“Todd insisted that women are simply not ‘built’ for leadership by nature, a truth that he argued any young man can easily see” www.liberalcurrents.com/abuser-polit...

"Although a liberal education is about freedom, it does not produce a person unbounded by responsibility. Rather, a liberal education forms the person to extend themselves deeper into the world by affirming and loving it, and ultimately claiming responsibility for its transformation."

Half the Answer #75: What the hell is going on in Texas? Trent and Caitlin welcome Houston culture reporter Gwen Howerton about the Texas senate primaries, censorship in prisons, and the state of LGBTQ+ rights in the Lone Star State. www.liberalcurrents.com/what-the-hel...

Gangsterism is what FDR called it Trump, Putin, Xi No kings, no gangsters

"The obstruction of immigration and naturalization was one of the very grievances that animated the Declaration of Independence." www.liberalcurrents.com/abolition-am...

I am adopted. Like many adoptees from my era and before, I have no information about my biological parents and access to my original birth certificate. This is my contribution to the birthright citizenship debate: www.liberalcurrents.com/adoption-bel...

“Young people are not indifferent to what is going on, nor has online culture completely drained our attention. Instead, Nyhan identifies a much larger problem: ingrained cynicism.” Read @josephhillyard.bsky.social today www.liberalcurrents.com/overcoming-i...

"As with any incoherent doctrine, originalism allows you to prove anything. Thus in practice what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text from a few centuries back, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before."

"In typically Trumpian fashion, these actions are shocking to the common understanding—and the intent of—the U.S. Constitution." www.liberalcurrents.com/how-the-supr...

My attempt to put words to my own Gen Z cynicism and unofficial recommendation to read Doris Kearns Goodwin's memoir for @liberalcurrents.com

lmao

Taking Trump seriously & literally, this is who we are:

“We must honor the dead, the deported, and the dispossessed by fighting like hell for our future.” www.liberalcurrents.com/overcoming-i...

“Young people are not indifferent to what is going on, nor has online culture completely drained our attention. Instead, Nyhan identifies a much larger problem: ingrained cynicism.” Read @josephhillyard.bsky.social today www.liberalcurrents.com/overcoming-i...

"The internet offers a psychedelic dreamscape of gender, perfected. Men with bulging pecs and gleaming biceps. Tradwives bursting out of their cottagecore dresses, slowly whipping batter and cream. You know the aesthetic I'm talking about." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-new-gend...

"DHS and DOJ are being made to expend a much higher percentage of their finite resources than they would without the heroic work of immigration attorneys and the commitment of federal judges—including many Trump appointees—to the rule of law." www.liberalcurrents.com/why-we-fight/

"Unlike the classic 1972 bubble example of 'No one I know voted for Nixon,' it's now a chattering class set who are all telling each other 'Everyone I know is very concerned that trans people are going too far.'" www.liberalcurrents.com/trans-panic-...

"The aggression of gangster powers should be understood as a quest for personal aggrandizement and ego inflation by gangster leaders and movements possessed by delusions of historical grandeur—not questions of national security or even ideology as commonly understood."

"Trump himself now claims to possess absolute power to order the U.S. military to attack any nation in the world solely on his whim, constrained only by his own debased sense of morality—an assertion made real by his war with Iran." www.liberalcurrents.com/a-new-era-of...

"The notion that the United States is a place in which anyone can succeed if they work hard enough was conveyed in almost every conversation. In fact, I had never heard this outlook repeated as often as I did from anyone else before or since." www.liberalcurrents.com/i-worked-in-...

"President Trump has made plain that he’s eager to inaugurate a new era of international gangsterism—this time with the United States as a gangster power alongside Vladimir Putin’s Russia and Xi Jinping’s China." www.liberalcurrents.com/a-new-era-of...

"Defenders of the movement often retreat to a familiar rejoinder: parental rights simply mean keeping the state out of family life. But…the most vocal champions of parental sovereignty routinely support aggressive state intervention when families depart from preferred norms."

"President Trump has made plain that he’s eager to inaugurate a new era of international gangsterism—this time with the United States as a gangster power alongside Vladimir Putin’s Russia and Xi Jinping’s China." www.liberalcurrents.com/a-new-era-of...

"The aggression of gangster powers should be understood as a quest for personal aggrandizement and ego inflation by gangster leaders and movements possessed by delusions of historical grandeur—not questions of national security or even ideology as commonly understood."

“Gangster powers further maintain that the world can and should be carved up into spheres of influence to be ruthlessly dominated by great powers as they see fit. This central tenet of international gangsterism is most glaringly obvious in Vladimir Putin’s proprietary attitude toward Eastern Europe”

“America’s own war aims involved eradicating the scourge of international gangsterism by ridding the world of outlaw nations like Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.” www.liberalcurrents.com/a-new-era-of...

