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Sen. Jeff Merkley Wants to Stop Pouring More Money into Trump's War with Iran
The MAGA-Coded Reality TV Villain With Surprisingly Good Politics
Pistachio and Lemon Olive Oil Cake
Athletes Keep Letting Trump Make Fools Out of Them
Rev. Jackson’s Legacy Demands More: Disturb the Comfortable Anyway
Every Expansion of Democracy Has Faced Backlash
What’s Driving the Partisan Divide on Iran?
The Contrarian Covers the Democracy Movement
On the Ground in the Middle East
LIVE w/ April Ryan: The Tea ft. Mary Trump & Rep. Kweisi Mfume
A Day on the Front Line of America's Abortion War
Oppose War, Stand Up for Women and Science
Sen. Merkley Condemns "Funding an Unconstitutional War"
Take Notice of Who Celebrates Women
Where U.S. Athletes Always Lose: Healthcare
Trump Brings America Closer to a Quagmire in Iran with No Clear End in Mind
Coffee with Contrarians and G. Elliott Morris: The Numbers Behind the Dems' Primary Wins
The Year Texas Might Turn Blue
What is the War Powers Resolution?
How Are Black Americans Engaging with Elections Now?
Dems' Big Night, GOP's Rough Path Forward
The Urgent, Oscar-Nominated Film That Goes Inside the Country's Deadliest Prisons
NC Voters Oust Politically Unfaithful Officials
Why We Fight for Science When Everything Is Going Sideways
Trump and Hegseth Want AI Without Rules
Coffee with Contrarians and Simon Rosenberg: Dems HUGE night
The Silent Starvation of American Science
Democracy Rises and Falls with Women’s Movements and Mobilization
War with Iran Is a War of Choice
Ken Paxton: Scandal, Rinse, Repeat
Trump’s War Underscores His Massive Betrayal
Trump's Avoidable, Deadly, Costly War with Iran
The Paramount/Warner Bros. Merger Is Not What a Free Press Looks Like
Operation Epic Fury and the Law
Congress: Do Your Job, Not What's Politically Safe
The Deeper Challenges at ICE and CBP
Trump starts a war with Iran that few Americans support
The Human Toll of Trump's Unconscionable Iran Attack
Iran Poses No Imminent Threat. So, Why Are We Attacking?
Trump’s War on Iran Is Illegal
Coffee with Contrarians ft. Tom Malinowski
An Illegal, Unjustified War Underscores Danger of Media Consolidation
Reactions to Trump’s Iran Strikes
Jen Rubin with Steve Cook: Iran Breaking News
World Leaders React to the Strike on Iran
*Special Report on Trump's Reckless War*
Breaking News: A Reckless War in Iran
Trump Launches Another Illegal War
Trump Can’t Use War or Other Excuses to Take over American Elections
Justin Wolfers on Tariffs, the Myth of Job Growth, the Reality of Racism
Preserving Black History in the Trump Era
“We Will Abolish ICE”: The New Protest Songbook
From Award Shows to Basketball Games, Caucasians Keep Shouting the N-Word
LIVE w/ April Ryan: The Tea ft. Kica Matos & Mo Ivory
Are Arizonans on the Verge of Dumping MAGA?
The Success of 'Heated Rivalry' Is a Lesson for the Men’s Hockey Team
Trump’s Plot to Make the Lost Cause Great Again
Jaylen Brown Should Make an Example out of the Beverly Hills Police
Coffee with Contrarians ft. Randi Weingarten
Okay, What's Actually Happening with the Tariffs?
The Rip-roaring Response to Trump’s Lies
Reclaiming Faith for Democracy
Contrarians in the Classroom and Beyond
The American People Aren't Buying Trump’s Lies
The Reverse Robin Hood of Trump's Tariffs
Business Leaders Welcome SCOTUS Tariffs Decision
The Trump Regime’s Misogyny is Rampant in Immigrant Detention Centers
A State of the Union for the People
New poll: Voters would pause deportations to lower housing, food prices
Coffee with Contrarians ft. Paul Raushenbush
When Intelligence Judgments Become the Problem
Alternative State of the Union: Live w/ April Ryan
Exploring the Fraught, Fruitful Alliance Between Black and Jewish Americans
How Religion is Being Weaponized in American Elections
TONIGHT: The Contrarian's State of the Unions
Mr. President, Are You Listening?
