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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?
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?
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: Bonfire of affordability
NOTEBOOK: I tried to draw Stonehenge
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
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
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?
Making sense of Zohran Mamdani’s political shockwave
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: 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
ESSAY: A bad parade is a good sign
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
Are newsletters the future of truth?
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?
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
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"
Debriefing “Abundance” -- and our next pick!
Champagne and carbon credits, crypto, and the radical act of care
WATCH: Will “Abundance” be hijacked?
NOON TODAY: Join us live with Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
Be ambitious about your whole life
Visions of the future: more thoughts on “Abundance”
The Ink Book Club: Democracy in action
Is the Supreme Court really independent?
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
ESSAY: A cure for Trumpism: Radical empathy and radical change
Is "Abundance" the new scarcity?
🚨 Announcing…The Ink Book Club 📚
Sitting in, social engineering, elbows up
Globalization, neoliberalism, and the end of an era
UP TO YOU: Adrienne Adams makes the case for competence
Bunker mentality, hope and history, fighting back
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
How to build a better world, again
BRIEF: The resistance’s trust problem
UP TO YOU: A man of the people
Boycotts. Secret flights. MAGA buyer’s remorse. Hands off!
Explaining Depression Don's war on trade
Make the Depression Great Again
ESSAY: Welcome back to democracy
UP TO YOU: In New York City, Trump is on the ballot
BRIEF: Dethrone the self-dealers
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
BRIEF: Is the constitutional crisis here?
BRIEF: Make America smoggy again
The war on the right to protest
This is your government on drugs
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
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
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?
TOMORROW: Join us live with Senator Chris Murphy
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
Enough opining. Get in the streets
An insider speaks out on why legacy media is failing us right now
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
If you don't tell the story, Trump will
Why Trump really wants Greenland
SPEAK UP: How’s your resilience?
Trump tries a January coup -- again
The idea of birthright citizenship
TODAY: Join us live with Ruth Ben-Ghiat
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