Feds Deport ICE Detainee Organizer to Ecuador
As punishment for organizing a hunger strike in a detention camp, federal immigration agents forced Cuban national Rogelio Bolufe onto…
Trump and Putin: When Delusional Idiots Go to War
There’s something in the water of autocracies that infects their nations with gratuitous quagmires. Russia, of course, is no stranger…
Pulte or Not, the Surveillance State Won’t Stop
Congress is staring down the barrel of a manufactured crisis.
Republicans Are Triple-Dipping Funding for Mass Deportation
ICE and CBP have gotten nearly a quarter of a trillion dollars under Trump in the last year. The GOP…
The Threat of Big Insurance
Who is in the decision-making positions insidegovernment really matters to insurance companies, and they don’t like to leave that to…
The Right Voting Reforms—and the Wrong Ones
In Maine yesterday, Graham Platner won his primary with 72 percent of the vote, suggesting that the latest allegations against…
Organized Money: California Dreamin’ … of a Slush Fund for Uber
California is known as a bastion of blue-state values, but when you start to look at how the state’s legislative…
Tracking the Flood of AI Political Spending
The progressive nonprofit Demand Progress has set up a new monitoring effort, called AI Money Watch, to follow one particular…
Elon Musk Is About to Make Saving for Retirement Even Harder
Despite the shaky-at-best valuation, Musk is eyeing a windfall of hundreds of billions of dollars for himself and his friends,…
The ICE Occupation of Minneapolis Is Still Wreaking Economic Carnage
The need for rental assistance didn’t abate even after Trump called off the intensity of the surge and many ICE…