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The C-word that can save Democrats
FREE FOR ALL: How to compete with the right-wing meaning-making media machine
The meaning of MAGA’s visa schism
FREE FOR ALL: The Musk-Trump endgame
ICYMI: Hope in dark times with Rebecca Solnit
Michael Cohen and I talk about Elon, Donald, and the rise of “paramonetary forces”
How to fight an epidemic of bad faith
Drone panic, trans reality, do things: Weekend Reads for December 21, 2024
The billionaire war on Christmas
How to get Americans to care about human rights
SPEAK UP: Enshittification Nation
Give the gift of The Ink…merch!
A legal insider on Trump’s early assaults on the press
Trials and tribulations, signs and wonders
RIFFS: The White House Christmas emails, leaked
Hurry and protect your data from Trump
SPEAK UP: Your healthcare war stories
An honest conversation about American anger
Radical grace and the fight for racial justice
Can the media survive Trump 2.0?
What healing has to do with justice
FREE FOR ALL: Faiz Shakir on the future of the Democratic Party
The Democratic Party will change or die
RIFFS: The presidential turkeys hold a press conference
Ruth Ben-Ghiat on resistance versus resilience
Is “wokeness” enabling inequality?
REAL TALK: I said “feminists.” Some men heard “feminized”
Political foreplay -- and other hot topics
RIFFS: Self-help books for the Trump era
Building solidarity, defying chaos, reasons to be thankful: Weekend reads for November 23, 2024
It's not Democrats who need to stop talking about trans people
Overthrow the donor class. And the consultants, too
FREE FOR ALL: Are we at war with Russia?
Democracy is a marriage. Do we need a divorce -- or therapy?
SPEAK UP: Can Democrats speak to all of us — not each of us?
ICYMI: Be vigilant. Keep perspective
SPEAK UP: Name an uncomfortable truth
The things we can change: Weekend reads for November 16, 2024
The deeper meaning of Trump's appointments
Why immigrants defected to Trump
How to save the planet under Trump
RIFFS: The arsonist-to-firefighter administration
Building group power to push back against Trump 2.0
SPEAK UP: Tell me something good
Look within. Reach across. Anchor down
How to compete with the right-wing meaning-making media machine
Can good policy compete with fascism?
Hope in dark times, reinventing the fight for democracy, being there for each other
A pep talk about defending democracy
What actually happened? And where do we go from here? Weekend reads for November 9, 2024
What James Brown would tell Democrats
The university after the election
SPEAK UP: How did the election change your mind?
Welcome to the rebuilding years
Noam Chomsky on the responsibility to act against fascism
Revolutionizing care, fighting fascists, keeping hope alive: Weekend reads for November 2, 2024
Tonight, Kamala Harris shoots her "bank shot" to save democracy
Tech is a religion. It needs a reformation
A small man’s big bet on male insecurity
Cuba in the dark, culture wars, political science: Weekend reads for October 26, 2024
Five things Harris — and you — can do to close the deal
Can Harris win enough men back from Trump's fascism?
Blind justice, ballot-box terror, undecided hobbits: Weekend reads for October 19, 2024
A video to share with the undecideds and the apathetic
Do you want your healthcare from Spotify?
The future will not be interrupted
Winning back democracy's jilted lovers
Brand-new Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu on how democracy can prevail
Spineless Ivies, climate fantasy, Marilyn: Weekend reads for October 12, 2024
Kamala Harris’s big policy proposal is care
FREE FOR ALL: The new math on climate change
Is the internet inherently illiberal?
Slave states, anticipatory obedience, here come the floods: Weekend reads for October 5, 2024
SPEAK UP: The election homestretch
Fighting for abortion rights in a sick democracy
Where does proxy war end -- and World War III begin?
Malcolm Gladwell’s ideas, rural America’s fortunes, restarting Three Mile Island
Research fraudsters, robot gamblers, bad apples: Weekend reads for September 28, 2024
The island where three apocalypses meet
ICYMI: A warning for America, in a play about Sri Lanka
Covid's origins, Vance's lies, animal crackers: Weekend reads for September 21, 2024
Immigrants. Make. America. Great
“Democracy is fragile”: A warning for America, in a play about Sri Lanka
AUDIO EDITION: What immigrants do eat
Get out and check your voter status
How tech could actually make things better
The Rwanda playbook in Springfield, Ohio
How to answer an assassination attempt
UNBURDENED: Mary Ziegler on the fight for abortion freedoms
Don't go to Mars, chatbots for good, elite terrorism: Weekend reads for September 14, 2024
The little-known first draft of Project 2025
November is just the beginning
Kamala won by being all the things
Sarah Smarsh on the return of prairie populism
The end of Google as we know it?
