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Trump Dealt Yet Another Massive Blow on E. Jean Carroll Verdict
Donald Trump’s request for a new trial in E. Jean Carroll’s defamation and sexual abuse case against him was shut down by a federal appeals court Monday. In a...
America Will Officially Be in Mourning on Trump’s Inauguration Day
American flags will be flying at half-mast for Trump’s January 20 inauguration after the death of former President Jimmy Carter on Sunday at age 100. Federal guidelines state that...
Astonishing Number of Republicans Want Military to Round Up Immigrants
There are some troubling developments within this data. For one, Black Americans are sorely overrepresented, making up just 12 percent of the country but 32 percent of the homeless...
The Plutocracy Wins Another Round Against MAGA Nation
Neither side of this donnybrook came with clean hands. It began after Trump chose an Indian immigrant and venture capitalist named Sriram Krishnan to be senior White House policy...
Trump Pisses Off MAGA Fans With Sudden Reversal on Jimmy Carter
There are some troubling developments within this data. For one, Black Americans are sorely overrepresented, making up just 12 percent of the country but 32 percent of the homeless...
Abortion Prepping for the Trump Era
In contrast, DDF views digital security and bodily autonomy as interconnected, one supporting the other. That makes the kinds of trainings and resources they offer—for free online and to...
After Terror Attacks, France’s Reckoning—and America’s Delayed Justice
These characters are good copy, and something more than that, because we have also read Carrère’s diaristic asides about how the plaintiffs’ horrific ordeals have started to sound repetitive,...
Jimmy Carter Was a Politician I Could Believe In
From the perspective of 2024, when every presidential election is a white-knuckle affair, it is hard to appreciate the arrogance of Democrats in the 1970s. So many of the...
My Gun Culture Is Not Your Gun Culture
What a gun may be to you may not be what a gun is to a Black Southerner. What a gun became as we watched mass shootings by young...
Cori Bush Shares One Heart-Wrenching Regret in Powerful Exit Interview
Representative Cori Bush is on her way out of Congress. Her only regret? That she “could’ve flipped a few more tables.” The progressive Squad member gave an exit interview...
Smartmatic Wants to Air Rupert Murdoch’s Dirty Succession Laundry
The Murdoch family, which owns Fox News, The New York Post, The Wall Street Journal, and several other conservative media outlets, could soon have the details of their internal...