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RIFFS: Home demolition ideas, inspired by the White House
MAKE IT MAKE SENSE: Make your own reality
WATCH: Can America be amended, and saved?
Will we ever wake the “sleeping giant”?
RIFFS: Suffering from Nazi Streak? Introducing FührerFree™️
MAKE IT MAKE SENSE: Is Trump’s jig up?
MAKE IT MAKE SENSE: The sting of No Kings
I asked Andrew Cuomo some questions
ESSAY: At No Kings march, solidarity, defiance, and courage
After No Kings, 51 things you can actually do
Is the power of the people bigger than the people in power?
No Kings Day, live from New York!
WATCH: Can the Constitution change to meet the moment?
MAKE IT MAKE SENSE: America wants No Kings
MAKE IT MAKE SENSE: Resisting the new Jim Crow
WATCH: It’s the corruption, stupid!
MAKE IT MAKE SENSE: The reason Republicans are losing the budget fight
How to restart the American experiment
Riz Ahmed on what Hamlet was really trying to tell us
MAKE IT MAKE SENSE: Peace through corruption
I talked to the Queen about Trump
Constitutional crisis -- or crisis of faith?
A heist, the Antichrist, Big Brother
MAKE IT MAKE SENSE: Shutdown and ceasefire
WATCH: What frog guy can teach Democrats -- and you
MAKE IT MAKE SENSE: The danger above
Constitution class is back in session!
MAKE IT MAKE SENSE: The salooning of America
MAKE IT MAKE SENSE: An offer universities can't refuse?
RANT: Calling Taylor Swift MAGA is why the left loses
MAKE IT MAKE SENSE: The Kavanaugh stop
Has it ever been this bad before?
WEEKEND READS for October 4, 2025: Across a divided country
In "The Lost Bus," a plea to show up for other people's children even when your own are in the fire
MAKE IT MAKE SENSE: Comedy's free speech crisis
An actual, detailed plan to save Democrats — and democracy
The one big thing that predicts a societal collapse
RIFFS: Trump called cities military "training grounds." We drew up some drills
"Atonement" author Ian McEwan on the world after climate disaster
MAKE IT MAKE SENSE: How far is too far?
WATCH: Cory Doctorow explains enshittification
ESSAY: Ezra Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates' false choice on political persuasion
MAKE IT MAKE SENSE: Stop calling it a "shutdown"
MAKE IT MAKE SENSE: Trump launches invasion of his own TV screen
WEEKEND READS for September 27, 2025: Submerged fears and possible futures
MAKE IT MAKE SENSE: Comedy is serious
WATCH: Trump accused him of treason. He’s not backing down
ESSAY: Charlie Kirk and Melissa Hortman: A tale of two memorials
MAKE IT MAKE SENSE: Shutdown fight or flight?
WATCH: Can words defeat fascists?
CLOSE READ: Why, and how, Kimmel's monologue worked
MAKE IT MAKE SENSE: The far-right fantasy of women in pain
A cure for Trumpism: Radical empathy and radical change
An actual autism expert speaks
ESSAY: The schisms dividing the right after Kirk's death
A divine comedy for dark times
Weekend reads for September 20, 2025: Stand up, speak out, come together
ESSAY: What are you waiting for?
WATCH: The loves that made James Baldwin
WATCH: Does the United States want -- or need -- a king?
WATCH: Rep. Ro Khanna proposes a truce between the two Americas
TODAY: Live with Rep. Ro Khanna
Blood feuds, bad jobs, making meaning
Two good-news stories about democracy
WATCH: The first amendment vs. fascism
Poetry for a state of emergency
WATCH: Is this “dirtbag billionaire” the exception that proves the rule?
WATCH: Can the Democrats return Trump’s serve?
A tennis player's lesson for Democrats
The wisdom and enigma of Kevin Young's "Night Watch"
Devils in the details, loopholes and exits, against the broligarchs
WATCH: Is therapy harming democracy?
WATCH: Why poetry scares authoritarians
Self-help can't heal what ails us. We need group help
Welcome to my new Substack — GROUP LIFE
Zohran's messaging, Katrina’s legacy, Labor Day
The Wednesday night massacre at the CDC
SUMMER READING: The inside-outside game, part five
SUMMER READING: The inside-outside game, part four
SUMMER READING: The inside-outside game, part three
SUMMER READING: The inside-outside game, part two
SUMMER READING: The inside-outside game
SUMMER READING: Rebel-kings in worrisome berets, part two
Myths and legends, court Calvinball, cities on fire
SUMMER READING: Rebel-kings in worrisome berets
WATCH: The inner lives of oligarchs with Evan Osnos
WATCH: Cutting through the economic fog with Justin Wolfers
Can we be content in troubled times?
On belonging, the power of images, the value of data
WATCH: Where empires go to die
Amber Tamblyn wants feminists to reach young men before Charlie Kirk does
WATCH: You don't fight fire with fire -- you use a fire hose
When an empire falls, what blooms?
