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The anger in America is a tangible, living thing. You can hear it in the coffee shops of Ohio, see it on the assembly lines of Michigan, and feel it in the exhausted silence of emergency rooms from California to Maine. It is a righteous, boiling fury directed at the architect of the current AmericanContinue reading “American fury meets a fortified fortress of fecklessness, forgiveness, and fakery”

In the wealthy suburbs of New Jersey’s 7th Congressional District, where the fight to unseat a vulnerable Republican has drawn a small army of Democratic hopefuls, the latest recruit has arrived not from the grassroots but from the glass towers of finance. Giancarlo Simonetti, a banker from Monmouth County, has decided his path to CongressContinue reading “A banker, a Navy pilot and the search for soulless nominee in NJ’s 7th District”

For the first time in a generation, the heavens have conspired to remind humanity what it claims to believe at the start of Ramadan, the Year of the Horse, and Fat Tuesday, all while coinciding with an annular solar eclipse. Tonight, as the crescent moon appears in the twilight sky, the world’s 1.8 billion MuslimsContinue reading “Cosmic alignment ignores divisions below as eclipse, Lunar New Year, Lent & Ramadan converge”

by Nikita Biryukov, New Jersey Monitor Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s administration won’t ask the New Jersey Supreme Court to revive racketeering charges against South Jersey Democratic power broker George Norcross that were dismissed after a judge found the indictment against him did not allege a crime. Former Attorney General Matt Platkin charged Norcross and five othersContinue reading “NJ won’t ask high court to revive charges against power broker George Norcross”

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a charismatic disciple of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who became the most influential Black figure in America for a generation, a two-time candidate for the presidency, and a global voice for the dispossessed, died on Tuesday. He was 84. His family confirmed his death in a statement, sayingContinue reading “Death silences a voice for justice: Jesse Jackson, civil rights titan & presidential candidate”

There is a familiar dance in Washington, performed with wearying regularity whenever the complex machinery of American health care threatens to grind against political reality. The music is playing once more, and two New Jersey congressmen, Jeff Van Drew and Tom Kean Jr., are attempting a particularly precarious step: talking earnestly about protecting working familiesContinue reading “GOP health care contortions expose a party enslaved to an unraveling presidency”

The United States Department of Homeland Security has declared open hunting season on legal gun owners, who are now routinely labeled domestic terrorists without justification—a designation that has cost two Americans their lives and left a third permanently wounded, unable to close her hand or cross her legs without pain. All were citizens. All wereContinue reading “Homeland Security Gestapo agents declare open season on legal gun owners”

There is a story being written in the quiet corridors of federal power these days, and it is a story that ought to trouble the sleep of every American who still believes this country amounts to something more than a vast and orderly machine for the management of its own citizens. It begins with aContinue reading “Department of Homeland Security tracks people who express disapproval”

Let us, for a moment, imagine a piece of legislation that declares the law of gravity to be null and void. It is passed by Congress, signed with a flourish by the President, and entered into the Federal Register with great fanfare. The sponsors of this bill hold a press conference on the White HouseContinue reading “Trump’s fantasy-based circus act is going to have deadly consequences”

It may not be evident during the dead of winter, but bodies are found in trailers with broken air conditioning, slumped at bus stops, and collapsed on desert trails. The official cause is often listed as a heart condition, a pre-existing illness, or simply “accident.” But the silent, pervasive killer in the background, noted inContinue reading “Extreme heat is killing people in plain sight, and still it still doesn’t qualify as an emergency”

The federal government’s sweeping immigration enforcement campaign, a centerpiece of the current administration’s agenda, is not only fracturing communities but inciting alarming violence and systematically discarding tens of billions of dollars in vital public revenue. An iron-fisted approach, marked by high-profile raids and escalating rhetoric, is yielding a bitter harvest of fear, economic self-sabotage, andContinue reading “Nationwide immigration crackdown sows chaos, squanders billions in New Jersey and beyond.”

The clock is ticking down to midnight, and with each passing hour, the spectacle in Washington grows more shameful. “The Department of Homeland Security is shut down, a third interruption in just a handful of months, but let us not pretend this is a stand for principle,” said Lisa McCormick. “This is just more politicalContinue reading “Lisa McCormick holding a countdown to capitulation over Homeland Security shut down”

Andrew Yang, the self-described disruptor whose 2020 presidential run turned wonkery into a phenomenon, waded into the fierce Democratic primary in New Jersey’s Seventh District on Thursday, endorsing Brian Varela as the kind of “builder” who might actually mean it when he says he wants to burn the city limits down and rebuild the zoningContinue reading “Andrew Yang endorses Brian Varela in New Jersey’s 7th District Democratic primary”

An explosion tore through a manufacturing plant in Burlington Township, New Jersey, on Thursday night, trapping a dozen workers inside a burning building before they were safely evacuated, authorities said. The blast at American Custom Drying on Elbow Lane sent heavy fire racing through the second and third floors just before 9:30 p.m., according toContinue reading “Employees evacuated after fire & possible explosion at manufacturing plant”

The image above shows Thingvellir national park, where two tectonic plates meet in Iceland. (Photo: Tina Zupancic) By Ben Mather, Adriana Dutkiewicz, Dietmar Müller, & Sabin Zahirovic Our planet has experienced dramatic climate shifts throughout its history, oscillating between freezing “icehouse” periods and warm “greenhouse” states. Scientists have long linked these climate changes to fluctuations in atmospheric carbonContinue reading “The way Earth’s surface moves has a bigger impact on shifting the climate than we knew”

President Donald Trump promised in his 2024 campaign to eliminate the national debt within eight years. “We’ll have it all paid off,” he told supporters in New Hampshire. “It won’t be hard.” On Wednesday, the Congressional Budget Office released figures showing the national debt on track to reach $64 trillion within a decade, propelled byContinue reading “Trump’s fiscal pledge buried under $64 trillion debt as Republican deficits soar”

by Andy Mannix, Melissa Sanchez, and Nicole Foy | ProPublica Minutes after a federal agent shot and killed a Mexican immigrant in a Chicago suburb last September, a group of police officers stood on the sidewalk trying to figure out the answer to a question of protocol: Who would investigate the shooting? “Wouldn’t it beContinue reading “Legal experts say local law enforcement can arrest & charge federal agents”

Amid an unprecedented U.S. naval blockade against Venezuela, described by one member of Congress as “unquestionably an act of war,” a single American corporation continues to operate with undisturbed privilege. While other ships are turned away or seized, only tankers chartered by Chevron have been able to leave Venezuelan ports carrying crude oil despite theContinue reading “Polluter’s power creates islands of impunity amid escalating hostility”