The federal Pell Grant program is the cornerstone of college aid for low-income undergraduates, providing roughly $39 billion in fiscal year 2025 to help students pay for college. Those dollars go almost [...]
The Indiana Senate’s Republican supermajority had a choice Thursday. They could acquiesce to the White House’s demands that they approve a new congressional map and potentially turn the state’s entire [...]
A protestor holds a sign opposing gerrymandering during a rally at the Indiana state House, Indianapolis, September 18, 2025.Michael Conroy/AP Get your news from a source that’s not owned and [...]
All Eyes On Indiana Republican members of Indiana’s state Senate are expected to take a vote as soon as tomorrow that could mark the conclusion of a months-long drive by [...]
Within just the past week, two of Donald Trump’s most fundamental priorities have shared the spotlight. The first is his white nationalism, or more precisely, his white global nationalism, embodied [...]
Donald Trump is heading to Northeastern Pennsylvania tomorrow, where he will appear alongside vulnerable Republican freshman Congressman Rob Bresnahan. Looking to catch up quickly on Bresnahan? Start by reading just [...]
See below for video and highlights from a great intervivew by Bill Kristol of The Bulwark, with Sen. Mark Warner saying a bunch of interesting stuff [...]
Lordy, Trump has released a “national security strategy” manifesto and it is no mere white supremacist dog whistle, somebody freebased the Daily Stormer, pulled an all-night circle-dong-honk with Vlad Putin, [...]
Last January, when Reagan-appointed Judge John Coughenour became the first federal judge to block President Donald Trump’s attack on birthright citizenship, he did not mince words. “I’ve been on the [...]
The Supreme Court, in a Thursday evening order, put on hold a lower court ruling that blocked Texas’ aggressive gerrymander, a maneuver the state legislature carried out on orders from [...]
President Donald Trump, having campaigned heavily on anti-trans fear mongering, issued an executive order within days of taking office that banned federal support for gender-affirming care. That same order commanded [...]
WASHINGTON — As Republicans continue creating chaos and dysfunction with their total control in Washington, Newsweek is out with a must-read piece on how statehouses are essential hubs of Democratic [...]
Key Point: “A recent decision by President Donald Trump to deny disaster aid to two electric utilities in rural northern Michigan could cost residents tens of millions of dollars. The [...]
As the Republican-led Pentagon takes the unprecedented steps of threatening to drag Senator Mark Kelly before a military court for telling troops to refuse illegal orders, Juan Ciscomani won’t stand up in [...]
Donald Trump called Minnesota Gov Tim Walz the r-word in a Thanksgiving post.Andrew Leyden/Zuma Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for [...]
The struggle for democracy persists as we come into the second half of 2023. As the year progresses, we face lies, corruption, and violence. And so the fight for America [...]
Last month, President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he had ordered the Department of Defense—or, as he has renamed it, “the Department of War”—to resume nuclear testing for [...]
After President Donald Trump’s reported intervention, Paramount Pictures is set to distribute Brett Ratner’s “Rush Hour 4,” a project that Hollywood had eschewed after earlier sexual misconduct allegations against the director. Paramount [...]
Breaking new reporting from The New York Times reveals that vulnerable Virginia Republican Congresswoman Jen Kiggans “once called for eliminating the Affordable Care Act.” Kiggans said in her own words: “A couple of [...]
Gaslighting is all these people have. In yet another edition of every mess Trump makes is Biden's fault, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade try [...]
See below for video of Rep. Eugene Vindman (D-VA07), in which he discussed the “2019 phone call between Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, [...]
The media is puzzling over voters choosing centrist Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey and democratic socialists in New York City and Seattle. Take a step back, though, and this [...]
The struggle for democracy persists as we come into the second half of 2023. As the year progresses, we face lies, corruption, and violence. And so the fight for America [...]
Dark Day You have likely seen the news by now, but a quick recap of today’s dark events: a group of Democratic lawmakers who have served in the military or [...]
The Israeli government has played Donald Trump like a violin. Netanyahu has welcomed Trump’s entirely bogus love for the Jews, which helps Bibi equate criticism of his own barbarism with [...]
In recent weeks, the Trump Administration has waged war on suspected drug smugglers in the waters off Venezuela, blowing up boats of what he calls “narco-terrorists”—people accused of bringing fentanyl and other [...]
The United States, of course, is a “nation of immigrants.” That’s not a lie. No American citizen, with the exception of Native Americans, has a family history that does not [...]
Is a 50-year mortgage a good idea? CNN (11/11/25) tells readers—maybe!Federal Housing Finance Agency director Bill Pulte soft-launched the idea that housing mortgages should be for 50 years, rather than [...]
Thanks to Donald Trump’s disastrous economic policies, this Thanksgiving will cost the average American almost $1,000, making it the most expensive Thanksgiving in history, according to the NY Post. Trump [...]
New reporting from NBC News today is highlighting how Pennsylvania Democrats have major momentum heading into 2026 after winning key Pennsylvania counties in both the judicial retention races and downballot elections last [...]
Trump and his friendWe’re all absorbing the details from this little tiny piece of the records pertaining to Jeffrey Epstein, the dead child rapist Donald Trump once said he shared [...]
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Happy Tuesday! Here’s your Tuesday Tech Drop, the past week’s top stories from the intersection of technology and politics.Trump ally to lead Israeli spyware companyDavid Friedman, a close ally to [...]
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, the War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. Three or More [...]
Hello it’s the weekend. This is The Weekender ☕️ Neither side would ever admit it, but MAGA’s ongoing authoritarian takeover is the heir of one man: Dick Cheney, the former [...]
Janine Jackson interviewed the Union of Concerned Scientists’ Rachel Cleetus about climate complicity for the October 31, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin251031Cleetus.mp3 Union of Concerned [...]
Today, Elise Stefanik officially launched her bid for New York governor – a job Mike Lawler has spent far too much time daydreaming about as he failed to do his [...]
In another stunning loss for Donald Trump and U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, a jury of DC residents found Sean Dunn, who threw a very dangerous and spicy footlong sub at [...]
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The federal judge considering whether Lindsey Halligan was unlawfully installed by the Trump administration had ordered the Department of Justice to provide the “complete grand jury transcripts” in James Comey’s [...]
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: We turn to Wole Soyinka, the acclaimed playwright, author and poet, the first African to win [...]
It may be Halloween, but families have been feeling relentless price frights since Inauguration Day. Inflation remains stubbornly high, and President Trump’s tariffs continue to drive up the prices of [...]
The struggle for democracy persists as we come into the second half of 2023. As the year progresses, we face lies, corruption, and violence. And so the fight for America [...]
As you’ve probably already heard, Donald Trump went on Truth Social late last night and announced that the time had come for his senators to pass a clean “continuing resolution” [...]
House Speaker Mike Johnson just said the quiet part out loud: Republicans see SNAP benefits as nothing more than political leverage in their government shutdown. Donald Trump has the power [...]
Donald Trump on Wednesday told reporters aboard Air Force One en route to South Korea that he knows he's prohibited from serving a third term. The Constitution's 22nd Amendment establishes [...]
See below for video and a few highlights from Sen. Mark Warner’s weekly press availability, held earlier today (bolding added by me for emphasis of key [...]
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Kristan Hawkins' anti-abortion group, Students for Life of America, was reportedly one of the organizations that urged the Trump administration to scale back its promises on IVF.Jose Luis Magana/AP Get [...]
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: “Criminal” by Stew Stewart from the soundtrack of the new documentary Criminal, which we’ll talk about [...]