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Economy

Trump’s Biggest Challenge: Convincing MAGA His Economy Is Great

Klaus Marre 10/06/25

With the US economy faltering, in large part because of his own policies, Donald Trump has his work cut out to make Americans believe that things are going great.

Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, generals, admirals, flag officers
US Politics

What Would Happen if the Generals Refused to Follow Orders?

Russ Baker 10/06/25
ICE, Protest, Chicago, Sign, come for you
US Politics

Trump Is Out for Blood

Klaus Marre 10/06/25
Pete Hegseth, Addresses, Generals, Admirals, Flag Officers, Quantico, VA
Cartoon

Hegseth & Trump Tell Top Brass to Resign If They Can’t Get With MAGA Program

DonkeyHotey 10/05/25
ICE raid, apartment, Chicago
Rights & Liberties US Politics

Facism, Now: Regime’s Blackhawk Helicopter Descends on Chicago Apartment Complex

Lucian K. Truscott IV 10/04/25

Deep Dives

Pete Hegseth, Haranguing, Military Leaders

Two Key Takeaways From Quantico

William T. Dowell
Jeffrey Epstein, President Donald Trump, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth

The Quantico Enigma: A Pep Talk, a Coup, or Just Another Epstein Distraction?

Russ Baker
Donald Trump and Erika Kirk, Jimmy Kimmel, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Mehmet Oz, Trump, James Comey

Kimmel’s Return: A Good Bad Week to Find Our Secret Weapon

Jonathan D. Simon
banner, Donald Trump, Department of Labor, building

Trump’s Freedom of Speech: We Talk — and Lie — All We Want; You, STFU

Russ Baker

Economy

Shopping, inflation, receipts, economy
Economy

Trump’s Biggest Challenge: Convincing MAGA His Economy Is Great

Klaus Marre

With the US economy faltering, in large part because of his own policies, Donald Trump has his work cut out to make Americans believe that things are going great.

Trump, Pentagon
Economy US Politics

Trump Hopes Gov’t Shutdown Will Mask the Weakness of His Economy

Klaus Marre 10/01/25
fast food worker, kitchen, cooking, heat
Environment Labor

Workers Are Facing Dangerous Heat — Even Inside Fast-Food Restaurants

Frida Garza 09/11/25

International

The Dogs of Mariupol, Tom Mutch,
Ukraine

Tom Mutch’s ‘The Dogs of Mariupol’

William T. Dowell
President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
International

Trump Tells Israel to Stand Down as Hamas Promises Release of Hostages

Klaus Marre
Gen Z protesters, Kathmandu, Nepal
International

Nepal’s Streets in Turmoil: Protest, Corruption, and a Nation at Crossroads

Sajid Raina, Tauseef Ahmad
Donald Trump, hosts, Volodymyr Zelenskyy White House, ceasefire, Petteri Orpo, Emmanuel Macron, Friedrich Merz, Ursula von der Leyen, Giorgia Meloni, Keir Starmer, Alexander Stubb, Mark Rutte
Ukraine

Trump Says Ukraine Can Win All of Its Territory Back

Klaus Marre

Culture

Pope Leo XIV, leads, traditional, Wednesday General Audience
Culture

The Pope Has Entered the Chat

Klaus Marre 10/03/25

His Holiness Leo XIV apparently has some thoughts on the policies of the Trump administration.

Global Climate Action Summit, protest, San Francisco
Culture Environment

The ‘Silent Majority’ Who Care About the Climate Crisis

Danielle Renwick 09/30/25
Robert Redford, interviewed, WTTC Americas Summit, 2012, Mexico
Culture

What Robert Redford Taught Us

Neal Gabler 09/26/25

Environment

Oil and gas industry, pushing fossil fuels, arms race
Environment

No, the US Doesn’t Need Fossil Fuels to Win ‘an AI Arms Race’ Against China

Joe Fassler
Global Climate Action Summit, protest, San Francisco
Culture

The ‘Silent Majority’ Who Care About the Climate Crisis

Danielle Renwick
Nylah Toussaint, daughters, sugarcane field
Environment

Exxon’s CO2 Pipeline Passes Too Close to Homes and Businesses, Louisianans Say

Delaney Nolan, Emily Sanders
Ponte Sant`Angelo, Tiber river, Basilica di San Pietro
Environment

Climate Change May Have Killed 16,469 People in Europe This Summer

Emily Gardner

Economy

Shopping, inflation, receipts, economy
Economy

Trump’s Biggest Challenge: Convincing MAGA His Economy Is Great

Klaus Marre 10/06/25

With the US economy faltering, in large part because of his own policies, Donald Trump has his work cut out to make Americans believe that things are going great.

