Category: North America

President Donald Trump’s Justice Department lost its legal fight over firing the daughter of his longtime foe, former FBI Director James Comey, as a judge […]

President Donald Trump’s bans on critical news outlets are leaving Americans with something closer to “government propaganda,” a press freedom advocate warned Monday as a […]

The man in blue is yelling at me. His voice slices the air before my mind can catch up. My body responds first — heart […]

As repression has escalated in so many realms of U.S. life over the past year and a half, we cannot allow ourselves to forget that […]

President Donald Trump ramped up his Islamophobic remarks against Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed at a Sunday campaign rally in Michigan, hurling everything from unfounded […]

A specter is haunting Europe, and plenty of other places too. Nobody knows quite what to call it. It isn’t the specter of communism this […]

A few months into President Donald Trump’s second term, political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security made an unusual request of its agency focused […]

With soaring healthcare costs and a plunge in coverage rates, there is growing interest in “Medicare for All.” Polls show that a large majority of […]

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 […]

Bret Devereaux, historian and author of the blog A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry, explains why we’re all still obsessed with World War 2, why Hearts […]

From E.B. v. J.R., decided Aug. 20 by Massachusetts Appeals Court Justices Sabita Singh, Rachel Hershfang, and Chauncey Wood: The defendant appeals from harassment prevention […]

If the polls are correct, Republicans are set for a shellacking in the Nov. 3 midterms, losing the House and quite possibly the Senate, and […]

In October 2017, just one day before The New York Times published its investigative report exposing his long career as a rapist, Harvey Weinstein blew […]

An elections expert sounded the alarm Sunday as President Donald Trump’s Justice Department sought to preemptively block the certification of Alaska’s midterm elections. Last week, […]

President Donald Trump seems to be trying to stoke what one analyst described as “deliberate chaos” at the United Nations. The Wall Street Journal reported […]

Big ups to WPTZ-TV for designing the most uncomfortable debate setting I’ve ever seen. I believe this image, seen very briefly just after the mid-show […]

Prison Banned Books Week started on October 19, with a focus on the Kafkaesque appeals process incarcerated people must use to challenge censorship.

The weekly roundup of what we’ve done at Liberal Currents has strong criticism for antisemitism and some praise for anti-populism. Articles: “The Anti-Populism of ‘Digger,’” […]

This article was previously published as part of The Reconstruction Papers. The entire book is available in print and as a PDF. Get the complete […]

This article was published in partnership with Agência Pública, Brazil’s largest nonprofit newsroom. Two weeks before the second and decisive round of the Brazilian presidential […]