University of Louisville political scientist David Buckley says liberal religious leaders are playing a key role in Minneapolis and in other efforts to resist Trump.

Georgetown philosophy professor Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò explains why it’s vital for those resisting Trump to acknowledge and share their successes, both large and small.

Criminal justice expert Jessica Pishko says ICE’s abuses in Minneapolis are rooted in an over-criminalization of immigration policy and that Customs and Border Protection is even more radical than ICE.

University of Utah professor Marshall Steinbaum says American higher education should be reformed so we don’t have well-funded colleges for rich students and underfunded ones that lower-income people attend.

Tennessee’s Aftyn Behn explains how she nearly won a special election in a very red U.S. House district last month.

Liberal foreign policy expert Matt Duss describes why Trump’s foreign moves are so erratic and how the next Democratic administration should approach foreign affairs.

The Massachusetts senator says Democrats must embrace both social programs like universal childcare and higher taxes on the wealthy, even if those ideas push more billionaires to the GOP.

University of Denver political scientist Seth Masket explains why scholars are so alarmed by some of Trump’s recent moves.

Indivisible’s Leah Greenberg argues mass public opposition to Trump’s actions in Venezuela is essential to preventing him from unilaterally attacking another country.

Columbia University’s Elizabeth Saunders says Trump’s moves in Venezuela are the latest illustration that he is far less constrained by his advisers and Congress than during his first term.

Political scientist Julia Azari argues that Trump, like Andrew Johnson and Richard Nixon before him, became president in part because of white backlash against the pro-Black accomplishments of his predecessor.

TNR’s Monica Potts argues that Democrats shouldn’t focus on winning the working class or any specific bloc, but instead be “loud” on a few issues that resonate with the entire electorate.

Political analysts Brian Beutler and Will Stancil say that Democrats may be overemphasizing affordability, in the same way they once assumed that health care fights would always deliver them electoral victories.

University of Pennsylvania media scholar Victor Pickard explains why a robust system of public media is essential to strengthening American democracy.

TNR’s Grace Segers explains how both parties’ fortunes changed dramatically in 2025.

Andrea Hunley, assistant minority leader for the Indiana Senate Democrats, says even some Republican lawmakers oppose the gerrymandering of the state’s U.S. House seats that Trump is demanding.

The Guardian’s Moria Donegan explains why Republican officials feel increasingly comfortable breaking with the president.

Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed argues that it will be impossible to bring down costs without challenging major corporations.

Legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw says anti-Blackness is an essential tool in Trump’s authoritarian playbook.

University of Iowa sociology professor Louise Seamster says that the administration’s changes to financial aid policies are going to make our colleges less racially and economically diverse.