Rebecca Bennett and Brian Varela present a stark choice between war and peace
The Democratic primary in New Jersey’s 7th Congressional District has narrowed to a two-way contest that presents voters with a stark choice between war and peace. On one side stands Brian Varela, a first-generation American and progressive organizer backed by the antiwar group Peace Action. On the other is Rebecca Bennett, a former Navy helicopter…
Roughly half of Americans hold a ‘neutral’ stance toward democracy
The numbers are not dramatic at first glance. They do not march across the page with the urgency of a crisis or the clarity of a scandal. They sit, almost politely, in the middle. Roughly half of Americans, according to a 2026 study by researchers at the University of Notre Dame published in Nature Human…
Immigration agents without warrants detained one American citizen three times
When immigration agents pulled U.S. citizen Leonardo Garcia Venegas from his car this month and shackled him, he wasn’t surprised. He wasn’t scared. He was tired. As ProPublica detailed last fall, he had already been detained twice before. A year ago, Garcia Venegas was filming his brother’s arrest during a raid on their coastal Alabama…
PAC wants voters to choose Dr. Tina Shah to pull the plug on Medicare
Let’s get one thing straight right off the top: the American Medical Association’s political arm, AMPAC, is spending your money like a riverboat gambler with a stolen wallet. And tonight, that money is flowing straight into the Democratic primary campaign of Dr. Tina Shah. That’s the same organization, friends and neighbors, that fought the very…
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