Anand Giridharadas

WATCH: Zohran wants a new New York Mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani on making New York livable again, balancing safety and justice, Cuomo after #MeToo, AOC in 2028, how he would fight ICE raids, and whether he will rap again

New interview: I talked to NYC mayoral hopeful @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social about making New York livable again, balancing safety and justice, Cuomo after #MeToo, AOC 2028, if he'd fight ICE raids, and whether he will rap again.

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Welcome to the Trump economy.

WATCH: Do Dems need new leaders? "Fair point," Ro Khanna says I ask the California congressman about the Trump slump in the markets, why Democrats seem so spineless, how the donor class sabotaged his party, and what his vision for a comeback looks like

I asked a prominent congressional Democrat if the party needs new leadership. His answer surprised me: “It’s a fair point,” he said.

Is it a crack in the edifice?

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Why have you voted for any Trump nominees during an autocratic hostile takeover of our institutions by illegal means?

In Trump’s Washington, a Moscow-Like Chill Takes Hold A new administration’s efforts to pressure the news media, punish political opponents and tame the nation’s tycoons evoke the early days of President Vladimir V. Putin’s reign in Russia.

Peter Baker at The New York Times is doing something a lot of the mainstream press is not, and it deserves to be noticed.

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Government is a miracle Why DOGE's attack on "waste" is really an attack on an entire century of progress

Let it be said. Our government and the people who work for it are not a waste or a fraud. They are a modern goddamn miracle.

If Elon Musk doesn’t like a government that serves all the people, he is welcome to build a time travel machine and return to Apartheid South Africa.

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I didn’t think he’d be able to work the Jews in as well, but he was very efficient in a short space.

Really appreciate viewer feedback

Not one vote. What are these people doing?

YouTube video by MSNBC Anand Giridharadas: America is living through a hostile takeover by billionaires and bullies

Call it what it is. A hostile takeover by bullies and billionaires.

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If only there were a word for this

Well, I tried to warn everybody about oligarchs a few years ago, and fortunately everyone listened, and now everything is fine

Sadly, it turns out my mother only gets one vote.

I said what I said. I’m sorry, but politeness and deference are gonna cause us to lose the Republic.

America today is living through a hostile takeover by bullies and billionaires.

It is rampaging unopposed because leading Democrats don't know how to fight.

Step up, own the failing, and change -- or make way for the fighters in your ranks.

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WATCH: An *actual* plan to beat fascism A masterclass from political sage Anat Shenker-Osorio on how you can fight back against Trump II, create "social proof," mobilize your community, stop waiting for Democrats, and start getting it DONE

Always an honor, and a treat, to talk to @anandwrites.bsky.social about how to fabulously fight fascism:
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WATCH: An *actual* plan to beat fascism A masterclass from political sage Anat Shenker-Osorio on how you can fight back against Trump II, create "social proof," mobilize your community, stop waiting for Democrats, and start getting it DONE

The month of moping ends now.

Here is an incredibly practical plan for fighting fascism. And it involves you acting, not waiting for Democratic spinal growth.

Let’s go. Watch and share Anat Shenker-Osorio’s brilliance.

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Jail the reporters. Free the neo-Nazis What explains the confounding Trump-Musk(-Vance) view of "free speech"?

No surprise for a guy with more incarnations than a Hindu god, but JD Vance — once the media darling who tried to paulrevere about Trump’s Hitlerian potential — has become the concubine in a governing triumvirate that wants to jail U.S. reporters and free German neo-Nazis.

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WATCH: Dem Senator warns U.S. may be "months" from "irreversible" destruction of democracy In an interview, Sen. Chris Murphy issued a grave warning about the country's most "serious moment" since the Civil War and answered questions about how Democrats must change their ways fast

New interview: Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social told me U.S. may be "months" from "irreversible" destruction of democracy; "most serious moment since the Civil War.”

We had a blunt talk about how Dems need to wake up and change approach fast and what you can do.

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20,000!!!

We are learning that, at the commanding heights of American life, there is little courage. But courage is rising from below. And it is only that that will save us.

I talked about yesterday‘s 50501 protests, which should not be ignored.

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ESSAY: Home of the brave? Really? Who will stand up for democracy?

I wrote about “Democratic legislators and leaders who have no lack of courage when asking you for $5 via text message, but who ghost harder than single men in their 20s when the time comes for us to reap our investment in them.”

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ESSAY: Home of the brave? Really? Who will stand up for democracy?

It’s time to take back our country. Not only from this authoritarian nightmare, but also from the collaborators too insipid and weak and chickenshit — too skinless and boneless — to stand up for us.

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How to survive the abuser-in-chief The Ink “sees” a therapist to explore the links between narcissism and authoritarianism — and get some advice for the next four years

The Ink went to “see” a therapist to ask how we, and you, might survive four years of this abuser-in-chief. We got great advice.

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Trump pardons…cancer? As-yet-uncured ailments score a major victory

Don’t let the technical be the enemy of the true:

Donald Trump is waging a war on medical cures.

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in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?

Football, but make it more dangerous On Super Bowl Sunday, an old pastime intersects with a new epidemic: betting

America is an amazing land of innovation. It took something already profoundly dangerous, football, and found a way to add another layer of danger on top.

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The Gaza Riviera and the real estate of memory In a new book, the writer Pankaj Mishra reveals how two of the great liberation stories of the last century collided in Gaza. The war, he says, has changed the world -- and probably changed you, too

There is before Gaza, and there is after. Don’t miss this conversation with the brilliant Pankaj Mishra.

About the uses and abuses of memory, about the clash of liberation narratives, and so much more.

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