Category: North America

“Freeze the Rent,” a key promise in the Mamdani campaign, was fulfilled. Will it be enough to halt gentrification and rising rent burdens? The post […]

Matt and Sam talk to Jack Hanson, one of the most perceptive American writers on the Catholic Church, about Pope Leo XIV’s recent encyclical.

Update! Apparently the governor’s office did issue a statement slamming the tariffs. How Digger ignored it, I have no idea. Following Donald Trump’s precipitous announcement […]

Truth Social announced last week that it was selling immediate access—or at least as close as possible—to President Donald Trump’s thoughts. For $100,000 a month, […]

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is facing mounting pressure from within the MAGA movement over the fate of Andrew and Tristan Tate, the manosphere influencers […]

President Donald Trump’s “fix is in” rhetoric could compel his biggest fans to skip voting, a new analysis contends. Miles Taylor, chief of staff in […]

Your chances of running into a marketer at a neighborhood bar are slim but never zero. Given the remote-capable nature of the work and the […]

Well, the woke Marxist liberals wouldn’t give him the Nobel Peace Prize, and wouldn’t even let him have Greenland as a treat. So, really, what […]

“Thirty-Year Sentence for Transporting Zines Is a Five-Alarm Fire for Free Speech,” an Intercept headline (6/26/26) shouted days after a federal court sentenced eight anti-ICE protesters to a combined […]

Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi, whose arrest by masked and hooded ICE agents when he arrived for his naturalization interview to become a U.S. citizen made […]

Sam Altman, the embattled CEO of the AI technology company OpenAI, vacillates between warning of a labor market doom loop due to the technology his […]

A few weeks ago, I hurt my left elbow while doing my regular weight workout. I’ve been lifting for over 50 years and have spent […]

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Amid a summer of dangerous heat, drought, and floods, a majority of Americans are connecting increasingly […]

Earlier this month, Israeli national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir—possibly the most prominent figure on Israel’s extreme right—cancelled a visit to New York amid legal pressure, […]

There’s an old saw, attributed to everyone from Winston Churchill to John Adams, that says, “If you’re not a liberal when you’re 25, you have […]

President Donald Trump is ramping up the war in Iran once again, but this escalation comes while the United States has comparatively fewer tools in […]

I’ve written and commented about politics for more than 30 years, but I’ve never before wanted to run for office myself. Yet here I am, […]

A historian flagged President Donald Trump’s obsession with his White House ballroom and what its underground bunker reveals. During an episode of The Daily Beast […]

A journalist flagged how President Donald Trump was “mocked ruthlessly” at his own rally in Georgia. On Wednesday, Trump held a rally at a high […]