Anand Giridharadas

New interview: I talked to NYC mayoral hopeful @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social about making New York livable again, balancing safety and justice, Cuomo after #MeToo, AOC 2028, if he'd fight ICE raids, and whether he will rap again. the.ink/p/watch-zohr...

Welcome to the Trump economy.

I asked a prominent congressional Democrat if the party needs new leadership. His answer surprised me: “It’s a fair point,” he said. Is it a crack in the edifice? the.ink/p/watch-do-d...

Why have you voted for any Trump nominees during an autocratic hostile takeover of our institutions by illegal means?

Peter Baker at The New York Times is doing something a lot of the mainstream press is not, and it deserves to be noticed. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

Cancel your Washington Post subscription and join The Ink. We’re made it easy to do here. Support kneepad-free journalism. the.ink/p/bezos-just...

I was surprised to learn that these were Bezos’s two favorite things.

Let it be said. Our government and the people who work for it are not a waste or a fraud. They are a modern goddamn miracle. If Elon Musk doesn’t like a government that serves all the people, he is welcome to build a time travel machine and return to Apartheid South Africa. the.ink/p/government...

Not one vote. What are these people doing?

Call it what it is. A hostile takeover by bullies and billionaires. youtu.be/bamSK_gEdUA?...

If only there were a word for this

Well, I tried to warn everybody about oligarchs a few years ago, and fortunately everyone listened, and now everything is fine

Always an honor, and a treat, to talk to @anandwrites.bsky.social about how to fabulously fight fascism: the.ink/p/watch-an-a...

The month of moping ends now. Here is an incredibly practical plan for fighting fascism. And it involves you acting, not waiting for Democratic spinal growth. Let’s go. Watch and share Anat Shenker-Osorio’s brilliance. open.substack.com/pub/anandwri...

No surprise for a guy with more incarnations than a Hindu god, but JD Vance — once the media darling who tried to paulrevere about Trump’s Hitlerian potential — has become the concubine in a governing triumvirate that wants to jail U.S. reporters and free German neo-Nazis. the.ink/p/free-speec...

New interview: Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social told me U.S. may be "months" from "irreversible" destruction of democracy; "most serious moment since the Civil War.” We had a blunt talk about how Dems need to wake up and change approach fast and what you can do. the.ink/p/watch-dem-...

20,000!!!

We are learning that, at the commanding heights of American life, there is little courage. But courage is rising from below. And it is only that that will save us. I talked about yesterday‘s 50501 protests, which should not be ignored. FULL ESSAY: the.ink/p/essay-home...

I wrote about “Democratic legislators and leaders who have no lack of courage when asking you for $5 via text message, but who ghost harder than single men in their 20s when the time comes for us to reap our investment in them.” the.ink/p/essay-home...

It’s time to take back our country. Not only from this authoritarian nightmare, but also from the collaborators too insipid and weak and chickenshit — too skinless and boneless — to stand up for us. the.ink/p/essay-home...

The Ink went to “see” a therapist to ask how we, and you, might survive four years of this abuser-in-chief. We got great advice. the.ink/p/surviving-...

Don’t let the technical be the enemy of the true: Donald Trump is waging a war on medical cures. the.ink/p/trump-pard...

in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?

America is an amazing land of innovation. It took something already profoundly dangerous, football, and found a way to add another layer of danger on top. the.ink/p/is-sports-...

There is before Gaza, and there is after. Don’t miss this conversation with the brilliant Pankaj Mishra. About the uses and abuses of memory, about the clash of liberation narratives, and so much more. the.ink/p/the-gaza-r...

Everyone is asking: What, practically, can we do? Here is an answer, from Anat Shenker-Osorio. the.ink/p/lessons-fr...

Murphy: "We need to act like a real opposition party in the middle of a constitutional and democracy crisis. That means we should not be moving forward nominees or legislation in the Senate. Ds should not be giving votes to nominee or legislation in the Senate until Rs get serious about this crisis"

They are flooding the zone. Do not consent to being flooded. One of these things is not like the others. Musk’s anti-constitutional coup is of supreme importance, because it would unravel the republic itself. We need to focus. And need a media that can name reality. the.ink/p/focus-on-t...

We desperately, urgently need a media that isn’t afraid to name this as the evisceration of the federal government. That is what is going on. We cannot only be comfortable using such language when the situation is far away in time or space. It’s happening here. We need to be clear.

BREAKING: Elon Musk’s AI condemns Elon Musk’s DC power grab. the.ink/p/riffs-musk...

Administrative coup. How else can you describe this insanity? Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

A list of states that want to gut the Fourteenth Amendment, which helped pull us out of slavery.

Collins: He said that Canada is going to be implementing a $1.3 billion border plan, where they talk about reinforcing the border. I should note that's actually something that was announced back in December

We are being governed by a Manosphere podcast.

The fact that Trump backed down from tariffs so easily is a sign that he simply is not used to people actually pushing back against him.

USAID kind of had this coming. I mean, it did challenge apartheid. the.ink/p/usaid-foug...

BREAKING: Federal judge in D.C. blocks Trump administration from implementing the Office of Management and Budget memo ordering a government-wide freeze on grants and loans as to all current awards. Judge Loren AliKhan also blocks agencies from implementing the order "under a different name."

We're going to be outside Treasury tomorrow at 5 PM to ask Elon Musk what he's doing with our money. SHARE AND JOIN US: www.mobilize.us/moveon/event...

This is a hilariously out-of-touch analysis from someone whose publication is literally called Inside Philanthropy. Maybe it would help to pull out a little. On the contrary, I find people much more alive to this threat now than I did six years ago.

Really good to see. The Democrats are finally waking up.

More of this please