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Trump’s Biggest Corruption Scandal Isn’t Getting Enough Attention
An oversight report by Schiff reveals that the Department of Health and Human Services also plans to exhibit political banners on its exterior. The Trump administration has awarded a...

Black Voices Are Vital to Democracy. The Media Must Stop Firing Them.
Put these retrenchments together, and you have a very hostile environment for Black journalists. The political right is trying to basically outlaw any discussion of racial inequality—and news organizations...

Republicans Have a Revolting Plan to Honor Charlie Kirk
Whether the troops have actually made the city better is unclear. Crime is down, homeless encampments have been cleared, and hundreds of people accused of being in the country...

Stephen Miller Is Already Using Charlie Kirk’s Death for Own Agenda
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller and other Republicans have wasted no time fashioning the late Charlie Kirk into a prop from their political agendas. During an...

Black Washington Post Journalist Says She Was Fired Over Charlie Kirk
Whether the troops have actually made the city better is unclear. Crime is down, homeless encampments have been cleared, and hundreds of people accused of being in the country...

Transcript: Trump Threats Darken on Fox as MAGA Rage Over Kirk Worsens
Sommer: Yeah, you know, I was talking to some moderates recently who were saying, you know, I wish this political rhetoric would go down. But I think it’s just really...

Think Big for a Change, Democrats: Call This the “No Kings” Shutdown.
The Democrats have announced their table stakes with respect to a possible government shutdown. Work with us to extend Obamacare tax credits, they’ve told Republicans, or you won’t get...

Trump’s Threats Darken on Fox News as MAGA Fury over Kirk Goes Nuclear
In an appalling move, President Trump went on Fox News and openly suggested that far-right political violence is typically justified as a response to left-wing extremism. This functionally tells...

The Palestinian Organizer Who Wouldn’t Be Silenced
In early March, Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Mahmoud Khalil—a Palestinian Columbia University graduate student, campus organizer, and legal permanent resident—and detained him for more than three months, as...

Brazil Stopped Its Trump. It’s Pathetic that We Couldn’t Stop Ours.
Republicans obviously deserve blame too, particularly the Supreme Court’s 2024 ruling that defined much of what Trump did after the 2020 election as official acts of the president and...