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From the 2008 financial collapse that wiped out trillions in household wealth to the mountain of student debt that crushes young borrowers before they can buy a home, the pattern is unmistakable. Public roads crumble. Hospitals close in rural counties. And the richest nation on Earth still cannot guarantee a doctor’s visit for every citizen.Continue reading “America’s economy has been breaking the people it is supposed to serve”

Graham Platner runs a small business. He grows oysters in the cold, clean waters of Blue Hill Bay. He served in the military. He married a teacher. He is not rich. He is also the Democratic nominee for the United States Senate in Maine, and he is running a campaign built on a single, dangerousContinue reading “The oligarchy vs the oyster farmer: Maine’s Graham Platner takes on Susan Collins”

A gunman opened fire Friday morning in southeast Midland, killing at least one person and wounding 11 others before barricading himself inside a building on West Wall Street. Police later confirmed the suspect dead. Nine victims went to Midland Memorial Hospital. Four were in surgery. Five were stable. Another victim was airlifted elsewhere. The chaosContinue reading “Lisa McCormick congratulates Texas Republicans responsible for a deadly shooting”

The Trump administration claimed that it puts American workers first, but for 150 days and counting, a sweeping waiver of the 1920 Jones Act has allowed foreign-flagged vessels, including those with ties to Chinese state-owned entities, to haul fuel and fertilizer between U.S. ports. The administration extended the waiver through mid-August, and the data isContinue reading “‘America First’ promise collides with waiver allowing foreign ships to haul U.S. cargo”

By Lisa McCormick Let us speak plainly about what is happening in the United States Senate, where a bipartisan group of lawmakers embraced an accused war criminal—and in the state of Maine, where more than 200,000 voters cast ballots in the Democratic Senate primary, up from 162,000 in the party’s 2020 primary. Progressive populist GrahamContinue reading “Spineless Senate Democrats are questioning Graham Platner”

The planet is running a fever that will not break. An international team of researchers published data Thursday showing that human activities pushed global warming to 1.37 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels in 2025. The Earth’s energy imbalance, the measure of heat accumulating in the climate system, has more than doubled since the period fromContinue reading “Earth’s thermometer shatters records as scientists warn of accelerating death march”

The fine print in your health insurance policy might as well be a gag line, except nobody’s laughing. And the punchline lands square on the backs of paying customers who discover too late that their coverage is a mirage. Two major national surveys, released within days of each other, deliver the same grim diagnosis: America’sContinue reading “One in five privately insured adults denied doctor-ordered care, new surveys find”

House Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid must be “adjusted and fixed,” setting up a high-stakes confrontation over the bedrock safety net programs even as Republicans’ own tax cuts are projected to add nearly $5 trillion to the national debt. The Louisiana Republican, speaking on a radio program, said entitlementContinue reading “Speaker Mike Johnson says Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid must be cut”

by Jennifer Shutt, New Jersey Monitor President Donald Trump significantly bolstered funding for immigration enforcement Wednesday when he signed into law a nearly $70 billion package that will keep key federal agencies operating without any new restrictions.  Democrats pressed for guardrails after immigration officers shot and killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis in January. ButContinue reading “Billions for the next 3 years of Trump’s mass deportation campaign signed into law”

Let’s be clear about what didn’t happen. On March 3, 2026, Kuwaiti authorities snatched Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, an American citizen and award-winning journalist, for the unpardonable offense of resharing news articles about a war and posting footage of a U.S. fighter jet crashing over Kuwait. The man holds a U.S. passport. He was visiting family. And for nearlyContinue reading “President Donald Trump leaves an American journalist to rot in Kuwait”

Over 50 years ago, when Morris Dees and Joe Levin founded the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the two attorneys intended to promote equal rights for all Americans, especially for racial minorities. As part of its attempt to strip America’s racial minorities of those rights, the Trump administration slapped the civil rights organization with aContinue reading “Civil rights team ‘guilty of bogus allegations’ gets a financial death penalty until proven innocent”

By James J. Devine When Trump decreed from his gilded tower’s height,“Let Epic Fury burn through Persian night,”The jets took wing, the carriers churned the foam—A forty-day campaign to break Iran’s home.He swore on cable news, with jutting jaw,“We’ve crippled them, the greatest ever, flaw-less victory!” His thumbs blew digital smoke.But truth, that patient grave,Continue reading “The Ballad of Epic Fury Lost”

The phone rang in a regional office of the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights. On the other end was a mother whose daughter had been sexually assaulted by a classmate. The school had done nothing. The girl was afraid to return to class. The mother had filed a complaint months earlier. She was callingContinue reading “Trump gutted the office that protected America’s most vulnerable students”

The technical research ship USS Liberty was cruising in international waters off the Sinai Peninsula on June 8, 1967, when the jet fighters appeared. They made six strafing runs, raking the deck with cannon fire. Then came the torpedo boats. One torpedo tore a 39-foot hole in the starboard side. Thirty-four American sailors were killed.Continue reading “Fifty-nine years ago, on June 8, 1967, Israel killed 34 American sailors”

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, created in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis to police predatory lending, has been fundamentally reshaped under the second Trump administration. Its enforcement powers are gone. Its staff has been cut by more than two-thirds. The acting director has ordered employees to halt nearly all supervisory activities. But theContinue reading “Trump strips consumer watchdog’s teeth, but agency’s data lifeline remains”

President Donald Trump abruptly ended an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, removing his microphone and storming off the set after moderator Kristen Welker repeatedly declined to accept his false claims about the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, a proposed compensation fund for political targets, and election fraud. Federal prosecutors and the FBI announcedContinue reading “Trump storms off with Meet the Press after the moderator challenged his lies”

The award-winning Atlantic Brass Band joins forces with acclaimed Broadway vocalist Ciarán Sheehan for a powerful evening of live music on June 12 at 7 PM at the Montgomery High School Performing Arts Center in Skillman, NJ. Performing in the traditional British-style brass band format, the Atlantic Brass Band stands among North America’s premier ensembles. A three-time North American Brass Band Champion, the group continuesContinue reading ” Award-winning Atlantic Brass Band promises an unforgettable night of music”

The promise was rock solid, lawmakers insisted. No cancer patient would lose coverage. The medically frail would be protected. The work requirements applied only to able-bodied adults who choose not to work. The promise was a lie. The Trump administration released its 400-page rule for Medicaid work requirements Monday, and the fine print reads likeContinue reading “Trump’s new Medicaid work rules erect barriers that sick Americans can’t climb”

New Jerseyans like to boast about their 130 miles of shoreline, 40 beachfront towns and a tangle of federal, state, and local oceanfront parks. But here is the raw arithmetic of escape in the Garden State, which once boasted 53 amusement parks, but now has only 18 that are still in operation. That is moreContinue reading “New Jersey has at least 130 miles of shoreline & 18 operating amusement parks”