Billionaire-backed group enlists Trump-supporting citizens to hunt for voter fraud using discredited techniques
The Voter Reference Foundation is putting the nation’s voter rolls online while making unsupported claims suggesting election fraud. The group’s funding can be traced to a Super PAC funded by the CEO of Uline.
Would a “cold” war be the best news around?
Ukraine, Taiwan, and other flashpoints in a new age of geopolitics
CPAC 2022—no war, but the culture war
The faces of CPAC have changed from a more traditional conservative to an odd mixture of libertarian isolationism and cultural dog-whistling so loud that my labradoodle back at home started howling.
Trump just endorsed an Oath Keeper’s plan to seize control of the Republican Party
It has already inspired thousands of people to fill positions at the lowest rung of the party ladder.
Ordinary Russians are already feeling the pain of sanctions
Whom will Russians blame for economic pain?
House Committee issues subpoena to top Trump fundraiser Kimberly Guilfoyle
The demand for legal documents and a deposition is the first for a member of the Trump family’s inner circle.
Mad Vlad? Russia’s senseless, brutal ‘intervention’ in Ukraine
Will a war in Europe make more people wake up to the real costs of militarism, even when they are asked to sacrifice themselves, loved ones or fellow citizens by their own leaders in the name of patriotism?
The U.S. constitution was meant to be a work in progress
Author and legal scholar Elie Mystal’s first book argues that the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights are deeply flawed, but that it’s still possible to use them to protect the rights of women and people of color.
India and the future of the planet
India’s economic and energy production model is not a threat to the world, but it is a threat to India itself, particularly its most marginalized people.
Reflections from the netherworld
Advice from JFK to President Biden.