Millions of Americans Are Paying for Health Insurance But Can’t Afford to Get Sick
Democratic Lawmaker Humiliates Trump After Stunt Backfires
End Religious Nationalism in Politics
How I Got Past Massie Derangement Syndrome
Americans and the Supreme Court Agree: Trump Overstepped on Tariffs
212. The Gorsuch-Kagan Tariffs Exchange
The UK and Other Democracies Hold the Epstein Elite Accountable
Last Chance! Contrarian Merch 💙
Donald Trump Scores Two Holes-in-None
Will the Economy Improve Now that Trump's Tariffs are Gone?
What's Next After Trump's L on Tariffs. Rep. Bennie Thompson on SOTU, ICE & more
Not-Quite-Healthy I Love You Truffles
Culture Recs: The Work of Frederick Wiseman
SCOTUS Knocked Down Tariffs. What Now?
Can We Still be Romantic About Sports?
Election Interference & A War with Iran?
Ken Paxton is No Stranger to Controversy. Here’s Nearly 20 Years of Scandals & Headlines
Undaunted in Denouncing Religious Hypocrites
LIVE w/ April Ryan: The Tea ft. Rep. Thompson & J. Terry Edmonds
They’re Echoing Nazis. It’s Not an Accident. It’s a Strategy
Jesse Jackson’s Death Highlights the Absurdity of Stephen A. Smith’s Political Aspirations
Talarico's Colbert Moment, MAGA Eats their Own and Previewing the Midterms
Jackie Robinson Found Acceptance in Montreal
Chairman of "Peace" Board Starting a War with Iran?
Inside Trump’s ICE Concentration Camps
Older Women — Not Young Men — Might Save Democracy
Coffee with Contrarians ft Katie Phang
Jesse Jackson’s Passing Should Stir the Democracy Movement
We Can Fight Back Against White Supremacy
CBS Tries to Kill Stephen Colbert's Interview With James Talarico; Makes it Go Viral Instead
The Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Legacy
Trump's Government Mainstreams White Supremacy
Last week’s Munich Security Conference Confirmed Uncertainty, Not Unity
Special Collector Series: U.S. Presidents*
A Great Lesson—and Warning—of the American Presidency
75 Years Ago, The U.S. Imposed Term Limits on Presidents
Remember When Presidents Were Presidential?
Contrarians Counter Bondi Bullying
Pam Bondi's Epstein Cover-Up & How AIPAC Hurts Jewish Americans
'Wuthering Heights' Isn't a Love Story. So Why Does Hollywood Keep Insisting It is?
Truffle-Filled Chocolate Cupcakes
Pam Bondi Refused to Face Epstein Survivors
Question Republicans and white evangelicals — not Black people — about Trump’s racism
LIVE w/April Ryan: The Tea ft. Maria Teresa Kumar & Dr. Bernice King
The Epstein Cover-Up is Coming From Inside the DOJ
How to Fix the Washington Post, and Media in General
Can the Courts Resist Trump's Lawlessness?
Trump is Weaponizing the US Holocaust Museum
How Democrats Can Flip Back Latino and Rural Voters
Puerto Ricans are U.S. Citizens—Without Full Voting Rights
The GOP’s Voter Integrity Sham
The Pathetic Price of Entry to Epstein’s World
AIPAC Money Is a Toxic Badge for Democrats
Reproductive Justice Demands We Call In, Not Just Call Out
Is Trump Losing Rural America?
