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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?

RANT: MAGA is imploding. Stop turning defectors away.

SPECIAL REPORT: A Nation in Fragments

Bad numbers, good trouble, and the American dream

WATCH: Teachers vs. fascists

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

NOTEBOOK: Black and tan

Sharif versus Judy: who does Adjoua love more?

It happened here, railway diplomacy, who belongs?

COFFEE: They’re trying to remake you. Don’t let them

Rule of law?

WATCH: Call it a “concentration camp”

Too soon?

WATCH: Bonfire of affordability

NOTEBOOK: I tried to draw Stonehenge

WATCH: What kind of great-grandparents do we want to be?

Give me your tired, your poor

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

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

The Chief Justice is my friend. He's presiding over the end of the rule of law: Conservative jurist J. Michael Luttig

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

The Rise of Zohran Mamdani

Making sense of Zohran Mamdani’s political shockwave

Live from New York...a playbook for winning elections

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

WATCH: Terry Moran unmuzzled

WATCH: Brad Lander on his “gestapo”-style ICE detention

Speaking truth to power

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

Size matters

WATCH: Don’t stop believin’

ESSAY: A bad parade is a good sign

WATCH: A limp parade, and a rising resistance

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

WATCH: Los Angeles is America

Lights. Camera. Occupation

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

Stories of empire

WATCH: Can we talk about Biden?

Are newsletters the future of truth?

The meaning of protest

WATCH: Bursting the police state’s trial balloons

Don't look away

Trickster chatbots, heretics in charge, seeing the light

The Musk-Trump breakup

Whose rule of law is it?

WATCH: Cardi B contains multitudes

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

WATCH: From Buckley to Trump

We have questions

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"

Buried in the budget

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?

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: Anand live with Jim Acosta and Aaron Parnas

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

WATCH: Has MAGA peaked?

Be ambitious about your whole life

Paul Krugman on Trump’s budget cruelty

Just asking questions

Visions of the future: more thoughts on “Abundance”

The reckoning that wasn’t

Future possibilities

The reckoning that wasn’t

WATCH: The leaders we need

The Ink Book Club: Democracy in action

Birthright citizenship and me

Why is the Democratic Party ghosting us?

Coffee, with room for hope

Building on Abundance

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?

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

WATCH: Love vs. fascism, with Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Michael Cohen

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

Borders are violent things

May Day

WATCH: Winning the fight against Trump — and the peace

Can creativity usher in a new world?

In wild times, live wildly

Is "Abundance" the new scarcity?

WATCH: 100 days we’ll never get back

UP TO YOU: The crime paradox

🚨 Announcing…The Ink Book Club 📚

Sitting in, social engineering, elbows up

ICYMI: General strike

General strike

WATCH: Ask me anything!

TODAY: Ask me anything!

WATCH: Is it general strike o'clock?

WATCH: Robert Reich on beating bullies and toppling Trump

Globalization, neoliberalism, and the end of an era

WATCH: Is globalization over?

The real story on autism

UP TO YOU: Adrienne Adams makes the case for competence

WATCH: The wildfire of courage

What Francis meant

Bunker mentality, hope and history, fighting back

BRIEF: Fear, bravery, dissent

TRANSCRIPT: Michael Cohen on living under Trump

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

X-ing out X

Tariffying times

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

RIFFS: My life, tariffed

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?

BRIEF: People power

“Hands off!” protest. Live from Beacon, NY

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

Explaining Depression Don's war on trade

BRIEF: Hands off!

WATCH: The lesson of Cory Booker’s stand

Make the Depression Great Again

ESSAY: Welcome back to democracy

BRIEF: It’s now or never

WATCH: New York versus America

Democracy's good night

BRIEF: Good trouble

This is fight

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

They can’t steal our hope

BRIEF: Tesla in tears

WATCH: Our cowardly elites

Casino republic

BRIEF: The tattoo kidnappings

Trump's DEI

BRIEF: Dethrone the self-dealers

WATCH: Zohran wants a new New York

WATCH: Project 2029 needs you

BRIEF: Jim Crow 2.0

Group chat of sycophants

RIFFS: D-Day group chat leaked

UP TO YOU: The Zohran phenomehran

Everything is not terrible

Autism, Silicon Valley, and the remaking of the world

The queen of America

How to make a message

WATCH: How autism is remaking a world still hostile to it

BRIEF: Unschooling America

WATCH: The messaging game, with Anat Shenker-Osorio

The opposite of fascism

BRIEF: Cathedrals made of sand

WATCH: Don't give them the satisfaction

UP TO YOU: As goes New York…

BRIEF: Don’t know thyself

BRIEF: Is the constitutional crisis here?

WATCH: What tyranny does to the soul — and how to fight back

The world since Covid

Retirement party

Empathy and fight

BRIEF: Make America smoggy again

Rebecca Solnit on the "stupid coup"

Can empathy beat fascism?

BRIEF: Chainsaw austerity

Shutdown showdown

WATCH: Joiners will save democracy

The war on the right to protest

Choose your fighter

WATCH: Democracy dies in decorum

TikTok Door Knock

Oligarchy in C minor

Institutions matter

Free America!

This is your government on drugs

WATCH: Ban the broligarchs

Twenty years

The signal in that shout

WATCH: Free America!

The $2,000 Trump tax

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

Cartoon imperialism

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

Unbought

WATCH: President Soprano

DOGE is coming for you next

WATCH: What Trump fears most

THURSDAY: Join us live with Gabriel Sherman

Bezos just obeyed. We never will

Government is a miracle

ESSAY: The people are rising

WATCH: Occupy Tesla? Live with Hamilton Nolan

#OccupyTesla

You're the leader you're looking for

WATCH: Be the skunk at the garden party

WATCH: Trump’s vulnerability

Time to mobilize

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

Get out

TOMORROW: Join us live with Anat Shenker-Osorio

Jail the reporters. Free the neo-Nazis

ESSAY: Home of the brave? Really?

TRANSCRIPT: Senator Chris Murphy warns America may be "months" from "irreversible" destruction of democracy

WATCH: Home of the brave?

WATCH: Dem Senator warns U.S. may be "months" from "irreversible" destruction of democracy

TOMORROW: Join us live with Senator Chris Murphy

Resistance isn’t futile

WATCH: Freedom is an assignment

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

A bracingly honest and profoundly empathetic view of the Gaza war

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

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

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?

RANT: Where the hell is the opposition?

The knock at the door

Trump tries a January coup -- again

The idea of birthright citizenship

Don't watch this

WATCH: Be vigilant. Seize attention. Throw more parties

WATCH: He wants to transform the Democratic Party. Will they let him?

Executive disorder

SPEAK UP: Asks and offers

WATCH: Pay attention to this

SPEAK UP: How are you doing?

Despair is not an option

TODAY: Join us live with Ruth Ben-Ghiat

White Monday

WATCH: Ruth Ben-Ghiat and I break down the hidden logic of Trump's first week

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?

An age of proxy fights

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