Friday Nite Videos | May 2, 2025

Portside Portside
How to Prevent Future Trumps. Trump Voters Have A Warning For Him. RFK Jr. Explodes U.S. Health and Science. Waltz Departs the Group Chat. Viet Thanh Nguyen on 50 Years After Vietnam War.

Early Victory for Voting Rights

Michael Waldman Brennan Center for Justice
A judge has blocked a key part of the president’s attempt to rewrite election rules. “Our Constitution entrusts Congress and the States — not the President — with the authority to regulate federal elections.”

Birth Rates Are Falling. Here Are Real Solutions.

Katelyn Jetelina Your Local Epidemiologist
In the U.S.—and across much of the world—fertility rates are falling, and populations are projected to shrink. People are having fewer children because the system makes it too hard, too risky, and too expensive.

SCOTUS Thinks Church-State Separation Is Anti-Religious Bigotry

Mark Joseph Stern Slate
The Supreme Court is poised to open the floodgates to mandatory taxpayer support for religious education across the country, striking down restrictions on religious charter schools. The right-wing justices seem unconcerned about the consequences.

A Vietnam Story: From Othering to Solidarity

JJ Johnson Washington Spectator
Fifty years after the end of the Vietnam War, JJ Johnson reflects on the journey that led him, along with two fellow Fort Hood soldiers, to refuse orders to Vietnam. He compares then to our situation today, "the darkest period in my lifetime."

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How to Prevent Future Trumps

If America doesn't respond to the calamity that's befallen the working class, we will have Trumps as far as the eye can see

Waltz Departs the Group Chat, Trump Departs Reality

Michael Kosta continues coverage of Trump’s 100th day in office with reports from NewsNation’s town hall, where the president racially slighted Stephen A. Smith and Pam Bondi’s ridiculous claims about fentanyl deaths