Coffee with Contrarians ft. Michael Podhorzer
DOJ Can Give the Survivors Answers
Bad Bunny Embodies the American Dream
Gov. Josh Shapiro on ICE, Israel, Fair Elections and more
U.S. Olympians Give Voice to American Realities
Gov. Josh Shapiro Won't Be Intimidated
The United States Has Started Campaigning Abroad
Minnesota and the U.S. Constitution
The Sad Truth Behind the Reaction to Trump’s Sick Meme
The Epstein Files Release is a Failure. Survivors Deserve Better.
Bad Bunny Shows Us What Radical Joy Looks Like
Trump's Warfare Tests Resilience of Latino Community
Coffee with Contrarians ft. Katie Phang
Live from Princeton: A Contrarian Quartet
They’ve Always Known He is A Racist...
Trump & Cronies’ Top 10 Corruption Scandals
Billy Porter Exposes the NFL's Performative Politics
50 Years Ago, Up With People Changed Super Bowl Halftimes
Rep. Jeffries on Reforming ICE. Georgia Fort's Disgraceful Arrest
Oven-Baked Parmesan Panko Crusted Chicken
The Librarians, Our Unlikely Heroes
LIVE w/ April Ryan: The Tea ft. Georgia Fort and Christine Pelosi
'The Secret Agent' Revisits a Dark Chapter in Brazilian History that Resonates with this Moment
Objection: The Epstein Files Diary
Trump and ICE Have Overshadowed Super Bowl Week for the NFL
The Dangerous Spectacle of ICE at the Super Bowl
Judge Bans Use of Chemical Munitions Against Portland ICE Protestors
Baseball Bugs 80th anniversary
Coffee with Contrarians ft. April Ryan & Juan Proaño
Voters Want Massive Changes in ICE
How to Fight Trump’s War to Rig The Election, with Leader Hakeem Jeffries
The Fight over DHS Funding & Protecting Fair Elections
Trump Can't Nationalize Elections
After Greenland, the U.S. is a Risk to be Managed
Pressing Forward in the Face of Intimidation
The Minneapolis Protesters are Showing What it Takes to Change Minds
Coffee with Contrarians ft. Joyce Vance
Will a Whistleblower Complaint Unmask Tulsi Gabbard?
NFL Owners in the Epstein Files & Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Moment
From Day One, the Trump Regime Made DOJ a Tool of Political Leverage
Trump FBI Executes an Electoral Smash & Grab
Let’s Do Lunch! ft. Daleep Singh
Trump, Look What You Made Europe Do
ICE Teargasses Peaceful Crowd at Portland Protest
The War of Southern Aggression
Musicians Speak Out in Defiance of ICE while Honoring the Many Voices that Make Us Great
How Many Sports Leaders are in the Epstein Files?
Tulsi Gabbard Is Most Dangerous When She Needs to Be Useful
Coffee with Contrarians ft. Marc Elias
Arresting Two Journalists Is Pure Fascism
What I Saw in Minneapolis: The Worst and The Best of Us
These Two Candidates are Running to Stand Up for Democracy
The Radical Act of Sloppy Hosting
Everything About 'Melania' is Unprecedented, and Not in a Good Way
Reactions to the Arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort
LIVE: April Ryan on Don Lemon Arrest
Maine Governor Wants to Dethrone Susan Collins
Eliza Orlins Explains Tiktok's Dangerous New Terms of Service
Apple Has Fallen Far From the Tree
Americans Yearn for Representatives that Actually Represent!
The Tea w/ April Ryan ft. Lee Merritt & Charles Coleman
AI Sexual Assault is Pushing Women Out of the Public Square
ICE: The Epitome of Toxic Masculinity
No Funding Until we Get ICE Reform
How Do We Put Checks on a Runaway Executive?
