Trump’s tariffs could lead to stagflation. That would be a nightmare. Here’s what it means

For-profit immigration surveillance expands under Trump

‘Enormous pain for no gain’: Trump admin ramps up bombing of Yemen

Trump’s tariff plan is ‘malpractice,’ says former FTC Chair Lina Khan

Trump ‘doesn’t want you to protest’: Michael & Symone look ahead to major day of anti-Trump protest

‘Courage can be contagious, even if it’s in really small doses’: Universities begin to push back

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Velshi Banned Book Club: ‘The Great Gatsby’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald turns 100

‘I realized, it might have to be me’: Lawyer resigns from firm over Trump deal, says ‘pay attention’

Does Donald Trump even know what a trade deficit is? Here’s what it actually is

‘Frat boys’ running economy no way to boost American manufacturing

‘Hungry like the wolf for tariffs’: Trump’s trade policy unleashes chaos

Mahmoud Khalil, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and the soul of America

Velshi Banned Book Club: 'Good Boy' by Jennifer Finney Boylan

How decades of Supreme Court decisions eroding personal freedoms could play into Trump’s hands

‘Unwilling to admit the truth or unwilling to follow the law’: How Trump is changing the judiciary

Judge rules Alabama cannot target people aiding abortion

‘No support whatsoever’: Mahmoud Khalil lawyer says Columbia silent on detainment

Americans ‘want to know history and not a fairy tale’: Historians on Trump rewriting US History

Expert on civil wars around the world says the fight to save democracy must come from the bottom up

Velshi Banned Book Club: ‘You Must Take Part in Revolution’ by Melissa Chan and Badiucao

‘An aggressive assault on the separation of powers’: Ousted FTC Commissioners Sue Trump

‘It could be you tomorrow’: Rep. Pressley says detainment of Tufts PhD student ‘5-alarm fire’

When your miscarriage becomes the subject of a criminal investigation

Lina Khan: Trump’s FTC firings ‘blatantly illegal’ & sign of billionaire influence

Matthew Desmond: American social mobility used to be the rule– today it’s a coin flip

Vladimir Kara-Murza: Trump ‘relinquished any claim’ to the ‘Leader of the Free World’ title

Lawrence Wright’s new novel investigates a murder mystery in the West Bank and the conflict at large

‘Hypocritical,’ ‘lawless,’ ‘a provocation’: Laurence Tribe slams Trump’s attacks on judges

The MAGA Scare: Trump’s attacks on free speech won’t stop at college students

Velshi Banned Book Club: ‘The 57 Bus’ by Dashka Slater

John Harwood on Trump's attack on free speech: ‘Everyone in civil society needs to stand up'

‘Speak up, speak out, be bold’: Fmr. Gov. Inslee urges action from civil society leaders

‘This is blood on the arrow that stabs at Democracy’: Abortion bans threaten all our rights.

Wesleyan University President: 'The law should not dictate what your opinion is’

‘Punched in the nose’: Trump policies fuel sense of ‘anger,’ ‘betrayal’ in Canada

Velshi Banned Book Club: ‘The Awakening’ by Kate Chopin

Rep. Bennie Thompson: the ‘Al Greens of the world’ show people how to stand up to Trump

‘The unfinished business of the freedom movement’: 60 years after Bloody Sunday

Courts, but also the ‘power of the people’ will counter Trump’s fascism

‘Blatant cronyism’: Trump’s gutting of the civil service has historic parallels to ‘spoils system’

Censured Rep. Al Green: ‘We have to move forward with righteous incivility’

Trump DOJ wants to ‘pump the brakes’ on abortion suits, creeping toward goal of nation-wide ban

 Edward Fishman: How the U.S. turned the global financial system into a potent weapon of war

Fmr. Estonian President: Democracy a ‘curse word’ among some in the U.S.

