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Jun 9
Happy birthday to America! Our July/August issue, celebrating 250 years of our country, is live today. It's a packed issue, featuring pieces by @BernieSanders, @ZohranKMamdani, @Janefonda, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and many more of our best thinkers. Subscribe to read the whole issue
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Sep 12, 2025
Charlie Kirk was an unrepentant racist, transphobe, homophobe, and misogynist who often wrapped his bigotry in Bible verses because there was no other way to pretend that it was morally correct.
Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
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Sep 13, 2025
Charlier Kirk was an unrepentant racist, transphobe, homophobe, and misogynist who often wrapped his bigotry in Bible verses because there was no other way to pretend that it was morally correct.
Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
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Jan 7, 2021
“This is not America,” a woman said to a small group, her voice shaking. “They’re shooting at us. They’re supposed to shoot BLM, but they’re shooting the patriots.”
Madness on Capitol Hill
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Nov 22, 2023
The Harvard Law Review refused to run this piece about genocide in Gaza. The piece was nearing publication when the journal decided against publishing it. You can read the article here:
The “Harvard Law Review” Refused to Run This Piece About Genocide in Gaza
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Mar 2, 2020
We have an announcement! bit.ly/32Hy2z2
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Feb 13, 2019
By a stunning 30-point margin, millennials support a Green New Deal. bit.ly/2DvYQpO
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Nov 17, 2023
Israeli security forces have admitted to deliberately threatening and outing queer Palestinians as a tactic to intimidate them into working as informants. bit.ly/47xPtCZ
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Jul 11, 2025
The results are in, and it's now official: Zohran Mamdani won more votes than any NYC Democratic mayoral primary candidate ever.
Zohran Mamdani Is Making History. When Will Top Democrats Catch On?
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Jul 27, 2018
A "tender age" six-year-old girl was forced to sign this document after being sexually abused in an immigrant detention center while separated from her mother. bit.ly/2NLgR6Q
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Sep 13, 2025
There is no requirement to take part in the campaign to whitewash Charlie Kirk’s reputation, and refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”
Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
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Mar 18, 2020
Student debt cancellation would boost GDP by up to $108 billion a year and would add up to 1.5 million jobs per year.
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Now Is the Time to Cancel Student Debt
Maintaining the persistent burden of student debt is a recipe for economic disaster for millions of everyday people.
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Jul 14, 2024
Political violence is abhorrent. But, as Trump and his supporters work to shape yesterday’s vile assassination attempt into a martyr narrative, let us not forget that he has been this country’s biggest cheerleader for political violence this past decade. bit.ly/4cBLWpJ
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Jun 4, 2021
AMLO Has Been a Disappointment to the World—For Mexico, He’s Been Far Worse bit.ly/3pjYPwF