key takeaways from Democrats’ big Election 2025 wins

As elite complicity with Trumpism grows, a revival of democracy will require a social reckoning

Democrats get lots of bad advice

Flailing Virginia governor candidate spends most of her money fearmongering about trans people

Tucker Carlson welcomes far-right activist Nick Fuentes into Republican politics

Disinformation belief is more about defying societal norms than preferring incorrect views

Science and democracy need each other

What Republicans Know

No Kings protests highlight crucial fight to delegitimize MAGA authoritarianism

Privileging refugee status for Afrikaners and Neo-Nazis, Trump administration flaunts its white supremacist core

Is No Kings the start of something bigger?

Millions turn out for No Kings rallies across America

Trumpism isn’t conservative, and saying this is still important

Democrats must make Trump's violence central to their case against him

What Charlie Kirk knew

Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment

User ban controversy reveals Bluesky’s decentralized aspiration isn’t reality

As Trumps targets Portland, the MAGA war on blue America turns increasingly literal

Trump’s shutdown strategy is far more radical than you know

Trump’s mass censorship is what far-right Republicans have always wanted

The Third Great Awakening

‘Abundance’ is neoliberalism redux

Triumph of the ill will

Far-right pastor brags that his Bible study class led to millions of Americans losing health insurance

Christian nationalist author hails Charlie Kirk killing as opportunity to repress ‘evil presence’ of liberals

To stop Trump’s authoritarianism, his opponents must understand and wield power

The Trump administration’s jihad against normal Americans will turn them against him

Why everyone wants a piece of ancient Egypt

Has liberalism become pathological?

AI models give bad answers because they have been unwittingly programmed to offer them

To beat MAGA violence, Democrats must warn the public about it as much as possible

With deranged meme about napalming Chicago, Trump dares Americans to stand up for each other

Vowing to defend his constituents, will J.B. Pritzker shame fellow Democrats into taking on Trump?

At televised cabinet meeting turned Trumpian lovefest, department heads cry the praises of dear leader

Beyond illicit intimidation, the specter of violence against citizens haunts Trump's troop deployments

Americans want big ideas, but Trump’s opponents aren’t providing them

Trump's D.C. clampdown is an affront to America, and Democrats should act like it

Leaning hard into lawless rule, Donald Trump leaves legitimacy behind

ChatGPT-5 and the end of naive AI futurism

As science faces external attacks, it needs to look within to defend and reform

Sending in troops against made-up mayhem, Trump plays little dictator in D.C.

Terrified Trump is slinging ‘zombie food’ to distract his base from Jeffrey Epstein

Sydney Sweeney and ‘Phantom Lib Syndrome’

Trump’s war on statisticians and the ‘liberal bias’ of reality

Lawless to the Max(well)

In an age of fictionalized reality, we need literary criticism more than ever

Project 2025 leader urges state Republicans to seize control of blue cities like Austin and Nashville

Government support for religion doesn’t make citizens more religious

Pseudo-populism meets fantasy in Trump administration’s efforts to re-write U.S. history

AI is not the main problem—how we use it can be

Why mediocrity seems to be the key to innovation in evolution and technology

As Oklahoma’s schools flounder, state superintendent asks PragerU for teacher purity test

Trump's war on immigration is also a war on American democracy and equality

Epstein, Grok, and the right’s epistemic collapse

Republicans treat politics like viral marketing, Democrats don’t

Bonus: MAGA conspiracists rage as Trump fails to deliver alleged Epstein evidence

Tupac Shakur and the political soul of hip-hop

Reactionary gender messages are poisoning children’s minds as parents and educators try to push back

The Authenticity Gap

With his pretty ugly bill, Trump's fake populism goes *pop*

Encore: Pentecostalism is taking over the world of Christianity

Why it matters that pluralism was the biggest innovation of the Renaissance

‘No Kings’ must be about more than brunch

GOP budget bill is trying to make historical preservation extinct

Trump’s colossal screwup in Iran

Majority of Trump supporters don’t support his big cuts to medical care

Ten years of Trumpism: America’s lost decade

The delusion of ‘Donald the Dove’ has been blown to bits

No Kings protests gave a needed morale boost to anti-Trump opposition

As Evangelicalism grows increasingly unhinged, where is Mormonism going?

Opponents of MAGA need to make Trump pay a huge price for his escalating violence

Trump’s ‘anti-Christian bias’ taskforce reveals its propagandistic agenda in first meeting

Trump to America: the U.S. Army is now MAGA's army

Manufacturing a crisis in California, Trump escalates his insurrection against the United States

America’s political divide is psychological, not ideological

Donald Trump’s ‘state of exception’ cracks down on California

Republican men see masculinity as under attack, but most Americans seem to disagree

Trump's war on American war fighters is a clear threat to national security

Hazel Grace on reinventing the American Dream

Can Democrats manufacture coolness?

The Grok 'White Genocide' Incident Shows How AI Can Become a Propaganda Machine

The right-wing wars on science and sex are linked

MAGA just can't quit embracing Germany's neo-Nazi party

Creationism, AI, and techno-oligarchy: Understanding the new age of pseudoscience

Chronicle of a dictatorship foretold

Trump begins to reap a backlash of his own making

As Hegseth flails, Democrats need to pin responsibility on the president who picked him

Trump's economic war on the world is based on a new Big Lie

MAGA's Wounded Masculinity

Extremist tariff regime is the latest phase of Trump's war on America

Trump administration responds to Signal chat scandal with menace, further incompetence

The ‘cancel culture’ myth was always about censoring the center-to-left

Trump's maple leaf rag sounds increasingly discordant

Trump and his allies threaten America as we know it, but they are acting from a position of weakness, not strength

Politicizing Science: The National Institutes for Health

The ‘Pick Me’ mindset and childhood trauma

Why does Trump want to help Putin conquer Ukraine?

Top right-wing think tank urges Trump to put federal workers into ‘re-education’

Department of Defense schools move to make military kids into test subjects for Trump-approved education

To accurately measure MAGA, use a Russian ruler

How badly is Trump shooting himself in the foot with his voters?

Abandoning Ukraine, endorsing neo-Nazis, and embracing Russia: MAGA's anti-democratic animus goes global

It’s All About Owning The Libs Now

The Tech Barons have a blueprint drawn in crayon. They have not thought any of this through.

Advocating for Nazi-inflected Alternative for Germany, JD Vance betrays America

It's a Crime Spree, Not a "Coup"

Liberalism’s epistemic crisis enabled Donald Trump’s victories

Memo to Democrats: Embrace conflict with Trump or face annihilation

‘We will not leave:’ Palestinians respond defiantly to Trump’s ethnic cleansing plans

Trump’s looming attack on higher education

Northern overexposure: Trump's dumb dreams of Greenlander pastures and Canadian statehood

The Apocalypse of Don: Trump, Nietzsche, and Antichrist America

Mass 1/6 pardons signal even greater lawlessness ahead

Trump won’t deliver for voters, but do Democrats actually want to defeat him?

With January 6 pardons, Trump shows us that his insurrection never stopped

Four suggestions for crashing Donald Trump's inauguration party

Vicious lies about L.A. fires expose key weakness for Trump and MAGA

Democrats encouraging compromise with MAGA GOP only help normalize right-wing extremism