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In the 1990s, a group of New Yorkers helped prove the effectiveness of a bold but simple approach to homelessness. Now Trump wants to end it.

Daniel Lazare argues that the Supreme Court's decision in Trump v. United States (2024) follows the logic of an increasingly undemocratic Constitution

The James Webb Space Telescope has found a lonely black hole in the early universe that’s as heavy as 50 million suns. A major discovery, the object confounds theories of the young cosmos.

Washington’s attempt to “use Taiwan to contain China” is not only failing to provide security but is actively accelerating the very confrontation it claims to deter.

We must firmly oppose the attack on Venezuela, because if we let Trump win, the message he sends is that there is no international law, that there is no democracy and that all we are left with is vassalage.

Can General Strikes, Mass Strikes, and People Power Uprisings Provide A Last Defense Against MAGA Tyranny?

Thieves regularly exploit the tangled, under-regulated freight mess that puts food on your plate. The answer is not more police, but more bureaucrats.

“I understand that Vice President Vance believes that shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not.”

The Big Contract Fights Coming in 2026

Poet Beau Beausoleil asks what happens when the crew on the "boat of liberty," a lifeboat bearing the survivors of other times and wrecks, gives up.