Is the creed that’s always reexamining itself up to the task of stopping authoritarianism? In a word—yes.

The answer is simple: policies that reflect homespun values and stick up for people getting the short end of the stick.

This magazine’s own history reflects liberalism’s halting progress. Can it, and we, do better?

Needed: a liberalism that ceases to fear itself.

We are vastly outnumbered, but our record of accomplishment is formidable. Today, though, the task before us is as grave as ever.

The man has been running scams for decades. But now, with either the White House or the Big House beckoning, he’s kicked it into overdrive.

On education in a fascist America

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On the border in a fascist America

On politics and government in a fascist America

On daily life in a fascist America

On the military in a fascist America

On the law in a fascist America

On culture in a fascist America

Schools must drastically remake their approach to technology—or continue their ongoing collapse into irrelevance.

As Grants Pass, Oregon—and the nation—await a Supreme Court ruling on just how far cities can police the homeless, a volunteer mayor and her unhoused constituents try to weather the backlash.

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Since 2020, Joe Biden’s support among working-class voters of all races has fallen alarmingly. Here are seven ways he and his party can reverse the slide.

So long, Sunak, Macron, Trudeau. Hello, Vlad, Viktor, and Kim. What would happen to the United States, and the world, if Donald Trump made it back to the Oval Office? The “leader of the free world” would become a fanboy follower in the unfree one.

Conservatives have not limited their attack on reproductive rights to the United States. They’ve been busy imposing their will on other countries, too—with disastrous consequences for millions of poor women.