Candice Norwood / The 19thThe spending bill paves the way for longer detention, which advocates say could diminish established safety standards for children.Politics
Robert Reich / SubstackCorporations and foreign governments that want something in Washington have learned to bypass traditional lobbying and focus on flattering the president.Labor
Samantha Rudick, Laura Pellicer / More To Her StoryNearly invisible yet essential, women laundromat workers in New York City who face abuse and exploitation are leading a quiet revolution.Opinion
Freddie deBoer / TruthdigNo conspiracies, no spy agencies, no mysterious billionaires, no private islands, no predatory celebrities. Just ordinary human devastation.
Daryl G. Kimball / Arms Control TodayAlong with urging arms control, the statement encourages organized opposition to the deployment of more nuclear weapons by any state.
Greg B. Smith / THE CITYIn the weeks around Mamdani’s primary victory, his campaign raised more than $852,000 and is now awarded $1 million in public matching funds.Economic Justice
Ayurella Horn-Muller / GristThe July 4 flooding has become the first major disaster to expose the grave effects of Trump’s new food and hunger policies.TD Original
Christopher Ketcham / TruthdigAttempts to sell public land were cut from Trump’s budget bill. But the Mormon far right project of privatizing the American commons remains.
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Rebecca Gordon / TomDispatchWhat the case of Kilmar Abrego García tells us about the revival of institutionalized torture.
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Immigration
The spending bill paves the way for longer detention, which advocates say could diminish established safety standards for children.
Politics
Corporations and foreign governments that want something in Washington have learned to bypass traditional lobbying and focus on flattering the president.
Labor
Nearly invisible yet essential, women laundromat workers in New York City who face abuse and exploitation are leading a quiet revolution.
Opinion
No conspiracies, no spy agencies, no mysterious billionaires, no private islands, no predatory celebrities. Just ordinary human devastation.
Business & Economy
Brooke Rollins’ leadership and the effects of DOGE’s grip could be causing a crisis for American agriculture.
Military
Along with urging arms control, the statement encourages organized opposition to the deployment of more nuclear weapons by any state.
TD Column
MAGA's decision to embrace an avatar of abuse as an avenging angel was never going to end well.
Politics
In the weeks around Mamdani’s primary victory, his campaign raised more than $852,000 and is now awarded $1 million in public matching funds.
Economic Justice
The July 4 flooding has become the first major disaster to expose the grave effects of Trump’s new food and hunger policies.
TD Original
Attempts to sell public land were cut from Trump’s budget bill. But the Mormon far right project of privatizing the American commons remains.
Activism
The administration says Proposition 12 and other laws in California are leading to higher egg prices nationwide.
Science
Last week, the CDC declared an end to the H5N1 emergency, but something isn’t adding up.
Immigration
What the case of Kilmar Abrego García tells us about the revival of institutionalized torture.