This Week / July 4, 2025

Say Their Names

Not Giving Away Our Shot.

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New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch at a January news conference.

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The New York mayor draws flack from the Catholic press, holds his own for now with the NYPD, and will have to twist arms in Albany.

D.D. Guttenplan

US Attorney Jeanine Pirro asked a grand jury to indict six Democratic Congresspersons, all military veterans, who recorded an ad reminding their military and intelligence community colleagues they are not obliged to obey illegal orders from their superiors.

Grand Juries Are Saving Democracy Grand Juries Are Saving Democracy

A Washington, DC, panel rejected Jeanine Pirro’s lame attempt to indict six Democratic Congresspersons merely for reminding military and intelligence officials to obey the law.

Joan Walsh

Gun City

Gun City Gun City

Gun violence continues to claim thousands of lives in many cities across the USA.

OppArt / Ares

Solidarity With the Iranian People

Solidarity With the Iranian People Solidarity With the Iranian People

Posters displayed at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, France.

OppArt / Andrea Arroyo

Trump Microphones News Lies

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To stop exposing them allows them to metastasize.

Peter Dreier

Mayor Mamdani walks inside Kreyol Flavor with its owner, Cursy Saint Surin, in the neighborhood of East Flatbush, Brooklyn, on October 25, 2025.

Mayor Mamdani Offers a Progressive Vision for Small Businesses Mayor Mamdani Offers a Progressive Vision for Small Businesses

If successful, his policies might offer a new nationwide playbook.

Katrina vanden Heuvel