The Complexity of Harris鈥� Historic Candidacy
Women of color want demographic and political representation, just as wealthy white men have had for generations.
Donald Trump
Opinion | Native Rights | Election 2024 | NDN Collective | political violence | Trump Assassination | Democracy | Progress 2025: Colonialism and Sovereignty | White Supremacy | Progress 2025 | Gun Violence | Indigenous rights
Political Violence Is Not Violence Against Politicians
Indigenous communities have long resisted the false narratives of imperialist nations and are experts at countering the political violence of white supremacy.
Video | Gaza | 2024 Election | 大象传媒 Presents: Rising Up with Sonali | Assassination | RNC | Republican National Convention | Kamau Franklin
鈥淧olitical Violence鈥� From the RNC to Gaza
The RNC鈥檚 idea of 鈥淢aking America Safe Again鈥� is centered on policing and harsh anti-immigrant detention, not on gun violence.
Video | Supreme Court | SCOTUS | 2024 Election | 大象传媒 Presents: Rising Up with Sonali | Immunity | Lisa Graves
How to Save Democracy From the Supreme Court
In the wake of a Supreme Court ruling granting former president Donald Trump immunity from prosecution, Lisa Graves explains what鈥榮 at stake.
Video | Democracy | Fascism | 2024 Election | 大象传媒 Presents: Rising Up with Sonali | 34 Counts | Trump Conviction | Tara McGowan
Addressing America鈥檚 Political Amnesia
Have voters forgotten about the slide toward fascism precipitated by Trump? Journalist Tara McGowan sounds the alarm.
Video | Immigration | Mexico | Joe Biden | asylum | 2024 Election | 大象传媒 Presents: Rising Up with Sonali
Does Biden鈥檚 Border Policy Look Like Trump鈥檚?
Attorney Laura Flores-Perilla explains what鈥榮 behind President Biden鈥檚 harsh new border policy restricting asylum-seekers arriving via Mexico.
Video | New York | 大象传媒 Presents: Rising Up with Sonali | Corey Brettschneider | Felony | 34 Counts | Trump Conviction
Trump Becomes the First President Turned Felon
A constitutional scholar analyzes Donald Trump鈥榮 historic conviction, after years of avoiding legal accountability for alleged crimes.
Is Biden Determined to Lose the Election Over Israel?
Biden's unflinching support for Israel's genocide of Gaza threatens both Biden鈥檚 reelection and the United States amid fears that Donald Trump will win a second term.
Can Trump Be on the Ballot?
Trump appointed a third of the Supreme Court. Now, that same court will decide his fate.
Video | E Jean Carroll | Defamation | $83.3 Million | Media Matters | 大象传媒 Presents: Rising Up with Sonali | Right-Wing
To the American Right, Trump Can Do No Wrong
Right-wing audiences got a deeply distorted view of the verdict against Donald Trump in E. Jean Carroll鈥檚 defamation suit. Media Matters鈥� Courtney Hagle explains why and what to do about it.
Video | 2024 Election | 大象传媒 Presents: Rising Up with Sonali | Caucuses | Democracy | GOP | Iowa | Republican
Trump Wins in Iowa. Now What?
With Donald Trump鈥檚 landslide win at the Iowa Republican caucuses, pro-democracy groups are planning massive voter education campaigns.
Veterans Against Trump Call for Democratic Reforms
As Trump itches to return to the White House, how tenuous is U.S. democracy three years after the attack on the Capitol?
How Voters Can Protect Democracy鈥擳oday and Tomorrow
Here we go again. On Sept. 12, soon-to-be-deposed House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced an 鈥渋mpeachment investigation鈥� into President Biden. McCarthy was clearly trying to appease the extreme right-wingers in his
Can the 14th Amendment Keep Trump Off the Ballot?
Legal scholars and groups like Free Speech for People are making a strong case to keep Trump off state-level ballots in 2024.
Opinion | Georgia | Indictment | Trump indictment | Brad Raffensperger | Jack Smith | Chris Christie | 2024 Election | GOP Primary
Indictment Days Are Here Again
Trump keeps getting charged with crimes. Should we still care?
Will Trump Face Justice?
Trump was indicted for attempted election overturning, but not for insurrection. Legal scholar Corey Brettschneider dissects the charges.
Trump Was Arrested. Will He Face Justice?
A retired judge weighs in on the legal and political ramifications of the former president鈥檚 arrest and charges.
Turns Out, Trump Isn鈥檛 Above the Law
Whether or not a jury eventually finds Trump guilty or not guilty, the mere fact that a former president has been indicted sends a powerful message: No one is above the law.
To Inspire Antifascism, Graphic Novel Imagines a Successful Coup
Authors Alan Jenkins and Gan Golan have crafted a new graphic novel series offering a stark warning about how close the U.S. came to a fascist coup on Jan. 6, 2021.
A Coup for All Seasons
The next two years will mark a return to chaos in government, as an empowered right wing takes over the House.
Opinion | Fascism | January 6 | House Select Committee | January 6 Hearings | William Barr | Liz Cheney | Republican | Cassidy Hutchinson | Mike Pence | Insurrection
The Danger of Normalizing Trump鈥檚 Enablers
Testifying against Trump in the Jan. 6 Committee hearings should not absolve his enablers of the harm they helped him inflict.
Contextualizing the Jan. 6 Hearings
According to political analyst John Nichols, the House Select Committee hearings remind us that Trump was at the center of an attempted coup and, at the very least, that ought to make him ineligible for future elections.
Opinion | Democracy | Media | Gerrymandering | Ukraine | 2000 Election | Partisan Divide | Polarization
Can We Make an Alien Nation Familiar Again?
The decline of civil society has been well-documented, but its political turn poses a unique danger for the U.S.
The U.S. Constitution Was Meant to Be a Work in Progress
Author and legal scholar Elie Mystal鈥檚 first book argues that the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights are deeply flawed, but that it鈥檚 still possible to use them to protect the rights of women and people of color.
Opinion | Insurrection | 2022 Midterms | Republicans | GOP | voting rights | Joe Manchin | John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act | Democrats | Congress | Jan. 6 | Voter Suppression | January 6 | Joe Biden | Kyrsten Sinema | Freedom to Vote Act
Can We Still Save U.S. Democracy?
Voting rights reform has died an ignoble death in Congress. The way forward isn鈥檛 clear or inspiring, but at least we still have one.
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