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GOP attack ad backfires as woman warning about kids exposed for DUI with her kids in car
A GOP super PAC ad branding an Iowa Democrat a danger to kids has run into trouble with its own messenger. Shellie Flockhart, a Dallas […]
MAGA congressman confronted by angry voters: ‘I’m against the party that caused this’
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) is one of the few House Republicans running for reelection in a district Kamala Harris won. At a fall street festival […]
October Surprise? Bloomberg’s $80 Million for Democrats Leaves Out Democratic Socialists
Bernie joins Angie Nixon in Florida, Larry David joins DSA, and more in this edition of “Red All Over,” Democratic Left’s occasional news roundup. The […]
The DoJ Is Busy
This is how screwed we are. This morning the big news was about how Jared Kushner made millions in side hustles with foreign countries while […]
The Anti-Populism of “Digger”
Despite his fame and success as an unapologetic auteur, or perhaps because of it, Alejandro G. Iñárritu is one of the most divisive and controversial […]
Trump Claims Ignorance as His Ambassador Threatens Strikes on Iran This Weekend
When President Donald Trump landed in Florida for a Friday campaign rally, he dismissed comments from one of his own ambassadors that the US could […]
Dominican Republic Cozies Up to Israel Amid Right Wing Surge in Latin America
On August 24, the Dominican government adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism, infamous for equating opposition to Israeli apartheid and […]
RFK Jr. and MAHA’s measles reckoning
By most metrics, measles in the U.S. is out of control. Last week alone, cases jumped by 8%, with 330 infections reported, outpacing the entire […]
How Hegseth shattered the world Eisenhower made
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower was not buff, at least to our knowledge. He didn’t exercise in public or show off his abs, and there is […]
Idaho’s Abortion Fight Has Become a Fight Over Voter Power
Lauren Korth is a surgical nurse in the Magic Valley region of south-central Idaho. A recent graduate of Idaho State University’s nurse practitioner program, she […]
Whistleblower CEO quits over hidden Russian cash behind gas deal in Trump peace talks: NYT
A gas venture that came up in President Donald Trump’s Ukraine peace talks had a hidden backer, according to its former boss. Polar LNG, a […]
Clock ticks on thousands of mail ballots as appeals court speeds Trump DOJ bid
A federal appeals court is moving at breakneck speed on the Trump Justice Department’s bid to sideline thousands of mail ballots before Election Day. The […]
A Rising Tide Floats Phil’s Boat
Gov. Phil Scott’s whingeing about VPIRG attack ads seems even more petty now that the Republican Governors Association has dumped another $550,000 into its local […]
Palmer Luckey Just Announced a Genetically Engineered War Dog Startup
It is a truth universally acknowledged that rich people love a designer dog. TikTok influencers walk their viewers through the process of cloning their dearly […]
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We provide a lot of answers here, at Liberal Currents. How should we rebuild after the Trump years? We have a whole print product devoted […]
Jared Kushner’s Middle Eastern Spoils System
Dutch intelligence hacked Kushner’s phone and found bribes Yes, you read that correctly. Yesterday in Vanity Fair, Matthew Cole dropped a bombshell of a story, […]
Revisiting the Gold Rush
Nathaniel Philbrick’s ‘The Rush’ expertly reflects on a period of U.S. history increasingly resonant in a new Gilded Age.
Deported to Liberia, Again
In 1816, a group of white people in the U.S. created the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Color of the United States […]
Trump’s Gerrymander Has Backfired On Republicans In Texas And Florida
In 2025, with the Republican House majority shrinking, Donald Trump had an idea. What if Republicans in red states created more House seats for themselves […]