President Donald Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi Thursday after a disastrous tenure that saw her oversee the bungled release of files related to the […]
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Not just ICE: Do we need DHS?
The shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security is stretching into its second month with no end in sight, raising the ire of critics on […]
New WNBA collective bargaining agreement shows the power of union organizing
While professionals in a handful of sports make millions of dollars per year, the median salary of athletes in 2024 was just $62,360. Even in […]
Trump’s obsession with ‘stuff blowing up’ videos alarms national security experts
National security experts were concerned that President Donald Trump has ignored important briefings and instead prefers to watch videos of explosions from the Iran war, […]
Student charged with battery after being accused of spitting at ICE agent in airport
A university student was arrested after spitting on a U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, according to police. Brett Heier, […]
The slow death of academic freedom
State legislatures restricting what faculty can teach about race or gender — banning discussions on transgender and nonbinary identities. Public health scholars facing political retaliation […]
Trump treats war as entertainment
Donald Trump‘s war of choice against Iran is spiraling. For five decades, experts have warned that military conflict with the country would destabilize the Middle […]
The Virtues of Urban Pocket Gardens
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. It’s not just easy to miss, but often downright hard to notice. A […]
Abuser Politics: Christian Male Supremacists Want Women to Shut Up
This week, extremist Christian pastor Joel Webbon had fellow Christian nationalist Wesley Todd on his New Christian Right YouTube show. As with nearly every episode […]
Artemis II mission is latest in $100 billion push to extend U.S. capitalism off Earth
The latest U.S. crewed space flight has blasted off, but it’s far from the triumph of humanity once celebrated as science fiction comes to life. […]
Faculty Fight Anti-Union Tactics at St. John’s University in New York
Sixty-two years ago, St. John’s University (SJU) in New York City became the site of the first major faculty strike in U.S. history — a […]
Israel Strikes Pharmaceutical Factory in Tehran That Made Cancer Drugs
On Tuesday, Israel struck a major pharmaceutical factory in Tehran that is one of the country’s top producers of cancer drugs and anaesthetics, the Iranian […]
It’s a Party in the USA
What would you call the organization that coordinated over 100,000 volunteers in New York City to elect Zohran Mamdani mayor? Doorknocking, phonebanking, and merchandise ― […]
The real reason behind JD Vance’s demon talk
Even for JD Vance, it was a weird moment. Over the weekend, the vice president appeared on the podcast of Benny Johnson, a sycophantic MAGA […]
Trump ridiculed as stock market retreats following Iran speech: ‘Didn’t work’
Political analysts and observers ridiculed President Donald Trump on Wednesday night as the stock market shed more than $550 billion in market capitalization following his […]
Trump’s Iran ‘update’ signaled America plans to ‘escalate’: expert
A former presidential envoy said on Wednesday that President Donald Trump signaled the U.S. plans to escalate the war in Iran during his primetime address […]
Artemis II Launches a New Era of Lunar Exploration
On December 14, 1972, Eugene Cernan became the last human to walk on the moon. More than 53 years later, NASA is finally—cautiously—taking the first […]
A Tougher Tehran
On March 26, President Donald Trump paused threatened attacks on Iran’s energy plants for another 10 days, said he was doing so at Tehran’s request and insisted […]
Trump Is Now The Least Popular President In History, And He’s Still Falling
To say that Donald Trump is unpopular would be a criminal understatement. Donald Trump remains the only president in the history of polling to never […]
“Stupid”: Trump huffs after Supreme Court questions birthright citizenship order
President Donald Trump became the first sitting president to attend oral arguments at the Supreme Court on Wednesday. Just ten minutes before arguments were set […]