DeSantis diverted more than $35 million in taxpayer dollars—money intended to help poor people, including foster children—and used it instead for pet political campaigns, a blockbuster report
Critics of the Trump administration’s increasingly militarized posture toward Venezuela are right to highlight the perils of any operation aimed at regime change. Yet focusing solely on calamitous scenarios risks overlooking the potential for a successful and relatively peaceful democratic transition in Venezuela. more
“This was a calculated attack on hard-working families across the nation, all so Republicans can keep showering billionaires and big corporations with tax breaks.” MORE
“Twenty-five years ago, Chuck Schumer and Susan Collins both voted to send me and friends to kill and die in Iraq,” said US Senate candidate Graham Platner. “Apparently neither of them have
The current movement against the fascist regime in the United States can learn from Black resistance, including the famed bus boycott during the Civil Rights Movement. more
“Deploying an aircraft carrier and US Southern Command assets to destroy small yolas and wooden boats is not only unlawful, it is an absurd escalation,” said one scholar. more
Under international law, executing people outside a genuine armed conflict is an extrajudicial killing. Nothing about these strikes meets the legal threshold for war. But if we don’t hold the president to account, a war is exactly what we may get. more
“The choices we make in the coming years will determine whether the global economy continues down a path of extreme concentration or moves toward shared prosperity.” more