Maine is ICE's Latest Battleground
Pam Bondi Exploited ICE Violence to Control State Elections
Coffee with Contrarians ft. Juan Proaño
Why Dems Should Force Kristi Noem Out
Jim Acosta on the Failures of Legacy Media and Why Kristi Noem Must Be Impeached
The Trump Regime’s Misogyny is Not Exclusive To Nor Deadly Only to Women
No Kings Is BACK on March 28th
The American Conservative Movement Has Failed
No One Can Afford to Buy in Trump's Economy
‘Outright Lying’: The Judge Who Slammed Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino
Trump’s Authoritarian Agenda Poses Real Economic Risk
This Is The Plan: How to End America’s Meltdown and Save Democracy—My New Book, out July 21
Coffee with The Contrarians ft. Jim Acosta
A Five-Alarm Threat to U.S. Financial Stability
Why, for Too Many, Alex Pretti’s Murder Counted More
NO KINGS Coalition Responds to Escalating Brutality and Authoritarianism
Minnesota Communities Resist ICE Terror: Ground Reporting with Katie Phang
How YOU Can Deny Stephen Miller's Deportation Scheme
Mayor of St. Paul speaks on deadly ICE raids w/ Katie Phang
'We Need to Confront This Immorality'
Mel Brooks has Been Fighting the Good Fight for Nearly a Century
Midterms Update: Keep Your Eye On Illinois
Why Does Pam Bondi Want States' Voter Rolls?
SPECIAL CWC Report: Katie Phang Live in Minneapolis
On the Ground in Minnesota with Katie Phang
Trump’s Comply-Or-Die Policing Isn’t New
Will International Athletes Boycott the World Cup?
Not a Dime for ICE Lawlessness
Alex Pretti Cannot Die in Vain
Coffee with The Contrarians ft. Simon Rosenberg
For the Love of God, Get ICE Out of Minnesota
The Latest on ICE Shootings in Minnesota w/ Omar Noureldin
Jen Rubin With ACLU’s Mike Zamore on execution in Minneapolis
Execution in Minneapolis- Jen Rubin and Mary McCord go live
We Caught DOJ Trying to Hide More of the Epstein Files
A Little Man With Big Fascist Energy
Oscar Nominations: The Good, the Bad, and the Inexplicable
Sen. Whitehouse on DHS Funding, Greenland, and more
Jack Smith Reminds us What Real Prosecutors Sound Like
Lucinda Williams Wants to Push Our Buttons
The NFL: A Case Study in Contradiction That Fans Can’t Ignore
The Tea w/ April Ryan ft. Nana Gyamfi & Rep. Robin Kelly
The Signs Were Small. The Sexism Wasn’t.
LIVE with Katie Phang: Jack Smith Testimony
Split Screen: A Year Since Trump 2.0
Coffee with The Contrarians ft. Jeremy Ben-Ami
So, You Want to Run for President?
14 Ways The Trump Administration is Trying to Kill Us
The Imagery of Inflection Points
Will ICE Target World Cup Fans Too?
Move Over Childless Cat Ladies. There’s a New Broad in Town.
SCOTUS Arguments on Trump’s Fed Power Grab
A Guide to Resisting Violent Extremism
The End of the Lawsuit But Not the End of the Fight
Coffee with Contrarians ft. Maria Cardona
An Open Letter to European Leaders
Trump Gets Worse, But the Blowback Intensifies
DOJ Officials are Resigning Over ICE's Actions
MAGA's Using Religion as a Smokescreen for Hate
65 Years Ago, JFK Inspired A New Generation
Kristi Noem is Cold as Ice. She’s No Barbie.
Former Presidents Take On America's Civics Crisis
Trauma and Terror in Minnesota
Trump’s Assertion of Power Threatens Black Workers
Supreme Court Considers Axing Voting Rights
"ICE Is A Modern Day Slave Patrol"
Americans Should Understand MLK, Jr.’s True Legacy
Why I Am Hopeful Despite It All
The historic inflection point we now live in
Orange, Pear, and Date Salad and Moroccan-Inspired Marinated Orange Slices
Can Trump Actually Use the Insurrection Act?
Will the Supreme Court Allow Trump to Use the Insurrection Act?
Why Is Everyone Still Talking About That?
What Is ICE Hiding in Minneapolis?