Trump, Pentagon
Economy US Politics

Trump Hopes Gov’t Shutdown Will Mask the Weakness of His Economy

Klaus Marre 10/01/25
fast food worker, kitchen, cooking, heat
Environment Labor

Workers Are Facing Dangerous Heat — Even Inside Fast-Food Restaurants

Frida Garza 09/11/25

Education

Travelers, Berlin Brandenburg Airport
Apprentice Stories

‘I Can’t Go Back’: Trump and the New American Brain Drain

Naomi Stockley
Kavya Waghmare, often studies under trees, cooling
Education

A Girl’s Grades Drop Every Summer — There’s an Alarming Explanation.

Sanket Jain
Donald Trump, supporters, storm, Capitol
Education

Revisionist History 101 — Oklahoma to Teach Trump’s Big Lie in High Schools

Klaus Marre
Jews for Free Speech, Mahmoud Khalil, Protest
Education

Could Fighting Antisemitism Cause More Antisemitism?

Rabbi Joseph A. Edelheit

Elections

Red thumb on scale
Deep Dives Elections

Putin, the Election Integrity Whisperer, Gives Trump Pointers for 2026

Jonathan D. Simon 08/29/25

Just how many red thumbs will fit on that electoral scale?

Donald Trump, Jeanine Pirro, speaking
Elections Journalism & Media

Court Filing Serves as Reminder That Fox News Is the GOP’s Propaganda Arm

Klaus Marre 08/21/25
Mail-in Voting, Ballot, Everett, WA
Elections

Prompted by Putin, Trump Plans Illegal Election Power Grab

Klaus Marre 08/18/25
Gerrymandering, nuclear
Deep Dives Elections US Politics

Full Frontal Gerrymandering: Trump’s Roided Up Play to Hold the House

Jonathan D. Simon 08/09/25
Texas, Governor Greg Abbott, Texas Air National Guard, Dawn M. Ferrell
Elections

Texas Governor Wants to Make Standing Up for Democracy a Felony

Klaus Marre 08/04/25

Podcast

Globalization, what went wrong, Jenga game

Globalization and Its Discontents: How the World’s Greatest Bet Went Wrong

Jeff Schechtman
British East India Company, Tim Cook, Larry Ellison, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos

How America Lost Control of Its Own Future

Jeff Schechtman
Assassinations, police violence, violent protests, lynching, civil war, Jim Crow, labor fights

This Is Exactly Who We Are: Political Violence Is Built Into America’s DNA

Jeff Schechtman
Influencers, algorithms, crowds, media landscape

Propaganda 2025: How Lies Became the New Currency of Truth

Jeff Schechtman

Cartoon

Pete Hegseth, Addresses, Generals, Admirals, Flag Officers, Quantico, VA

Hegseth & Trump Tell Top Brass to Resign If They Can’t Get With MAGA Program

DonkeyHotey
Silicon Valley, theft

Silicon Valley Heist

Ted Rall
Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump, Secretary of War, Warrior Ethos

Bad to the Bone Spur

Jon Richards

Editors' Picks

climate crisis, global warming, U.S. government resources, science teachers, education challenge

Science Teachers Scramble as US Climate Resources Vanish

Whowhatwhy Editors
Peter Thiel, Fortune Brainstorm TECH 2012

Saturday Hashtag: #PeterThielDemocracyWar

Sean Ogden
climate crisis, global warming, air pollution, health, city cuts smog

How a Smog-Bound City Cut Dangerous Air Pollution

Whowhatwhy Editors
climate crisis, global warming, extreme weather, forecasts, early warnings, data boost

Forecaster Opens Access to Real-Time Data in Boost for Extreme Weather Warnings

Whowhatwhy Editors
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