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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

Martial arts for family dinners, progressive sheriffs, learning to oppose: Weekend reads for December 28, 2024

ICYMI: Hope in dark times with Rebecca Solnit

Free Syria

How to build a new Syria

SPEAK UP: Happy holidays!

How Trump won Gen Z

Michael Cohen and I talk about Elon, Donald, and the rise of “paramonetary forces”

How to fight an epidemic of bad faith

Bill Clinton and I have words

Drone panic, trans reality, do things: Weekend Reads for December 21, 2024

The billionaire war on Christmas

The Ink's year in ideas

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

A little chat

Trials and tribulations, signs and wonders

The anxiety of affluence, scapegoating and solidarity, artificial artists: Weekend reads for December 14, 2024

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

It’s the conditions, stupid

Radical grace and the fight for racial justice

Can the media survive Trump 2.0?

What healing has to do with justice

Economic populism, demanding more from tech, countering retail's bad vibes: Weekend reads for December 7, 2024

Too soon?

What to do when they go low

FREE FOR ALL: Faiz Shakir on the future of the Democratic Party

The populist manifesto

Korea’s “reverse January 6th”

The Democratic Party will change or die

Can Democrats fight?

On Gen Z’s nihilism, Bluesky’s limits, and Trump’s underperformance: Weekend reads for November 30, 2024

Give the gift of The Ink

Trump’s paramonetary forces

What unites us

Stay in the game

RIFFS: The presidential turkeys hold a press conference

Ruth Ben-Ghiat on resistance versus resilience

The Musk-Trump endgame

ICYMI: A lunchtime live chat

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

Get back up

Stop moping. Start organizing

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?

Elite-on-elite violence

How Trump sent me to church

ICYMI: Be vigilant. Keep perspective

A Sunday pep talk

SPEAK UP: Name an uncomfortable truth

The things we can change: Weekend reads for November 16, 2024

The deeper meaning of Trump's appointments

SPEAK UP: How's your spirit?

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

Where's our Rogan?

The university after the election

The things we can control

SPEAK UP: How did the election change your mind?

Welcome to the rebuilding years

How to hope even now

Election Day

Noam Chomsky on the responsibility to act against fascism

Revolutionizing care, fighting fascists, keeping hope alive: Weekend reads for November 2, 2024

You are not powerless

How to beat fascism

NOTEBOOK: Harris closes

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?

Real men reject fascism

Stick to sports

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

The Ink is hiring!

Call it by its name

Winning back democracy's jilted lovers

Kamala Harris’s last mile

Brand-new Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu on how democracy can prevail

Spineless Ivies, climate fantasy, Marilyn: Weekend reads for October 12, 2024

A song for all America

Kamala Harris’s big policy proposal is care

FREE FOR ALL: The new math on climate change

Is the internet inherently illiberal?

The Gotcha Game

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

Stop civil-washing Vance

Where does proxy war end -- and World War III begin?

Use the f-word

Coach Walz on the field

Malcolm Gladwell’s ideas, rural America’s fortunes, restarting Three Mile Island

Research fraudsters, robot gamblers, bad apples: Weekend reads for September 28, 2024

Facing history in Mississippi

The island where three apocalypses meet

How to win back rural America

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

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

Like you never existed

Kamala won by being all the things

Sarah Smarsh on the return of prairie populism

A warning from Michigan

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

You asked, we answer

UNBURDENED: How Harris can regulate A.I.

Why Kamala Harris is a YIMBY

From Russia with hate

Is America Israel's "underminer"?

Ask The Ink anything

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?

Closing the storytelling gap

UNBURDENED: How Harris could get China right

Beyond vibes

From Chicago to November

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

To "30 Rock" — and Chicago

The rise of the "Brat Pack" — and a new Democratic political style

Unburdened, the psychology of the Gaza war, climate change’s toll, the world in your microwave: Weekend reads for August 17, 2024

SPEAK UP: What should the Harris-Walz platform be?

Joy beats tyrants

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

Give our people back

What makes Tim Walz tick, trouble in teen treatment, hearing information out: Weekend reads for August 10, 2024

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

Learning not to see

Why Walz matters

Let’s Walz

Fighting to win

The new identity politics, bird smarts, healing Gaza's children: Weekend Reads for August 3, 2024

Flirt Canvassing

Hoop dreams

Dudes abide

Yes, Kamala Harris is both

SPEAK UP: "Weird"

Say it to my face

How to put autocrats out of business

Donald Who?

Kamala Harris takes charge, what the Olympics mean, wage theft: Weekend reads for July 27, 2024

Speaking truths and making them real

Kamala Harris on Freedom

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

How Harris crushes Trump

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?

Against unity

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

The meaning of July fourth

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

A matter of life and death

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

A vaccine for disinformation

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

Try some stuff!

Donald Capone

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

A chance for justice in Gaza

Trustbusting is as American as apple pie

Real men hate fascism

A principled solution to protest at Wesleyan

Myths and the paleo diet, money on fire in a burning world, and ambient revolutionaries: Weekend reads for May 18, 2024

ICYMI: Mehdi Hasan speaks out (and you can listen)

Mehdi Hasan: The media should pick a side — democracy

Mehdi Hasan speaks out

SPEAK UP: Debating the debate

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?

What protest can achieve, Stormy faces Trump, and hip-hop's greatest beef: Weekend reads for May 11, 2024

"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

What do you deserve?

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

A virtual art heist, Black cowboys, selling climate action, and videophiles versus the Mafia: Weekend reads for April 20, 2024

RIFFS: Trump fills out a juror questionnaire

Be honest. You are Larry David on the inside

How to think about China

FREE FOR ALL: Looking back on Jane McAlevey's career of organizing

The man who powered the presses, how fascists actually rise, building a media adequate to the moment, and a Taylor Swift poem -- Weekend reads for April 13

SPEAK UP: Can you fight what needs fighting and seek joy?

A Havana mystery, engineers of loneliness, kids and phones, Insta towns, and "great American bitches" -- Weekend reads for April 6

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

What was (A)I made for?

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

Donald Trump's big truth

Should the U.S. stop sending Israel bombs? “It is the next question,” a Democratic senator says

TikTok toe, how to raise your A.I. newborn, and the great carbon-credit scam: Weekend reads for March 16, 2024

Trust busting as freedom

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

On Till November

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

After Michigan

America is a country made of the world

The Supreme Court's attempted suicide

The end of Mitch McConnell

"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

Donald Trump, Victim King

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

The Biden files

Weekend Reads for February 17

ON MESSAGE: Gender norms suck

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

Weekend Reads for February 10

RIFFS: You say you care about memory

ON MESSAGE: How to "de-silo" the abortion fight

SPEAK UP: When the world changes you

Future shock

To save democracy, journalists must change

GET BUSY: Become a poll worker

Weekend reads for February 3

SPEAK UP: Are men OK?

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

Weekend Reads for January 27

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

The New Hampshire charade

Weekend Reads for January 20

ON MESSAGE: Getting Dark Brandon on the campaign trail

SPEAK UP: How have you gotten involved?

The real battleground of 2024 is emotion

MLK™️

Weekend Reads for January 13

ON MESSAGE: The Taylor Swift plan for saving democracy

The bank shot to save democracy