Category: North America

It gives me no pleasure to write this post, but I feel I have no choice because yesterday was a really bad day at VTDigger, […]

When Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign announced that Barack Obama would join him on the campaign trail later this month, media outlets and prominent online voices quickly […]

Since the Supreme Court handed down its infamous Citizens United ruling in 2010, billionaires have poured ever larger sums into candidates aligned with their interests. […]

I was wrong about Fox News. Or rather, I was wrong about what the network can be useful for. The conservative media behemoth is celebrating […]

Less than a month after the 9/11 attacks, the United States launched its so-called war on terror, despite survivors’ objections. A quarter century later, the […]

“We tamed electricity, invented the light bulb, developed the airplane, harnessed the atom, unleashed the power of personal computers, created the Internet, pioneered superintelligence, and […]

The Republican Party is the party of Andrew Tate, of Richard Hanania, and, more than anything, of Donald Trump—a rapist, an open misogynist, and all-around […]

The rape of a Democratic candidate in Arizona is not a fluke There was a truly horrifying story out of Arizona yesterday. Bernadette Greene-Placentia, candidate […]

Republicans have been struggling over what to do with Donald Trump during the midterm election. The White House eventually came up with the strategy of […]

Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for Votebeat Wisconsin’s free newsletter here. In […]

We’ve spent our entire political careers in different camps. One of us was a Democratic governor and chairman of the Democratic National Committee. The other […]

White House adviser Stephen Miller visited FBI headquarters just days before federal prosecutors charged a man accused of harassing his wife, a visit former Justice […]

A federal judge received a paper trail showing how President Donald Trump’s administration turned $20 million meant for border-security ceremonies into TV ads promoting himself. […]

Military contractors with investments from President Donald Trump’s sons have raked in billions of dollars in government deals and contracts since June 2025, when their […]

A group of House Democrats has called for Israel to release hundreds of health care workers, including physicians like Hussam Abu Safiya, from detention as […]

Three years after the Oct. 7 attack, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is presenting Israel’s response as a story of resilience and overwhelming military success. […]

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. More fire, more ash, more crime, more death. And a […]

A federal agency that coordinates government homelessness programs was supposedly shuttered by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in the early days of the second […]

As the midterms approach, there has been much focus on how to break the Trump coalition. But one bloc is either written off as hopeless […]