On October 7, 2016, in the run-up to the 2016 election, the Washington Post broke the story of the so-called Access Hollywood tape, a video from 2005 in which Donald Trump told television host Billy B...

Please listen to W. Kamau Bell’s latest podcast on 10/7/26 with Rafael Casal.

Judging from his social media posts, Trump is panicking.

Last week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made headlines by offering this vision of the military: “No fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals.” Inspired by this wisdom, we’...

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If there’s no other way

Last night, on October 4, U.S.

Over 250 emails, thousands of shares, and a full year of readers turning information to community action.

The jobs of the future

On Friday night, just before 11:00, Trump announced that his administration “will, immediately, begin sending ‘Checks’ of nearly $100 to over 20 MILLION wonderful Seniors to help pay for their Medicar...

Can we reverse the power shift that began four decades ago? This is the biggest question lurking behind the midterm campaigns.

And last week’s winner

From the safe confines of CNN to getting arrested by Trump’s goons in the streets of Minnesota

The power of kitchen-table economics

On Saturday, October 3, the Power to the People festival, organized by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, took over the stage at the Merriweathe...

The failed execution in Tennessee brings to light the flaws of a system

Trump held a campaign rally tonight in Mobile, Alabama, the city where, as Shawn McCreesh of the New York Times recalled, his MAGA rallies really took off in August 2015, when more than 30,000 people ...

With Heather Lofthouse and yours truly, Robert Reich

ICE faces new restrictions, Flock surveillance reaches Congress, and thousands across America declare “I Am Jane Doe.”

Yikes

We're told progressive ideas are "fringe." Really?

The real reason Americans are paying more under Trump Republicans

A Washington Post headline today read: “U.S.

Early voting, key deadlines, and some of the organizing happening across the country.

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Republicans still turn a blind eye to the Jan 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol

Episode 11 of I SPENT 3 DAYS IN MINNEAPOLIS!

Not because they’ll help Republican candidates

To my readers...

The White House airs Trump campaign ads paid by you

Voting early gives you something incredibly valuable in an election: TIME to solve problems.

And last week’s winner

Looking toward November 3

Trump explains to the Chinese president how he’s destroying democracy

With Heather Lofthouse and yours truly, Robert Reich

I learned late this afternoon that, in addition to being Dolly Parton Day, today is National Lobster Day, honoring the cultural and economic history of the lobster industry.

They Want to See Everything About Us. They Don’t Want Us to See Them.

And their new book “End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World”

Here’s what I’m hearing

On November 3rd, at a time of unprecedented income and wealth inequality, the people of California will decide whether to pass a 5% wealth tax on more than 200 billionaires in California who are worth...

New Sacktoon—Bring Out Your Almost Dead!

Follow the money

Yesterday, William Turton, Avi Asher-Schapiro, Molly Redden, and Kirsten Berg of ProPublica published a blockbuster story reporting that the anti-corruption group of the Federal Bureau of Investigatio...

and the American people are paying for it

Democracy dies in the darkness

A new government streaming channel launched amid a federal lawsuit and a suspension of shared television coverage. Here's what separates official messaging from independent journalism.

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Trump’s arch and a tough guy’s tattoos

On September 18, while White House chief of staff Susie Wiles was out of town, Trump suddenly announced he was banning CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House.

The central issue isn’t which nation will dominate AI. It’s whether we will both maintain human control over it.