A Roundup of the Best Analyses
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So each week we post the best articles from the most respected news magazines, from The Atlantic to The Nation to The New Yorker. And we make them available for free, with no paywall, so you get the most well-researched analyses from the frontlines. Check them out — and if you love reading, try checking out Our Book Club too!
March 2025 🌷
Posted: 1 March 2026
Subject: What Mehdi Mahmoudian Saw Inside the Iranian Prison System
Message: The activist and Oscar-nominated co-writer of “It Was Just an Accident” speaks about the abuses he’s witnessed and endured, war between the U.S. and Iran, and the true stories behind the film.
🥶 February 2026
Posted: 3 February 2026
Subject: A Theology of Immigration
Message: “None of us have a permanent residence here in this world,” the Reverend Dan Groody says.
Posted: 1 February 2026
Subject: What We Expect Athletes to Say Now
Excerpt: Not long ago, taking political stands almost seemed to become part of the job. These days, in another moment of social crisis, expectations have shifted.
January 2025 ❄️
Posted: 30 January 2026
Subject: Katie Miller Makes a Classic Error
Excerpt: Does she oppose Enlightenment virtues, as her X posts suggest? Or is she just confused?
Posted: 25 January 2026
Subject: Minneapolis Is an “Insurrection” of Trump’s Own Making
Excerpt: The city has become ground zero for the Trump administration’s war on immigrants and the growing resistance to it.
Posted: 19 January 2026
Subject: The People vs. ICE
Excerpt: Across the country, neighbors are working together to protect one another from Trump’s immigration crackdowns.
Posted: 16 January 2026
Subject: Puerto Rico’s Mothers Against War Turn to Revolutionary Love
Excerpt: Formed to oppose the Iraq War, Madres Contra La Guerra have now spent decades trying to end Puerto Rico’s role at the center of the US war machine in Latin America.
Posted: 15 January 2026
Subject: A Minneapolis Teacher Wants the Whole Country in the Streets
Excerpt: Dan Troccoli, a public middle school teacher, says everyone should start “emulating” Minneapolis’s resistance to ICE and the Trump regime.
Posted: 15 January 2026
Subject: Let’s Make Renee Good the Last Person That ICE Kills
Excerpt: We can turn the tide against Trump—but only with mass action and courageous leadership.
November 2025 📅
Posted: 24 November 2025
Subject: An Anatomy of the MAGA Mind
Excerpt: Under Trump, post-liberal intellectuals have abandoned tradition for radicalism and scholarship for vulgarity.
Posted: 17 November 2025
Subject: Indigenous Activists to COP30: “We Will Fight to the Death”
Excerpt: Indigenous people lead COP30 protests against agribusinesses that “want to take everything.”
🎃 October 2025
Posted: 20 October 2025
Subject: No Kings Day Was a Joyous Carnival for Democracy
Excerpt: Millions of Constitution-loving Americans peacefully protested Trump’s authoritarian presidency. The GOP responded with military theatrics, threats, and scatological “jokes.”
Posted: 17 October 2025
Subject: Portland’s Theater-of-the-Absurd Protests Reflect the Ridiculousness of Trump’s Lies
Excerpt: If you can’t beat a federal administration at its own violent game, you can at least make it look foolish.
Posted: 16 October 2025
Subject: The Right Is Lying About Left-Wing Violence
Message: The Trump administration is using an imagined enemy—“antifa”—to justify turning ICE into an ultra-violent, unaccountable army invading US cities.
Posted: 7 October 2025
Subject: The Volunteers Tracking ICE in Los Angeles
Excerpt: How a small group of activists dubbed the “Peace Patrol” stymie the deployment of federal agents in California.