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Category: North America
News from US, Canada and Mexico
Gold Star family ‘devastated’ after Hegseth gives hope – then goes ‘ghost’: report
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 […]
Trump under pressure as he hits the ‘politically hazardous’ stage with Iran: report
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 […]
A Short Note on Graham Platner
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 […]
Spirit’s collapse leaves 17,000 out of work, it’s time to put air travel under worker control!
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 […]
Requiem for a Glacier
“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.” […]
Right-wing media melts down as Spencer Pratt sinks in vote count
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 […]
Officials powerless to stop 8 new data centers that could transform small Texas county
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 […]
Outrage Mounts at Assaults of Journalists and Hunger Strikers at Delaney Hall
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 […]
Senate Bill to Fund ICE and CBP Contains Zero Reforms to ICE
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 […]
Florida’s OpenAI Lawsuit Shows the GOP Splintering Over AI
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 […]
We Get It. You Don’t Trust Us.
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 […]
How AI Took Over the Global Gig Economy
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. […]
New Fed chair headed towards ‘collision’ with Trump’s biggest demands: WSJ
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 […]
Susie Wiles breaks silence as report drops she’s eyeing the exits
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 […]
Is Madonna the Nancy Pelosi of Pop?
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 Bronx Still Burns
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.
Unhoused soccer players at Montreal tournament say sport changed their lives
MONTREAL — Fabrice Mugabe says his experience playing for team Canada at the Homeless World Cup in Oslo, Norway, last year changed his life and […]
Fascism Is a Scavenger, Not a Hunter: We Can and Must Defend the UK’s Sikhs
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 […]
Editor’s Note: The Difference Between Governing and Campaigning
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 […]