A Roundup of the Best Analyses
Let’s face it: Well-researched journalism is expensive and often locked behind paywalls, whereas inflammatory propaganda is made intentionally free so it can propagate through clickbait-loving algorithms. If we seek justice for all, we need to make knowledge available to all in our community, regardless of income or background.
So each month 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!
July 2026 📅
Posted: 20 July 2026
Subject: Why Andrew Tate Is a MAGA Superstar
Message: Manosphere celebrities—including alleged sexual predators like Tate—are a symptom of a politically resurgent misogyny.
Posted: 14 July 2026
Subject: What We Can Learn From the Current Menopause Moment
Message: At a time when the Trump administration is endangering women’s health, more than half the states, red and blue alike, have introduced menopause legislation.
Posted: 10 July 2026
Subject: How One Woman Is Using the UN to Attack Trans Rights Worldwide
Message: It’s no coincidence that the Supreme Court’s decision allowing trans sports bans echoes the work of Reem Alsalem, the UN special rapporteur on violence against women and girls.
Posted: 9 July 2026
Subject: I Quit College Basketball to Transition. This Is What the Debate About Trans Athletes Misses.
Message: In order to make progress on gender equity in sports, we must expand our understanding of trans people.
Posted: 2 July 2026
Subject: The Supreme Court’s Anti-Trans Ruling Goes Well Beyond Sports
Message: The ruling is about whether trans people have the same rights as everybody else—and the court said they don’t.
Posted: 1 July 2026
Subject: How Toxic Masculinity Took Over the Texas Senate Race
Message: The battle between James Talarico and Ken Paxton has been overwhelmed by demagogic gender politics.
🌈 June 2026
Posted: 30 June 2026
Subject: They’re Coming for Abortion, Only After the Midterms
Message: The administration may be reluctant to further undermine abortion rights before November, but the abortion-rights movement must stay vigilant.
Posted: 29 June 2026
Subject: Abortion Has Always Been an American Tradition
Message: More than one founding father knew that to be truly free, women needed control over their reproduction.
Posted: 26 June 2026
Subject: Protecting Children Means Defending LGBT Rights
Message: Around the world, governments are scapegoating LGBT people to build popular support for their erosion of individual rights—often under the guise of protecting children.
Posted: 23 June 2026
Subject: Will America Ever Give White-Man Rights to Everyone Else?
Message: If we want to make it another 250 years, the Constitution is going to have to do a lot more than protect individual political and civil rights.
Posted: 23 June 2026
Subject: We Can’t Let the Good Vibes Stop Us From Demanding More of Mamdani
Message: Mamdani’s Knicks speech was exhilarating, but we can’t let these kinds of spectacles prevent us from pressuring politicians to do better.
Posted: 16 June 2026
Subject: Hey, Don’t Forget: Women Are the Working Class in America
Message: There are more women in the labor force, yet the care economy is still underfunded and undervalued.
Posted: 11 June 2026
Subject: Breaking Donald Trump’s Cycle of Abuse
Message: Trump’s attacks on Americans are nothing short of domestic violence—and we must identify and treat them as such.
Posted: 11 June 2026
Subject: Inside the Conference Where Conservative Women Let Loose
Message: The mainstreaming of brazen sexism in the conservative movement left the attendees at Turning Point’s women’s summit looking for a soft place to land.
Posted: 5 June 2026
Subject: Graham Platner and the Rise of White-Male Identity Politics
Message: Platner’s rocket to stardom reflects something ugly that’s developed, not only on the right but the left as well.
Posted: 4 June 2026
Subject: A New Documentary Shows How Paid Leave Gives Families a Lifeline
Message: The film reveals what’s possible when families can access supportive policies. Olympic champion Allyson Felix understands this issue intimately.
Posted: 2 June 2026
Subject: Fascists Try to Write Trans People Out of the “Natural Order.” The Earth Disagrees.
Message: The vast majority of life on earth exists outside of sex and gender binaries—despite what the right likes to claim.
May 2026 🐝
Posted: 12 May 2026
Subject: Letters From the June 2026 Issue
Message: Midwestern Nice… Today’s “Jewish Question”…
🌺 April 2026
Posted: 23 April 2026
Subject: The Risk in Being More Than an Athlete
Message: Natasha Cloud became one of only a few professional athletes to speak about Gaza. Now she can’t find a WNBA team.
March 2025 🌷
Posted: 28 March 2026
Subject: My Childhood in the Weather Underground
Message: My parents founded the radical revolutionary group, then became fugitives. I was born in hiding, and spent my early years on the run.
Posted: 17 March 2026
Subject: Why Climate Activists Are Protesting Their Favorite Sports Teams
Message: Climate change is rendering the future of many sports more dangerous or impossible. But many teams are still taking fossil fuel dollars.
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.