Category: North America

A version of the below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes […]

A Gold Star family was left “devastated and embittered” after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who at one point “appeared” interested in helping the family get […]

Donald Trump is confronting a bitter irony as he seeks to extricate himself from the Iran war he initiated: reaching a peace agreement may require […]

I suppose I have to address the new Graham Platner scandal. Platner is our great hope for defeating Susan Collins in Maine, and until recently […]

It is a sign of the popularity, and logic, of socialist politics that so many workers are looking toward nationalization and public management as a […]

“I have never written a memorial for a glacier — no one has,” laments the poet Andri Snær Magnason during Sara Dosa’s “Time and Water.” […]

Spencer Pratt was never going to be the mayor of Los Angeles. That is not necessarily a humiliation for the longtime reality TV star. But […]

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. HOOD COUNTY — Brian Crawford points to the top of a hill northwest of his family’s home […]

On Friday, a coalition of over a dozen press freedom groups condemned the May 31 arrests of at least three journalists covering the protests at […]

On Friday morning, the Senate passed a $70 billion reconciliation package to provide additional funding for President Donald Trump’s brutal crackdown on immigrant communities across […]

OpenAI and its chatbot ChatGPT’s “success has not been earned; the rise of OpenAI is attributable to a web of deceit and the exploitation of […]

Every week, a group of men in their late 60s meets at the Corner Cafe in Elizabethtown, North Carolina. One important reason for these meetups […]

Most discussion of artificial intelligence and work is about the future: which jobs may disappear, which skills may lose value, which workers may be replaced. […]

The new chairman of the Federal Reserve is already expected to have a tough time following through on one of Trump’s main demands, according to […]

White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles put out a statement on X on Friday in reaction to reporting from the Daily Mail that she […]

While watching Madonna’s recent Times Square takeover—sponsored by the gay “dating” app Grindr—it struck me. And I couldn’t stop thinking about it. Something about Madonna’s […]

The borough’s arson wave in the 1970s was caused by financial forces and political priorities that continue to hold power in New York City.

The UK is sliding fast.  Having seen it play out in multiple countries, there’s a fairly predictable script for how fascist attacks on liberal democracies […]

For more than a year, the “ideas primary” has been simmering beneath the surface of Democratic politics. After Kamala Harris’ disastrous defeat, factions throughout the […]