I could not stay silent: Annelle Sheline resigns from State Dept. over U.S. Gaza...
A State Department human rights officer resigns in protest of U.S. backing for Israel's actions in Gaza, urging a reevaluation of policies that clash with American values.
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.
Video Exposes Police Officer Pepper-Spraying Handcuffed Teens
The NAACP recently released a video of two handcuffed teens being shot with pepper spray while detained in a holding cell. The disturbing video bares the question: Are further civil rights violations taking place inside the Alton Police Station?
‘Tell that to the families in Flint:’ AOC demolishes GOP claim that Green New...
New York Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shot back with a passionate defense of the Green New Deal.
Kristi Noem fast-tracked millions in disaster aid to Florida tourist attraction after campaign donor...
Records obtained by ProPublica show how one locality found a way to get FEMA aid more quickly: It asked one of Noem’s political donors for help.
FCC proposes mandating AI disclosure in political ads to safeguard election integrity
This move aims to enhance transparency and protect voters from deceptive practices.
Useful idiots vs. the FBI
Trump himself has led an unrelenting assault on the bureau, with his trademark screeching tweets and verbal outbursts, repeatedly suggesting that the nation's premier law enforcement agency is "tainted."
The ghost of Eugene McCarthy could haunt Biden’s path to renomination
Fifty-five years ago, pundits scoffed when a Democratic senator announced that he was running against incumbent Lyndon Johnson for their party’s presidential nomination.
US and China push global military spending to record high
U.S. military expenditure along accounted for 36 percent of total global military spending, as much as the next eight biggest-spending countries combined.
The human costs of the nationalist agendas of Trump and Brexit
The nationalist approach to trade hurts globalists and workers alike.