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ESSAY: What are you waiting for?

Malicious communication

WATCH: The loves that made James Baldwin

ESSAY: America after the fire

James Baldwin in love

WATCH: Does the United States want -- or need -- a king?

WATCH: Rep. Ro Khanna proposes a truce between the two Americas

The new McCarthyism

TODAY: Live with Rep. Ro Khanna

The poet as historian

Blood feuds, bad jobs, making meaning

Two good-news stories about democracy

ESSAY: A turning point

Charlie Kirk

WATCH: The first amendment vs. fascism

Poetry for a state of emergency

WATCH: Is this “dirtbag billionaire” the exception that proves the rule?

Don't be evil

Illegal until proven citizen

WATCH: Can the Democrats return Trump’s serve?

A tennis player's lesson for Democrats

A cold civil war heats up

The wisdom and enigma of Kevin Young's "Night Watch"

Devils in the details, loopholes and exits, against the broligarchs

WATCH: Fascism: Who cares?

WATCH: Is therapy harming democracy?

How to fight back

WATCH: Why poetry scares authoritarians

The poet's way

ESSAY: S'mores and raids

Self-help can't heal what ails us. We need group help

Welcome to my new Substack — GROUP LIFE

Making the promised land

In praise of poetry

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

The dawn of "Sunbirth"

Illuminating “Sunbirth”

SUMMER READING: The inside-outside game, part three

SUMMER READING: The inside-outside game, part two

SUMMER READING: The inside-outside game

Was it all a dream?

SUMMER READING: Rebel-kings in worrisome berets, part two

Myths and legends, court Calvinball, cities on fire

SUMMER READING: Rebel-kings in worrisome berets

Papers, please

WATCH: Reading is writing

Open to interpretation

WATCH: The inner lives of oligarchs with Evan Osnos

WATCH: Cutting through the economic fog with Justin Wolfers

The art of the deal

Can we be content in troubled times?

On belonging, the power of images, the value of data

Five Years!

WATCH: We, too, sing America

The other D.C. takeover

WATCH: Where empires go to die

No Exit

Amber Tamblyn wants feminists to reach young men before Charlie Kirk does

ESSAY: Trump vs. cities

WATCH: You don't fight fire with fire -- you use a fire hose

Who counts?

How reality becomes fiction

When an empire falls, what blooms?

Is Israel committing genocide? This Holocaust historian says yes

Is "One Day" upon us?

The enigmas of Five Poems Lake

Lies, damned lies, and statistics

Dystopian writers think the unthinkable

Is RFK Jr. making you healthy again?

Fight and flight

Beacons of light

Religion at the office?

How Trump is reshaping elite universities

WATCH: Who are cities for?

ESSAY: The students were right

And now for something surreal

A dangerous omen at CBS

How to fight lies

ESSAY: The progress paradox

All of us after Gaza

Origin story

What we lose when we lose Colbert

The Epstein scandal is engulfing Trump

Trump vs. Big Law

WATCH: When everything is at stake, can we afford complexity?

Teetering on the edge

Could this finally crack the Trump cult?

NOTEBOOK: Upstate Art Weekend!

Why does Trump love soccer now?

Six months

Who can you trust in an age of untruth?

Does AI dream of electric sheep?

SPECIAL REPORT: A Nation in Fragments

Bad numbers, good trouble, and the American dream

The Supreme Court’s new trick: unexplained verdicts

Survival as a creative act

To prevent tyranny, fight inequality

Humans love simplicity

In the shadow of Scopes

Sharif versus Judy: who does Adjoua love more?

It happened here, railway diplomacy, who belongs?

Rule of law?

Too soon?

WATCH: Bonfire of affordability

NOTEBOOK: I tried to draw Stonehenge

Give me your tired, your poor

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

ESSAY: What immigrants eat

Just asking more questions

When your back's against the wall

Let America be America, breaking up with empire, freedoms and constraints

Declarations of Independence

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

Then they came for the naturalized

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?

The Rise of Zohran Mamdani

Making sense of Zohran Mamdani’s political shockwave

What Zohran can teach Democrats

Whose life is worth more?

UP TO YOU: Decision time for New York City

Before Zohran Mamdani, there was Comrade La Guardia

What is the war in Iran for?

How troublesome are you going to be?

Juneteenth and since, seeing in the dark, shame and justice

Questions, questions

Speaking truth to power

WATCH: Is the West built on a lie?

Will everyone have always been against this?

BREAKING: NYC mayoral candidate Brad Lander detained by Trump's ICE-tapo

Size matters

ESSAY: A bad parade is a good sign

Fables of the Reconstruction

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

Lights. Camera. Occupation

WATCH: History, complicity, and how to write the next chapter

Stories of empire

Are newsletters the future of truth?

The meaning of protest

Don't look away

Trickster chatbots, heretics in charge, seeing the light

The Musk-Trump breakup

Whose rule of law is it?

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?

The story of the story of Malcolm X

We have questions

The moral component of history

The nightmare of power without law

The arsonist-to-firefighter pipeline comes for vaccines

ESSAY: Beyoncé's "reclamation of America"

Buried in the budget

WATCH: Steps toward an abundant world

The Ink’s future-of-media survey

What we've learned from "Abundance"

A.I.’s sneak attack

SPEAK UP: Remember this

Debriefing “Abundance” -- and our next pick!

Champagne and carbon credits, crypto, and the radical act of care

WATCH: Time for a reckoning

Know when to fold ’em

WATCH: Will “Abundance” be hijacked?

