Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Economy boom? Nearly half of all Americans still struggle to pay their bills

The 'booming economy' has done “little to narrow the persistent economic disparities by race, education, and geography.”

Seven pointed questions for corporate media about their biases

Unfortunately, many Democratic voters in Iowa, New Hampshire and elsewhere are unduly influenced by mainstream media.

NPR falsely claims its reporter is the only one to visit Nicaragua

This led into a harrowing story of how its reporter arrived in Nicaragua…and reported without incident.

Who polices the immigration police?

Claims of unjust arrests by ICE agents and cops often disappear into an overwhelmed immigration court system.

The Native history of Indigenous Peoples Day

As more cities and states consider marking Indigenous Peoples Day instead of Columbus Day, one Native American scholar aims to set the record straight on where the movement began.

Putting out a Garbage Fyre: How reproductive rights advocates countered a week long anti-choice...

“What it’s about is reproductive and pregnancy outcomes and valuing them all...We need to be a society that values that decision for you because we’re a society that values healthy outcomes."

How awesome is ‘awesome’?

Will the U.S. military under Lloyd Austin's leadership recover its long-lost awesomeness?

Shutoffs continue as people of Detroit fight for water as a human right, Part...

Michigan has meanwhile presented itself as the ground zero of water problems, as the people of Detroit worked to make themselves a model for solutions.

Walling in the opioid crisis?

Mr. President, if you want to tackle a genuine national emergency and are eager to spend another $5.7 billion or far more on a project that will, in the end, make you look better to everybody, including your base, take on the opioid epidemic.

Why are there more mass killings on Trump’s watch than before?

If there are more right-wing extremists, then the Trump rhetoric is promoting their violent acts, not dissuading them.