As newly freed Palestinian detainees recount torture, starvation, and other abuse suffered in Israeli prisons, the Trump administration has approved a new $3 billion arms package for Israel, further ...

As the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) aggressively push for spending cuts across education, labor programs, and public services, a new report has ...

A battle of theologies in the age of Trump. “There has almost always been an outright hostility that is shown towards people of the Christian faith,” House Speaker Mike Johnson said on a podcast ...

Unless Trump plans to invade Canada, this stupidity is even dumber than raising tariffs (as inflation check!), slashing Medicaid, bullying the ambushed, blackmail-resistant Ukrainian president, or ...

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Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), along with Reps. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) and Val Hoyle (D-Ore.), introduced the Social Security Expansion Act. The legislation would apply ...

In a fiery speech before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on Wednesday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) slammed the Republican Party for allowing Elon Musk to derail bipartisan drug ...

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The case was brought by a coalition of labor unions and advocacy groups, who sued OPM after the agency ordered thousands of probationary federal employees to be fired.

A broad range of Americans are organizing a 24-hour economic boycott on February 28th to protest the ongoing actions of the Trump administration and to send a message to corporate America. From The ...

The deep contradictions of anti-immigration—and other projects—are not overcome by hiding them under the veneer of slogans like “America First.” This article was produced by Economy for All, a project ...

What we just saw is the largest mass noncompliance with Elon Musk (so far). The White House press secretary claimed that around one million federal workers have replied, which means that nearly 1.5 ...