A Delaware judge has ruled in favor of allowing a township in the state to continue counting corporations and other nonliving entities as legitimate voters […]
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Oh Goody, a Trump Official Once Called Ebola a “Scam”
The current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda is one of the largest in recent history. According to the US […]
¡La clase trabajadora puede derrotar a Trump!
Millones de personas en todo el país están conmemorando el Día Internacional de les Trabajadores en la verdadera tradición de esta fecha, que nació aquí […]
The Oligarch’s Wife
Andrey Zvyagintsev’s “Minotaur,” winner of this year’s prestigious Grand Prix at Cannes, is the curious case of a remake that doesn’t escape its original’s orbit, […]
Fuel and Sewage Leaks Have Made the Potomac One of America’s Most Endangered Rivers
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The warning signs were years in the making. And […]
Trump Is a Losing Loser Who Loses.
Perhaps there is no harsher gauge of the sorry state of Trump’s presidency than this: Yesterday the White House released names of the featured artists […]
Andy Kim: Nothing’s Improved Since Minnesota—Except Private Prison Profits
“I certainly didn’t see anything at Delaney Hall that gives me a sense that things have changed since Minnesota,” Andy Kim told me. The New […]
California Public Sector Union Threatens Environmental Lawsuit Over Gavin Newsom’s Return-to-Office Policy
California’s onerous and easily exploitable environmental review law is being pushed to new levels of absurdity by unionized state workers who are threatening to use […]
Power To The People Protest Festival Will Be The Final Pre-Midterm Nail In Trump’s Coffin
Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello has announced a powerhouse one-day music festival in the Washington, DC, area that is designed to protest Donald Trump […]
Judge embarrasses Trump DOJ lawyer in court with blistering comeback: report
A federal judge delivered an embarrassing response to a Department of Justice lawyer who was defending Trump from a lawsuit, according to a new report […]
Trump’s poll numbers with key demographic shock CNN data guru: ‘Oh my goodness’
CNN data guru Harry Enten couldn’t believe his eyes when he saw the latest figures showing President Donald Trump’s declining favorability among a group that […]
Cómo un fallo del tribunal supremo destruye distritos electorales negros
La reciente decisión de la Corte Suprema en Louisiana v. Callais ha destruido uno de los principales poderes de la Ley de Derecho al Voto: […]
US, Russia Test ICBMs as Nuclear Talks End in Deadlock
This month, as delegates from around the world gathered at the United Nations to talk about nuclear nonproliferation, the U.S. and Russia chose to remind everyone just how much […]
Mavericks Without a Cause
The memoirs of John Fetterman and Joe Manchin offer revealing insights into two figures granted outsized importance by our broken political system.
With All Due Respect to the Junior Member from Addison, That’s 14 Minutes the Senate Will Never Get Back
I’m beginning to think of Sen. Steven Heffernan as the Mr. Magoo of the Vermont Statehouse, especially since I learned on Wikipedia that Magoo was […]
What the Hell Is That Thing?
At first, when I saw these photos of curling scaffolding outside the White House, I thought construction was beginning on the Trump Arch. That assumption, […]
We Will Celebrate America’s 250th Birthday On July 4th, But We Will Not Celebrate #47. Here’s Why.
We will unite and be inspired again when the darkness lifts and Trump goes away, MAGA crumbles, and the Constitution is restored. A election cheater, […]
Trump Vows to Protect the Family Businesses: Crypto and Prediction Markets
In a Truth Social post Wednesday, President Trump typed out a lengthy paragraph on the necessity of protecting the prediction and crypto markets, taking the […]
A battle over dark money is brewing in Hawaii and Montana
Political spending that is funneled into elections from a variety of nonprofits is known as dark money — and unlike campaign spending or the money […]
Trump’s war on free speech extends far beyond campus walls
Younger Americans have soured on the second Donald Trump presidency, but they are not protesting it. Despite an unpopular Iran war and an even more […]