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Gerrymandering, punishing Cubans, and Trump's latest grift
America has come full circle after 250 years, thanks to King Trump and his Republican court
Weekly Newsletter
America has come full circle after 250 years, thanks to King Trump and his Republican court
Weekly Newsletter
The Trump Administration is selling you lies on Iran. Plus: courts hit Democrats (and democracy) ahead of the midterms and did the FDA commissioner cave on flavored vapes to save his job?
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The Supreme Court guts the Voting Rights Act and the Iran war is polling like Vietnam. Sometimes the arc doesn't bend towards justice.
Plus: Virginians vote to redraw their congressional districts and the government goes after naturalized citizens
Plus: President Trump wants you to think he's Jesus and the DOJ tries to rewrite January 6th
The US and Iran meet in Pakistan to negotiate a permanent ceasefire. Israel carpet bombs Lebanon. And four women accuse a sitting congressman of sexual assault.
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Four humans took off for the moon while Trump threatened war crimes, the Supreme Court heard arguments about who counts as American & Israel passed a death penalty for Palestinians
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Millions of Americans turned out on Saturday — in red states and blue — to protest the direction of the country and the people leading it. This week is one of the many reasons why.
A key Trump official resigns after calling the justification for striking Iran a lie. Meanwhile, the Trump administration still cannot escape the ghost of Jeffrey Epstein — though they are sure trying.
Two weeks in, there are more questions than answers. And civilians are paying the price of a war with no purpose
America's wars don't end — they haunt the next one: Iran is the ghost of Iraq is the ghost of Afghanistan is the ghost of Vietnam. When will we learn?
The world's tightest BFFs have thrown the entire world into chaos. And for what?
The president lashes out at justices, specifically the ones he appointed. Plus, is the US gearing up for another attack on Iran?
This week: a president who told you he'll bypass Congress to control who votes, a Justice Department protecting powerful men while exposing their victims, and the EPA revoking its own authority to protect your health — at the fossil fuel industry's request.
Plus: Epstein fallout goes global. Bezos guts the Post. And the Wyden Siren goes off.
Until now, most of us have been playing whack-a-mole with the news—trying to keep up with the daily barrage: executions, arrests, political malfeasance, obstruction, and intimidation. Every day feels like a shit show. And as we’ve learned from the Steve Bannon playbook, that’s the point: keep the
Plus: Canada's Mark Carney delivers a eulogy for the world we once knew—or the one we pretended existed.
This week: Federal agents occupying an American city. A reporter's home raided by the FBI. The Fed chair under criminal investigation. A president "joking" about canceling elections. Three thousand dead in Iran.
Renee Good's wife speaks out on her murder while the government deflects accountability