Tuesday, July 7, 2026

What the failure of Liz Truss’s economic agenda in the UK can teach the...

Britain’s rejection of Liz Truss’s trickle-down economics ought to serve as a warning to the United States, where midterm elections are about to commence.

Dark money groups have pumped $1 billion into GOP effort to retake Senate

The finding comes a month after Senate Republicans tanked a bill that would have required dark money groups to disclose their donors and funding sources.

4 of 5 world cities faced ‘significant climate hazards’ in 2022, study finds

“The more cities know about those risks and benefits, and the more they engage citizens in the work they’re doing to confront the climate crisis, the faster they can make progress.”

The Ukraine moment

Lessons from the War on Terror.

Senators push back on $25 billion Kroger-Albertsons grocery giant merger

Opposition from progressive lawmakers, such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders, are calling on regulators to reject the deal.

Liz Truss resigns as Prime Minister, leaving UK in energy crisis turmoil

“I do want to accept responsibility and say sorry for the mistakes that have been made. I wanted to act to help people with their energy bills to deal with the issue of high taxes, but we went too far and too fast.”

‘Lawless and reckless’: Warren condemns Fifth Circuit attack on CFPB

"If it stands, it will go down in history as one of the most anti-consumer court rulings in history."

Iran: A winter-spring anti-romance

To achieve a more orderly and just transition in Iran, a ceasefire is needed in the winter-spring standoff between the revolutionary generation of 1979 and the revolutionary generation of today.

What threatens Florida more, hurricanes or the rich?

Florida’s state government doesn’t call the shots. Florida’s rich do, and the continuing immensity of their after-tax incomes has turned out to matter far more to state policy than the well-being of Floridian families of modest means.

Concerned over lack of ‘working-class’ energy for midterms, Sanders plans 8-state blitz

"Democrats need to clearly say what more we'll do to fix the economy for working people if we hold on to Congress."