Just as the ‘poverty line’ determines what’s required for basic living, we need a ‘wealth line’ to show when extreme wealth becomes harmful, says economist and philosopher Ingrid Robeyns

There is a fundamental tension between extreme wealth and the very possibility of democracy. That’s because extreme wealth is always an extreme power

A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.

His every move to preserve power accelerates decay, writes a former senior official in the Russian government

A hit dog will holler.

Blanche initially claimed the Southern Poverty Law Center had not shared information with law enforcement.

Thirty House Democrats sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio urging the Trump administration to publicly acknowledge Israel's undeclared nuclear weapons program. Led by Democratic Congressmember Joaquin Castro, the lawmakers wrote, “Congress has a constitutional responsibility…

The lawsuit, filed by the nonprofit Rural Organizing Project, claims state police have long-violated Oregon’s decades-old sanctuary law, which prohibits state and local resources from being used towar...

Strongly worded statements will not stop the terrorization of the country.

Officers in the Minneapolis-area participating in a U.S. immigration enforcement operation can't detain or tear gas peaceful protesters who aren't obstructing authorities, a judge ruled Friday.

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The Miscalculation of Cambria County’s 2024 Election

Where Data Meets Democracy.

Our complaint argues that in 2024 late software changes, testing failures, ballot-handling discrepancies, and concerns of abnormal voting behavior identified with statistical analysis in Cambria,…

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Stefany Shaheen, a Democrat running for Congress and the daughter of Granite State Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, blasted the shutdown deal approved by her mom

The UAE put $2 billion into World Liberty Financial, then got export restrictions lifted on AI chips. Nothing to see here, move along.

The US senator has labelled Carr’s comments ‘dangerous as hell’ and something ‘right out of Goodfellas’.

In this week’s newsletter: Once the preserve of backslapping celebrity interviews and inoffensive segments, late-night TV is now in Trump’s sights – giving its hosts unprecedented political weight

Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner criticized his former employer -- and, implicitly, current CEO Bob Iger -- over ABC's suspension of Jimmy Kimmel.

Texas senator says Brendan Carr’s threats to revoke licenses amid Jimmy Kimmel suspension ‘right out of Goodfellas’ Senator Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican, compared Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr’s threats to revoke the broadcast licenses of ABC stations over late-night host Jimmy Kimmel’s commentary to “mafioso” tactics similar to those in Goodfellas, the 1990 mobster movie. “Look, Jimmy Kimmel has been canned. He has been suspended indefinitely. I think that it a fantastic thing,” Cruz said at the start of the latest episode of his podcast Verdict with Ted Cruz. There were, however “first amendment implications” of the FCC’s role, the senator, a Harvard Law School graduate who clerked for US supreme court chief justice William Rehnquist, added. Continue reading...

Held since 2020, India’s most prominent political prisoner has become a symbol of repression under the Modi regime “There is indeed something about captivity that makes one feel like a state of somewhere between life and death,” wrote Umar Khalid in June in a letter penned as his fifth year languishing behind bars approached. Few understand the purgatory of jail like Khalid. For five years – since his arrest in September 2020 under a draconian terrorism law – he has remained India’s most prominent political prisoner, to many a potent symbol of the systematic crushing of dissent under the dominant Hindu nationalist regime of the prime minister, Narendra Modi. Continue reading...