
Summer Camp Kids Did Not Have to Die in the Texas Floods Summer Camp Kids Did Not Have to Die in the Texas Floods
The deadly consequences of Trump’s National Weather Service budget cuts.
Jul 7, 2025 / David Dickson and Mark Hertsgaard

Pete Hegseth Is Unleashing Chaos at the Pentagon Pete Hegseth Is Unleashing Chaos at the Pentagon
Trump’s defense secretary loves taking selfies while presiding over administrative anarchy.
Jul 7, 2025 / Jeet Heer

How Republicans’ Endowment Tax Will Hurt Higher Education How Republicans’ Endowment Tax Will Hurt Higher Education
As the Trump administration escalates its campaign to reshape education, a provision in the “Big Beautiful Bill” will raise the tax on select private colleges’ endowments.
Jul 7, 2025 / StudentNation / Owen Dahlkamp

Fake Patriots Are Destroying Everything That Made America Great Fake Patriots Are Destroying Everything That Made America Great
By attacking equality of citizenship, MAGA is smashing the foundations of national pride.
Jul 4, 2025 / Jeet Heer

Republicans Just Voted to Do Immoral and Irreparable Harm to the United States Republicans Just Voted to Do Immoral and Irreparable Harm to the United States
The GOP chose to betray both morality and economic common sense by approving Trump’s one big, ugly bill.
Jul 3, 2025 / John Nichols

Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” Is a Huge Win for the Military-Industrial Complex Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” Is a Huge Win for the Military-Industrial Complex
While weapons contractors will gorge on a huge new infusion of cash, military personnel, past and present, are clearly going to be neglected.
Jul 3, 2025 / William D. Hartung

As Federal Chaos Ensues, Trustbusters Rise in the States As Federal Chaos Ensues, Trustbusters Rise in the States
With Trump’s antitrust appointees more concerned with scoring points in MAGA culture wars than restraining corporate abuses, officials in the states are keeping up the fight.
Jul 2, 2025 / Ron Knox

Thom Tillis Figured Out How to Tell the Truth in Trump’s GOP Cult: Quit Thom Tillis Figured Out How to Tell the Truth in Trump’s GOP Cult: Quit
The Republican senator dropped his reelection bid rather than lie about the devastating damage Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” will do to Medicaid.
Jul 1, 2025 / John Nichols

The Billionaires Are Abandoning Humanity The Billionaires Are Abandoning Humanity
Peter Thiel and his friends feel they no longer belong to our species.
Jun 30, 2025 / Jeet Heer

Trump’s FCC Chief Brendan Carr Is Acting More Like a Mob Enforcer Than a Federal Regulator Trump’s FCC Chief Brendan Carr Is Acting More Like a Mob Enforcer Than a Federal Regulator
With a new GOP majority, the incoming FCC boss aims to punish criticism, reward obedience—and screw the public.
Jun 25, 2025 / Sam Gustin