If Democrats Won’t Shut Down the Government, Trump Will
Congress is moving to avoid another lapse in funding, but a freeze in welfare support to blue states shows what’s missing in the debate.
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The Democratic Base Is Social Democratic
Deregulated capitalism made it that way.
Elon Musk’s Deepfake Factory
Musk’s chatbot will now create sexualized images of people on cue.
bringing context to venezuela
What if Trump Pulls This Off?
There are indications that the administration has cut a deal with Venezuela’s Vice President and acting President Delcy Rodríguez.
Monetizing Regime Change
It is trivially easy for administration officials to use prediction markets to bet on the policies they authorize. We may have just seen it in Venezuela.
The $30 Billion Identity Theft of Venezuela
How Juan Guaidó sucked a weary nation dry, and primed it for the current U.S.-led assault
Bush Walked So Trump Could Run Into Venezuela
George W. Bush’s foreign policy wasn’t an aberration, but it was the moment where America began to drunkenly bumble its way through unipolarity.
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The Narco-Terrorist Elite
Why is Marco Rubio so hell-bent on making Iran-Contra again?
Marco Rubio’s Sales Pitch: War in Venezuela
Right-wing exiles in South Florida want regime change. Rubio is selling it with a false narrative about drug trafficking.
FROM THE MAGAZINE
The $79 Trillion Heist
We’re in an affordability crisis because workers aren’t being paid at the same levels they earned in the past.
Selling the Poor on Spending Like They’re Rich
How plutonomy, premiumization, and social media squeeze the middle class
Sources of America’s Hidden Inflation
How market power jacks up prices, and how Trump’s policies add to the pressure
In Case You Missed It
Trump’s Cargo Cult Imperialism in Venezuela
Stealing their oil is lunacy, but that won’t stop him from trying.
Is the Supreme Court Fed Up With Trump?
Let’s hope the ruling blocking National Guard deployment is the beginning of a trend.
The Most Interesting Primary of 2026
The three-way race for Michigan’s open U.S. Senate seat between Haley Stevens, Mallory McMorrow, and Abdul El-Sayed mirrors the larger jockeying for power in the Democratic Party.
Six Important Stories for 2026
This year, there’s a built-in understanding of the stakes, and opportunities to take back the country from its malefactors.
Enter, Stage Left, Mayor Mamdani
Rather than tell his fellow New Yorkers to lower their expectations of what government could do, the city’s new mayor vowed that “the only expectation I seek to reset is that of small expectations.”
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The Fossil Fuel Empire Strikes Back
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‘Cadillac Desert’ Reconsidered
Marc Reisner’s 1986 book demonstrates how a hypertrophic judiciary combines with America’s deadlocked legislature to make vast swaths of Western water policy dependent on 19th-century legal norms.
The Hit Hollywood Didn’t Want
Ryan Coogler’s bloodsucker blockbuster is all about Black creative freedom. No wonder the industry saw it as a threat.
The Internet’s Tollbooth Operators
Tim Wu’s The Age of Extraction chronicles the way Big Tech platforms have turned against their users.
