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Protect Voting Rights, Protect Democracy on October 17th
Contrarian senior editor Tim Dickinson caught up with Ezra Levin, the co-founder of Indivisible. Its No Kings events…
War Expert Evaluates Iran, Gaza, China, and Ukraine
The fear of the forever war has captivated the American mind—and not for entirely wrong reasons. Twenty years…
Evening Roundup, September 9:
Spotlight StoryElection EpicenterIn the HeadlinesCulture ClashNEW: Daily Jolt!Media CenterThursday, September 9th, 9:15am ET:Jim Acosta joins Jen and Norm!…
How Did Members of Congress Vote on ICE Funding? Here’s How to Look It Up
How did your members of Congress vote on ICE funding? I will show you how to look it…
This Fall at the Movies, It’s Time to Eat the Rich
Andrew Garfield stars as Ploughman in The Uprising. (Credit: Betina La Plante/Focus Features. © 2026 All Rights Reserved.)In…
The Heroes of 9/11
Michael de Adder is an award-winning editorial cartoonist. You can find him on Substack here.The Contrarian is community-supported.…
MAGA Republicans’ Reign of Chaos Continues
A national loss. After unceasing, specious attacks on the Smithsonian, Lonnie G. Bunch III announced he would step…
Bombardier
Nick Anderson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist whose cartoons have appeared in the New York Times, the…
How to Keep Ex-Cons Out of Jail. The DSA’s Civil War. Plus. . .
It’s Wednesday, September 9. This is The Front Page, your daily window into the world of The Free…
Early Voting Plans Are Crucial to Defeating MAGA
The No Kings coalition, whose hundreds of affiliated groups have put millions of Americans into the streets in…
Arc De Capitulation
Nick Anderson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist whose cartoons have appeared in the New York Times, the…
How China Is Stealing America’s AI
American companies will spend roughly $700 billion this year on the physical build-out of artificial intelligence: data centers,…
Inside the ‘Data Center Capital of the World’
One of the wealthiest counties in the U.S. bet big on data centers and is already seeing the…
The Civil War Inside the DSA
At around 8:40 p.m. on a late August evening, a meeting of the South Brooklyn branch of the…
‘The Economy Is Doing Well, Except for Most of the People in It’
On this week’s Let’s Do Lunch, economist and Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress Jared Bernstein…