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The numbers arrived quietly, without fanfare, without alarm—just another data set buried in a government spreadsheet. But to those who know how to read such things, they told a story that should have stopped the country cold. In the first two months of 2026, more than 1,100 Americans contracted measles. That is six times theContinue reading “Pathogens are loose in America since Trump returned to the White House”

In a moment of decision in the great American courtroom, where people are forever trying to cure with a gavel what we has been wrought with greed, a jury of seven women and five men, twelve ordinary citizens pulled from the machinery of their daily lives, has looked upon the gleaming facades of our mostContinue reading “Meta & Google found liable in blockbuster court case”

In a political climate increasingly shaped by manufactured crises, New Jersey activist Lisa McCormick is mounting what she calls a challenge to the nation’s “failure of moral and political will.” The anti-establishment progressive Democrat is unveiling a new proposed constitutional amendment guaranteeing a livable environment for all children and future generations. McCormick, widely known forContinue reading “McCormick launches push for constitutional “Livable Future Amendment””

This ditty popped into my head, and it can be sung to the tune of “I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing,” while you are suffering in the harsh new world of Trickle-Down on steroids. (Verse 1)I’d like to buy the world a Coke, but that just costs too much.I need to save forContinue reading “I’d like to buy the world a Coke, but that just costs too much.”

At 4 p.m. Monday, a deadline passed in New Jersey that most residents never knew existed, and the consequences landed squarely on anyone who believed the June 2 Democratic primary for U.S. Senate might offer voters a genuine choice. Four Republicans filed to seek the GOP nomination to take on Booker, Richard Tabor, Justin Murphy,Continue reading “Booker unopposed in primary after Chris Fields failed to file petitions”

John Judson Campbell left New Jersey as a young sailor, bound for the Philippines in a war that would swallow him whole. On March 30, 82 years after his death in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, he finally comes home. The Navy will bury Chief Electrician’s Mate Campbell with full military honors at Hillside Cemetery inContinue reading “A Long Way Home: WWII sailor’s remains return to New Jersey after 83 years”

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, orderly machine for the management of its own citizens. It begins with a simpleContinue reading “Be Careful What You Post: The new architecture of American dissent”

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 heContinue reading “Cory Booker’s long record of rhetoric over results marks defeat on reproductive rights”

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 platformContinue reading “Mueller, who investigated Trump-Russia collusion, dies at 81; president celebrates death”

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 flyContinue reading “The embarrassing emptiness of Trump’s America First rhetoric displayed on the high seas”

Dealing with a fungal infection can be a frustrating and uncomfortable experience. But what happens if you catch a common cold on top of it? While it might seem like just another annoyance, the combination can actually make you feel significantly worse. The reason isn’t just in your head; it’s a biological battle happening insideContinue reading “Double Trouble: Why a common cold can make a fungal infection so much worse”

They came not with a bang, but with a redacted whimper. The last batch of Jeffrey Epstein files landed in the public square: more than three million pages of flight logs, witness statements, and the desperate scribblings of a predator who built his own country of the damned, populated by the rich and the ruined.Continue reading “This Gilded Age created the pool of desperate children on whom predators prey”

by Lilo H. Stainton, New Jersey Monitor Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s first budget plan includes funding to expand New Jersey’s universal home nurse program for new moms and babies to all 21 counties in early 2027, meeting a goal set by her predecessor’s administration. The $60.7 billion proposal Sherrill unveiled last week includes $12.8 million for FamilyContinue reading “Gov. Sherrill aims to fund home nurse visits for newborns, moms in all 21 counties”

The sainthood of Cesar Chavez, carefully constructed over decades and sealed with a Presidential Medal of Freedom, lies in ruins this morning. An investigation by The New York Times has pulled back the curtain on the private man behind the public icon, and the picture that emerges is not one of a saint, but ofContinue reading “Paragon in Public, Predator in Private: Cesar Chavez sexual abuse revealed”

There is a sickness in the American mind, a willful forgetting of what is true and what is not. It did not begin yesterday, nor with the last election, but it has found its most potent vessel in the former president, a man who treats truth as a negotiable commodity. An apocryphal quote often attributedContinue reading “The sickness in America is that Trump’s supporters don’t know they have been duped”

There is a spectacle playing out in the halls of power that would have once seemed beneath the dignity of a republic, yet here we are, watching it unfold. The rock band Pearl Jam, veterans of a thousand stages and witnesses to decades of American life, has stepped into the arena not to sing, butContinue reading “Pearl Jam slam: Rock band urges fans to call senators in opposition to voting bill”

President Donald Trump’s war against Iran has set off an economic chain reaction so severe that the United States has been forced to abandon a core pillar of its foreign policy: the crippling of Russia’s war machine. With global oil prices spiraling past $100 a barrel after Tehran choked the Strait of Hormuz, the WhiteContinue reading “Trump sending another 2,500 Marines & 3 more warships to the Middle East”