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October 10, 2025

The Boat Strikes Are Just the Beginning

Nancy A. Youssef, Gisela Salim-Peyer, and Jonathan Lemire The Atlantic

What the Trump administration is portraying as a drug mission may be about a lot more. Even as the Pentagon is being quiet about details of the operations, it is being vocal about the threat it is laying down.

Trump's Plan To Steal The 2026 Election Revealed

October 10, 2025

Everything you need to know about how Trump and the Republicans plan to interfere with the 2026 and 2028 elections

Letitia James Should Wear Being on Trump's Enemies List as a Badge of Honor

October 10, 2025

Lawrence O’Donnell analyzes the indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James, who Donald Trump told Pam Bondi publicly to prosecute

AI Is Our Ultimate Test and Greatest Invitation | Tristan Harris

October 10, 2025

Tristan Harris calls on us to learn from the mistakes of social media’s catastrophic rollout, offering a “narrow path” where power is matched with responsibility, foresight and wisdom

“I Was Born With Male and Female Parts”

October 10, 2025

In the womb, Stephanie was meant to develop male. But an issue with her adrenal glands reversed the process.

Trump Dodges Ghislaine Maxwell Pardon Q as Bondi Stonewalls Senate | The Daily Show

October 10, 2025

Trump pretends to forget Ghislaine Maxwell’s name while not ruling out a pardon, and his recent obsession with whether he’ll make it to heaven

October 10, 2025

Youth-Led US Climate Activists Widen Focus To Fight Authoritarianism

Dharna Noor The Guardian

The Sunrise Movement, which led calls for a Green New Deal, will organize against Trump’s attacks on universities. “How are we going to win on climate under authoritarianism?”

October 10, 2025

A Closer Look at Trump’s Peace Deals

David J. Simon and Kathryn Hemmer Just Security

Trump's approach displays a flawed understanding of peace itself. Given a paradigm that prioritizes economic access over reconciliation, even a cautious form of optimism is hard to justify.

October 10, 2025

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October 9, 2025

Work Therapy or Wage Theft?

Amy L. Eisenstein On Labor

If Salvation Army residential work employees earned at least a minimum wage and overtime pay, program participants would be properly compensated for their labor rather than exploited, overworked, and underpaid.