Trump’s War on Iran Killed Any Shot at Dialogue With North Korea
Trump’s strikes on Iran may show North Korea that US diplomacy is masking its real strategy of coercion or aggression.
By Refusing to Show Faces or Badges, ICE Opens Door to Vigilante Impersonators
The masked, plainclothes ICE agents terrorizing immigrant communities are indistinguishable from racist vigilantes.
Medicaid Is Giving ICE Access to Data of 79M Enrollees, Including Ethnicity
Undocumented immigrants are ineligible for Medicaid, but DHS says the data will aid their immigration crackdown.
Sanders Introduces ‘Pensions for All Act’ to Ensure Workers Can Retire
Only 9 percent of Americans have pensions today, compared to 44 percent in 1975.
Trump Is Trying to Dismantle Public Health — and Replace It With a Police State
It’s time to return to the kind of bottom-up struggle that helped establish modern public health in the first place.
Donald Trump Is Visibly Upset With His MAGA Base Over Epstein ‘List’ Fallout
Trump has benefited for years from a MAGA conspiracy theory alleging that Jeffrey Epstein kept a “client list.”
Ex-UN Special Rapporteur Says Francesca Albanese Deserves Nobel Prize, Not US Sanctions
The US is punishing UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese for her scathing reports on Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Decades of Neoliberalism Entrenched US Inequality. Trump’s Budget Made It Worse
Factoring in tariffs, the lowest 20 percent of income earners may lose $300; the top 1 percent will be $58,000 richer.
Sanitation Workers Demand Higher Wages as Trash Pickup Strikes Spread Nationwide
As work stoppages spread, the Teamsters’ president says a waste disposal company is at “war” with sanitation workers.
US Campuses Have Become the Newest Laboratories for Surveillance Technology
From Gaza to the US, military-grade surveillance tools are being deployed to monitor and punish student dissent.
New Report Documents Racist Rot at the Core of the Petrochemical Industry
Economist Michael Ash shares new data on racial disparities in the industry — a major purveyor of environmental racism.
A New Supreme Court Case Could Give the Wealthy Even More Political Power
A GOP court challenge could lead to the biggest erosion in campaign spending limitations since “Citizens United.”
Europe Puts Social Programs on Chopping Block to Appease Trump on NATO Funding
Fawning for Trump’s favor, European leaders are ramping up military spending at the expense of public benefits.
Mamdani’s Ability to Break With Dem Status Quo Depends on Organizing From Below
Zohran Mamdani’s grassroots-oriented model of political power remains incomprehensible to most political observers.
By Ruling Against Nationwide Injunctions, SCOTUS Affirms the Imperial Presidency
SCOTUS stripped federal judges of their authority to protect people throughout the US when the president breaks the law.