Dreamers Rise

Scenes from a student-led anti-ICE demonstration in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, February 3, 2026. The demonstration began with a scheduled wa...

A few scenes from today's well-attended and upbeat demonstration in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, which merged amicably with a scheduled s...

Since I have no billion-dollar media empire to protect, and since hardly anyone listens to me anyway, I have no hesitation in endorsing Kam...

Perhaps someone should have given the Republican vice-presidential candidate a history lesson: Even a powerful park commissioner found the h...

Two forceful and anguished statements in the wake of yet another mass shooting indicate that the stereotypical image of the American profess...

That the Supreme Court is poised to overturn settled law and reverse the 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade should surprise no one, given the st...

If anyone in this country is still harboring illusions about the man in the White House and his core of thugs, it's about time they aske...

Today was a beautiful day and I'm not just thinking of the blue skies and unseasonably mild weather here in New York State. I'm a sk...

Saturday was the first day of early voting where I live. My wife and I have already voted by absentee ballot, but yesterday I happened to wa...

Robert Hendrickson, Rector at St. Philip's Episcopal Church in Tucson, Arizona (via Daughter Number Three ): This is an awful man, wavi...

This brings us back to impeachment. The question it poses is not whether it will be the thing that drives Donald Trump from office or whethe...

What is to be done? Is there anything more exasperating than the cycle of analysis regarding our political situation? How did we get here? ...

"A painting by Jean-Martin Bontoux of King Ubu in Alfred Jarry’s play Ubu Roi, late twentieth century," via The New York Review...

" Cartoonist loses job after image depicting Trump ignoring dead migrants to play golf " (The Independent) . Image by Michael d...

Adam Serwer, writing in The Atlantic : Ordinarily, a politician cannot be held responsible for the actions of a deranged follower. But ordin...

These are not normal circumstances. Nancy LeTourneau: What we are watching is a complete reorienting of the foreign policy of the United S...

The Chinese critic and activist Liu Xiaobo has died . A related New York Times article by Chris Buckley reflects on the bleak prospects fo...

From a New Yorker interview with Judith Thurman , Philip Roth on comparisons between his novel The Plot Against America, which imagined a ...

Today, the New York Times has an astonishing series of photos from the nationwide worldwide women's marches of January 21, 2017.

Citing no evidence, our president-elect — and how ashamed, how defiled one feels, personally and as a citizen, having to call him that — has...