The city’s anti-ICE actions and No Kings demonstration have commanded mass attention, but still are no match for the impunity of the MAGA deportation state.

The president’s deployments continue to nudge this country ever closer to becoming a genuine police state.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is the US agency charged with overseeing automobile safety, including rapidly proliferating self-driving cars. The agency’s new head reportedly worked on Apple’s self-driving car project until recently.

On October 10, a ceasefire was declared in the Gaza Strip, where more than 67,000 Palestinians were officially killed in just over two years of Israel’s United States-backed genocide. With an...

Senators, House members and even a mayor expressed outrage and demanded accountability after our investigation detailed how at least 170 citizens have been held by immigration agents this year.

When the U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced it had settled its “dark patterns” lawsuit against Amazon last month, leaders at the antitrust and

Both the Israeli and the American governments insist that the "Trump peace plan" requires the complete disarmament of Hamas, which, with an estimated

One takeaway from Ruth Ben-Ghiat’s excellent book, Strongmen, Mussolini to the Present, is that there is a playbook pursuant to which all authoritarians

Since the start of September, the Trump administration has busied itself with striking boats in international waters stemming from Venezuelan and possibly

The flood of angry —and justified— reactions to this year’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate, María Corina Machado, reveals less about the committee’s decision

I am rarely surprised by anything Trump says anymore. There is no lie too transparent to stop him—remember “sunny”when it was overcast? Or his absurdly

If you've been following the federal courts’ scattershot decisions on Trump's domestic troop movements, you may feel a bit spun around. One week democracy

The most insidious privatization of the 21st century isn’t material—it’s moral. The right to define “goodness”, once born of collective struggle, has been

The human condition includes a vast array of unavoidable misfortunes. But what about the preventable ones? Shouldn’t the United States provide for the basic needs of its people? Such questions get distinctly short shrift in the dominant political narratives.…

The Gaza, the one that existed on the morning of October 7 is gone, decimated by months of saturation bombing, shelling, bulldozing and controlled

A recurring theme in policy circles over the last three decades has been that young people should blame their economic problems on older people. The idea is that rather than being concerned about the massive upward redistribution of income, which has made…

An interview with historian Bryan Palmer about his trilogy of books on the continuing legacy of colonialism in Canada.