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The Budget is a moral document that reveals our nation’s priorities. What stands out is a reverse wealth transfer. The ultra-wealthy get billions in tax breaks, while Black families lose the programs that have provided pathways to the middle-class.

The idea of non-reformist reforms is that you work within your existing system to build something new, while also winding down the extractive system.

Mamdani Wins With Positivity | Stephen Colbert. Proud To Be an American | George Carlin. Birthright Citizenship Instant Response! Zohran Mamdani's Full Victory Speech. Woody Guthrie’s Fight with Trump.

The “endgame” goal wasn’t achieved. In fact, while the details of the Trump-Tehran ceasefire agreement remain murky, what’s clear is that none of Netanyahu’s three aims have been fulfilled.

Stock buybacks. Sales taxes. Loopholes. ... Let's count the ways that tax reforms to benefit the rich and big corporations have exacerbated inequality and drained resources from funding vital public programs.

The three dissenting justices use stark language to frame the threat: “The Court’s decision is nothing less than an open invitation for the Government to bypass the Constitution. ... No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.”

It’s clear that we’re on the precipice of a surge in preventable diseases. The domestic stoking of anti-vaccine sentiment is itself infectious—a disease-carrying rat population on the ships exporting American culture.

Zohran Mamdani’s victory last night was a straightforward triumph of people over money, the kind capitalist elites try so hard to convince us is impossible. Cuomo’s campaign was bankrolled by $25 million from some of the worst actors in American life

Providing an alternative to establishment politics and an increasingly right-leaning party made all the difference for Mamdani, argues politics editor Lex McMenamin in this op-ed. Zohran Mamdani did something different, and it made all the difference

As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underestimated what I was up against.