Trump administration officials including RFK Jr want to add work requirements to Medicaid, arguing that there is a major scourge of able-bodied recipients refusing to get jobs. Their case dramatically overstates how many people in this group are not working. Robert F....
With a judge’s ruling this week that Georgetown postdoctoral researcher Badar Khan Suri should be released from detention, Donald Trump and Marco Rubio’s McCarthyite campaign to squash protest against Israel’s genocide in Gaza suffered a defeat. Badar Khan Suri at...
On Sunday, Poland votes in the first round of presidential elections. The contest is dominated by various right-wingers, while small progressive forces speak mainly to the highly educated, professionals, and the downwardly mobile middle classes. Magdalena Biejat, a...
Decades of precedent, from RICO to asset forfeiture to “good faith” exceptions, have normalized warrantless search and gutted the Fourth Amendment. Hasan Piker’s detainment is the latest proof that constitutional rights are now largely a legal fiction. Hasan Piker...
When people fall behind on property taxes, this shouldn’t become an opportunity for private profiteering. But that’s precisely what happens in tax lien sales, where city governments collude with financial predators to extract wealth from struggling people. Tax lien...
A month after Israel began its brutal war on Gaza, Yemen’s Houthis launched a blockade of shipping routes in the Red Sea. The US-led attempt to restore safe navigation was a disaster that has exposed deep fragilities in the global maritime trading system. An aerial...
The GOP is smuggling a $5 billion school voucher program into the budget reconciliation bill. It’s a major giveaway to wealthy school-privatization boosters — and a slap in the face for many of Donald Trump’s own voters. A protest outside the Tennessee state Capitol...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s comments about autism are part of a long legacy of right-wing politicians deciding which people’s lives are and are not worth living. Robert F. Kennedy Jr in Washington, DC, on May 14, 2025. (Nathan Posner / Anadolu via Getty Images) “Autism...
Palestinians mark May 15 as Nakba Day, anniversary of the foundation of Israel. That state was born amid mass displacement and ethnic cleansing — and it’s getting even worse today. Members of the Zionist paramilitary group Haganah lead Arabs out of the Jewish-captured...
The late Uruguayan statesman José “Pepe” Mujica argues that capitalism is not just property relations but a set of cultural values that the Left must confront with a culture of solidarity. Former president of Uruguay José Mujica speaks during a campaign rally on April...
In the name of defending intellectual diversity and protecting Jews, Indiana University is investigating a Jewish professor over his criticism of Israel. It’s exactly what critics of the state’s newly passed SEA 202 law feared would happen. Protesters gather in Dunn...
Centered in the lawless region of Southeast Asia known as the Golden Triangle, the scam industry is a new kind of capitalism built on corruption, organized crime and slave labor — and it’s growing. Workers cover their faces as authorities raid the offices of Central...