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A recent successful court case brought by university professors against the Trump administration’s ideological deportations is an important win for supporters of Palestinian liberation and opponents of rising authoritarianism in the US.

A proposed 2026 California ballot measure would tax billionaires’ fortunes to fund imperiled health access for 15 million state Medicaid recipients.

From Pete Buttigieg to Gavin Newsom, party bigwigs are finding out the hard way that the old platitudes don’t work anymore.

Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly explore deepfakes, scams, and cybercrime with the Director of Threat Research at Bitdefender, Bogdan Botezatu.

Several top officials in the Department of Health and Human Services worked for the very corporate interests their boss claims to oppose.

The Mackenzie King government took control of the economy in the form of a publicly funded and a directed supply-side industrial policy. Resources and labour were channelled to produce for the war effort and the core needs of the community.

“Instead of acting to prevent healthcare price hikes for the American people, President Trump and Republicans in Congress are playing games with people’s lives,” said a leader at Groundwork Collaborative.

Fortunately, heading into the 2026 mid-term elections some military veterans from working class backgrounds are trying to challenge big money in politics with what Nebraska Senatorial candidate Dan Osborn calls “paycheck populism.”

Authoritarian regimes rarely criminalize dissent all at once; they normalize repression step by step. Authoritarianism is a political system that suppresses political freedoms and civil rights, using various levers of control to shift power...

Brian Bilston, self-proclaimed "Poet, Philosopher & Failure," offers a succinct analysis of the American character.