Victim on Trial: From Jennifer Levin to Renée Nicole Good
The Trump administration is deploying a time-tested playbook against women who were murdered.
We Are Doing Things About It: Getting Accurate Information in Occupied Minneapolis
Minnesota’s playbook against DHS’s occupation shows how residents connect together to get their information needs met without the news media spectacle.
The Badge Is a Burden Not a Privilege
The power of state violence comes with the obligation to uphold a higher standard, not permission to excuse a lower one.
Neon Liberalism #61: The State of the Resistance
Samantha interviews Professor Omar Wasow, challenging him to reflect on the first year of the second Trump administration. What forms of resistance have worked? What forms have been less successful? Why is the regime trying to "recreate 2020," and why are they failing? Professor Wasow tells a story
Building a Bigger and Better Liberal Currents
The public fundraiser campaign is over. We are now heads down and putting your donations to good use.
The Editors' Chat #10
Ideological axes, Venezuela, Greenland, what to pitch us, and more.
Half the Answer #61: The Year We Lost Everything: Appraising 2025 and Fighting Back in 2026
Trent and Caitlin ask Evan Urquhart about his 2025 wrap up piece on Assigned Media: "The Year We Lost Everything." They discuss the need to take stock of where we are on trans rights, autonomy and the various freedoms we hold dear, and the value of acknowledging that
After Trump, the Flood
On the ending of things and the need for post-diluvian politics.
FDR’s Four Freedoms and the Second Bill of Rights
The social welfare state, winning World War II, and building the liberal order after Trump.
Liberalism Did Not Fail, Conservatism Did
We are moving from an ideologically multipolar world, to a bipolar one.
We Have Organized, and More Must Do So
Minneapolis has shown us the path.
Half the Answer #60: 2025's Word of the Year
Caitlin and Trent chat with linguistics scholars Savi Namboodiripad and Daniel Midgley on what word most exemplifies 2025. Was it a new coinage? A pre-existing word that gained a new meaning or usage this year? A word that seemed to be on everybody's lips in 2025? Half the