1+ hour, 17+ min ago  (1176+ words) With just days left before the primary election in Illinois's Ninth Congressional District on March 17, super PACs are shoveling money toward one candidate, Laura Fine, while the two progressive front-runners, Daniel Biss and Kat Abughazaleh, vie for votes from the…...

1+ hour, 32+ min ago  (671+ words) If there may be one silver lining in Donald Trump's war on Iran'for my money, the most purely deranged action by an American president in history, and that is saying something'it's that it will likely speed up the renewable-energy transition....

13+ hour, 47+ min ago  (196+ words) There's such a lot to command public attention today that it's been easy to miss the emergence of the Democrats' primary legislative focus over the past couple of months: remaking American taxes. For instance: This story first appeared in our…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (587+ words) One week later, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) arrested two Pennsylvanian men for allegedly attempting to detonate an IED during a counterprotest outside Gracie Mansion, the mayor's residence. The men were reportedly inspired by ISIS; one suspect allegedly…...

21+ hour, 32+ min ago  (896+ words) In Illinois's Eighth Congressional District, a former investment banker is attempting a political comeback after a stretch as perhaps the most conservative Democrat in Washington. Against a field of grassroots challengers, big money is pouring in to assist the return…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (581+ words) More from Daniel Boguslaw According to a leaked November memorandum'prior to the Border Patrol's incursion into Minneapolis, and two months into Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago'guidance was issued across the Border Patrol to clarify how to smash suspects' car windows…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (387+ words) The bubble of the idle rich living it up in Dubai or other Gulf hot spots has been punctured, maybe permanently. Meanwhile, the impact of strikes in Bahrain, where a Sunni ruling class leads a majority-Shiite population, has been violent…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago  (310+ words) This week, Californians are opening their mailboxes and text messages to find petitions they are urged to sign if they oppose waste and fraud in government spending. "Government has wasted billions of our tax dollars on homelessness and many other…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago  (699+ words) This article is a joint publication of The American Prospect and Workday Magazine, a nonprofit newsroom devoted to holding the powerful accountable through the perspective of workers. More from Sarah Lazare "The government could end all of the suffering in…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago  (1051+ words) Is it antisemitic for Wikipedia to systematically out Jews? From Hitler's Nuremberg Race Laws, which defined "Jewishness" as a race rather than a religion, to the rise of modern far-right antisemites like Nick Fuentes, an obsession with Jewish identity is…...