Category: North America

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was roundly mocked on Tuesday night after he gave his victory speech for defeating incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) in […]

On Monday and Tuesday, Israel expanded its strikes and ground operations in Lebanon as the U.S.’s negotiations with Iran came to a standstill. Overnight on […]

The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) sent a letter to hundreds of corporations this week, urging them to recommit to protecting democratic and civil rights following […]

How DSA’s new rapid response protocol passed its first test in the Iran crisis. The post More Than the Sum of Our Parts appeared first […]

Doesn’t every president endlessly ramble about ballrooms in between falling asleep in public? That’s what Donald Trump wants the American people to believe. A president […]

The following story is co-published with Nolan Higdon’s Substack. When a speaker at the University of Central Florida’s May 8, 2026, commencement ceremony declared, “The rise […]

Public schools are in need of major funding reforms, but any egalitarian vision for the American education system will need to overcome a right-wing crusade […]

President Donald Trump scrapped a rare trip to Camp David on Tuesday after returning from a three-hour medical exam at Walter Reed National Military Medical […]

A new documentary reveals how an “avalanche of slime” followed E. Jean Carroll after she accused Trump of sexual abuse. “When I accused Donald Trump […]

Though it can bomb, Israel cannot defeat Lebanon’s resistance or the will of its people to return to their villages.

Join Samantha Hancox-Li and guest Nicholas Grossman, professor of political science at the University of Illinois, as they discuss the damage Trump is doing to […]

For the past three or four days Trump has been teasing a new “deal” that would end the Iran War he started. Since there was […]

No force has reshaped American politics over the last decade more conspicuously or detrimentally than the expanding influence of the billionaire class. Since the Supreme […]

Considering the current hysteria over alleged non-citizen voting, it may come as a surprise to many Americans that for a good part of our history, […]

The first half of 2026 has been a chaotic time for U.S. foreign policy: new tariffs, threats to annex Greenland, the capture of Venezuelan President […]

President Donald Trump unleashed a torrent of social media posts Tuesday morning before his scheduled trip to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. The 79-year-old […]

When Ronn Easton, a Vietnam veteran, first learned of President Donald Trump’s plans to build a massive triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery he started […]

There is one Ayn Rand-themed establishment in Turkey. It isn’t in Istanbul, the financial heart of the country, but Ankara, its political capital, home to […]

News stories vie for our attention, our agreement, our understanding, and our view of what is real, and possibly most importantly, what is just. Journalists, […]