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How the Establishment Is Helping Trump’s Revenge-a-thon

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The below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and articles about politics, media, and culture. Subscribing costs just $5 a month—but you can sign up for a free 30-day trial. Let’s go back to June 2, 2024. That morning, Fox & Friends Weekend aired an interview with […]

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What Trump’s Tariff Shock Will Cost You

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Justin Wolfers teaches economics 101 at the University of Michigan. It’s an introductory course about supply, demand, and trade. The basics. He wishes President Donald Trump had attended. Wolfers, an Australian known for his research on how happiness relates to income, is one of the more prominent economists speaking out against Trump’s sweeping tariffs. He […]

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If Trump Doesn’t Fix This Blunder, “People Would Die in Their Homes”

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The summer of 2021 was brutal for residents of the Pacific Northwest. Cities across the region from Portland, Oregon, to Quillayute, Washington, broke temperature records by several degrees. In Washington, as the searing heat wave settled over the state, 125 people […]

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How to Call Congress—When the Phone Isn’t an Option

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As someone who is deaf, Sara Nović says, “the phone has long been my nemesis.”  Nović, an organizer and author of the novel True Biz, has tried to call their representatives in Congress by phone—but they’ve been hung up on. When they started organizing earlier this year with fellow deaf people on issues like Donald […]

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In First Post-Presidency Speech, Biden Calls to Treat Disabled People With Dignity

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On Tuesday, former President Joe Biden gave his first speech following the end of his presidency in January, at the Chicago national conference of Advocates, Counselors, and Representatives for the Disabled. “Everyone deserves to be treated with dignity,” Biden said in a speech that ran just under 30 minutes. “That means making sure that more […]

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A Youth Suicide Researcher Speaks Out Against Trump’s War on Science

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Last week, a small group of protesters gathered on the steps of the flagship New York Public Library in Manhattan’s Bryant Park to “Kill the Cuts”—and stand against President Donald Trump’s crackdown on science. That crackdown, as my colleagues and I have previously reported, has been severe. In less than four months in office, the […]

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Meet the Miami Lobbyist Who Helped Bukele Seduce MAGA

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Nayib Bukele is so popular with the US right that his refusal Monday to free a Maryland man with no criminal record mistakenly sent to a supermax prison in a foreign country was greeted by MAGA types as being, basically, badass. The Salvadorian president who has dubbed himself “the world’s coolest dictator” was already a […]

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Trump to the USA: There Is No Rule of Law

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In the future, April 14, 2025, may well be recognized as a monumental day in US history. That is, of course, if there is honest history in the future. Because this is the day that President Donald Trump sent a clear message to the nation: There is no rule of law in the United States. […]

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Trump Keeps Falsely Claiming Ukraine Started the War With Russia

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On Sunday night, CBS’s 60 Minutes aired an interview featuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who once again deplored the fact that US officials have been promoting Russian disinformation about the war between the two countries. By Monday morning, President Donald Trump proved his point once more. Through a translator, Zelenskyy told 60 Minutes Correspondent Scott […]

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The Real Reason El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele Cozied Up to Trump

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Donald Trump’s deepening partnership with El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, was on display as the two leaders rejected the idea of returning a man mistakenly deported by the U.S. and locked up in a Salvadoran mega-prison. Meeting at the White House, they indicated Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia would remain in Salvadoran custody despite a ruling […]

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US and El Salvador Celebrate Their Refusal to Return Man Wrongly Deported to “Gulag”

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On Monday, a month after the United States government shipped more than 230 Venezuelans and other migrants to a mega-prison in El Salvador with seemingly no chance of return, President Trump extended the red carpet to Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele. It was a brazen show of solidarity between the two leaders. The White House meeting […]

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Trump’s “Opening Salvo” in His War Against Criminal Justice Reform Starts With This One Nonprofit

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Earlier this month, the Vera Institute of Justice, a national criminal justice reform nonprofit, was notified that all five of its federal grants had been abruptly canceled by the Department of Justice. The lost funding, totaling approximately $5 million, had supported ongoing programs to improve prison conditions and mental health crisis response, as well as […]

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