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Portland’s ‘War Zone’ Is Like Burning Man for the Terminally Online

Isaac Stanley-Becker

October 2, 2025

Protesters—including one dressed in a chicken suit—gather after dark outside a big gray building surrounded by a chain-link fence.

Photos: Nepal’s “Gen Z” Protests

September 11, 2025

A protester carrying a Nepalese flag hangs a pirate flag on an ornate gate, as smoke and flames rise from a palace building in the background.

The ‘Remarkable Ability’ Many Dissidents Share

September 5, 2025

A black-and-white photo of protesters crowded under and on top of a bridge in Georgia.

What I Learned From the Georgia Protests

Lauren Grodstein

September 1, 2025

Photograph of protesters in masks surrounded by smoke, holding one flag of a red cross on white and another that is blue with a circle of yellow stars.

To See How America Unraveled, Go Back Five Years

Thomas Chatterton Williams

July 30, 2025

Side-by-side images of the January 6th riots on the left, and a Black Lives Matter protest at the Capitol on the right

The Court’s Liberals Are Trying to Tell Americans Something

July 17, 2025

Triptych showing liberal Supreme Court justices

When the Military Comes to American Soil

June 17, 2025

A diptych showing the presence of the U.S. National Guard in Los Angeles in 2025 and in Washington D.C. in 1967

‘This War Is Not Helping Us’

June 16, 2025

Women raise their hands in protest in front of a burning dumpster during the 2022 demonstrations in Tehran

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12 Days in Trump’s America

David A. Graham

June 16, 2025

Trump walks on a calendar starting on June 8

The Tyrant Test

June 16, 2025

Black-and-white image of California Highway Patrol officers holding to the ground and arresting a demonstrator at the L.A. protests.

Photos: ‘No Kings’ Protests Across America

June 15, 2025

Demonstrators hold signs as they march down a city street.

The Week That Changed Everything for Gavin Newsom

June 14, 2025

Photo of Gavin Newsom in front of a fence.

I’m Running Out of Ways to Explain How Bad This Is (Again)

June 13, 2025

Photograph of the L.A. protests

What Trump Missed at the Kennedy Center

June 12, 2025

Donald Trump juxtaposed with a flag of Cosette from Les Miserables, in a red-white-blue-and-black collage

Stephen Miller Triggers Los Angeles

June 11, 2025

Police officers stand in a line in front of a bridge with people standing on it

Are Liberals to Blame for the New McCarthyism?

June 11, 2025

Two boxers spar, each drawn in different shades of blue outlines.

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The Protests Are Just Starting

David A. Graham

June 10, 2025

Protesters in LA line up against a wall of National Guard members with shields

A Striking Moment in American Activism

John Hendrickson

May 23, 2025

A black-and white still from the documentary "Deaf President Now!" showing Gallaudet University student protesters assembled outside.

Shutting Down Salman Rushdie Is Not Going to Help

May 19, 2025

A silhouette of a graduation speaker on a field of blue, with old script from the U.S. Constitution inside.

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The Good News About Crime

David A. Graham

May 16, 2025

Two police barricades on the sidewalk

The Lies About Josh Shapiro Have Consequences

April 18, 2025

Looks Like Mussolini, Quacks Like Mussolini

April 15, 2025

Marble bust in shadows

Why I Played the Kennedy Center

April 10, 2025

Photos of the Kennedy Center and of Ryan Miller, lead singer of Guster

The Cardboard-Carrying Opposition Arrives

April 5, 2025

Protesters in Washington, D.C.

Protest in Trump 2.0 Looks Different

April 5, 2025

Animated illustration of silhouettes of protesters dwindling against a field of red.

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Why Canadians Are Better Than Americans at Protesting Trump Right Now

April 4, 2025

People look on as empty shelves feature with 'Buy Canadian Instead' signs after the top-five U.S. liquor brands were removed from sale at a B.C. Liquor Store.

The DEI Catch-22

March 19, 2025

A color photograph of brick buildings and a green lawn on Columbia University campus in Morningside Heights, New York.

The Supreme Court Foreign-Aid Ruling Is a Bad Sign for Trump

Stephen I. Vladeck

March 5, 2025

Photo of the Supreme Court building

The Opposition Is Already Growing

February 14, 2025

Raised fists, signs, and megaphones in between pillars of a courthouse

Republican Leaders Once Thought January 6 Was ‘Tragic’

Annie Joy Williams and Gisela Salim-Peyer

January 20, 2025

A color photograph of Trump supporters storming the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021.

The Next ‘Stop the Steal’ Movement Is Here

October 28, 2024

An image of a man in a cowboy hat that says "Stop the Steal" on it.

The Danger Is Greater Than in 2020. Be Prepared.

October 15, 2024

"I Voted" stickers, some with an American flag and some with an outline of Michigan

The Israeli Artist Who Offends Everyone

Judith Shulevitz

November 2024 Issue

painting of horrified woman wearing red with white polka dots, clutching living child in her arms while crouching next to tangled pile of dead children in pool of red blood with black background

When a Government’s Brutality Backfires

September 22, 2024

Anti-government protestors display Bangladesh’s national flag as they storm the prime minister’s palace.

Campus Protest Encampments Are Unethical

Conor Friedersdorf

September 16, 2024

A student looks out of a window at an encampment protest.

A Protest That’s Drowning in Its Own Tears

August 12, 2024

Demonstrators gather outside the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.