R.O. Kwon on writing in the age of A.I.
Lunch money, voting from space, make your own prescriptions: Weekend reads for September 7, 2024
UNBURDENED: How Harris can regulate A.I.
Is America Israel's "underminer"?
Raising kids in the midst of a revolution
Putting the “labor” back in Labor Day
Purity tests, care’s future, press failures: Weekend reads for August 31, 2024
SPEAK UP: Kamala Harris and Tim Walz meet the press
American democracy needs an organizing renaissance
Wanna be free? Break up Google
UNBURDENED: How Harris can have unions’ back
Biden stepped back from neoliberalism. Will Harris follow suit?
UNBURDENED: How Harris could get China right
DNC diary, the big party in Chicago, the brat pack rises: Weekend reads for August 24, 2024
SPEAK UP: What are your 2024 convention takeaways?
The five words Democrats are reclaiming
The importance of being of Tim Walz
DNC day two recap: The Obamas revise their mantra
Democrats are finally throwing the better party
The public convention -- and the private one
The rise of the "Brat Pack" — and a new Democratic political style
SPEAK UP: What should the Harris-Walz platform be?
UNBURDENED: How a nation of immigrants should fix the border
How women became America's safety net
UNBURDENED: How Harris could forge a post-neoliberal U.S. foreign policy
UNBURDENED: How Harris could take on student debt and educational access
SPEAK UP: Who owns masculinity?
Two stories of America that merge in Kamala Harris
The new identity politics, bird smarts, healing Gaza's children: Weekend Reads for August 3, 2024
How to put autocrats out of business
Kamala Harris takes charge, what the Olympics mean, wage theft: Weekend reads for July 27, 2024
Speaking truths and making them real
Pride, shame, and what Democrats must say to rural Americans
These recipes didn't just fall out of a coconut tree
NOTEBOOK: Harris' stirring debut
Back in the news: Mayflower mouth
Judith Butler on the authoritarian war on gender
Freedom singers, rideshare mafia, seeing without believing: Weekend reads for July 20, 2024
What should have been said after the Trump shooting
Waiting on the World to Change
SPEAK UP: Can unity grow toxic?
What happened to the Republican Party?
Life on Mars, dance of death, property is theft: Weekend reads for July 13, 204
OPEN THREAD: Biden, aging, and us
Laid off? Yowei Shaw is here to help
Pete Buttigieg on how bridges fight fascism
FULL AUDIO: Senator Chris Murphy live with The Ink
The looming choice for Biden, the Democrats, and America
Reminder: Live event with Chris Murphy — today
Biden’s choice: Fight, flight, or freeze
Rewriting the fairy tale of capitalism
Presidential power, revolutionary trolling, doing what you love: Weekend reads for July 6, 2024
Special event: Join us live with Senator Chris Murphy
How the imperial presidency was built
Silk Road cycling, pigeon prejudice, radioactive rhinos: Weekend reads for June 29, 2024
FULL AUDIO: Rep. Pramila Jayapal on the progressives and Biden
How to fix a bankrupt bankruptcy system
FREE FOR ALL: Chris Murphy on America's enduring gun problem
The summer of changing everything: Weekend reads for June 22, 2024
FREE FOR ALL: Rep. Pramila Jayapal's blunt advice for Joe Biden
FULL AUDIO: Dr. Vivek Murthy on loneliness and social media
An ally's blunt advice to Biden
A warning label for social media?
Utopias and dystopias, propaganda, and memory holes: Weekend reads for June 15, 2024
FULL AUDIO: Heather McGhee on reparations, Trump, and making meaning
How to get started when it feels like the world is ending
FREE FOR ALL: Noam Chomsky on voting for Joe Biden and not stopping there — and his own legacy
Before you vote third party, read this
Grifts, scams, payoffs, and power: Weekend reads for June 8, 2024
FULL AUDIO: Naomi Klein on Gaza, Biden, and how the right steals the left’s causes
ICYMI: Naomi Klein on doppelgangers, fascism, Gaza and Biden
INTERVIEW: Naomi Klein on Gaza and Israel, the use and misuse of trauma, and Biden’s future
Judge David S. Tatel on blindness and justice
ICYMI: Naomi Klein on how the left creates the vacuum that the right fills
INTERVIEW: Naomi Klein on how the left creates the vacuum that the right fills
Justice is served: Weekend reads for June 1, 2024
PODCAST: Lina Khan on trust busting as freedom
Lina Khan: Trust busting as freedom
Trump, Biden, and the “meaning making” gap
FREE FOR ALL: Legal scholar David Kaye explains the ICC arrest warrants
Climate change just became solvable because of math
On listening, remembering, and democracy: Weekend reads for May 25, 2024
SPEAK UP: Memorial Day open thread
PODCAST: Mehdi Hasan on why the media should endorse democracy
Trustbusting is as American as apple pie
A principled solution to protest at Wesleyan
ICYMI: Mehdi Hasan speaks out (and you can listen)
Mehdi Hasan: The media should pick a side — democracy
TFW Michael Cohen's the one asking the questions
Eddie Glaude: For democracy to work, we must become better people
Can Biden become the meaning-maker-in-chief?