‘We don’t feel we have control’: How social media algorithms have warped our attention spans

Velshi Banned Book Club: ‘Internment’ by Samira Ahmed

‘Paying no attention to consequences’: Agencies scramble to rehire experts fired by DOGE

‘Repeating the same mistakes over and over’: How U.S. policy led to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

‘I’m still hoping for a peaceful sky’: catching up with a Ukrainian teen after 3 years of war

Velshi Banned Book Club: Ukrainian literature and the ‘weight of history’

‘Absolute power consolidated in one person’: a slippery slope to the end of checks and balances

‘We want peace more than anybody else’: Ukrainian MP says security guarantees needed from Russia

'Hostile, toxic environment' in anti-abortion states is a threat to healthcare and doctors

Canada PM Candidate Chrystia Freeland: Trump’s tariffs ‘self-defeating and self-mutilating’

Velshi Banned Book Club: ‘Gone Girl’ by Gillian Flynn

How Musk’s businesses could benefit from his work at DOGE

Vladimir Kara-Murza: U.S. tech companies are ‘acting as accomplices to dictatorships’

Just two senators? If Trump wants Canada to join the U.S., it’s going take a lot more

Two teenagers, a tiny library, and the nations’ largest publishers take on Idaho’s book ban law

‘We’re protecting our kids’: Teachers brace for ICE agents to conduct arrests on school campuses

Nikole Hannah-Jones: Trump came right ‘out of the gate’ with a racial agenda—not an economic one

Wall Street celebrates as Trump targets consumer protections

Velshi: America’s global reputation and credibility is evaporating

‘We’re right back where we have always been’: Trump scapegoats DEI in DCA plane crash

Trump’s tariffs will cost you. Here’s how

Velshi Banned Book Club: ‘The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963’ by Christopher Paul Curtis

‘Are we going to be safe in the clinics?’: women’s health providers fear attacks after Trump pardons

Welcome to the new American oligarchy: Trump’s rise was decades in the making

Bolton: 'There is no question in my mind' Iran may take action against me

‘Retribution process on steroids’: Rep. Bennie Thompson on Trump’s first week

‘If you don't contextualize things, you can't stop them from happening again’: Author Peter Beinart

Velshi Banned Book Club: ‘The Consequences’ by Manuel Muñoz

Velshi: Trump is using manufactured fear to justify immigration crackdown

Jon Meacham: ‘Democracy is a manifestation of all of us’

Pardoned by Biden: ‘I dropped to my knees and I thanked God’

‘Without journalism you have no democracy’: Nobel Prize winner Maria Ressa’s warning

‘An attack on American people’: Fmr. WA Gov. Jay Inslee on the politicization of disaster relief

Velshi Banned Book Club: ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ by John Steinbeck

‘We’re afraid’: mixed-status families fear what’s to come under the new Trump Administration

Velshi Banned Book Club: ‘Fahrenheit 451’ by Ray Bradbury

‘You're not going to be able to trust what you see’: top fact-checkers on Meta

Rep. Raskin: We’re still in the fight of our lives’ against ‘authoritarian lies’

Rep. Stacey Plaskett: Trump may not have the hold he thinks over all Rs in congress

America’s lessons on the national security dangers of false information

‘They hurt us’: GOP Congressman says some Rs ‘play solitaire in the middle of a basketball game’

‘Most un-American thing we could possibly do’: Scrapping H-1B program limits U.S. economic growth

Heading into 2025, here’s the good news on the economy

How an American-born Chinese man ensured birthright citizenship in the U.S.

‘From tokenism to true diversity’: Carter’s influence on politics rooted in his small town past

‘In a new realm’: China’s escalating cyberespionage leaving the U.S. ‘so vulnerable’

When President Jimmy Carter tried to bring ‘pro-democratic alignment’ to Iran

‘Flawed, ill fated, unreliable’: Bryan Stevenson on the ‘barbaric’ capital punishment system

‘Unfinished business’: lawmakers push Biden to exonerate civil rights leader Marcus Garvey

GOP Rep. Don Bacon pushes back on Bannon and Musk: ‘Hyperpartisanship does not work’

‘A form of unfreedom’: how the omission of public data becomes propaganda

Why targeting the FDIC would mean economic disaster

‘Prototype example': How Syria’s civil war drove a refugee crisis still unsolved today

CFPB Director: Wall Street wants a lap dog, not a watchdog

Rep. Crockett to Speaker Mike Johnson: Don’t expect ‘any favors’ from Dems in new Congress

