Arlene Stein

Goodbye 60 Minutes: Two months into her takeover of CBS News, Weiss arranged a friendly interview with Donald Trump, a president who attempted a coup, pardoned the insurrectionists who stormed Congress, and is an adjudicated sexual abuser.
Robert Hubbell Nov. 3.

Opinion | There’s Still a Shared American Story, and JD Vance’s Blood-and-Soil Vision Isn’t It

If we’re to remain a free society, those committed to the American experiment are going to need to start expressing our civic national ideals as effectively and compellingly as the ethnonationalists articulate theirs.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...

Opinion | How to Be a Good Citizen of a Bad Country

To be a good citizen of a bad state, one has to do scary things.

How to Be a Good Citizen of a Bad Country www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...

There isn’t really a gap between Fuentes and MAGA. It’s like the Klan and the White Citizen’s Councils. They are part of the same white supremacist movement and largely disagree over tactics.

For those of you who may have missed this! Former President Obama yesterday! Nobody messages like he does and cuts straight to the truth! I sure miss him!

#USDemocracy
#Pinks

Dutch voters have been seduced by positivity – liberals elsewhere, take note | Simon van Teutem By selling hope alongside progressive patriotism, the centrist D66 party widened its appeal and beat the far right, says Dutch journalist Simon van Teutem

Jetten grasped that hope sells.

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Opinion | We Need to Rethink How We Think About the Holocaust

We Need to Rethink How We Think About the Holocaust www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...

Opinion | In Trump’s America, Are We Losing Our Democracy? Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.

Are We Losing Our Democracy? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Nope. Vote #MikieSherrill! #voteblue #NJ

Opinion | Democrats Are in Crisis. Eat-the-Rich Populism Is the Only Answer.

The moment for building a great progressive majority party has arrived, a coalition asserting itself against a sclerotic political elite, our economic overlords in Big Tech and Wall Street and a radical right.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/o...

How Politics Is Changing the Way History Is Taught

MADA. Make America Dumb Again.

How Politics Is Changing the Way History Is Taught www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/u...

Argentina’s Voters Hand Javier Milei a Crucial Victory in Midterm Election

Trump’s big bailout did the trick.

Argentina’s Voters Hand Javier Milei a Crucial Victory in Midterm Election www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/w...

Opinion | The Insidious Joviality of Nigel Farage

His unseriousness is a strength rather than a weakness, allowing him to draw from the darkest reaches of British politics without being overshadowed by them.

The Insidious Joviality of Nigel Farage www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o...

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‘History is repeating itself’: fight against far-right in London’s East End goes on Eighty-nine years after residents drove Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts from Tower Hamlets, anti-far right coalition is still vital in borough

The more things change….

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Justice Department Will Monitor Elections in California and New Jersey

In New Jersey, Justice Department officials said they would monitor polling in populous and immigrant-heavy Passaic County. They want to make immigrants, who skew democratic, afraid to vote.

Justice Department Will Monitor Elections in California and New Jersey www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

I joined my colleague, Senator Jeff Merkley, on the floor yesterday to help him explain how democracies die. There isn't one explosive moment - it is a slow consistent attack on opposition political speech until the rules are so rigged, only the regime can win elections.

A picture of women’s voting rights activists picketing outside the White House in front of the East Wing of the White House in 1917. This was the first time the White House had been picketed.

Bulldozed in 2025-as if this was his own property and not the peoples’ property. No one is holding him accountable. Get back to work @HouseRepublicans. You took an oath to protect our Constitution NOT this man. NO Kings in the USA!

Opinion | How Crypto Corrupted America

Crypto has become a machine for transferring control and wealth from the many to the few, a bribery-as-a-service platform for buying and selling influence among authoritarian oligarchs.

How Crypto Corrupted America www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/o...

‘Dictator-for-life vibes’: our architecture critic on Trump’s bulletproof ballroom bling He has already turned the Oval Office into a wrestler’s changing room. Now the president is building a place so gilded Nero would feel at home. Why did he pick an architect whose speciality is Catholi...

Trump’s style edicts and building bombast exude a dictator-for-life megalomania vibe, as he barrels through his second term, with an unconstitutional third potentially in his sights.

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Bay Area Protesters Try to Block Base Entrance Before Immigration Operation

More, please!

Bay Area Protesters Try to Block Base Entrance Before Immigration Operation www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...

In October 2024, the Economist reported that the U.S. economy was "the envy of the world."

The White House Wrecking Ball

“This is him physically doing it to us,” a tourist from Kentucky said, “just to show that he can.”

The White House Wrecking Ball www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...

Trump Administration Live Updates: White House Changes Course and Will Demolish Entire East Wing

Hubris (in Greek tragedy) excessive pride toward or defiance of the gods, leading to retribution or nemesis.

Trump Administration Live Updates: White House Changes Course and Will Demolish Entire East Wing www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

That’s why I love New York…

US leaders are erasing Black history. That threatens our future | Stacey Abrams and Esosa Osa DEI is being used as a smokescreen to roll back progress and consolidate power. The goal is to rewrite our nation’s story

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Jewish figures across the globe call on UN and world leaders to sanction Israel Exclusive: In an open letter, Israeli ex-officials, artists and intellectuals say ‘unconscionable’ actions in Gaza amount to genocide

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Opinion | It’s Never Just a Joke, JD Vance

Joking about Hitler is deadly dangerous.

It’s Never Just a Joke, JD Vance www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/o...

In Trump’s Washington, Hate Is Not a Deal Breaker

A group chat of young Republican operatives contained messages expressing a love for Hitler and suggesting that political opponents face gas chambers. Vice President JD Vance was among the group’s defenders.

In Trump’s Washington, Hate Is Not a Deal Breaker www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...