Chaos in Hong Kong: Election Candidates Stabbed and Beaten
Reading Time: 4 minutes Democracy is a dangerous pursuit these days in Hong Kong — candidates and activists in crucial elections have been violently attacked.
Warriors Wanted: Does the US Military Prey on Teenagers?
Reading Time: 10 minutes Critics accuse US military recruiters of “predatory” practices that target the young and naive.
Ukraine Whistleblower Came Forward in Spite of Weak Protections
Reading Time: 5 minutes A whistleblower complaint is behind the mountain of damaging evidence changing minds about impeachment. It’s a miracle it got through.
Does Location of ISIS Leader’s Death Hint at Turkish Help?
Reading Time: 2 minutes Suspicions of Turkish help for ISIS deepen after US raid targets leader in part of Syria held by Turkish-backed rebels.
US Exit Marks Syria Endgame
Reading Time: 4 minutes While the Syrian regime, Russia and Turkey have emerged as the biggest winners of the US exit from Syria, hidden understandings and ambiguities of the ceasefire deal bode more bloodshed.
In Memoriam: Elijah Cummings
Reading Time: 2 minutes Long before he was pilloried by President Donald Trump, Rep. Elijah Cummings was memorable. Constituents and colleagues admired his fierce pursuit of the truth.
Erdogan Risks Syria Becoming Turkey’s ‘Vietnam’
Reading Time: 4 minutes Getting into northeastern Syria is easier than staying there. Turkey is about to find out — and the ultimate winners are likely to be ISIS and the Assad regime
Avoiding Trump’s Wrath: Portman, Johnson Take Different Paths
Reading Time: 4 minutes Just how far will GOP senators go to protect President Donald Trump? Two senators’ differing approaches suggest some cracks in Republican defenses.
Watchdog Group Sues to Reveal Dark Money Donor List After Feds Won’t
Reading Time: 4 minutes With the FEC in disarray, watchdog groups are working the courts to test the limits of Citizens United and reveal the donors of so-called “dark money” super PACs.
Voter Suppression in Indian Country: ‘A Little Bit Insulting’
Reading Time: 5 minutes Native Americans could significantly sway the outcome of the 2020 election in several states — if they’re allowed to vote.
Toss-up State to Use Vulnerable Tech in 2020
Reading Time: 4 minutes Is North Carolina about to replace its decades-old voting technology with another vulnerable system? It certainly looks that way.
Trump’s Ukraine Call: Threat of FEC Probe Adds Pressure
Reading Time: 4 minutes An FEC complaint that President Donald Trump violated a federal law that prohibits soliciting information from a foreign national could produce long-awaited answers.
Voter Registration Could Tip the Scales in 2020
Reading Time: 4 minutes Once-discounted voters could sway the 2020 election, as voting-rights groups registered hundreds of thousands of voters on National Voter Registration Day.
Next in the Nuclear Arms Race: A Flying Plutonium Reactor
Reading Time: 3 minutes A deadly explosion in Russia provided a glimpse of a future in which tiny plutonium reactors could propel unstoppable nuclear bombs.
Social Insecurity: When Retirement Means Hardship, States Move to Fill the Void
Reading Time: 5 minutes States act to address the retirement-income gap through auto-IRAs and other state sponsored retirement programs.
Trump’s Kind of Labor Day
Reading Time: 5 minutes President Donald Trump wants to adjust capital gains for inflation, which would reduce taxes on the rich. Why hasn’t Congress done the same with the minimum wage, which inflation erodes every year?
100 Years After Suffrage, Full Equality Eludes Women
Reading Time: 9 minutes Women in the US won the right to vote 100 years ago today. But they still have a long way to go before being equally represented in politics.
FL Dems Call for Gun Control Session Following El Paso Shooting
Reading Time: 5 minutes In Florida, Democrats hope that — in response to the El Paso massacre — people will be fed up with mass shootings and demand gun control.
Alaska Becomes Latest Target of GOP’s Infamous Budget Mercenary
Reading Time: 4 minutes The devastating cuts to the University of Alaska’s budget can be linked to similar cuts nationwide engineered by budget mercenary Donna Arduin for almost 25 years.
Jeffrey Epstein Death: A Little Skepticism is Warranted
Reading Time: 2 minutes Do we now just accept that Jeffrey Epstein killed himself? Maybe he did. And maybe he didn’t.