NOON TODAY: Join us live with Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson

I was going to be brave

Be ambitious about your whole life

Just asking questions

Visions of the future: more thoughts on “Abundance”

The reckoning that wasn’t

Future possibilities

The reckoning that wasn’t

The Ink Book Club: Democracy in action

Birthright citizenship and me

Building on Abundance

Is the Supreme Court really independent?

ICYMI: Will the press fight or fold?

Love in a time of...all this

How Elon Musk built a button to shut off the government

Will the press fight or fold?

The Ink Book Club: Introducing Abundance

Welcome to The Ink Book Club!

FREE FOR ALL: How to lower the rent

Escaping the grindset

ESSAY: A cure for Trumpism: Radical empathy and radical change

Borders are violent things

May Day

In wild times, live wildly

Is "Abundance" the new scarcity?

UP TO YOU: The crime paradox

🚨 Announcing…The Ink Book Club 📚

Sitting in, social engineering, elbows up

ICYMI: General strike

General strike

TODAY: Ask me anything!

Globalization, neoliberalism, and the end of an era

The real story on autism

UP TO YOU: Adrienne Adams makes the case for competence

What Francis meant

Bunker mentality, hope and history, fighting back

BRIEF: Fear, bravery, dissent

How venture capital broke America

Who belongs — and who decides?

Been caught stealing

UP TO YOU: One person, five votes

How the sausage gets made

BRIEF: Keep on rockin’ in the free world

Tariffying times

Learning the lessons of authoritarianism

BRIEF: Normalize being in the streets

BRIEF: The kernel-of-truth regime

How to build a better world, again

RIFFS: My life, tariffed

BRIEF: The resistance’s trust problem

UP TO YOU: A man of the people

BRIEF: People power

Boycotts. Secret flights. MAGA buyer’s remorse. Hands off!

Explaining Depression Don's war on trade

BRIEF: Hands off!

Make the Depression Great Again

ESSAY: Welcome back to democracy

BRIEF: It’s now or never

Democracy's good night

BRIEF: Good trouble

This is fight

UP TO YOU: In New York City, Trump is on the ballot

Casino republic

BRIEF: The tattoo kidnappings

Trump's DEI

BRIEF: Dethrone the self-dealers

BRIEF: Jim Crow 2.0

RIFFS: D-Day group chat leaked

UP TO YOU: The Zohran phenomehran

Autism, Silicon Valley, and the remaking of the world

The queen of America

How to make a message

BRIEF: Unschooling America

The opposite of fascism

BRIEF: Cathedrals made of sand

UP TO YOU: As goes New York…

BRIEF: Don’t know thyself

BRIEF: Is the constitutional crisis here?

The world since Covid

BRIEF: Make America smoggy again

Can empathy beat fascism?

BRIEF: Chainsaw austerity

Shutdown showdown

The war on the right to protest

Choose your fighter

TikTok Door Knock

Institutions matter

Free America!

This is your government on drugs

Twenty years

The signal in that shout

The $2,000 Trump tax

Sand Hill Road > Wall Street > Main Street

ESSAY: The weekend the "Free World" died

ESSAY: The weekend the "Free World" died

ARCHIVE: The revolt against the future

Cartoon imperialism

DROPPING NOW: The Ink's "Lift You Up" playlist

Unbought

DOGE is coming for you next

THURSDAY: Join us live with Gabriel Sherman

Bezos just obeyed. We never will

Government is a miracle

ESSAY: The people are rising

You're the leader you're looking for

Time to mobilize

You’re a leader. Your “leaders” will follow you

How to break MAGA's emotional bonds

RIFFS: Leaked texts with the DNC

Get out

TOMORROW: Join us live with Anat Shenker-Osorio

Jail the reporters. Free the neo-Nazis

ESSAY: Home of the brave? Really?

TOMORROW: Join us live with Senator Chris Murphy

Resistance isn’t futile

NOTEBOOK: Nazisplaining

Making sense of it all

What comes next?

KEEP UP: Is Musk pro-Mars — or from Mars?

How to survive the abuser-in-chief

ICYMI: Inside the theocrat-oligarch bromance

What's in a name?

Pope vs. Veep

hey constitution u up?

Trump pardons…cancer?

Your school is next

Football, but make it more dangerous

Judges v. Musk

Enough opining. Get in the streets

What Elon Musk really wants

An insider speaks out on why legacy media is failing us right now

Focus on the coup

Focus on the coup

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

USAID fought apartheid. Musk is killing it

SPECIAL REPORT: In the room where A.I. happened

The worst and the meekest

If you don't tell the story, Trump will

Why Trump really wants Greenland

SPEAK UP: How’s your resilience?

Where are the Democrats?

Trump tries a January coup -- again

The idea of birthright citizenship

Don't watch this

Executive disorder

SPEAK UP: Asks and offers

SPEAK UP: How are you doing?

TODAY: Join us live with Ruth Ben-Ghiat

White Monday

RIFFS: Trump vs. geography

The inauguration of us

Hope going into the dark

Do the work, ceasefire, words of advice: Weekend reads for January 18, 2025

You gotta do the work

SPEAK UP: Biden vs. the oligarchs

Losing our religion

High on their own supply

Burning world, loyal opposition, how to live: Weekend reads for January 11, 2025

Resistance — or obstruction?

The broligarchy's Faustian bargain — and ours

Monsters are us

How to live under Trump II

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

Court anxieties, Netflix ruins the movies, organizing for the future: Weekend reads for January 4, 2025

SPEAK UP: What’s giving you life?

FREE FOR ALL: Naomi Klein on “diagonalism” — and how the right steals the left’s causes

The call is coming from inside the house

SPEAK UP: New Year’s resolutions