Cover Stories

School of Hard Knocks: What the Left learned from a bruising election (In These Times)

Tennessee Organizers Are Taking the State Back From the Right. Here's How. (In These Times)

Reporting and Features

Queer Folks Mobilize for Palestine(In These Times)

Project 2025: What Is It and How Would it Impact Gen Z and Millennials? (Teen Vogue)

Meet the Black Kingmakers Left Behind After Democrats Killed Their Iowa Caucus (Mother Jones)

The Largest Pro-Palestinian Protest in U.S. History Was "A Turning Point." Now It's Spreading. (In These Times)

From Illinois to Tennessee, Drag Performers are Resisting Anti-Trans Legislation (In These Times)

How the Tennessee GOP is Trying to Mute Music City (Bolts)

Black Educators Are Reimagining A Better School System (In These Times)

Queer Rage, Drag Artistry, and Political Action in the Nation’s Capital (730DC)

Interviews

BRYAN WASHINGTON with Henry Hicks IV on Palaver (The Brooklyn Rail)

“We Have a Common Enemy—And It’s Not Your Immigrant Neighbor”(The Nation)

David Hogg on the DNC Election, Zohran Mamdani’s Win, and Progressive Challengers in Democrat Primaries(Teen Vogue)

Anderson Clayton, North Carolina Democratic Party Chair, on Youth Power and Rural Organizing (Teen Vogue)

In combatting disinformation, Black River Life founder says fighting white supremacy is crucial. Here’s what journalistic repair looks like. (Facts Forward, PEN America)

Disinformation is taking a toll on LGBTQ+ rights. Here’s how two Phoenix journalists are trying to slow its spread. (Facts Forward, PEN America)

Reviews and Commentary

Review: Shannon Sanders’s The Great Wherever (The Brooklyn Rail)

Review: Tolani Akinola’s Leave Your Mess at Home (The Brooklyn Rail)

Review: Ellis Scott’s Night Terminus (The Brooklyn Rail)

Review: Brandon Taylor’s Minor Black Figures (The Brooklyn Rail)

Review: Jeremy Atherton Lin’s Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told (The Brooklyn Rail)

Review: Seán Hewitt’s Open, Heaven (The Brooklyn Rail)

Review: Sam Sax’s Yr Dead(The Brooklyn Rail)

Review: Danez Smith’s Bluff(The Brooklyn Rail)

Review: Vinson Cunningham’s Great Expectations(The Brooklyn Rail)

Review: Brandon Taylor’s The Late Americans(The Brooklyn Rail)

Review: Alex Dimitrov’s Flowering “Love” and “Loneliness” (Hooligan)

The Black, Jewish, and Palestinian liberation struggles are intertwined (The Guardian)

A Tradition of Radical Imagining (The Drift)

Resilience to disinformation starts at home (The Miami Herald)

O’Shae Sibley’s murder is an attack on LGBTQ people and their expression, as both rise (Washington Blade)