The Senate GOP’s Great Western Land Heist
A buried budget clause could force the largest public land sell-off in modern history, without a vote, a hearing, or a warning.
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ICE’s Rap Sheet Grows With Continuing Defiance of Congressional Oversight at Facilities, Attempt to Write Its Own Rules
ICE is becoming even more high-handed in its defiance of legally mandated Congressional oversight rights.
Read more...What if MAGA Has a Point About Science?
On the fallen legitimacy of science in the US, and what might be done about that.
Read more...The US Is Taxing the World’s Poorest — and Is Disguising It as Regulation
Yet more mean-spirited US conduct, here via taxing remittances, hurting families of (often legal) migrants and their home countries.
Read more...What’s Next for Capitalism — Reinvention or Authoritarian Rule?
In Capitalism and Its Critics, John Cassidy presents historical foes of monopoly, inequality, environmental peril, and authoritarianism
Read more...Generative AI in Universities: Grades Up, Signals Down, Skills in Flux
Yet more confirmation that student use of AI comes as the expense of skill acquisition. So why get educated?
Read more...What’s the Vision for the Middle East if Iran Falls?
Iran, which had just taken a major step to integrate its network into China-led transport corridors, is the last major roadblock to US-Israel domination of Middle East regional supply chains.
Read more...Believe It or Not, There Was a Time When the US Government Built Beautiful Homes for Working-Class Americans to Deal With a Housing Crisis
For a short time, the U.S. government not only built houses, it constructed entire communities.
Read more...Yanis Varoufakis: The Economics of Europe’s Descent into Warmongering
The long path that has led Europe to see big defense spending will be a lifeline, hence the need to stoke war fever.
Read more...The Projected Death Count from Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill
Researchers projects that “big beautiful bill” cuts to public health insurance coverage may lead to upwards of 51,000 deaths a year.
Read more...How the ICE Raids and Crackdowns on Anti-Genocide Speech Are A Threat to All American Workers
The precarity of the undocumented worker is the future of US labor relations.
Read more...“You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling”: Why Are Young Men Giving Up on Sex?
Many, and perhapse even most, young American men have soured on sex. What could be responsible?
Read more...“Is the US on the Path to Becoming a Failed State?”
Yes, the US is in the midst of multifaceted institutional collapse. But to see Trump as the cause as opposed to an accelerant is misguided.
Read more...Trump Administration Violating Yet More Individual Rights in Escalation Over ICE Raid Protests in Los Angeles
Over-the-top ICE enforcement is the gift that keeps giving to Trump Administration plans to eviscerate freedoms like the right to protest.
Read more...The Threat From Extreme Centrists
Richard Murphy argues we should focus more on the centrists—”the people who want to maintain the status quo when it’s glaringly obvious that we need change.”
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