Wednesday, August 26, 2026
The University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville. Photo: Nightryder84 / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

His Research on Pregnant Opioid Users Was Widely Celebrated. Auditors and Experts Found Major...

ProPublica found that auditors and outside experts identified major flaws in Dr. Craig Towers's naltrexone study, after addiction specialists began questioning results that looked too good to be true.

An Exciting Democracy Movement Arises in Chicago

“Reclaim Chicago,” a progressive, people-led democratic coalition, are attempting to reclaim their city. Corporate elites and corrupt politicians better beware of the power of thousands of grassroots Chicagoans.

Requiem for the Home Front

Tom Engelhardt tells a little story about a bottle, a message, time, war (American-style), his mother and himself. Here's to Irma the caricaturist.

Anticipatory Bribery

It's about time the people that run for office feel the burden of revealing payments based on their economic worth, not anticipated political clout. Have we entered a future of anticipatory bribery?
An EPA Superfund cleanup sign at the Clearview Landfill in Philadelphia. Omaha is home to the country's largest residential Superfund site. Photo: Jhbadger / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The EPA Heralds Its Omaha Cleanup as a Success. But We Found Many Yards...

The agency spent hundreds of millions on lead remediation in Omaha, Nebraska, home of the nation’s largest residential Superfund site. New soil tests by the Flatwater Free Press and ProPublica show that many yards still have harmful levels of lead.

Iran will sign a deal on Friday as the winner, but will the war...

Will historians judge Donald Trump as the man who destroyed America?

IDF operation rescues 4 hostages amid deadly assault, over 200 Palestinians killed

Israeli forces conducted a large-scale rescue mission, freeing four hostages from Gaza while over 200 Palestinians, including children, were killed in the process.
Crowds of anti-war protesters filling a London street on 15 February 2003

Paper Tiger: the Failure of America’s Trillion Dollar War Machine

The United States has burned through a third of its stand-off missile stocks against a country that spends two percent of what it does, losing at least four F-15s, an F-35 and 24 Reaper drones in the process.
A Massachusetts superior courthouse building

What is postpartum psychosis?

Attorneys for Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts woman on trial for strangling her three young children in 2023, argued before a jury Tuesday that Clancy should not be held criminally responsible for their deaths. The 35-year-old former labor and delivery nurse, they said, had been experiencing postpartum psychosis, a rare and dangerous medical condition that alters […]

How Trump’s vulgar, criminal Easter threat enriches Iran

Trump fondly imagines that he can dislodge Iran from this new ascendancy, but he is wrong, since it depends on sabotage, a sabotage that cannot be policed.