Government

What Was the Joke?

What Was the Joke? What Was the Joke?

Unitaryman.

Jul 18, 2025 / Steve Brodner

Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Greg Casar.

“This Is the Biggest Threat to Our Democracy That Nobody’s Talking About” “This Is the Biggest Threat to Our Democracy That Nobody’s Talking About”

Progressive Caucus chair Greg Casar warns that a move to redraw Texas congressional districts will undermine democracy in the Lone Star State and beyond.

Jul 18, 2025 / John Nichols

Virginia Roberts Giuffre holds up a photo of herself as a teen.

Jeffrey Epstein’s Victims Are Again Being Wronged by Donald Trump’s Circus Jeffrey Epstein’s Victims Are Again Being Wronged by Donald Trump’s Circus

Partisan politics is making a travesty of justice.

Jul 18, 2025 / Jeet Heer

A woman in a dark coat walks by a Dollar General store in New York City

This Viral Speech Shows How We Win Back Rural America This Viral Speech Shows How We Win Back Rural America

Voters aren’t tuning out because they don’t care. They’re tuning out because they’ve been exhausted by fake choices, sold out by both parties, and tired of inauthenticity.

Jul 18, 2025 / Kaniela Ing

Hundreds of demonstrators gather to protest against Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cuts outside the headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on March 3, 2025, in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Thank the Supreme Court for the Evisceration of the Federal Workforce Thank the Supreme Court for the Evisceration of the Federal Workforce

Progressive politicians must commit to expanding the court, or voters should pledge their support to other candidates who will.

Jul 18, 2025 / Sasha Abramsky

Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), testifies before the House Appropriations Subcommittee at the Rayburn House Office Building on May 15, 2024, in Washington, DC.

HHS Doesn’t Need an RFK Jr. It Needs a Lina Khan. HHS Doesn’t Need an RFK Jr. It Needs a Lina Khan.

Forget Kennedy’s faux-populist, anti-science approach. The former FTC chair provides the real model of an ideal HHS secretary.

Jul 18, 2025 / Abdullah Shihipar

Community and immigrant rights organizations rally in Oakland’s Latino Fruitvale district protesting immigration raids. One sign says “For my father, who was deported. Watch me from Heaven, Papa. This is Our War!”

Why Did This Farmworker Die in an Immigration Raid? Why Did This Farmworker Die in an Immigration Raid?

With Trump and Stephen Miller cheering on ICE’s terror tactics, Jaime Alanis Garcia’s fatal fall in the raid on Glass House Farms was the most recent example of a death foretold.

Jul 17, 2025 / David Bacon

Donald Trump signs an executive order to eliminate the Department of Education, in Washington, DC, on March 20, 2025.

The Supreme Court Just Crowned Trump King—Again The Supreme Court Just Crowned Trump King—Again

In ruling the president can decimate the Department of Education, the court took a key congressional power—and gave it to Trump.

Jul 16, 2025 / Elie Mystal

The Light That Failed

The Light That Failed The Light That Failed

Democracy dies in the dark.

Jul 16, 2025 / OppArt / Winston Smith

Donald Trump signs with US Vice President Mike Pence(R) and US Secretary of Treasury Steven Mnuchin at the White House on June 24, 2019, “hard-hitting sanctions” on Iran’s supreme leader.

We Have Always Been at War With Iran We Have Always Been at War With Iran

Since 1979, the US has been in perpetual economic, military, and political combat with the Iranian state. The only difference now is that bombs are falling.

Jul 16, 2025 / Josef Burton

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