‘You have to have a battle plan going in’: Maria Ressa on how the press must prepare for Trump 2.0

‘You have to have a battle plan going in’: Maria Ressa on how the press must prepare for Trump 2.0

Velshi Banned Book Club: ‘The Girl on the Train’ by Paula Hawkins

‘Smorgasbord approach to the law’: effects of rollbacks in trans protections will ‘wide-ranging’

Donald Trump thinks he can end birthright citizenship. History suggests otherwise

GOP escalates its war on women with abortion travel bans

‘We are facing an epic battle’: Journalists prepare for second Trump term

Biden Energy Secretary: ‘We are re-industrializing America’

How the trans rights case at SCOTUS could ‘undermine’ equal protection laws

‘We are facing an onslaught’: How the NAACP and civil rights lawyers are prepping for new Trump era

Trump ‘firehoses’ people with ‘nutty rhetoric’ – and it’s meant to wear people out

‘Asbestos with better PR and a bigger checkbook’: Big tech goes unchecked in U.S.

‘The way to do the work is slowly, surely, and over time’: Corporate America and DEI

‘No safe place’: People of Sudan ‘dying from neglect’

The modern history Israeli-Lebanese relations

Velshi Banned Book Club: ‘That Librarian’ stands up to censorship

‘It matters for America’: Fmr. Pence advisor on Americans acting as a ‘guardrail’ to democracy

Doubt and distrust: how Trump’s new public health officials may undermine Americans’ safety

Donald Trump’s Cabinet and the Promise of Project 2025

Velshi Banned Book Club: ‘Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda’

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The truth about tariffs & how they work

'The public is shut out that way:’ How the lightspeed Trump-era news cycle hurts our democracy

'Hold the line': Nobel laureate says Americans should learn from the Philippines’ experience

Velshi Banned Book Club: Jodi Picoult urges readers to be louder than book banners

Fmr. Dep. National Security Adviser: Trump’s cabinet picks will remake gov’t 'in the image of MAGA'

Without access to the truth, we cannot have a democracy, says GW law professor

‘We will not be cowed’: State AGs prepare to steer the anti-Trump resistance

Eddie Glaude on the threat of a second Trump term poses to democracy and marginalized groups

Imani Perry: ‘we have to live according to our ethics as opposed to our fears’ under Trump term

Harris’ loss was a disappointment but voters must reckon with the fact the country did this

Why not here? What’s holding us back from putting a woman in the White House

Almost everywhere but here: the American problem of women and the highest office

Jon Meacham: History isn’t comforting, ‘it should be inspirational’

Velshi: History has taught us that defeat paves the way for triumph

Timothy Snyder: ‘You have to be in the moment in order to get through the moment’

Velshi Banned Book Club: how Maulik Pancholy got his book unbanned

Laurence Tribe: It’s not over. The resistance is about to ignite

West Wing cast: ‘It’s ok to expect more from our leaders’

Maddow shows how Trump abortion bans are hurting women: 'This is the fact of post-Roe American life'

Bernie Sanders: Trump 'in bed' with Netanyahu, GOP 'far worse' for Gaza

Tim Snyder: ‘do the things you can do’ – voting is what makes America ‘exceptional’

AG Keith Ellison: ‘It is important to see through our tears’

Historian on protest votes: ‘Consider what you’re doing very carefully’

'I give us the edge': WI Dem Chair calls out the GOP’s 'strategic mistake'

Donald Trump is running a shadow foreign policy, which has the world on edge

‘Premature capitulation’: WaPo editor Robert Kagan resigns in protest

Nikole Hannah-Jones: ‘We are teaching power what it can get away with’

These Republican Attorneys General want more teen pregnancies

‘Ultimate expression’ of both sides-ism: Mehdi Hasan takes down LA Times’ non-endorsement

‘Betrayal’: Marty Baron, former Washington Post editor, slams paper’s non-endorsement

‘He betrayed the nation’: Judge Luttig slams Trump, hopes Americans ‘come to their senses’

 Rep. Jamie Raskin: the answer to anxiety is ‘activism’ 

