Cory Booker’s long record of rhetoric over results marks defeat on reproductive rights
In the dozen years since Cory Booker arrived in the Senate, the landscape of reproductive rights in America has been scorched earth, reduced to a patchwork of inaccessible care and constitutional chaos. Through this period of historic collapse, Booker, a New Jersey Democrat who is actively campaigning for the 2028 presidential nomination even before he…
Mueller, who investigated Trump-Russia collusion, dies at 81; president celebrates death
Robert S. Mueller III, the former FBI director who led the special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and died Friday at 81, drew a public celebration Saturday from the man whose presidency he was appointed to examine. “Good, I’m glad he’s dead,” President Donald Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform…
Echoes of injustice and state violence in a ‘free’ nation and in a tyrannical theocracy
In a world grown numb to the spectacle of state power bearing down on the individual, two images flicker across the global conscience this week with a chilling symmetry. One is the body of Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old nurse, left bleeding on a Minnesota avenue after a barrage of federal gunfire. The other is the…
The embarrassing emptiness of Trump’s America First rhetoric displayed on the high seas
It is a spectacle that would shame a confidence man and confuse a schoolchild: the great vessels of American commerce, the floating cities that carry our countrymen on holiday, the steel leviathans that bear the goods of our daily lives, almost none of them sail beneath the flag of the nation they serve. They fly…
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