Often, when Graham Platner comes up (which is too often), my mind drifts to Claire McCaskill. The current MS NOW analyst was the last Democrat […]
Year: 2026
Mike Johnson Has Surrendered His Power As Speaker Of The House To Trump
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) has been referring to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) as the Deputy Speaker of the House for months. Jeffries has […]
Barney Frank, My Dad, and the Boston They Remade
Sometime around 1970, Barney Frank called the head of the Boston Redevelopment Authority, all worked up. Back then, Frank was the top aide to Boston […]
Netanyahu Says Israel Has Paused Fire Against Iran
As the US-Israeli war with Iran continues to impact and shape the region, journalists from RFE/RL’s Central Newsroom and Iranian service, Radio Farda, deliver ongoing […]
Are EU air passenger rights heading forward – or backward?
The European Union is the only area in the world where passengers are protected by a full set of rights – whether they travel by […]
Delays and soaring costs cloud transport megaprojects in EU’s drive for greater cross-border connectivity
The European Union’s vision to create a seamless, sustainable and high-quality multimodal transport network across Europe by 2050 was recently thwarted – by an EU […]
Germany’s Greens back EU-India trade deal after Mercosur debacle
Berlin (dpa) – Germany’s Greens are backing the European Union’s landmark trade deal with India, days after the party’s lawmakers in the European Parliament played a key role […]
California revenue miss, 8% Seoul collapse: AI investors be warned
Broadcom, a US supplier of the chips and networking technology that underpin the global artificial intelligence boom, missed revenue expectations last week. Not by much. […]
China’s HQ-16F primed for Taiwan war far beyond the Strait
China’s deployment of the HQ-16F missile opposite Taiwan reflects Beijing’s growing concern that future wars may be fought not just across the Strait, but deep […]
Pragmatism Not Philosophy (Out of the Jaws #4, with the Soy Pill)
The Soy Pill (Niels Griedel) joins Ryan and Adam to discuss his political awakening, navigating the new media, whether Adam is legacy media or merely […]
My Substack Weekend Posts: Ivanka,( Yuck), Election Rigging, Corruption, And Incompetence.
More rageful, immature, unpresidential tantrums by the not-so-masculine Donald Trump on Meet The Press Sunday. He stomped off the air when asked reasonable questions about […]
It’s not just hopium: People really are leaving MAGA
When I tell people I founded an organization that helps people leave Donald Trump‘s MAGA movement, the response is often a derisive snort. “Why waste […]
A mother’s work has enormous value | Letter
Polly Creed takes issue with a quote in an article that denigrated the importance of the work that mums do Robert dos Santos’s call to […]
The Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression enters its “skeleton phase”
The newcomer in the field of international justice will be known as the STCA. It was created last month by 36 states and the EU. […]
Iran denies involvement in Albanian protests
TIRANA — Iran has rebuked claims by Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama that it is behind disinformation campaigns surrounding protests in Albania that are now […]
Berlin declares Franco-German fighter jet project dead in blow to Macron
BERLIN — France and Germany have abandoned a plan to jointly build a next-generation fighter jet over deep industrial disagreements — a major blow to French […]
Altice finally accepts €20.35bn offer from SFR’s rivals
Altice agreed to sell SFR to Bouygues, Orange and Free (Iliad) – assuming it wins regulatory approvals, it will be the biggest shake-up in French […]
Playing Both Sides
For my upcoming book, United States of Oligarchy, I spent the last few years reporting on the activities of a small group of billionaires who have […]
FDA “Study” on Mifepristone Revealed Weeks After SCOTUS Blocks Restrictions
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has launched a study that purports to examine the safety of the widely used abortion medication mifepristone, a […]
Pennsylvania Communities Are Beating Back a Wave of Water System Privatization
In January, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court blocked the corporate takeover of a public water system in Chester, Pennsylvania. After a nine-year battle, the court ruled […]