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Donald Trump, Harvard University,

The Real Reason They’re Attacking Universities

Russ Baker 04/21/25

Trying to intellectually neuter the populace.

Khalil, Yunseo Chung, Badar Khan Suri, Columbia University protests

Cartoon Rights & Liberties

Graduate-Level Threats

Ted Rall 04/21/25

Hands-Off Rally, Donald Trump, Protest

Trump Urges Americans to Oppose Him

Klaus Marre 04/20/25

Donald Trump, El Salvador, gulag, immigrants

Generalissimo Trumpo Thinks He Is Above the Law

DonkeyHotey 04/20/25

Donald Trump, White House Faith Office, Praying

Opinion US Politics

Republicans Serve Up Piety and Hypocrisy for Easter

Klaus Marre 04/20/25

Economy

Donald Trump, tariffs

WhoWhatWhy Obtains Secret White House Memo Explaining Trump Tariffs

Klaus Marre 04/13/25

The performance of Donald Trump’s economic team on Sunday (and all week) left little doubt that nobody in the White House has any idea what’s going on and that there is no plan.

Black and White, Donald Trump, Auto, Tariffs, Announcement

Economy US Politics

Trump Blinks, Provides Market with Much-Needed Certainty (That He Is Clueless)

Klaus Marre 04/09/25

Donald Trump, pointing, flag

Economy Opinion

You Break It, You Own It: Don’t Let Republicans Blame Trump Crash on Dems

Klaus Marre 04/06/25

Journalism & Media

Pam Bondi at CPAC

Peter Theil, Rupert Murdoch, Charles Koch, Larry Ellison

Karoline Leavitt, Donald Trump, Trial

Donald Trump, arriving, inauguration, 2025

International

Homs, Syria, neighborhoods, damaged, destroyed, war

Between Fear and Reconciliation: Syrian Christians Contemplate Their Future

Joseph Roche 04/16/25

Christians in Syria worry that recent attacks against religious minorities may affect them.

+Europe party, protest, Palazzo Chig

International US Politics

Needed: International Anti-Fascist Coalition

Russ Baker 04/07/25

Marine Le Pen, inaugurating, Brigitte Bardot street

Banning Marine Le Pen From Future French Elections Could Backfire

Jean-Marc Illouz 04/05/25

Environment

Donald Trump, signs, executive actions, coal industry

Joy Banner, Jo Banner, Descendants Project

Billionaires, roasting, planet, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos

$Hydraulic fracturing, fracking, Caldwell, PA$

Elections

Voting, Curtains, Bovey, MN

House Passes Major Voter Suppression Legislation

WhoWhatWhy

Tesla, Takedown, Protest

Did Elon Musk Cheap Out on Wisconsin?

Jonathan D. Simon

North Carolina, state flag

America’s Most Undemocratic State Strikes Again

Klaus Marre

Wisconsin, Seal, Stained glass

Musk Leads GOP’s Gerrymander Gaslighting Campaign in Wisconsin

Klaus Marre

US Politics

Donald Trump, Harvard University,

The Real Reason They’re Attacking Universities

Russ Baker 04/21/25

Trying to intellectually neuter the populace.

Hands-Off Rally, Donald Trump, Protest

Trump Urges Americans to Oppose Him

Klaus Marre 04/20/25

Donald Trump, White House Faith Office, Praying

Opinion US Politics

Republicans Serve Up Piety and Hypocrisy for Easter

Klaus Marre 04/20/25

Art

Dominant curve, Wassily Kandinsky, painting, 1936

Bob Dylan, Festival de Pedralbes

Comedian, Bill Hicks, Laff Stop, Austin, Tx, 1991

Surfaces meeting, Wassily Kandinsky

Government Integrity

Pete Hegseth, delivers recorded remarks

Government Integrity

Even the Project 2025 Guys Warned Trump Appointees Against Using Signal

Klaus Marre 03/28/25

Did top-level Trump administration officials use the Signal app in spite of a warning from the Heritage Foundation about recordkeeping requirements… or because of it?

Rumeysa Ozturk, arrest, Tufts University

Government Integrity

Chilling ICE Arrests Send a Message to Students: You May Be Next

WhoWhatWhy Staff 03/28/25

: Four Signal Scandal, participants, Tulsi Gabbard, Michael Waltz, Pete Hegseth, JD Vance

Government Integrity

Atlantic’s Goldberg Under Fire Over the Cabinet’s ‘Group Chat’ Leak

William Dowell 03/28/25

Nazi, police, checking papers, Poland

Government Integrity US Politics

Trump Moves to a More Efficient Fascism

Lucian K. Truscott IV 03/25/25

Elon Musk, MAGA, costume, Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, 2025

Government Integrity

The Math Behind Musk’s Email Harassment Scheme Does Not Add Up

Klaus Marre 03/03/25

Podcast

Concrete support piers, California High-Speed Rail

The Progressive Paradox: Why America Can’t Do Big Things

Jeff Schechtman

Tariff, notice, warning, Canada, shop

Economic Misunderstanding, Tariffs, and the “Moron Risk Premium”

Jeff Schechtman

US Capitol, American, Canadian, flags

O Canada, Our Home Is Under Threat… From America

Jeff Schechtman

NIMBY notice, Battenhall, Worcester, England

Moving Nowhere Fast: How Housing Froze the American Dream

Jeff Schechtman

Cartoon

Khalil, Yunseo Chung, Badar Khan Suri, Columbia University protests

Graduate-Level Threats

Ted Rall

Donald Trump, El Salvador, gulag, immigrants

Generalissimo Trumpo Thinks He Is Above the Law

DonkeyHotey

ChatGPT, Ted Rall; censorship, OpenAI, free speech, Sam Altman, AI, Big Tech

ChatGPT Caught Silencing Critics

Ted Rall

Editors' Picks

COVID, Coronavirus

Saturday Hashtag: #CovidStacking

Sean Ogden

nature, biology, marine life, colossal squid, first deep sea sighting

Colossal Squid Caught on Camera in Deep Sea for First Time

Whowhatwhy Editors

space exploration, NASA, James Webb telescope, solar system, planets, biosignature

Scientists Find Strongest Evidence Yet of Life on Alien Planet

Whowhatwhy Editors

environment, wildflowers, toxins, metals, bees, health, study

Wildflowers Could Be Absorbing Toxic Metals That Pass to Bees: Study

Whowhatwhy Editors