Category: North America

Way back on June 15th, I sent David M. Perry a PDF of The Reconstruction Papers, on the off chance he’d have the opportunity to […]

Thursday’s edition of The New York Times asked a question I’ve been asking here for over a decade: “Is Letting Children Out Alone A Rite […]

The Delivery Protection Act would require corporations like Amazon to directly employ all the people who make online shopping deliveries possible.

For much of the 20th century, there were two relatively straightforward ways to win elections in the United States. Conservatives espoused their belief in traditional […]

Republican Ken Paxton and Democrat James Talarico portray their U.S. Senate campaigns as a fight for the soul of America — one in which God […]

An Army soldier‘s wife was pulled off a deportation flight to Brazil this week by federal agents who explained she was “famous,” according to reports […]

President Donald Trump, rattled by a string of embarrassing primary losses this year, is scrambling to save his endorsed candidate in South Carolina’s Senate runoff […]

State Democratic officials are preparing for chaos at the polls this November, as President Donald Trump casts doubt on election security and pushes for more […]

On most days in what many people still call the “United” States of America, our president sets the daily national news agenda with noxious blasts […]

In era when so much about the news is just plain depressing, what stands out about the burgeoning public rebellion against Flock security cameras is […]

Living through a global resurgence of fascism, the greatest difficulty has proved to be not arguing against it, but convincing non-fascists that fascism’s adherents really […]

Trump’s war in Iran appears to be heading for a T.S. Eliot ending — not with a bang, but a whimper. But not right away. […]

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is reportedly running a secret operation bombing boats off of the coast of Ecuador that’s separate from the Trump administration’s […]

A new legal filing in Minnesota federal court accuses the U.S. government of opening unwarranted investigations into multiple left-leaning groups as residents were protesting against […]

A federal appeals court rejected the Trump administration’s bid to jail longtime undocumented immigrants without bond in a major setback to his mass deportation plan. […]

President Donald Trump’s touted Freedom Fuel gas-station network faces fresh scrutiny after a former State Department official questioned possible links to Venezuela. During an episode […]

This article was originally published at Barn Raiser Media. This Saturday, at their summer meeting in Austin, Texas, members of the Democratic National Committee will likely […]

This article was originally published by Votebeat, a nonprofit news organization covering local election administration and voting access. Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting […]

No, not THAT map. Although it’s fascinating in its own way; it seems that Vermont has been gay-friendly for a very long time. Ooh, strapping […]