How Decades of Privatization Unleashed Trump’s Warmongering
It used to be that the president of the United States tried to persuade the public to go to war. Franklin Roosevelt’s…
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This Labor Day: Darkness in Washington, but Sunshine Across America
On Labor Day 2026, the outlook for workers can seem grim. The Trump administration is rolling back workplace…
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They Wanted Me for My Blackness. Then the Calls Stopped.
For a little while there, I became very interesting. Not more accomplished, so far as I could tell, and certainly not…
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How to Answer Yet Another Dumb Question About Hasan Piker
I confess that the vast majority of what I know about political influencer Hasan Piker came from this April interview…
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Ex-Trump Labor Secretary Went to Strip Club on Taxpayers’ Dime
A Thursday report from the Inspector General states that former Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer went to a strip…
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Gloria Steinem’s Life Between Art and Activism
I have many books about feminism on my bookshelf, but only one by Gloria Steinem. It’s an old copy, possibly a first…
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Trump’s War on Mail-In Ballots Could Hurt This Overlooked Voting Bloc
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Fox News Isolated Maria Bartiromo for Weeks Before Firing Her
New details from Maria Bartiromo’s sudden firing from Fox News reveal internal upheaval that resulted in her being…
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Trump Team Turns Their Horrific Deportation Policy Into a Video Game
Donald Trump’s administration has made a game of the president’s deadly crackdown on immigrants. The White House…
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Donald Trump Has No Idea of the Tidal Wave That’s Coming for Him
On this cusp of Labor Day, when election campaigns kick into fourth gear, I don’t want to jinx anything, but I have to…
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John Fetterman Keeps Blowing Off People He Represents to Talk on Fox
Embattled Democratic Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman blew off meetings with disabled veterans, the families of…
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Trump Reveals Why He Keeps Launching New Vanity Projects
President Donald Trump admitted that he’s just building monuments to himself. In a sprawling dispatch Friday, New York…
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The Stunning Reason Fox News Fired Maria Bartiromo Exposed
Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo was fired for leaking information about her employer to the White House, Status reported…
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Trump Spirals After Missouri Supreme Court Hands Him Massive Loss
President Donald Trump crashed out on Thursday night after the Missouri Supreme Court struck down Republican…
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Is Nepal a Turning Point in Climate Coverage?
It’s been slow coming, but news coverage of climate change may at last be turning a corner. For years, reporting on…
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How Did Trump Do on His Labor Day Report Card?
Happy Labor Day! (Well, almost.) There’s no better time to assess President Donald Trump’s labor market and labor…
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MAGA Dimwit James Comer Blurts Out Bombshell: Trump Badly Screwing GOP
It isn’t every day that Republicans admit that Donald Trump is harming their midterm hopes. After all, that would…
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Are Fewer Children the Future?
The global decline in fertility is one of the major stories of the twenty-first century—maybe even the major story. It…
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What Do the Centrists Stand For? Here’s the Uninspiring Answer.
This primary season, most of the energy and attention on the Democratic side has been on progressive candidates who…
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Hegseth and Co. Are Trying to Steal Other Agencies’ Funds, Dems Say
Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee have accused Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the Pentagon of trying…
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Leaked Video Shows Flock Taught Cops How to Hunt No Kings Protesters
Flock Safety, the company behind the dystopian surveillance systems popping up in U.S. cities, is training law…
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Washington Post Uses Photo of Wrong ’60s Icon on Gloria Steinem Obit
One of America’s largest newspapers made an elementary-level error in its obituary for Gloria Steinem. Thousands of…
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JD Vance Says You Should Be Grateful Gas Prices Aren’t Even Higher
Vice President JD Vance thinks Americans should be more grateful that gas prices aren’t higher. Speaking to the press…
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Pentagon Mysteriously Pulls Hegseth’s Testosterone Screening Memo
The Pentagon on Thursday took down recently published clinical guidance for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s mandatory…
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Trump Wants to Permanently Shut Historic Site for Protests
President Donald Trump is taking extraordinary efforts to keep protesters out of his eyeline. Trump officials will…
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Walmart and Target Pull a Literal Nazi Costume Off Their Websites
Walmart has pulled a Nazi costume from its inventory after facing a typhoon of public blowback. The outfit was made by…
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Widow of Airman Killed in Iran War Says She Was Denied Benefits
A U.S. military widow whose husband was killed in the Iran war claims that she is being denied death benefits. Libby…
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ICE Officer Charged With Lying to Investigators After Shooting Someone
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent has been charged by federal prosecutors with lying about the shooting of a…
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Every Democrat Who Voted to Defund Schools That Boycott Israel
On Thursday, 33 Democrats joined Republicans to pass a law that would take federal funding away from academic…
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Transcript: Trump Hasn’t Killed DEI in America
This is a lightly edited transcript of the September 2 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. Perry Bacon: This is…
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Growing Number of Republicans Are Sick of “Inept” Pete Hegseth
At least two Republicans in Congress are now calling for Pete Hegesth’s ouster as secretary of defense. Following Army…
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Is This District the Key to the 2026 Midterms?
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Trump Finds New Way to Target Schools That Support Non-White Students
The Trump administration has found a new way to target Black and brown students at American universities—by giving…
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Billionaire Leon Black Sues House for Trying to Ask Him About Epstein
Leon Black, a billionaire investor with millions of dollars in financial ties to Jeffrey Epstein, refused to appear…
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Sailors Finally Off USS Lincoln Say It Was “Worst” Deployment Ever
Sailors fresh off the USS Abraham Lincoln have some serious concerns about their record-setting deployment. MS NOW’s…
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After 5-Week Vacation, House Suddenly Takes Off the Rest of September
Republican House leadership has announced that the largest U.S. governing body will be taking a massive fall break,…
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