Category: North America

As he was leaving office in 2017, President Barack Obama urged Americans concerned about where their country was headed to act. “If something needs fixing, […]

It’s easy to feel discouraged and disgusted by the United States at present. The fascists in government whipsaw between slapstick self-sabotage and the chilling facilitation […]

It’s an unhinged political ad round-up, featuring racist memes from Donald Trump himself and Ken Paxton’s rancid, deep-fried AI slop rip-off of one of the […]

Why did so many fans feel betrayed by Lionel Messi’s visit to Trump’s White House? The answer goes back to the history of his country’s […]

It is not American patriotism to break laws, discriminate, grift, lie to the public, hang out with known pedophiles, and abuse power. Those who support […]

In April, the en banc Fifth Circuit upheld the constitutionality of Texas’s law requiring the posting of Ten Commandments in public school classrooms. For much […]

A foreign policy expert warned on Monday that President Donald Trump is inching closer to making the one mistake that would end his presidency. Over […]

President Donald Trump’s rant about drug prices to reporters last week was a “perfect encapsulation” of his administration’s failures, according to one analyst. Trump lectured […]

Donald Trump doesn’t berate reporters. Donald Trump targets and berates female reporters. You will find few clips of Trump berating the men who ask him […]

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Darya Minovi was mapping pollution from medical sterilization plants across the country when […]

The emirs and princes and various other leaders of the Middle East are over Trump now. After months of conflict, and continuing missile and drone strikes […]

Over the weekend we republished a section of the popular 19th-century abolitionist book American Slavery As It Is, by Theodore Dwight Weld, Angelina Grimké Weld, […]

Far right Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has advocated for Israel to kill “30 to 40” Palestinians in Gaza every night, in the latest genocidal remarks […]

After a yearslong battle for worker rights that pulled the governor’s office and state legislators into the fray, Uber and Lyft drivers in California are […]

In his new book, Representative Jared Huffman chronicles the rise of rightwing Christian nationalism as a threat to American democracy.

The following story is co-published with Matt Bivens’ Substack newsletter, The 100 Days. Millions are in hiding. Those who have escaped Ukraine are fanned out across […]

The White House spokesman on Monday provided an official – and remarkably rude – response to Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) highlighting rumors about President Donald […]

Energy Secretary Chris Wright took to Fox News Monday to boast about the amount of vessels currently transiting the Strait of Hormuz, but quickly pivoted […]

It is not American patriotism to break laws, discriminate, grift, lie to the public, hang out with known pedophiles, and abuse power. Those who support […]