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Children at a Head Start program at the Kedren Community Health Center in Los Angeles.

Trump’s Deregulation of Head Start Would Lead to Bigger Class Sizes, Lower Quality Trump’s Deregulation of Head Start Would Lead to Bigger Class Sizes, Lower Quality

The administration has now made public a proposed rule to eliminate critical standards for services in the free preschool program.

Aug 7, 2026 / Bryce Covert

No Hospital Workers for You

No Hospital Workers for You No Hospital Workers for You

Have a nice day.

Aug 7, 2026 / OppArt / Bill Bramhall

A scene from the film

Texas’s DNA Doesn’t Run As Red as the Right Wants You to Think Texas’s DNA Doesn’t Run As Red as the Right Wants You to Think

David Griscom’s new book “The Myth of Red Texas” undoes the idea of Texas as a place with conservatism inherent to its political bloodline.

Aug 7, 2026 / StudentNation / Lajward Zahra

America Gets to Choose

America Gets to Choose America Gets to Choose

The Trump bar is so low it’s hard to decide.

Aug 6, 2026 / OppArt / Michael James Schneider

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., arrives on stage at the inaugural Make America Healthy Again summit, November 12, 2025, in Washington, DC.

Collaborating With the MAHA Movement Is a Terrible Idea Collaborating With the MAHA Movement Is a Terrible Idea

Some pundits are pushing a strategic alliance with parts of RFK Jr.’s base. Here’s why they’re wrong.

Aug 6, 2026 / Gregg Gonsalves

Representative Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) speaks during a December 2025 press conference on the steps of the Capitol where Democratic lawmakers called for extending expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies.

Republicans Blocked Healthcare Subsidies—and Now More Americans Are Going Uninsured Republicans Blocked Healthcare Subsidies—and Now More Americans Are Going Uninsured

The Trump administration has chalked up the drop in insurance coverage to a crackdown on fraud. Data shows that rising costs is the real reason.

Aug 6, 2026 / Bryce Covert

Surveillance systems on top of the US-Mexico border wall in Baja California, Mexico, on February 5, 2025.

Thomson Reuters Employees Demand That ICE “Leave Our Cities” Thomson Reuters Employees Demand That ICE “Leave Our Cities”

The company is set to sell voter data to ICE in a $125 million deal.

Aug 5, 2026 / Carl Ginsburg

NOT Created with AI!

NOT Created with AI! NOT Created with AI!

AI slop invades art and robs creators.

Aug 5, 2026 / OppArt / Peter Kuper

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, on July 27, 2026.

Hegseth’s Testosterone Program Is a Disservice to Men Hegseth’s Testosterone Program Is a Disservice to Men

By measuring manliness by muscle and testosterone levels, the defense secretary is peddling damaging stereotypes and legitimizing a narrow view of masculinity.

Aug 4, 2026 / Andréa Becker

In the Shadow of Violence

In the Shadow of Violence In the Shadow of Violence

Envisioning a more peaceful future.

Aug 4, 2026 / OppArt / Kenia Akridge

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