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The fierce urgency of now

A generation of Arizonans revolted against hardline immigration policies and won important battles. This year, the state voted to bring those policies back

If we want to deploy actual power to block Trump’s vicious agenda once he takes control of the federal government, we will have to look to the states.

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is equal parts asinine and dystopian. We can only hope that, by virtue of how insufferable all involved are, DOGE’s relationship with the Trump administration flames out spectacularly.

"Our taxpayer dollars should be used to fund education, housing, and healthcare for Americans, not to support the destruction of innocent lives abroad," said one advocacy leader "deeply saddened" by the votes.

Making sense of the new hell

"The United States government is currently in violation of the law, and every member of the U.S. Senate who believes in the rule of law should vote for these resolutions," said Sen. Bernie Sanders.

In assessing Donald Trump’s victory, pundits have claimed the country turned right, the Harris campaign was too far left and woke, Biden’s presidency was robustly populist, and racism and sexism made the result inevitable. Those claims are all wrong.

Few singer-songwriters have such fun getting under listeners’ skin.

More present than ever in this year’s presidential campaigns, billionaires seem poised to play a more direct role in the U.S. government. Is this reminiscent of post-Soviet restructuring in the heart of imperialism?