- The Climate Movement and Fascism
- The Right Targets Women’s Suffrage
- Inside Capitalism’s Hidden Command Centres
- Student Resistance to Authoritarianism
- How They Made a Mess of the ADL
- Republican Antisemitism is Nothing New
- Mic Drops of 2025
- Meanwhile in New Orleans
- Hey Artists
- Philly Soul and Today’s Pop Hits
The Climate Movement and Fascism
By Aru Shiney-AjayThe Forge
It feels naive to be building towards big climate legislation in 2029 when we don’t even know if we will have free and fair elections in 2026. Even though climate change has never been more urgent, it’s hard to argue we can organize for climate action (or any issue) without pushing back against authoritarianism now, and hard.
The Right Targets Women’s Suffrage
By Moira DoneganThe Guardian
More and more, influential voices in the Maga movement and the far-right Republican party are calling to strip women of the vote. Ultra-conservative Christian communities have long declared that women should withdraw from the public sphere, including from political participation, and submit to the rule of their husbands.
Inside Capitalism’s Hidden Command Centres
By Benjamin SelwynLe Monde diplomatique
Economic planning has re-entered mainstream discourse and policy – it is present in talk of green transitions, national security and supply chain resilience. Some academics have been advocating the return of industrial policy and planning for a while, but now a range of increasingly popular left-wing politicians have joined them in promoting it.
Student Resistance to Authoritarianism
By Nick EngelfriedWaging Nonviolence
As students protest the Trump agenda, they are already having to navigate a trend of increased restrictions on campus speech, some of which began even before the second Trump administration. At many universities, the crackdown started during last year’s widespread protests for Palestine.
How They Made a Mess of the ADL
• Never Give a Sucker an Even Break By Mari Cohen and Alex Kane, Jewish Currents
• Covering for MAGA By Ron Kampeas, Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Republican Antisemitism is Nothing New
By Natasha Soffer-Roth+972
Suddenly, the party that has sought to claim a monopoly on defending Jews — largely through the pro-Israel plank of its agenda — and a think tank that positioned itself as leading the charge against antisemitism are scrambling to grapple with a very public fallout over the anti-Jewish bigotry in their own backyard.
Mic Drops of 2025
By Andi ZeislerSalon
You have to take your wins where you can get them, and given that 2025 has consisted of day after day and month after month of horrible people doing, saying, and trying to justify cruel, inhumane, and stupid things, many of those small wins have come in the form of retorts. Here, in no particular order, are the best takedowns of the year.
Meanwhile in New Orleans
By Hamilton NolanCurrent Affairs
As in Los Angeles, and Chicago, and North Carolina, New Orleans has, in a short time, built a remarkably sophisticated region-wide network of citizens ready to film the dirty dogs doing their work. At trainings every single night of the week in different neighborhoods around the city, the regular people learned what they can do in the face of the terror.
Hey Artists
By Jesús IñiguezPrism
Even though we’re currently in the middle of an onslaught of procedural, systemic shifts that make many of our lives harder, this is a cultural war in which we’re all engaged. So in order to codify systemic shifts, the culture has to accept it. The Trump administration knows this, which is why it’s co-opting platforms to spread its rhetoric and propagandize its vision.
Philly Soul and Today’s Pop Hits
By Jared Bahir BrowshThe Conversation
Teddy Pendergrass would have turned 75 this year. Although he died in 2010, he helped usher in an era of music that brought both disco and more mature, sensual music to the mainstream – and I see his influence in a number of pop and R&B hits today.