"Care" is the big idea that can unite, and transform, the country
SPEAK UP: What do you see in this ad?
The university president who doesn't fear his students, but won't pander to them
What universities owe students, politics and perception, and May Day: Weekend reads for May 4, 2024
Heather McGhee on reparations as "seed capital," Trump and Biden as "meaning makers," and more
SPEAK UP: Campus protests and the challenge of changing the world
On civil disobedience, campus protests, and American history
A new manifesto for a just society
NOTEBOOK: For more people than we realize, fascism is a "strong opinion, lightly held"
The polycrisis, Beyoncé's range, and money worship: Weekend reads for April 27, 2024
The morning after neoliberalism
SPEAK UP: Will justice come for Trump, after all?
How to save boys from masculinity
A surgeon general’s urgent warnings
RIFFS: Trump fills out a juror questionnaire
Be honest. You are Larry David on the inside
FREE FOR ALL: Looking back on Jane McAlevey's career of organizing
SPEAK UP: Can you fight what needs fighting and seek joy?
How to summon hope when everything is terrible
Rebecca Solnit wants a joyous, inviting left — not an angry, Puritanical one
ON MESSAGE: How to defang reply guys
The crisis of happiness, robotic companionship, and thirsty A.I.: Weekend reads for March 23, 2024
Fascism will not be defeated by logic
ON MESSAGE: How to take off your "It can't happen here" blinders
The lost art of solidarity — and how to find it again
Should the U.S. stop sending Israel bombs? “It is the next question,” a Democratic senator says
SPEAK UP: Are you kind of a conspiracy theorist?
We're all conspiracy theorists now
FREE FOR ALL: "Suffs" reminds us who is "not without electoral and political power"
Caught between "love with no help" and "help with no love"
GET BUSY: Pick up the phone for freedom in Alabama
The great pistachio heist, the state of the Oscars, and Biden buzz: Weekend reads for March 9, 2024
ON MESSAGE: How to disagree when the politics get personal
NOTEBOOK: Eleven takeaways from the State of the Union
SPEAK UP: What do you want to hear from Joe Biden at the State of the Union?
North Carolina's ultra-MAGA gubernatorial candidate, in his own words
FREE FOR ALL: Joe Biden's reconquest of "freedom"
They are here because we were there
GET BUSY: Reach out and write someone
Kangaroo courts, climate fictions, and Larry and Richard: Weekend reads for March 2, 2024
America is a country made of the world
The Supreme Court's attempted suicide
"Finding something like courage": an inside look at the German uprising against the far right
GET BUSY: Learn the fundamentals of organizing from George Goehl
What do they see in him? Why are we divided? Will these wars ever end?
Alabama's IVF decision, biblical law, constitutional crisis: Weekend reads for February 24, 2024
ON MESSAGE: How to talk to people losing faith in democracy and getting tired of fighting
SPEAK UP: What are your hopes and fears about A.I.?
RIFFS: Alabama makes it easier by specifying what is still legal there
Meet the college student trying to protect you from an "A.I. Chernobyl"
GET BUSY: The theocrats are coming for IVF next. They just won in Alabama. Here’s how to stop them
SPEAK UP: Read, watch, eat, listen
FREE FOR ALL: So what is your caste?
America’s forever wars, at home and abroad
GET BUSY: Build your own infrastructure week
RIFFS: You say you care about memory
ON MESSAGE: How to "de-silo" the abortion fight
SPEAK UP: When the world changes you
To save democracy, journalists must change
GET BUSY: Become a poll worker
ON MESSAGE: How to escape the far right’s border trap
How Germans are rising up against fascism
GET BUSY: Sign up for a Deep Canvassing training
SPEAK UP: What are your Republican friends and family talking about?
TODAY: A live video chat with me, hosted by Indivisible
ON MESSAGE: The left needs hats
The great union comeback, explained
ON MESSAGE: Getting Dark Brandon on the campaign trail
SPEAK UP: How have you gotten involved?
The real battleground of 2024 is emotion