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…
Iran slams the gate on the world’s oil, over Trump’s hollow words
After President Donald Trump described his capitulation as a military victory, the successful Iranian regime announced that the Strait of Hormuz is closed. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps made it official today, warning every vessel in the Persian Gulf to keep its distance or risk its safety. That is the plain, unvarnished fact of it.…
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