Given our name and our mission statement, we often face the question “what is liberalism?” In The Reconstruction Papers this year, Executive Editor Samantha Hancox-Li […]
Author: Adam Gurri
Help Us Learn
We provide a lot of answers here, at Liberal Currents. How should we rebuild after the Trump years? We have a whole print product devoted […]
Jared Kushner’s Middle Eastern Spoils System
Dutch intelligence hacked Kushner’s phone and found bribes Yes, you read that correctly. Yesterday in Vanity Fair, Matthew Cole dropped a bombshell of a story, […]
Texas Has Always Been Purple (Out of the Jaws #15, with David Griscom)
David Griscom is a writer, the author of The Myth of Red Texas, host of The Jacobin Show, and Texan. Today he joins Ryan and […]
Liberal Currents Live: The GOP’s Desperate Times and Degrading Measures
We’re into the home stretch of the U.S. election campaign, that brief period when caravans of migrants and email security concerns traditionally dominate the headlines. […]
ICE Goons Tear the Children Out of a Father’s Arms
ICE has not stopped and will have to be stopped There are no shortage of upsetting stories from the Trump mass deportation campaign, which has […]
The Diverse Communities of Staten Island (Out of the Jaws #14, with Mike DeCillis)
Today on a special episode of Out of the Jaws, Adam speaks with Mike DeCillis, candidate for the 11th congressional district in New York, where […]
The Astounding Campaign of Vivek Ramaswamy
New depths in an already lowly politics Every time I think I have grown numb to how awful these people are, they find a way […]
No Kings Are Going to Stop Us From Voting
Interference in the fourth No Kings protest The latest No Kings event occurred on Saturday, this time aimed at getting people to take advantage of […]
The Message Is Getting Out There. We Need Your Help to Make a New Reconstruction Possible
One of the goals of The Reconstruction Papers is simply to advance our general mission of giving liberals a better understanding of their values, and […]
An All-Out Assault on Citizenship
Let’s start on a positive note After a long, terrible week of abuses, corruption, and violence in the Trump administration, it’s Friday and you deserve […]
Openly Selling Out America’s Interests
Betraying ourselves and our allies to Russia On Tuesday we discussed how President Deals hit up his buddy Vlad Putin, offering to buy diesel from […]
Liberal Currents Live: Libertarianism Captured by Racism
Did the libertarian movement help make overt racism in American politics mainstream and thereby undermine liberal democracy? And was it inevitable that bigotry would become […]
Editor’s Notes: What Can Congress Do?
Today we published political scientist Steven L. Taylor talking about what to expect even in the case of the biggest imaginable blue wave in the […]
Donald Trump Posted Videos of Animals Mauling People
Trump’s desensitized audience Last night, I stumbled on people discussing something rather unusual: the president of the United States posting videos of animals mauling people […]
Introducing Our News Roundup
Last week was the soft launch of Riptides, our news roundup. News Roundup – Liberal Currents A liberal look at the news. The pace of […]
Attacking the Enemy Within, Aiding the Outside Enemy
Promises made, promises kept One of Donald Trump’s frequently repeated campaign talking points in 2024 was that the “enemies within” were the greater danger than […]
The Reconstruction Papers is Now Available in Audio
I’m excited to announce that we have produced an audio version of The Reconstruction Papers. This was done in partnership with the studio Silver Sound. […]
ICE Shoots a Man in Front of His Child
ICE is still the agency that murdered Renée Good Yesterday evening in New York City, ICE officers surrounded and fired shots into a car. One […]
Liberal Currents Live: Rape Culture, Male Supremacism, and the MAGA Right
The Republican Party is the party of Andrew Tate, of Richard Hanania, and, more than anything, of Donald Trump—a rapist, an open misogynist, and all-around […]