The owner of the New York Times has proudly proclaimed: “We’re not the resistance. We are nobody’s opposition.” To fight fascism we need opposition media with a backbone. Liberal Currents is that. Help us grow our voice. www.liberalcurrents.com/support-us/

“March 13th, 2026, ICE detained the 41-year-old while preparing to drop his children off at school in Richardson, Texas. Less than 24 hours later, the father of six, and an Afghan special forces soldier who worked alongside U.S. soldiers for over a decade, died in ICE custody.”

“The Islamic Republic may not be able to pull off a terrorist attack of the type the Arab resistance pulled off in 1982, or of the kind it funded in 2023, but it can pursue a desperate plan to devastate the global economy.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-war-that...

"Helium, for example, is necessary for producing computer chips and medical technologies like MRI systems, and the loss of Qatar’s helium industry, responsible for roughly one-third of global production, has created something of a production crisis for both sectors."

Today @goodmanwrites.bsky.social asks us to put ourselves in the shoes of the Afghani allies that the Trump administration is targeting www.liberalcurrents.com/i-worked-in-...

"In May 2025, Krisi Noem said that Afghans no longer need Temporary Protected Status (TPS), and that it was safe for them to go back to Afghanistan. The following month, in June, ICE began detaining Afghans at their asylum hearings." www.liberalcurrents.com/i-worked-in-...

In Minneapolis, ICE targeted the Hmong-American population, who came here after helping us in the Vietnam war. Today @goodmanwrites.bsky.social writes about how our Afghani allies may now be targeted. He talks about the men and women he met working on the operating that brought them here

“I shouldn’t have to try and convince the American public that pluralistic societies are stronger, or list the several positive effects that immigrants have on their communities, or explain how thorough the vetting process was (. . .). They don’t need to be perfect; they need our help.”

My first published piece of the year. This is a topic I care about immensely, and one I fear is underreported in the U.S. I hope whoever reads this gains some value out of it.

“I know from personal experience that this is a population who risked their lives working with the United States government. People who, if they returned to Afghanistan, would likely be targeted by the Taliban. Now, that same government is turning its back on them in a grave act of betrayal.”

"Reagan initially said that he would not be cowed by terrorism, but an attack of that magnitude and a death toll of that scale was enough to change his mind." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-war-that...

Neon Liberalism #67: According to all current polling, Graham Platner will be Maine's next senator—despite a Nazi tattoo, a history of controversial social media posts, and an almost-total lack of political experience. What does this tell us about the direction of the Democratic Party?

March's Opposition Report will be published this week. Sign up as a paid subscriber now at any tier and you'll get @chancephillips.bsky.social's very valuable summary of the month of news. www.liberalcurrents.com/support-us/

“Ever since the war began, the once unthinkable closure of the Strait of Hormuz—and the long term, potentially permanent destruction of oil and gas capacity throughout the region—has become a reality on a scale not seen since Saddam Hussein burned Kuwait's oil fields”

Listen to @gawattia.bsky.social talk about what history can teach us about the war in Iran youtube.com/shorts/fWImX...

Reminder that if you are interested in a print copy of The Reconstruction Papers, you can help us with our planning by logging your interest in our survey (not a pre-order, just a way for us to gauge the volume of our print run) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

“Ever since the war began, the once unthinkable closure of the Strait of Hormuz—and the long term, potentially permanent destruction of oil and gas capacity throughout the region—has become a reality on a scale not seen since Saddam Hussein burned Kuwait's oil fields”

“The world’s growing economic interdependence as well as the diversification of the economies of the Persian Gulf mean even more sectors are directly impacted by the present crisis than was the case during the original oil shocks.” www.liberalcurrents.com/worse-than-t...

"The president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., is an adviser to both Polymarket and Kalshi, and an investor in the former. As the federal government has shown its willingness to cozy up to the industry, it has legitimized what would otherwise be under greater scrutiny."

"The idea that there are huge swaths of the United States populace who want and need the right wing’s unreality—their alternative reality—is a farce: a gaudy, festering artifice constructed and maintained by a million people who need it to be real for financial, political, and cultural purposes."

"The most direct and reliable consequence of cynicism isn’t wisdom, it’s passivity." www.liberalcurrents.com/why-we-fight/

"Chris Krebs, the former director of US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure, has outlined three time-clocks: an agriculture clock which runs in weeks, a food security clock which runs in months, and a geopolitical clock which runs in years." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-war-that...

"Coolness is almost always framed as manliness… The pink hat–wearing liberal women who have marched consistently against Trump since his rise, the kind of liberal archetype so many online sneer at as overly earnest and ultimately ineffectual, are regularly discarded as 'wine moms.'"

It's that moment again. (article from last June) www.liberalcurrents.com/now-is-the-m...