As Germany ceases arms shipments, can international pressure stop the killing in Gaza?
Is Israel committing genocide? This Holocaust historian says yes
The enigmas of Five Poems Lake
Lies, damned lies, and statistics
Dystopian writers think the unthinkable
Is RFK Jr. making you healthy again?
How Trump is reshaping elite universities
ESSAY: The students were right
What we lose when we lose Colbert
The Epstein scandal is engulfing Trump
WATCH: When everything is at stake, can we afford complexity?
Could this finally crack the Trump cult?
NOTEBOOK: Upstate Art Weekend!
Why does Trump love soccer now?
Who can you trust in an age of untruth?
Does AI dream of electric sheep?
RANT: MAGA is imploding. Stop turning defectors away.
SPECIAL REPORT: A Nation in Fragments
Bad numbers, good trouble, and the American dream
The Supreme Court’s new trick: unexplained verdicts
To prevent tyranny, fight inequality
Sharif versus Judy: who does Adjoua love more?
It happened here, railway diplomacy, who belongs?
WATCH: Call it a “concentration camp”
WATCH: Bonfire of affordability
NOTEBOOK: I tried to draw Stonehenge
WATCH: How universities can fight back
Can the press meet the moment?
ESSAY: A biblical flood, a girl's death, and a great-grandfather's legacy
ESSAY: A biblical flood, a girl's death, and a great-grandfather's legacy
WATCH: Trump’s secret police and the force multiplier of fear
When your back's against the wall
Let America be America, breaking up with empire, freedoms and constraints
A concentration camp, but with alligators
Welcome to The Ink Book Club Chat!
ESSAY: Billionaire do-gooding is out. Naked oligarchy is in
Is your goodness performative or real?
ESSAY: Billionaire do-gooding is out. Naked oligarchy is in
WATCH: The emerging peace majority
Then they came for the naturalized
WATCH: Trump’s cruelty, Zohran’s hope
A forwardable email about the budget
A new day for New York City, a new book club pick.
Having nice things, a musical diaspora, peace in our time
A republic, if you can keep it
SPEAK UP: What is the real threat to New York City?
WATCH: Brad Lander opens up about the Zohran alliance, and his own future
Making sense of Zohran Mamdani’s political shockwave
Live from New York...a playbook for winning elections
What Zohran can teach Democrats
UP TO YOU: Decision time for New York City
Before Zohran Mamdani, there was Comrade La Guardia
How troublesome are you going to be?
Juneteenth and since, seeing in the dark, shame and justice
WATCH: Brad Lander on his “gestapo”-style ICE detention
WATCH: Is the West built on a lie?
Will everyone have always been against this?
WATCH: Skip the dinner invitation, earn back the working class
BREAKING: NYC mayoral candidate Brad Lander detained by Trump's ICE-tapo
ESSAY: A bad parade is a good sign
WATCH: A limp parade, and a rising resistance
Courage is the most potent contagion
No kings, rage against the machines, care and dread
In L.A., an attempt to “end politics”
A senator's warning before his arrest
WATCH: History, complicity, and how to write the next chapter
WATCH: Can we talk about Biden?
Are newsletters the future of truth?
WATCH: Bursting the police state’s trial balloons
Trickster chatbots, heretics in charge, seeing the light
Last chance to take The Ink’s future-of-media survey
WATCH: The moral and personal questions of "One Day"
When we look back from a distance, what will we see?
WATCH: A third party that can win
The story of the story of Malcolm X
The moral component of history
The nightmare of power without law
The arsonist-to-firefighter pipeline comes for vaccines
Democracy defeated Musk -- but not before many died
WATCH: Wes Moore to Dems: Think less; act more
WATCH: Should Republicans be accused of murder?
ESSAY: Beyoncé's "reclamation of America"
WATCH: Steps toward an abundant world
The Ink’s future-of-media survey
What we've learned from "Abundance"
WATCH: Is A.I. the new colonialism?
Debriefing “Abundance” -- and our next pick!
Champagne and carbon credits, crypto, and the radical act of care
WATCH: Anand live with Jim Acosta and Aaron Parnas
WATCH: Will “Abundance” be hijacked?
NOON TODAY: Join us live with Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
Be ambitious about your whole life
Paul Krugman on Trump’s budget cruelty
Visions of the future: more thoughts on “Abundance”
The Ink Book Club: Democracy in action
Why is the Democratic Party ghosting us?
WATCH: Live from Iowa…Pete Buttigieg!
WATCH: Democracy is breaking. Do people care?
Is the Supreme Court really independent?
WATCH: Michael Cohen and I debate grace toward Trump supporters -- and more
ICYMI: Will the press fight or fold?
How Elon Musk built a button to shut off the government
The Ink Book Club: Introducing Abundance
FREE FOR ALL: How to lower the rent
WATCH: Love vs. fascism, with Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Michael Cohen
ESSAY: A cure for Trumpism: Radical empathy and radical change
WATCH: Winning the fight against Trump — and the peace
Can creativity usher in a new world?
