Sunday, October 25, 2026

How the Loser-in-chief sabotages the midterm – better a trumped up martyr than disaster-driven...

Haranguing, bonkers and beset,/ “Victim” Trump makes his riskiest bet.
A ballot drop box. Photo: Cliffordsnow / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Federal judge blocks Trump administration rule restricting mail ballots

The order covers the November election, months after Trump signed an executive order targeting how ballots move through the mail
A diesel tanker truck at a truck stop. Photo: DanTD / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Diesel hits record .90 a gallon as Republicans brace for midterm fallout

Republican strategists are bracing for the political fallout two months before the midterm elections.
The Pentagon, headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense. Photo: U.S. Navy, Chief Photographer's Mate Johnny Bivera (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Trump Can Escalate the Iran War But He Still Has No Clear Endgame

Seven months into the conflict, Washington can still destroy targets. What it has not shown is how the war ends.
Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State, Nigeria, at the center of the Boko Haram insurgency. Photo: Tori bodaf / CC BY-SA 4.0

EXCLUSIVE: Nigerian government and Boko Haram strike secret ceasefire deal

The truce is tied to secret hostage negotiations that freed 360 kidnapped villagers in June, after 17 years of war that has cost nearly 350,000 lives.
Chicago Teachers Union members at a 2019 rally. Photo: Charles Edward Miller / CC BY-SA 2.0

More than 40% of teachers now work a second job to make ends meet,...

Nearly a third of respondents say they are likely to leave teaching within a year, and researchers separately found the gap between teacher pay and other college graduates' pay barely eased in 2025.
A data center facility in the Utah desert. Photo: Swilsonmc / CC BY-SA 3.0

Federal appeals board halts first data center approved on public land

The Bureau of Land Management now has until September 21 to explain why it treated a 167-megawatt data center as the same project as the solar plant it originally approved.
A hospital emergency room in Minneapolis. Photo: Tony Webster / CC BY-SA 2.0

More than 10 million Americans have lost health coverage under Trump, new analysis finds

Enrollment losses are falling hardest on children, with Medicaid and CHIP coverage for kids down 2 million even as the biggest cuts in this year's tax and spending law have yet to fully take effect.
An 1865 world map using the Mercator projection, which shrinks Africa relative to its true size. Photo: Alvin Jewett Johnson, public domain

UN Wants to Right-Size Maps; Would it have Saved Trump from Iran Catastrophe?

Juan Cole argues that map projections which shrink Africa and the Middle East help explain why Washington keeps misjudging the size of the countries it goes to war with.
A Midwest meatpacking plant. Photo: Ammodramus, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Illinois presses Tyson for a buyer after 2,500 workers lost their jobs overnight

The plant's chief executive was paid 781 times the median worker's wage the same quarter its beef unit posted a loss.