From Pete Buttigieg to Gavin Newsom, party bigwigs are finding out the hard way that the old platitudes don’t work anymore.
A proposed 2026 California ballot measure would tax billionaires’ fortunes to fund imperiled health access for 15 million state Medicaid recipients.
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.
Peter Beinart interviews Muhammad Shehada on the Trump plan: Israel’s plans for the more than half of Gaza, Palestinian public opinion of Hamas, Potential role of international peacekeepers, Emerging rival criminal gangs in Gaza
Unions demand freedom from surveillance
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...
Lower courts are holding the line against authoritarianism while getting death threats and zero backup from above.
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.”
“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.
Several top officials in the Department of Health and Human Services worked for the very corporate interests their boss claims to oppose.
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