Is "Abundance" the new scarcity?
WATCH: 100 days we’ll never get back
🚨 Announcing…The Ink Book Club 📚
Sitting in, social engineering, elbows up
WATCH: Is it general strike o'clock?
WATCH: Robert Reich on beating bullies and toppling Trump
Globalization, neoliberalism, and the end of an era
UP TO YOU: Adrienne Adams makes the case for competence
WATCH: The wildfire of courage
Bunker mentality, hope and history, fighting back
TRANSCRIPT: Michael Cohen on living under Trump
How venture capital broke America
Who belongs — and who decides?
UP TO YOU: One person, five votes
BRIEF: Keep on rockin’ in the free world
Learning the lessons of authoritarianism
BRIEF: Normalize being in the streets
BRIEF: The kernel-of-truth regime
WATCH: How Trump was "disciplined by reality"
How to build a better world, again
BRIEF: The resistance’s trust problem
WATCH: Joy Reid on Black America's Resistance reluctance
UP TO YOU: A man of the people
WATCH: After "Hands off!", what next?
“Hands off!” protest. Live from Beacon, NY
Boycotts. Secret flights. MAGA buyer’s remorse. Hands off!
Explaining Depression Don's war on trade
WATCH: The lesson of Cory Booker’s stand
Make the Depression Great Again
ESSAY: Welcome back to democracy
WATCH: New York versus America
UP TO YOU: In New York City, Trump is on the ballot
BRIEF: Dethrone the self-dealers
WATCH: Zohran wants a new New York
RIFFS: D-Day group chat leaked
UP TO YOU: The Zohran phenomehran
Autism, Silicon Valley, and the remaking of the world
BRIEF: Cathedrals made of sand
WATCH: Don't give them the satisfaction
BRIEF: Is the constitutional crisis here?
WATCH: What tyranny does to the soul — and how to fight back
BRIEF: Make America smoggy again
Rebecca Solnit on the "stupid coup"
WATCH: Joiners will save democracy
The war on the right to protest
WATCH: Democracy dies in decorum
This is your government on drugs
WATCH: Let's process last night
Sand Hill Road > Wall Street > Main Street
WATCH: Do Dems need new leaders? "Fair point," Ro Khanna says
ESSAY: The weekend the "Free World" died
WATCH: Why Trump apologized to Putin
ESSAY: The weekend the "Free World" died
ARCHIVE: The revolt against the future
DROPPING NOW: The Ink's "Lift You Up" playlist
THURSDAY: Join us live with Gabriel Sherman
Bezos just obeyed. We never will
You're the leader you're looking for
You’re a leader. Your “leaders” will follow you
WATCH: Anat Shenker-Osorio's *actual* plan to beat fascism
How to break MAGA's emotional bonds
RIFFS: Leaked texts with the DNC
TOMORROW: Join us live with Anat Shenker-Osorio
Jail the reporters. Free the neo-Nazis
ESSAY: Home of the brave? Really?
WATCH: Dem Senator warns U.S. may be "months" from "irreversible" destruction of democracy
TOMORROW: Join us live with Senator Chris Murphy
WATCH: Freedom is an assignment
KEEP UP: Is Musk pro-Mars — or from Mars?
How to survive the abuser-in-chief
ICYMI: Inside the theocrat-oligarch bromance
Football, but make it more dangerous
A bracingly honest and profoundly empathetic view of the Gaza war
Enough opining. Get in the streets
An insider speaks out on why legacy media is failing us right now
WATCH: It's a coup. Say its name
Today at 12:30 p.m.: Tina Brown joins us live
RIFFS: Musk's AI opposes Musk's power grab
Finally, some fight! And: Live today with Tina Brown
Inside the Musk/Trump psychodrama. The void of a Democratic leader. Are Americans docile?
USAID fought apartheid. Musk is killing it
WATCH: Musk’s coup, Dems' silence, media meekness -- and how to fight back
SPECIAL REPORT: In the room where A.I. happened
If you don't tell the story, Trump will
Why Trump really wants Greenland
SPEAK UP: How’s your resilience?
RANT: Where the hell is the opposition?
Trump tries a January coup -- again
The idea of birthright citizenship
WATCH: Be vigilant. Seize attention. Throw more parties
WATCH: He wants to transform the Democratic Party. Will they let him?
TODAY: Join us live with Ruth Ben-Ghiat
WATCH: Ruth Ben-Ghiat and I break down the hidden logic of Trump's first week
Do the work, ceasefire, words of advice: Weekend reads for January 18, 2025
SPEAK UP: Biden vs. the oligarchs
Burning world, loyal opposition, how to live: Weekend reads for January 11, 2025
The broligarchy's Faustian bargain — and ours
You can't have peaceful transfers of power only when one side wins
January 6 was a revolt against the future. The future will prevail
SPEAK UP: What’s giving you life?
FREE FOR ALL: Naomi Klein on “diagonalism” — and how the right steals the left’s causes