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The phone lines at the Social Security Administration have become a gauntlet of despair. Elderly Americans and people with disabilities wait on hold for hours, sometimes days, only to be met with silence or a dial tone. Some never get through at all. That is the picture painted by a new report released by U.S.Continue reading “Senator Elizabeth Warren: Trump has taken a wrecking ball to Social Security”

The math of a Democratic primary is a peculiar thing. In New Jersey, on June 2, voters will walk into firehouses and school gymnasiums. They will pull levers or fill in bubbles. And not a single one of them, not anywhere, will be casting a ballot for a Trump Republican. This is obvious. It isContinue reading “New Jersey Democratic primary voters deserve more respect from the candidates”

The man who sits at the head of the Supreme Court of the United States, the man who solemnly swore to uphold the Constitution and to obey the same laws that bind a small‑claims judge in rural Montana, has for the better part of two decades been playing a different game. The rest of usContinue reading “Chief Justice’s $20 million worth of payoffs look like bribes”

The story of America can be told in the gap between a police barricade and a velvet rope. On Monday night, that gap closed around Chris Smalls, who left his blood and dignity on the pavement outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art so that the 1% could sip champagne without the inconvenience of being calledContinue reading “Chris Smalls arrested for confronting Amazon founder Jeff Bezos”

Well, folks, you can call it a vote. You can call it a license. But what happened in that virtual room this week looks an awful lot like a giveaway. And the people of New Jersey just got handed the bill. The Tidelands Resource Council, twelve people appointed by the governor, met online the otherContinue reading “Jersey’s tidelands sold for a pocketful of pennies to a pipeline nobody wants”

Sitting in the dark, counting dents in the armor, while the people who are supposed to be telling us the straight story have been holding out on us like a bad poker player with a pair of deuces. You’re going to want to sit down for this one. The Washington Post dropped a bucket ofContinue reading “Trump administration has been hiding the extent of Iranian damage to US”

There are 990 days remaining until January 20, 2029, and since Trump Republicans are jacking up the national debt by $1 trillion every hundred days, they are expected to put you $50 trillion in the hole before they are thrown out of power. That is the math of the matter, plain as a ledger bookContinue reading “Trump’s national debt is expected to hit $50 trillion”

For years, slot machines have quietly extracted millions from the pockets of U.S. service members stationed overseas—a steady revenue stream for military recreation programs that one document now shows surpasses $91 million annually. Internal Army and Navy records reveal that slot machines at bases across Europe generated more than $16.5 million in fiscal year 2022Continue reading “One-armed bandits are robbing American military troops stationed abroad”

It’s a dangerous world, and today it was dangerous right on the doorstep of the executive mansion at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. A man with a gun, a hail of Secret Service bullets, and a 15-year-old boy on his way to see the sights, all tangled up together in a bloody, chaotic mess just south ofContinue reading “Alleged gunman & child shot during Secret Service gunfight near White House”

The stench of corruption in Washington is nothing new, but the sheer brazenness of elected officials cashing in on bloodshed has reached a grotesque crescendo. At the center of this moral rot stands New Jersey Congressman Josh Gottheimer, a so-called “moderate” Democrat whose stock portfolio reads like a shopping list for Armageddon. While American familiesContinue reading “Gottheimer’s greed”

Dr. Tina Shah hired a polling company to measure the opinions of voters in the 7th Congressional District, where progressive New Jersey Democrat Brian Varela is locked in a tight race, trailing longtime Texas Republican Rebecca Bennett, the former Navy helicopter pilot whose husband spent time working in former Governor Phil Murphy’s office and laterContinue reading “Dr Tina Shah is polling to diagnose her messaging… But her campaign is DOA!”

The landing gear of a United Airlines jet knocked over a pole that slammed through the windshield of a bakery truck on the New Jersey Turnpike on Sunday, and the man behind the wheel has only a few stitches and a story he would rather not tell. Warren Boardley, a truck driver from Baltimore, wasContinue reading “United Airlines plane hit pole on approach to Newark Liberty International Airport”

The Trump administration has systematically dismantled independent oversight of the Social Security Administration, forced out thousands of the agency’s most experienced employees, and granted political operatives access to Americans’ private benefit data. The moves, unfolding over the past year with little public notice, leave the program that provides retirement and disability benefits to roughly 70Continue reading “Trump Republicans gut Social Security oversight, forcing out staff & swiping data”

In Roselle, a political clash over a photograph of a borough vehicle has reopened long-simmering questions about the misuse of taxpayer dollars, police accountability, and the criminal past of the town’s mayor. The dispute began when Bishop Reginald W. Atkins, chairman of the Roselle Democratic Municipal Committee and a former assemblyman, posted an image onContinue reading “Roselle Democratic chairman says a borough vehicle was used for campaign activity”

It appears the Pentagon is having a mighty hard time getting its story straight, as the US and Israel’s war against Iran marked nine weeks since its start and more than three weeks since a fragile ceasefire came into effect. The headline, plain as the scorch marks on a Qatari runway, is this: Iran hasContinue reading “Iran destroyed at least 17 U.S. military bases across the Middle East”

Ask the American worker what they want, and the answer is simple enough: a decent wage, a roof that doesn’t swallow the paycheck whole, and a retirement that arrives before the body gives out. Ask them what they expect, and the answer is something altogether darker. A comprehensive new report released Tuesday contains a numberContinue reading “America forces workers to pay a four-year sentence for prosperity they never saw”

The man who patched up combat wounds in Iraq, pulled victims from the dust of the World Trade Center, and refused to leave a Gaza hospital under Israeli bombardment now wants to suture a political system he calls “a cesspool of corruption.” And on Wednesday, he got the blessing of the left’s most enduring icon.Continue reading “Bernie Sanders endorsed Dr. Adam Hamawy for Congress in NJ’s 12th District”

The army that is quietly reshaping your future arrived in Washington wearing suits, not uniforms. It does not carry guns. It carries checkbooks. And in the past three years, its ranks have grown larger and faster than almost any invasion force the capital has ever seen. More than 3,500 federal lobbyists — one out ofContinue reading “One in four federal lobbyists is working to advance artificial intelligence”

Albert Einstein originally published this article in May 1949, in the first issue of Monthly Review. It was subsequently republished in May 1998 to commemorate the magazine‘s fiftieth year. Besides the world-famous physicist, prominent Americans who identified as socialists or advocated for socialist principles include labor leaders A. Philip Randolph, Eugene V. Debs, Mother Jones (Mary HarrisContinue reading “Let’s consider the obvious question Albert Einstein asked 77 years ago”

The United States Supreme Court handed a unanimous victory Wednesday to an anti-abortion scam center that wants to keep its donor list secret while fighting a state investigation into whether it has been lying to women in the hope that they will miss the chance to have a safe, legal abortion to end an unwantedContinue reading “Supreme Court hands a unanimous victory to anti-abortion pregnancy scammers”