All rich kids should be socialists.

If Frederick Douglass, a former slave who saw the dream of emancipation drown in Jim Crow, didn’t give up on this country, then we have no excuse.

Everything about this World Cup is designed to make you hate it. If you live here and you’re a soccer fan, tickets to games are a ripoff, fan zones are built to give you heatstroke, and Fox Sports’…

The reactionary hacks on the Supreme Court might have gone too far this time.

Dana Williamson, the former chief of staff to California Gov. Gavin Newsom who is facing nearly two dozen federal charges, is discussing a possible plea deal with federal prosecutors, court records sh...

The Supreme Court's conservatives have spent their careers working to kill the Voting Rights Act. They just did it.

The president has never been shy about why he wants to deport Haitian people. The justices are pretending to have never heard any of it.

Reminiscent of the Gingrich Revolution, a multi-bill package would attack higher costs, raise wages, and get big money out of politics. Its architect sees it as a battle plan for the midterms.

In public, the chief justice loves talking about how the Supreme Court’s work is not political. His leaked memos reveal just how political the Supreme Court’s work actually is.

Most of the Gaza Strip – cities, refugee camps, schools, universities, mosques, the health infrastructure, agriculture...

The legal profession has no problem with Clarence Thomas publicly railing against the evils of progressivism, as long as he doesn’t mention any colleagues by name.

In 1970, Roger Freeman, who also worked for Nixon, revealed the right’s motivation for coming decades of attacks on higher education.

The war on Iran has spilled into Lebanon, and Israel’s plan for the country appears bleak.

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

The bible-thumping US defense secretary is overseeing another strategic disaster in the Middle East. Is this a war or a crusade?

There is a particular indignity that comes from living in America, derived from the experience of waking up in the morning to see reports that Donald Trump has said something profoundly evil, and then...

New Epstein files emails show how Epstein tried to cultivate relationships with prosecutors and others involved in his case

Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has faded from public consciousness in America, despite leaving death and destruction in its wake.

The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards.

The city’s use of temporary shelters harms affordable housing efforts and merely delays displacement of unhoused people.

Local prosecutors are seeking felony-level charges against pro-Palestine demonstrators. Even if they don’t stick, critics say the response is harsh and could chill protests.

Watching the buildup for regime change in Iran happily echo the buildup for regime change in Iraq. PLUS: The ghost of NSEERS returns to DHS

The several thousand federal agents currently running rampant in the Twin Cities have so far achieved little in the way of legitimate law enforcement objectives, but they have been rather more success...

The only question worth asking

It is intolerable

The worst president in American history wants to conquer Greenland.

The new year is not yet three weeks old, but it is already rife with signs. Signs and portents. I have examined the flights of birds. I have consulted with the Pythia at Delphi (she says hello). I…

DHS has claimed without evidence that they were looking for someone else when they took ChongLy Scott Thao.

Google Gemini’s real business model isn’t chat. It’s price control.

The notorious kafala system gives Saudi employers near-complete control over their workers’ legal status, resulting in widespread abuses.

There are reportedly about 3,000 federal immigration officers running riot in Minneapolis. They have been captured on video beating, gassing, and pepper-spraying bystanders and kidnapping people off t...

Two days before a shouting cluster of its agents surrounded the car of a Minneapolis mother and shot her to death last week, ICE was demanding answers from the Hilton hotel group on X.com. “Why did yo...

Minnesota is just the beginning of ICE's transformation into a right-wing death squad. But it can be the end

Amid outrage over the killing of Renee Good, Democratic leaders are declining to use their leverage to fight the agency.

If sunlight is the best disinfectant, a failure to apply it leaves a festering wound, with complications that continue to amass.

Trump's immigration crackdown marks a dramatic change in the domestic security apparatus, yet its origins lie in a longstanding bipartisan consensus.

By now you’ve almost certainly seen the video for yourself, or read about it: an ICE agent shooting a Minneapolis woman, Renee Nicole Good, in the head from point-blank range, killing her as she…

As a killing in Minneapolis is documented, the law clearly stipulates that federal agents do not have universal immunity.

The swaggering threat to global stability is us.

Call what Donald Trump just did in Venezuela by its proper name.

Congress gave Trump a free pass for bombing Iran – his attack on Venezuela is the logical consequence  by Alex Rikleen As a teacher, part of my job was responding when a student answered a phone cal...