Category: Politics
Incarcerated People Lose Treasured Media When Prisons Change Tablet Contracts
People are losing purchased music and games, as well as emails and photographs from loved ones, without compensation. …
US Leaders Know UAE Backs Massacres in Sudan. Stopping Them Would Be Too Costly.
The Emirates’ promised $1.4 trillion investment in the US appears to be incentivizing Washington to look the other way. …
New Diseases Threaten Public Health as Trump’s Cuts Leave US Unprepared
Gaps in government health surveillance are leaving openings for dangerous diseases to slip through undetected. …
Families Across US Are Suffering From the Fallout of GOP’s 2025 Megabill
On the one year anniversary of the bill’s passage, the harms it’s inflicting are only multiplying. …
Trump Uses Speech at Mount Rushmore to Warn Against “Communist Menace”
Trump also called on Congress to end the filibuster and pass the SAVE America Act, a voter suppression bill. …
Mark Carney Unveils $35B Canadian Pipeline Project as Climate Crisis Accelerates
Progressives and climate groups said the plan is a boondoggle designed to appease right-wing Alberta separatists. …
Most Empires in History Fell by Age 250. The US Is at a Weighty Crossroads.
It’s far past time to bring an end to US militarism. …
The Anti-Indigenous Slur in the Declaration of Independence Speaks Volumes
The US Declaration of Independence frames Indigenous resistance as aggression and colonial violence as self-defense. …
AI Industry Is Creating a New Age of Imperial Extraction and Labor Exploitation
Journalist Karen Hao discusses the impacts of AI from workers in Kenya to water grabs in Chile. …
Half the Members of Trump’s New Pentagon Policy Board Work in Military Industry
Members include a former senator who now works for Saudi Arabia and a venture capitalist with major defense investments. …
