In Santa Monica, California, last week, a Jewish couple was attacked by a man with a vicious dog and a baseball bat. Several weeks ago, […]
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Learning from the international struggle
The Heritage Foundation recently announced that Andrzej Duda, former president of Poland, has joined the organization as a visiting fellow. Interestingly, the announcement stated that […]
US Boat Bombing Campaign Surpasses 200 Deaths After Latest Strike
The U.S. military on Friday bombed another boat it claimed was smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing three more people in what experts […]
Colombia’s Presidential Election Could Reshape Relations With Trump Administration
On Sunday, Colombians will go to the polls for the first round of their presidential elections, a race that could radically reshape Colombia’s relations with […]
Tennessee’s attempt to whitewash “Roots” was stopped — for now
A few months ago I found a paperback copy of George Orwell’s “1984” on a city bus. I opened it and found myself reading a […]
25th Amendment Time As Trump Thinks Latest Dementia Screening Was An Intelligence Test
The only thing plunging faster than the economy is Trump’s approval ratings. Donald Trump has been falling asleep on camera consistently during White House events, […]
Trump just received an ‘astounding rebuke’ that reveals ‘it’s gotten much worse’: experts
President Donald Trump just received an astounding rebuke from the legal community that reveals how much worse his second administration is compared to his first, […]
Jerome Powell takes a subtle dig at Trump during award speech: report
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell took a subtle dig at President Donald Trump on Sunday as he accepted the John F. Kennedy “Profiles in […]
New Jersey Officials Impose Curfew to Stifle Anti-ICE Protests at Delaney Hall
At midnight on Sunday, New Jersey officials chose to help federal agents suppress the ongoing rallies at a New Jersey ICE detention center rather than […]
“Totally unacceptable”: Pence calls slush fund for Jan. 6 rioters “deeply offensive”
Former Vice President Mike Pence thinks Donald Trump should “drop” his designs on slush fund created in the president’s recent settlement with the IRS, calling […]
How Trump squandered the economic recovery
When Donald Trump was 13, his father caught him with a hidden cache of switchblades. Fred Trump, according to Tony Schwartz, who ghostwrote the president’s […]
New Declarations
By invoking the American Revolution, twentieth-century anticolonial figures connected their project with the movement for civil rights in the United States.
Trump’s Top Economic Adviser Doesn’t Seem to Get That People Are Struggling
On Fox News Sunday morning, President Donald Trump’s lead economic policy adviser, Kevin Hassett, dismissed Americans’ struggles to cover the rising cost of living by […]
The Democratization of Air Power (Neon Liberalism #76, with Secretary of Defense Rock)
Samantha Hancox-Li and guest Secretary of Defense Rock talk the state of modern war: the proliferation of drones, the endurance of the human factor, Ukraine’s […]
Editor’s Notes: What the Trans Sports Debate Is Really About
The New York Times has once again determined that a trans girl winning a sporting event is national news. The girl in this case is […]
Interior Secretary Falls Apart And Admits Trump Is Grifting Off America’s 250th Anniversary
The confusion over the past week that led to the majority of the musical acts withdrawing from the Great American State Fair can be traced […]
How an Obscure MAGA-Linked Firm Lined up $1 Billion in Balkan Energy Contracts
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On a graffitied Sarajevo backstreet, a path leads past […]
Trump’s latest spending defense springs a leak
President Donald Trump is defending the cost of a renovation project at the White House reflecting pool by arguing that former Presidents Barack Obama and […]
Santos, Lindell, Proud Boys eye Trump’s $1.8B fund
A growing list of applicants for a Trump administration-backed $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” compensation fund includes January 6 defendants, far-right activists, former Trump allies, and prominent […]
Trump faces MAGA backlash over promotion of Epstein friend to key Mideast role
Donald Trump is facing pushback from within his own base after elevating Tom Barrack, a longtime Trump friend and fundraiser who was previously charged — […]