Monday, December 15, 2025

Israel has killed two children a day during Gaza ceasefire, UN reports

UNICEF and humanitarian agencies say ceasefire conditions have collapsed as Israeli strikes continue in Gaza and Lebanon.

Public opposition surges as Trump weighs military action in Venezuela

New polling shows widespread rejection of war while legal experts, lawmakers, and regional leaders warn the administration’s escalating campaign lacks explanation and violates core constraints

Lawmakers call for probe of how firm tied to Kristi Noem got piece of...

The demands for an investigation come after a ProPublica story revealed that the Noem-connected Strategy Group was secretly a subcontractor on the ad campaign.

Warfare over healthcare: It’s necropolitics all the way down

This is not just an abstract dilemma that many households are facing; it is necropolitics in action, the state-sanctioned power to decide who lives and dies.

2025 elections could be the beginning of the end of MAGA—if Dems seize the...

The MAGA movement should be very worried about its political survival. If Democrats stick to the blueprint the 2025...

Priceless teaching moments from the last five presidencies, especially today’s craziest, most corrosive

Character matters because that’s the best future predictor; career success matters because past is prologue; competence matters because gross negligence is catastrophic.

The hot tub of death?

Bill Gates, Hurricane Melissa, and a Civilization Under Threat

Graham blocks repeal of law giving senators $500,000 payouts over seized phone records

House votes 426–0 to undo provision that could grant multi-million-dollar awards to Republicans under 2020 election investigation.

Judge rules Trump’s National Guard deployment in Washington, DC, illegal

Federal court finds the president “acted contrary to law” after sending thousands of troops to patrol the capital amid falling crime rates.

‘We’re broken’: As federal prisons run low on food and toilet paper, corrections officers...

Many of the problems the agency is facing now are not new, but staff and prisoners fear an exodus of officers could make life behind bars even worse.