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Trump’s Budget Director Could Usher In an Age of Unfettered Presidential Power
Slated to head the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought was a lead figure in creating Project 2025.
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Held in Isolation, Palestinian Leader Khalida Jarrar Faces Torturous Conditions
Jarrar’s husband and lawyer describe abuses endured by the political prisoner, who has been in solitary since August.
Trump Reneges on Promise That His Tariffs Won’t Raise Costs for Consumers
In his first term in office, Trump's tariffs cost consumers around $1.4 billion per month, one study found.
Gaza Humanitarian Aid Operation “Nearing Collapse,” UN Warns
UNRWA has suspended the use of Gaza’s main aid crossing point due to Israeli-protected violence.
Bipartisan Plan to “Reform” Energy Permits Is a Brazen Giveaway to Fossil Fuels
Leading supporters of permitting reform either have a business interest in it — or have effectively been bribed.
Unions Brace Themselves as Trump Prepares to Defang Labor Board
Trump’s NLRB will likely be filled with lawyers from the union-busting world hell-bent on rolling back workers’ gains.
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Resurgent Puerto Rico Independence Movement Challenges 126 Years of Colonialism
Openly promoting decolonization and a social democratic alternative, a historic coalition made record electoral gains.
US Probes Spain for Reportedly Blocking Port for Ships With Weapons for Israel
International legal experts have said that countries sending weapons to Israel may be violating international law.
Trump Says He’ll Issue an Executive Order Ending Birthright Citizenship
No provision of the US Constitution can be legally overturned by a presidential decree.
French PM’s Ouster Shows Deep Cracks in Legitimacy of Europe’s Neoliberal Order
The French left and far right joined forces to reject austerity, exposing the hollowing of the political center.
After 86 Years, Disabled Workers Could Finally Receive Minimum Wage Protections
Biden’s Labor Department is moving to abolish “subminimum wage” rules, but the Trump administration may undo the win.
Having Pardoned His Son, Biden Faces Pressure to Enact Mass Clemency
Advocates say Biden must repair harm caused by harsh anti-drug and crime laws he championed in the 1980s and ’90s.
Supreme Court Case on Trans Health Shows How Gender Essentialism Harms Us All
Everyone who cares about bodily autonomy should fight for trans health care.
Academic Labor Unions Are Key to Fighting Trump’s Repressive Higher Ed Agenda
AAUP President Todd Wolfson says unions like his are key to fighting Trump’s attacks on the bedrock of democracy.
Immigration
How Immigration Organizers Are Gearing Up for Another Trump Era
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California Lawmakers Begin Legislative Special Session to “Trump-Proof” State
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Trump’s Next Term Could See Massive Expansion of ICE’s Surveillance Regime
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Private Prison Contractor Sues to Block California’s Health Inspections
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Trump Border Czar Vows to Slash Funding for States That Oppose Mass Deportation
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Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan Can’t Happen If US Military Members Resist It
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ICE Isolates Me From Community So Corporations Can Profit From My Imprisonment
“There’s a real risk that Trump might invoke emergency powers, on the flimsiest of pretexts, to shut down broadcasters whose tone has rubbed him the wrong way.”
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The Road to Abolition
Abolition Work Shows Us There’s Joy to Be Found Even as the World Is on Fire
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“An Imagination Party”: How My Toddler Fuels My Vision for Liberation
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Victims of Family Policing Are Leading a Movement to Abolish It
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Dispatch From Missouri: Mourners Decry Execution of Marcellus Williams
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In Vermont, Abolitionists Are Fighting a Prison-Building Boom
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Illinois Aims to Spend $900 Million Revamping Prisons. Let’s Close Them Instead.
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Viral TikTok Videos Erase Kamala Harris’s Record as California’s “Top Cop”