Jacobin
- The Ultrarich Have Put a Price Tag on History
History belongs to everyone. But if governments continue to defund national galleries, they will ensure ancient artifacts can only be seen in luxury showrooms, displayed on the coffee tables of the wealthy, and worn by celebrities on the red carpet.
- The Left Is Rising, So Centrist Dems Are Cynically Woke Again
The Democratic establishment said it was getting rid of the grating, cynical style of wokeness it blamed for its 2024 loss to Donald Trump. Then the Left began winning primaries, and those same Democrats changed their tune.
- Socialists Aren’t Naive About Human Nature
Critics of socialism frequently charge that it rests on an overly optimistic view of human nature. The truth is that socialists want a system that guards against tendencies to greed and domination.
- Trump’s Authoritarian Architecture Begs for an Alternative
Donald Trump’s victory arch is so ugly and uninspired, so befitting his cynical, corrupt, tacky presidency, that it might actually offer us an opportunity to seriously consider something more befitting a just and democratic society.
- Trump and Mamdani Are Running Polar Opposite Bureaucracies
As the Trump administration saddles Americans with new administrative burdens to cut taxes for the rich, the Mamdani administration has made cutting red tape to free up benefits part of its governing agenda for New York.
Mother Jones
- The IRS Is Imploding
In many years of paying taxes, I’ve never had a problem with the IRS. So, I was surprised to receive a letter dated May 25 informing us that my husband and I owe lots more money than we had paid for our 2025 taxes—and of course interest and fines. After reviewing the somewhat cryptic letter,
- The History of the NEA Is the History of the Culture Wars
In 2020, four major museums were set to showcase the first retrospective of painter Philip Guston’s work in over 15 years. Spanning five decades, the Canadian American’s work responded to injustices in an ever-evolving style of painting. His art includes a series of paintings made during the ’60s that feature a cartoonish hooded Ku Klux
- Trump Administration Moves to Open American Samoa’s Waters to Deep-Sea Mining
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration is moving closer to opening up US waters for deep-sea mining—a contentious and largely untested industry focused on extracting mineral-rich deposits from the ocean floor containing cobalt, copper, nickel, and manganese. Last week, the Department of the Interior’s newly
- Records Reveal How Homeland Security Agents Surveilled ICE Protesters
Over the past year, ICE agents have scanned the faces of protesters, photographed their license plates, and collected samples of their DNA. But the agency hasn’t said how or where it’s storing that information. As President Donald Trump’s administration boosts its arsenal of surveillance technologies—and a growing number of Trump’s critics report unsettling experiences after
- She’s Charged With Killing Her Twins. The Anti-Vaccine Movement Made Her a Martyr.
In April 2025, Andrea and Nathaniel Shaw were the young parents of 18-month-old twin toddlers, a boy named Tyson and a girl named Dallas, and living in a mobile home in the small town of Payette, Idaho. The children had received routine vaccinations throughout their short lives, with the most recent ones near the end
The Progressive
- Data Center Issue Can Empower Rural Areas
Grassroots opposition to corporate hyperscale data center expansion has generated a rare moment when members of both parties seem unified with many voters.
- Enduring a Pregnancy in Gaza
The decimation of Gaza’s health care system and other effects of war have left many pregnant people in the enclave suffering and in pain.
- The Burning
Prisons in New Jersey and across the country are restricting what incarcerated people read and where their books come from.
Z Network
- Every Serb in His Own State: Beyond the Myth of Eternal Balkan Hatred
In his essay “Between Concealed Hatred and Open Quarrelling,” Nenad Kecmanović, a Bosnian Serb political scientist and former member of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s wartime collective presidency, offers a seductively simple account of history. According to this narrative, the Serbs created Yugoslavia twice and were betrayed on both occasions. Within the common state, and especially in
- Climate Overheating: A Story About Capitalism, Refugees, and the Working Class
Climate overheating is a story, and human survival depends on how we tell that story. It is a story about the ruling class, about the exploited, working masses, about organization and revolution. It is a story about capitalism, about unspeakable suffering, about politics, media, wealth and power. It is a story that Marxists will understand
- Ecosocialism Which Doesn’t Address Animal Agriculture Isn’t Serious
I was disappointed to learn the Building for Power campaign, put forward by the Green New Deal Campaign Commission of the Democratic Socialists of America, doesn’t seem to address the enormous environmental damage caused by animal agriculture. Building for Power focuses on four areas: energy, transit, housing, and public spaces. Unfortunately, our food system is
Occupy.com
- 'Abolish ICE' is the Moderate Position — We Need to Punish ICE
The tragic shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is just the latest example of ICE having a fundamental disrespect for human life — further proving why the agency should be stripped of funding and shut down, and its rank-and-file agents and leadership prosecuted.