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Project 2025: Vought's Your Problem?

Project 2025: Vought's Your Problem? Project 2025: Vought's Your Problem?

Not too bad to be true.

Jun 24, 2024 / Steve Brodner

Activists rally outside the US Supreme Court Building before the start of oral arguments in the “United States v. Rahimi” Second Amendment case on Tuesday, November 7, 2023.

The Supreme Court Just Got a Gun Ruling Right—for Completely Bonkers Reasons The Supreme Court Just Got a Gun Ruling Right—for Completely Bonkers Reasons

The court’s Rahimi ruling seems like a victory for gun regulation but is actually an attempt to pave the way for future extreme gun rulings.

Jun 21, 2024 / Elie Mystal

I’ve Just Been Canceled For Talking about America’s Israel/Palestine Policy!

I’ve Just Been Canceled For Talking about America’s Israel/Palestine Policy! I’ve Just Been Canceled For Talking about America’s Israel/Palestine Policy!

This kind of penny-ante bullying reveals the intellectual bankruptcy of the pro-Israel cause.

Jun 21, 2024 / Jeet Heer

William Lewis, the new CEO and publisher of the Washington Post Company, speaks to the staff and employees at the headquarters in Washington, DC, in November 2023.

How the Publisher of “The Washington Post” Allegedly Helped Cover Up a Scandal How the Publisher of “The Washington Post” Allegedly Helped Cover Up a Scandal

Former British media executive Will Lewis reportedly offered advice to then–Prime Minister Boris Johnson as a newspaper editor in the UK.

Jun 21, 2024 / Chris Lehmann

San Francisco Giant center fielder Willie Mays swings his bat during spring training in Phoenix, Arizona, on February 24, 1961.

Willie Mays Was Baseball’s Last Mythic Hero Willie Mays Was Baseball’s Last Mythic Hero

The center fielder, who died at 93, was the last surviving star who began his career in Black baseball.

Jun 21, 2024 / Obituary / Bijan C. Bayne

Golden Handcuffs

Golden Handcuffs Golden Handcuffs

Donald Trump was indicted on charges related to hush money paid during his 2016 presidential campaign. 

Jun 21, 2024 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo

Then-Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas speaks at the Democratic National Convention in 1948.

Nixon and Trump: The Good Women They Defeated Nixon and Trump: The Good Women They Defeated

We remember Trump’s female opponent. Time to remember Nixon’s?

Jun 21, 2024 / Michele Willens

The New York Times building in December 2023.

“The New York Times” Is Failing Its Readers Badly on Covid “The New York Times” Is Failing Its Readers Badly on Covid

A pair of shoddy opinion pieces proves that the paper is letting its audience down and undermining the fight to improve our knowledge of the virus.

Jun 21, 2024 / Gregg Gonsalves and John P. Moore

Protesters hold inflatable tubes in Olympic colors

What Happens to the Paris Olympics if National Rally Wins? What Happens to the Paris Olympics if National Rally Wins?

If Macron’s snap-election gambit fails, the far right could be in power and use the Games to legitimize its politics.

Jun 20, 2024 / Dave Zirin and Jules Boykoff

Honoring Journalists Killed in Gaza

Honoring Journalists Killed in Gaza Honoring Journalists Killed in Gaza

Community members embroider the names of some of the journalists killed in Gaza since October 7, public action organized by Rosa Borrás, Puebla, Mexico.

Jun 20, 2024 / OppArt / Rosa Borrás

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