The Father’s Day Fantasy: Trump’s Economy Is a Fairy Tale for the Wealthy
On the heels of America’s military defeat in Iran, President Donald Trump wants you to believe America is “winning like never before.” On Father’s Day, the president took to Truth Social to paint a picture of unprecedented prosperity—record jobs, a soaring stock market, and the “best economy ever.” It’s a convenient narrative, especially when you’re…
Electoral district boundary lines that erase the people annihilate legitimacy
By James J. Devine Republicans have abandoned any pretense of representation, embraced cheating, and taken the United States far from the “republican form of government” guaranteed in Article IV of the Constitution. Gerrymandering—the manipulation of electoral district boundaries to gain political advantage—remains one of the most enduring challenges to representative government in the United States,…
More than 600 NJ police officers disciplined for misconduct in 2025
by Dana DiFilippo, New Jersey Monitor A drunk off-duty sergeant driving the wrong way on a New Jersey highway hit another car head-on, killing a man. A patrolman critically injured a bicyclist in a hit-and-run. Other officers were caught with child pornography, attacked their spouses, stole money, sexually assaulted people in their custody, and otherwise broke the law. Altogether,…
Trump cuts unleashed spike in AIDS/HIV contagion
A great and terrible reversal has come to pass, a backward slide so stark it would shame the very laws of nature. The United Nations has laid the cold facts upon the table, and they read like a chapter from a book we thought we’d closed for good. The grand, global march to stamp out…
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