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NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani ran on delivering specific improvements to life in the city. He’s not wasting any time making visible progress.
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NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani ran on delivering specific improvements to life in the city. He’s not wasting any time making visible progress.

With so much happening in the US and around the globe, let’s not forget about Jeffrey Epstein and the Trump administration’s efforts to keep documents related to the disgraced financier hidden.

At some point, Donald Trump will invoke the Insurrection Act to occupy a blue city or state, so his opponents better be working on plans right now as to how they will respond.

The dean of UC Berkeley’s Law School looks at how the courts have prioritized criminal control over civil rights for suspects and defendants.

Nothing hardens a tribe like disdain.

If Donald Trump risks breaking with NATO over acquiring Greenland under a nonsensical pretense, then what do you think he will do to keep Democrats from winning the House in November in what would be a real threat to his lawlessness and legacy?


Change in Iran is likely to come from within the current government, unlike in 1979, when it required an overthrow of the monarchy.

In the country’s coal region — one of the EU’s biggest — advocates and union leaders are working to ensure the energy transition doesn’t leave miners behind.

Americans disapprove of the lawlessness of ICE. Now, congressional Democrats have an opportunity to do something about it. But will they?


After declining for two years, greenhouse gas emissions in the US were back on the rise in 2025. And, most troublingly, that increase did not even reflect the anti-climate policies of the Trump administration yet.

A new study reveals a conundrum for climate policy: People hate it when you tell them what to do.


Eyes are focused on the streets of Minneapolis — but the worst crime scene is in Washington, DC.


In order to be able to dictate the US monetary policy himself, Donald Trump is looking for a pretext to get rid of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. And DOJ just gave him one.

This one feels different. I’m not entirely sure why.

Tom Homan wanted us to look up the definition of “domestic terrorism.” So we did. As it turns out, what ICE is doing seems to fit the bill.

DHS should stand for Department of Homicidal Sadists if their agents are being trained to shoot people in the face who are trying to get out of their way.

The year has started out with a whirlwind of activity, most of it bad. What we have learned is that bullying keeps working for Donald Trump because everybody in a position to stand up to him refuses to do so. But we have not lost our faith in the American people.


The Venezuelan invasion did a lot of damage, but the most enduring may have been the damage it has done to our national pride.

January 6 would have been a bloodbath if Capitol Hill Police officers had acted as recklessly as the ICE agent who fired the deadly shots at a Minnesota woman this week.


Two garbage trucks of plastic hit the ocean every minute. Microplastics are in your brain. Recycling doesn’t work. What the plastic industry never told you.

Donald Trump wants defense spending to increase by 50 percent to $1.5 trillion in 2027 so that he can have a “dream military.” Based on his statements this week, that can turn into a nightmare for everybody else in the Western Hemisphere.

From India’s cane fields to US factories, rising temperatures are driving a surge in workplace injuries worldwide.

Does the continent that remembers Hitler dare to call Donald Trump’s bluff on Greenland?

There was never any doubt that, eventually, ICE’s death count would include an American citizen (not that the nationality of their victims should matter). The only question is whether the Trump administration is pleased about Wednesday’s deadly shooting in Minnesota or merely ambivalent.

As the seizing of Maduro reverberates around the globe, Noriega’s toppling offers few clear lessons for successful “regime change.”

It is no longer possible to pretend that the United States is one of the “good guys.” And the damage Trump is doing to America’s reputation, which has been on the decline for some time, is incalculable.

While the White House used the anniversary of the January 6 attack on Congress to try to rewrite history, the Republicans who know better are staying silent.

“The gridlock and partisanship we see in Washington, DC, can be dispiriting. But history shows that states can build momentum that eventually leads to change at the federal level.”


What’s the good of power if you don’t misuse it?

Also: AI counterattacks, coincidence theorists, and our mission in 2026.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has made the case that a president who refused to concede defeat in an election he lost, who has been indicted in New York, and whose policies only benefit the rich is unfit to lead his country. We agree!

In the wake of the US attack on Venezuela, other countries are realizing that Donald Trump may not stop there. Denmark’s prime minister, for example, felt compelled to warn the president to keep his hands off Greenland.

While Donald Trump loves to use the might of the US military to feel strong, actions have consequences. And his attack on Venezuela will do nothing to make Americans safer (although it may help the oil executives who gave him all that money before the election).

It’s hard to imagine America after Trump leaves the scene, but President JD Vance would be a repellent replacement.

The United States launched large-scale overnight strikes against Venezuela that led to the capture of the country’s leader, President Nicolás Maduro, Donald Trump announced early Saturday morning.


“While the future’s there for anyone to change, still you know it seems, it would be easier sometimes to change the past.” — Jackson Browne, “Fountain of Sorrow”

Arkansas whipped prisoners until 1968. Now we celebrate El Salvador’s concentration camps. A reckoning with punishment’s price.

The country would be in a better place if more people actually did their own research instead of regurgitating what they read online from people they choose to follow. And they should start with the primary documents that show how Donald Trump tried to steal the 2020 election.

As the year ends, we remind ourselves why we do this — and commit to another year of leveling with you.

While the rest of the media likes to gloss over many of the crazy things Donald Trump says and does, we won’t be cowed into silence or worn down by a president who proves on a daily basis that he is unfit for office in every way.

Donald Trump on Wednesday conceded defeat over his right to dispatch the National Guard to governors who don’t want the troops in their cities.

Mamdani’s success or failure in New York City may determine the next president of the United States.