‘All hat and no cattle’: Colin Allred has words for opponent Ted Cruz

Today’s autocrats rise to power through elections, and then ‘dismantle the state’

Rep. Ruben Gallego: Kari Lake’s election lies have caused 'trauma' in AZ

‘How can a Conservative support such a person?’: Fmr. GOP Sen. Jeff Flake drags Trump on policy

‘I don't really know if I'm gonna remain a Republican’: AZ voters on political ‘no man’s land’

'The water, the sand, the mixing of the sand and the water’: Trump talks nonsense on climate

‘It’s almost become like sporting fandom’: AZ voters on the increasing political cruelty

Donald Trump said he would hire ‘the best people.’ His time in office suggests otherwise

‘Securing ourselves against ourselves’: Election officials in AZ go big on security measures

‘We’ve seen what he’s capable of’: AZ voters tell Ali Velshi why they’re voting Harris-Walz

Velshi Banned Book Club: Judy Blume and Jason Reynolds and the legacy of ‘Forever…’

‘He intends to do it again’: Michael Cohen sounds new alarms on Trump’s retribution plans

Support for abortion rights measure in Arizona cuts across party lines

‘Democrats voting for a third party is handing the vote to Trump’

‘At the mercy of these tech giants’: How Elon Musk & Big Tech could benefit from Trump 2.0

Believe him the first time: Donald Trump’s child separation policy was centered around cruelty

‘Obscene’: New report details Trump’s protection of Kavanaugh from sexual assault probe

‘Government based on meanness’: Errol Morris and Jacob Soboroff expose Trump policy in ‘Separated’

How Trump’s relationship with Putin undermines national security and empowers authoritarianism

Ta-Nehisi Coates: American culture ‘complicit’ in dehumanizing Palestinians

In push for fetal personhood, pregnant women are being jailed for miscarrying

‘He does not have the ability to tell the truth’: Rep. Jasmine Crockett slams Trump lies

‘Clear and present danger’: Project 2025’s plan to gut FEMA when it’s most needed

Ali’s hope for humanity in the next year

W. Kamau Bell on Trump-Musk alliance: 'People love a freak show'

SCOTUS heads into new term backed by 'emotional support billionaires'

‘Acting like a tyrant’: Rep. Raskin slams Trump after new Smith filings

'When we can’t speak, we can't think': Project 2025 plans bring a 'chilling' of liberties

Jack Smith’s latest court filing is a flashing red siren

'A scab': UAW President says Trump 'doesn’t give a damn about working class people'

Jessica Valenti: 'The end game is full abortion bans, no exceptions'

‘Did Reaganism contain seeds of Trumpism?’: Max Boot investigates in new book

‘We are at an inflection point’: U.S. Trade Rep. on new Biden Admin tariffs on Chinese EVs

‘Trickle down just doesn’t work’: The truth about tariffs and when they’re actually useful

‘It’s not good for public safety’: Project 2025’s extreme death penalty plan 

Historian Timothy Snyder: ‘Freedom is positive’ and ‘being joyous is the first step’

‘This is not trivial stuff’: Project 2025’s plan to ally the U.S. with authoritarians worldwide

Decoding Trump’s ‘anti-shame’ ritual: New book explores the ‘politicized emotions’ of MAGA

Treating abortion bans ‘as if they aren’t violence’ turns Black women into ‘collateral’

Don’t believe this dangerous conspiracy theory about Black women and abortion

Ken Burns on the ‘incredibly dangerous’ party that the GOP has ‘morphed’ into

Historian Timothy Snyder: ‘Freedom is positive’ and ‘being joyous is the first step’

Velshi: Citizenship is a muscle that weakens if you don’t use it

Abortion drugs and procedures are part of lifesaving treatments because abortion is healthcare

‘This is going to hurt you’: Inside Project 2025’s politicization of the Census 

GOP efforts to downplay abortion care can’t conceal all the women bleeding in parking lots

Abortion bans reduce women to breeding stocks– and that’s exactly the point

Michael Steele: ‘There was a reason you fired Donald Trump in 2020. Remember that reason'

How the GOP’s ‘war on public schools’ creates the ‘basis for authoritarianism’