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For much of the 20th century, Americans understood that unrestrained capitalism was dangerous to both democracy and human dignity, despite a poisoning of the language that originated with the Red Scare tactics employed by politicians to exploit moral panic and hysteria in the U.S. over the perceived threat of left-wing subversion. The hard lessons ofContinue reading “Americans must shed paranoia to move toward a democratic commonwealth”

The Treasury Department’s press release describes the Working Families Tax Cuts as a bonanza for the working man, a direct hit of relief for low- and middle-income earners. It is a fine piece of political storytelling, and like many fine stories, it bears only a passing resemblance to the truth. The data from independent, nonpartisanContinue reading “Treasury press release is riddled with lies”

The Doomsday Clock stands at 85 seconds to midnight in the actual judgment of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, announced Jan. 27, 2026. The symbolic clock has ever been closer to the hour of human self-destruction. Nuclear arsenals. Climate collapse. Biological threats. Artificial intelligence with no rules and no conscience. That is what isContinue reading “Senator’s Sunday sermon exposed the real threat to Democrats: Cory Booker”

The morning of June 5th arrived like a reprieve. In Boston, the air still carried the memory of May, cool enough that a person could forget what month it actually was. Monday had reached only 58 degrees. Meteorological summer began not with a bang but with a jacket. That reprieve is now over. A bubbleContinue reading “Record heat expands across the Northeast as the planet refuses to wait any longer”

The federal agency responsible for detaining tens of thousands of immigrants has quietly eliminated its requirement to report deaths that occur within 30 days of a person being released from custody. The change means that when a detainee dies of an illness contracted inside, or from injuries sustained while locked up, or from medical neglectContinue reading “ICE to stop reporting as custody deaths among immigrants surge to record levels”

by Dana DiFilippo, New Jersey Monitor People incarcerated in New Jersey’s state prisons and county jails have complained for years about dirty drinking water, buggy food, moldy bathrooms, inadequate healthcare, abuse by guards, intolerable heat, and other inhumane conditions of confinement. So they’ve had one question in mind as they’ve learned of the escalating protestsContinue reading “Delaney Hall unrest prompts reminder of poor conditions in NJ prisons, jails”

For nearly a decade, a teacher and coach at a small Cumberland County elementary school used his classroom, his truck, summer camps, and even his own shower on Saturday mornings to sexually abuse boys. And for nearly as long, the school district kept the cost of his crimes hidden from the public. The Lawrence TownshipContinue reading “Lawrence Township schools paid $3.125 million on sexual abuse settlements”

A veteran Essex County prosecutor’s sergeant has been charged with stealing a photojournalist’s camera bag containing roughly $10,000 in equipment while the journalist lay injured in a hospital after a protest at Newark’s Delaney Hall. Sergeant Darryl Brown, 43, of Sparta Township, was charged by complaint summons with third-degree theft following an investigation by theContinue reading “Sergeant accused of stealing injured journalist’s gear during Newark protest”

The United States Postal Service—that slow, steady, rain-or-shine institution that has carried your birthday cards and your electricity bills and your grandmother’s fruitcake for two centuries—is being turned into an armed courier for the very weapons that are already slaughtering our children in their schoolrooms. For the first time since Calvin Coolidge sat in theContinue reading “Madness in the Mail: Trump’s postal service plans to deliver death to your doorstep”

The scene outside Delaney Hall had all the markings of a moral test. Citizens, residents, neighbors—some from New Jersey, others from well beyond its borders—had gathered to protest a facility they call a concentration camp. The target of their anger was a 1,000‑bed center operated by the private prison company GEO Group on behalf ofContinue reading “Sherrill’s not on our side, as evidenced by State Police deployment”

By David W. Stowe, Michigan State University As July 4, 2026, approaches, Americans will be paying more attention than usual to events of 1776: the year the American Colonies declared their independence from Great Britain. Public historians, including filmmaker Ken Burns, have tried to offer a more inclusive view of the American Revolution, highlighting lesser-knownContinue reading “America’s musical founding father: ‘Liberty songs’ helped fuel the Revolution”

Dr. Adam Hamawy secured a Democratic congressional nomination and will join Rep. Analilia Mejia in Washington in January. Party leaders described the two wins as among the few bright spots for progressive Democrats in a primary season otherwise marked by victories for more established machine candidates. Progressive Democrats won three of four Piscataway Township councilContinue reading “Progressives score few wins primary elections across New Jersey”

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka on Tuesday demanded the immediate shutdown of Delaney Hall, a privately run concentration camp for victims of the Trump administration’s brutal immigration crackdown, as the city filed a lawsuit seeking to close the facility over what he called systemic health and safety failures. At the same hour, New Jersey Attorney GeneralContinue reading “Newark Mayor & Attorney General file separate lawsuits to close ICE concentration camp”

In another step limiting media access at the Pentagon, the Defense Department has announced that its press office, which was previously an open room where reporters could stop by the desks of military public affairs officials without escorts, is now classified and off-limits to journalists. Acting Pentagon press secretary Joel Valdez confirmed the move, sayingContinue reading “Pentagon bans journalists from press office, designating it a classified space”

The Trump administration is facing simultaneous crises on multiple fronts, including a retreat from a proposed $1.776 billion draw on the Treasury, the collapse of negotiations with Iran, and a severe hemorrhage of professionals needed to operate the federal government. Iran announced Monday it is cutting off message exchanges with the United States through mediatorsContinue reading “Trump retreats on demand for dollars as Iran deal collapses, chaos deepens”

By Stephanie Armour The Trump administration’s deep cuts to federal health agencies have become a political liability after a deadly outbreak of hantavirus aboard a cruise ship and the spread of an even more fearsome disease, Ebola, in Africa. At least that’s the way many Democrats see it. They have seized on the situation toContinue reading “Amid Ebola, Hantavirus outbreaks, Democrats decry Trump’s health cuts”

Tuesday, June 2, is primary election day in New Jersey, and for those who have had their fill of the same old, the ballot offers a few points of interest. Four Republicans are vying for the long-shot right to unseat Democratic Sen. Cory Booker, while a much larger and more telling drama is unfolding downContinue reading “Today, June 2, is primary election day in New Jersey as 52 seek nods for Congress”

Alex Hydrean, the husband of New Jersey’s 7th Congressional District Democratic frontrunner Rebecca Bennett, draws a six-figure salary from Republican President Donald Trump’s Department of Energy. A longtime Texas Republican who changed her party in 2016, Bennett owns stock in the world’s largest fossil fuel polluters and has invested up to $120,000 in contractors forContinue reading “Rebecca Bennett’s husband is a Senior Manager in Trump’s Energy Department”

The indictment of Raúl Castro landed on Cuban Liberation Day, a date heavy with symbolism for exiles who have waited three decades for justice over the Brothers to the Rescue shootdown. Unlike his hawkish father, who is serving an 11-year prison sentence at the Allenwood minimum-security federal prison in Pennsylvania, when Congressman Rob Menendez, Jr.Continue reading “As Trump sees Cuba confrontation, meek Menendez stands apart from father’s fury”