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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

Neon Liberalism #60: Minneapolis Under Siege

Samantha and guest Will Stancil talk the murder of Renée Good and the Trump administration's larger assault on Minneapolis. Will is on the front lines of monitoring ICE in Minneapolis, working with his neighborhood rapid reaction group, and remains a vital commentator and activist in this disturbing time.

Half the Answer #59: Understanding Stephen Miller

Trent and Caitlin catch up with Greg Sargent from The New Republic about his recent piece exploring the family history and ideology of Stephen Miller. How did the product of Russian Jewish refugees come to see today's refugees as incapable of integration in American society? What are the

The New Epstein Island Is Right in Your Pocket: It’s Time to Abandon Elon Musk’s Paradise of Abuse

It has long been time to leave X. Now, it’s essential.

So, How’s the Occupation Going for You?

What’s it like to live in America with a domestic military occupation? Minnesota has the answer.

Cancel Culture Goes MAGA

MAGA's campaign of government censorship and repression is an assault on fundamental free speech values.