8. The Nitty Gritty: Capitalism & Fascism in Action

This has not been the holiday season that so many of us had planned.Just two months ago, the good and righteous among us fervently hoped that America’s worst days would finally be put behind her, and a period of endless possibility would begin.Glass ceilings would be broken, and maybe for the time e...

At Penn, high school students flagged as bona fide special interests, “would get in almost 100 percent of the time."

Congressional Integrity Project creates initiative to counter growing ‘authoritarianism’ and defend progressives

According to the New York Times, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is being investigated for flouting his "top secret" security clearance rules.

Many Canadians seem annoyed after Donald Trump, once again, suggested Canada should become America’s 51st state.

And it's glorious.

In November's election, Donald Trump's popular-vote margin was just under 1.5% but it was massive in news deserts with little to no local news reporting.

OTTAWA — After disgraced professor and beef enthusiast Jordan Peterson announced yesterday that he had moved to Florida due to the Canadian government’s allegedly woke fascist policies, Justin Trudeau immediately issued a statement saying that his 2025 election campaign slogan will be “I Got Jordan Peterson to Leave.”

It's time to break up with the Republicans

One common explanation for the outcome 2024 presidential election is that the far-right's vast social media ecosystem was able to reach more Americans than traditional media, influencing a decisive number of voters in key battleground states. One New York Times reporter decided to put himself in tho...

Elon Musk’s latest legal filing against OpenAI marks his fourth attempt in less than a year to reframe his claims. However, his own words and actions speak for themselves—in 2017, Elon not only wanted, but actually created, a for-profit as OpenAI’s proposed new structure.

“This is an alarming erasure of the suffering of the Palestinian people,” said Rep. Ilhan Omar.

Democrats have a chance to block the current version of the defense bill from advancing in a procedural vote on Tuesday.

Musk’s platform has lost 2.7 million active US users in two months, while its rival has gained 2.5 million

It's going to get very ugly.

A quiet panic has broken out within immigrant communities across the United States ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2025. Mixed-status families are expecting to be separated, DACA recipients foresee their status being revoked, those with Temporary Protected Status are pessimistic about the program remaining valid, and asylum seekers fear the worst. Indeed, if Project 2025’s anti-immigrant agenda is fully enacted, the horrors of family separation that the nation witnessed in 2018 under Trump’s first term will pale in comparison to what’s coming.

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The contradictions at the heart of the State of Israel have had little impact on its success. This can be seen in Israel’s relationship with Africa. Many

In a new 300-page report, the human rights group joins a growing chorus of legal scholars and activists describing Israel’s assault on Palestinians as genocide.

President-elect tapping mega-rich backers for positions that will give them power to cut spending on public services

Union president denounces Israel's war on Gaza as a 'holocaust' at a fiery event where pro-Israel speaker was ejected for harassing Palestinian student

Nine health care workers at UCSF report punishment for speaking out about human rights for Palestinians, or simply wearing a pin.

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk — the world's richest man with more than $320 billion in net worth — is openly planning an effort to gut federal budgets for virtually every agency. But he also stands to personally profit to the tune of potentially billions of dollars if some of those proposed cuts co...

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk — the world's wealthiest man — has come out harshly against undocumented immigrants since becoming one of former President Donald Trump's biggest donors and campaign surrogates. But a new report reveals that he launched his career in the United States without legal sta...

The United States is currently displaying several characteristics that have historically been seen by empires in decline, according to one social scientist.Peter Turchin is one of the pioneers of "cliodynamics," which is the field of study concerning statistical analysis of historical dynamics of so...