Politics / February 20, 2026 The president wants you to know he had a Black friend, sort of. Ad Policy Donald Trump and Jesse Jackson on June 27, 1988. (Ron Galella / Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images) Donald Trump enjoys speaking ill of the dead. He is instinctively boorish and hates to be tied […]
Activism / February 19, 2026 Jackson’s lessons for today’s Democrats. Ad Policy Reverend Jesse Jackson addresses supporters in the lead-up to the 1988 Iowa Democratic Presidential Caucuses, on February 1, 1988. (Jean-Louis Atlan / Sygma via Getty Images) In 2000, I got to spend some intense hours with Jesse Jackson, when he and his son […]
Politics / StudentNation / February 18, 2026 As Trump continues to dismantle federal agencies, this state shows what happens when a one-party-controlled government makes sweeping public health changes with little resistance. Ad Policy A healthcare worker administers a Covid-19 vaccine at an Oklahoma County Health Department Vaccine Clinic. (Nick Oxford / Getty) This story was […]
Society / February 17, 2026 The network tried to bury an interview critical of Trump. Stephen Colbert made it an indictment of the administration’s assaults on the First Amendment. Ad Policy The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. (Scott Kowalchyk / CBS via Getty Images) Just a week after the centibillionaire owner of The Washington Post […]
Books & the Arts / February 16, 2026 Sunnyside Yard and the quest for affordable housing in New York Constructing new residential buildings, let alone those with rental units that New Yorkers can afford, is never an easy task. Ad Policy This article appears in the March 2026 issue. One of the most memorable promises […]
Politics / February 13, 2026 The administration’s sketchily funded Freedom 250 project, which will oversee the celebration of America’s semiquincentennial, is a pageant of right-wing extremism. Ad Policy A Freedom 250 insignia, alongside other tchotchkes signifying Trump clan dominance, at the US delegation headquarters during last month’s World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland (Theresa Münch/picture […]
Politics / Authoritarian Watch / February 13, 2026 Even conservatives are fleeing the GOP as more and more Americans turn against Trump’s authoritarian project. Ad Policy President Donald Trump departs after making an announcement in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 12, 2026. (Saul Loeb / AFP via Getty […]
Politics / February 13, 2026 But Tom Homan is a lying liar, and the work’s not done. Plus, Gallup’s sketchy new polling policy (is the analytics firm in the Trump tank?), the law for deepfakes, and more in this week’s Elie v. US. Ad Policy Demonstrators take part in an anti-ICE march in Minneapolis, Minnesota, […]
(Frank Hammerschmidt / Picture Alliance via Getty Images) Feature / February 12, 2026 Heidi Reichinnek rescued Die Linke and helped make the party into a political force. But can she beat back Germany’s ascendant far right? The co-leader of Die Linke helped rescue the party and make it into a political force. But can she […]
Politics / February 11, 2026 A Washington, DC, panel rejected Jeanine Pirro’s lame attempt to indict six Democratic Congresspersons merely for reminding military and intelligence officials to obey the law. Ad Policy US Attorney Jeanine Pirro asked a grand jury to indict six Democratic Congresspersons, all military veterans, who recorded an ad reminding their military […]
