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Trump’s ‘power to the people’ healthcare pitch masks a plan that...

Trump’s push to redirect federal healthcare dollars into individual cash payments while ending Medicaid and ACA subsidies is drawing warnings of a deepening national crisis and renewed calls for universal, publicly financed coverage.

On the precipice of authoritarian rule

Is the threat to the rule of law in the United States not just profound but historically unprecedented?

The resistance reaches into Trump country

As organizers for No Kings 2 seek historic turnout on Oct. 18, the broader pro-democracy movement has already broken new ground.

“No Kings. No Thrones. No Crowns.”: Millions to protest Saturday in...

“We are engaging in the most American activity in the world, which is coming together in peaceful protest of our government.”

Trump’s pharma tariffs set to hit branded drugs as exemptions widen...

Analysts warn of price risks even as generics, U.S. facilities, and European caps could blunt the impact.

Pentagon press clampdown under Trump sparks first amendment alarm

Journalists and free press advocates warn that new Pentagon restrictions requiring pre-approval of even unclassified information represent a dangerous assault on democratic oversight, despite Trump’s claim that “nothing stops reporters.”

Chicago braces as Trump threatens troops and mass ICE raids

Officials vow court action while communities organize, citing billions for militarization and warnings of secrecy and civil rights violations.

Trump threatens media licenses as experts warn corporate owners may capitulate

As President Donald Trump urges the FCC to revoke ABC and NBC licenses and to “pay up BIG,” media scholars and press-freedom advocates warn that corporate owners may cave to political pressure, with a recent $16 million settlement cited as a troubling precedent.

Senate vote on Sanders resolutions marks historic shift in US support...

Though blocked, Bernie Sanders’s efforts to halt weapons transfers to Israel gained unprecedented Democratic support amid Gaza’s worsening famine and civilian death toll.

This is what democracy looks like!

No Kings Day: An event to remember.

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Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...

What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?

Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...

A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.

Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?

The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.

Now you see them… now you don’t

Women leaders and Trump 2.0.

Del Monte Bankruptcy to destroy 420,000 Peach Trees in California

A steady decline in demand for canned products as consumers shift toward fresh produce and several other factors led to this collapse.