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This proposed NDA is another attempt by the administration to purge the civil service of nonpartisan career employees and replace them with loyalists who won’t speak out against waste, fraud, and abuse.

Toward a unified project of change

In Arizona alone, the number of residents receiving nutrition aid fell 42 percent from July 2025 to January 2026.

The Left needs to show it can deliver bold, ambitious new public services. Zohran Mamdani can transform the Economic Development Corporation into an incubator for public goods that can meet the needs of all New Yorkers.

Under a recently enacted state law in Massachusetts independent contractors can bargain collectively—and now, they will.

Trump says that a deal to end the war with Iran is imminent. On key issues, it’s back to square one—or worse.

Today AI, tomorrow the world

The outspoken musician and film-maker talks I Love Boosters, his colorful follow-up to 2018 hit Sorry to Bother You, and the criticisms of his partnership with an Ellison

Ninety years after the original Nye Committee exposed the arms industry’s corruption, the Pentagon and its contractors are bigger, richer, and more unaccountable than ever.

Hard Time for Right-Wing Terrorists (2016), General Strike Stops Rochester Cold (1946), ‘Ain’t I a Woman?’ (1851), A Real Super-Hero (1431), A ‘Coordinated, Military-Style Attack’ (1921}, ‘Death-Flow from a Pipe’ (1972)