DOJ Attorneys Call It Quits as Civil Rights Erode
This Year’s Primaries Aren’t About Left Vs. Center
We're Living Through History (And It Sucks)
Global Instability, and Trump’s Ten Steps to Authoritarianism
The Tea w/ April Ryan ft. Peggy Flanagan & Dr. Gigi El-Bayoumi
Getting the Story Right Was Never Easy
The WNBA is Getting Closer to a Work Stoppage. That’s Not a Bad Thing.
Coffee with the Contrarians ft. AG Matt Platkin
Big Business Should Wake Up to the Trump Threat
Does Calling Your Reps Actually Work?
Another Castro Fiasco In The Making
ICE Wants 10,000 More Agents on Our Streets
The Trump Administration's Full-Throated Misogyny
Coffee with The Contrarians ft. Amanda Litman
Donald Trump’s Wrong Turn on Affordability
Democrats Must Seize the Opportunity to Control ICE
Breaking down the legal battles against the Trump Administration
Five *Urgent* Questions About the Year Ahead in Culture
Cyber Power, Strategic Illusions, and Iran in 2026
An Opportunist in Dove’s Clothing
Coffee with Contrarians 1 Year Anniversary
Trivia: Coffee with the Contrarians Quiz
The Contrarian’s 1st Anniversary
Donald Trump Is Losing in Court
The Cognitive Dissonance of the Golden Globes
Who Actually Wants to Come to the U.S. Right Now?
A Year After the L.A. Fires, A Community Grapples with Who Gets to Rebuild
Trump’s Billionaires and His New ‘Oil-for-Blood’ Doctrine
The War Powers Resolution Remains a Paper Tiger
Coffee with The Contrarians ft. Neera Tanden
EXCLUSIVE: 'Something Was Different' - An Immigrant's Worst Fears Realized
ICE’s Reign of Terror and Violence Must End
America Shows up for Renee Good
A Year of Fighting for Democracy–in Print and in Court
Trump's Dictator Playbook & Standing Up to ICE
Renee Nicole Good is ALL OF US
Japanese Curry With Eggplant Tonkatsu
America's Disastrous History of Foreign Coups, in Books and Films
Kick ICE Out of Our Communities
Four things to expect at the intersection of sports, race, and politics in 2026
Stephen Miller Is Taking His Fascist Horrorshow International
No Tolerance For Corruption in Public Office!
The Tea w/April Ryan ft. L.A. Mayor Bass, Bishop Dwayne Debnam & Carla Debnam
Wait, What is the Donroe Doctrine?
ICE Can't Unilaterally Deploy Lethal Force
Split Screen: The Reality Show Presidency and the Maduro Capture
The Shadow Government Implementing Project 2025
Don’t Forget Who First Stole CBS’s Integrity
The Dissolution of the MAGA Coalition?
Venezuela, January 6th, and the Threat to Global Order
The Coming Legal and Congressional Action to Fight ‘The Donroe Doctrine’
Maduro's Arrest Made WHO 400k Richer?
My Predictions for Women’s Health in 2026
Mitt Romney’s Tax Plan Gets the Math Right and the History Wrong
Coffee with The Contrarians ft. Jim Acosta
Surprise! January 6 Rioters Are Repeat Offenders
MAGA Republicans Condone the War for Oil
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries on the future in Venezuela and more
Subject to Debate: MTV Isn't Dead Yet. But It Might As Well Be.
How Jan. 6 Marked the Marriage of MAGA and White Nationalism
The ‘Peace President’ Goes To War For Oil
Jack Smith’s Testimony: A Reminder that Donald J. Trump Owns All of It
Sports Endure Despite the Chaos
Trump’s 2026 Government Agenda
Republicans Want Taxation Without Representation
Coffee With The Contrarians 01/05
Making a Mockery of Checks and Balances
If We had a Functional Constitution, We Wouldn’t have an Illegal War
We Toppled Venezuela for Oil: Trump Just Told Us So