Can a Squad of Progressive Vets Storm Capitol Hill in 2026?

Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon Portside
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 Strategy: Criminalizing Dissent and Protest

Chaumtoli Huq Huq Ithttps://substack.com/@huqit
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...

America Is a Gun

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

Cuomo Embraces Islamophobia in Waning Days of Mayoral Campaign

Yoav Gonen and Claudia Irizarry Aponte The City
The former governor participated in a radio interview on Thursday where he laughed with the cohost imagining mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani, a Muslim, cheering on a future 9/11 attack against the city.

The US Warships off Venezuela Aren’t There To Fight Drugs

Guillaume Long Center for Economic and Policy Research
The military build-up off Venezuela’s coast is a slippery slope towards an armed conflagration, far greater suffering for the Venezuelan people, regional destabilization and a potential political quagmire for the United States

The CDC Diaspora Fights Back

Jonathan Cohn The Bulwark
How America’s scientific army is trying to stand up for public health—and stand up for itself.

A House of Dynamite | Movie Trailer

From Academy Award winning director Kathryn Bigelow. A single, unattributed missile launched at the United States begins a race to determine who is responsible and how to respond.