The TikTok Ban Won’t Help

Siddharth Suhas Shanbhag Jacobin
The TikTok ban is about US tech hegemony, not national security or protecting Americans’ data, which homegrown social media companies make a business of collecting and selling.

Shove the Presidency Down Trump’s Throat

Jason Linkins The New Republic
Liberals spent the president-elect’s first term trying and failing to kick him out of office. This time out, they need to turn the White House into a prison.

Holding Vigil

Alison Luterman Rattle Magazine
As we approach Trump's second inauguration, poet Alison Luterman asks if the patient will survive? The patient is us, the American people.

Can US Institutions Withstand Trump 2.0?

Daron Acemoglu, Bruce Ackerman, Aziz Huq, Alison L. LaCroix, and Richard K. Sherwin Project Syndicate
From pursuing “enemies” to cementing plutocracy, Trump’s second term will test the resilience of the constitutional order. This time, he has control of Congress and a Supreme Court ruling guaranteeing immunity. Five authors share their views.

John Deere Is Calling Trump's Bluff

John Deere has announced more than 1500 layoffs in the last year. We investigated what's behind it — and how to bring those jobs back.

Sing Sing | Movie

Based on a true story of an individual imprisoned for a crime he did not commit and the real-life Sing Sing Correctional Facility Rehabilitation Through the Arts program. Now returning to theaters. The first film shown in theaters and prisons simultaneously.