Monday, July 27, 2026

Tag: democracy

Senator Cory Booker is wrong—ICE doesn’t need ‘better training,’ ICE needs...

That being said, it’s the wholesale cowardice of the democratic party that is the cause of this disease—fascism. 

Trump’s second term delivers massive gains for billionaires as working Americans...

New data and polling show wealth surging at the top under Donald Trump while healthcare, food assistance, and affordability erode for millions.

Ending republican control will require overcoming the democratic leadership

The last 12 months have shown that Donald Trump’s party is bent on methodically inflicting vast cruelty and injustice while aiming to crush what’s left of democracy and the rule of law.

Nonviolent discipline is helping turn the tide on ICE

Despite brutal provocation, the people of Minneapolis have been courageous and remarkably nonviolent, embodying the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr.

Hugo Chávez predicted this

This war on Venezuela has been two decades in the making.

Ending the American Dream by 2029?

The future seems to free the mind from reality’s restraints and let the imagination soar. Yet it has also proven full of political pitfalls.

Trump destroys government

The administration is destroying all the aspects of government that can make a positive difference in people’s lives and pumping up those aspects of government that concentrate wealth, promote injustice, and spread hate.

History tells us…there’s hope

The answer to “who can save our country?” is in the mirror.

Giving a fig

Getting by, up close and personal, in the world of Donald Trump.

We’re entering a new phase of the resistance

We must stay ready and not assume that because Democrats won the elections this time, we’re safe.

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As GOP megabill’s SNAP cuts take effect, millions lose food aid and states face...

New tracking finds SNAP enrollment has fallen by more than 4.5 million people since July 2025, and analysts warn states could soon owe roughly $9 billion a year.

42-year study traces how ‘forever chemicals’ climb the Great Lakes food web into people

A synthesis of more than four decades of data maps how PFAS move up the region's aquatic food web and into the fish people eat.

Kept in the dark: How Louisiana weakened community air monitoring as industry pushed back

That stretch of roughly 85 miles, widely known as "Cancer Alley," is home to dozens of refineries and chemical plants and to many predominantly Black communities.

GOP tucks $10 billion for voting restrictions into party-line Pentagon funding bill

The measure advanced on a near party-line vote just before lawmakers left Washington for a lengthy summer recess.

Israel and the United States are merging their military. Here’s why.

"From aid to partnership," the U.S. and Israel are set to become even more united in genocide.