8+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1680+ words) There’s no doubt that 2025 has been one of the most politically chaotic years of the 21st century. Amid the domestic and geopolitical mayhem unleashed by Donald Trump’s return to the White House, powerful interests were busy enacting a radical anti-democratic agenda…...

11+ mon, 2+ day ago   (646+ words) Reports today indicate that both the Israelis and Hamas have agreed on a deal that would call for an immediate cessation of fighting and return of hostages and prisoners on both sides in a first phase. It remains to be…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (462+ words) “It’s got no anything,” President Donald Trump said of Somalia in a recent xenophobic rant. “All they do is run around shooting each other.” As is true of so much with this administration, every accusation is also a confession. The…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (1125+ words) Last weekend was Mother’s Day, so it’s an excellent time to examine what the most powerful conservative think tank in America is planning right now for the women in your life. The same outfit that wrote Project 2025 and watched the…...

8+ mon, 6+ day ago   (908+ words) The following story is co-published with Joe Cirincione’s Substack. “Clearly this is wildly illegal,” Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy told CNN. “This is a president who has been operating illegally since he was sworn in — stealing from the American people, seizing…...

10+ mon, 4+ week ago   (518+ words) “We view climate change as a transnational challenge alongside terrorism and uneven global demographic change,” said Lt. Gen. Peter Scott of the Allied Joint Force Command in Naples, adding that rearmament must strike a “balance between the correct capability, the…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago   (653+ words) Trump had barely started his first term when the Onion piece came out, but nearly a year into his second administration, the satirical piece truly illustrates the degree to which the Washington establishment has seemed to accept that there will…...

10+ mon, 3+ week ago   (519+ words) labor movement for the future, both electoral politics (something old) and militant actions to disrupt...

10+ mon, 6+ day ago   (327+ words) It has been a big week in energy news, with several resounding wins for efficiency advocates. Taken together, these developments suggest that energy costs could be moving the political needle in ways that other issues, like climate change, have not....

10+ mon, 3+ week ago   (611+ words) QAMISHLI, Syria – “We Yezidi people are extremely afraid that we will be exterminated,” says Menaf Jaafar, a Yezidi Kurd in Aleppo, northern Syria. As a member of a religious minority, he says his people fear the new Syrian government. “It…...