No Labels Board Member: If MLK Were Alive Today, He’d Be Aligned With Joe Manchin and No Labels
Manchin and a group of failed moderate politicians assembled in New Hampshire on Monday to tout No Labels’ 73-page centrist manifesto.
Politics
Energy Company Plotted Gas Plant in Small Pennsylvania Town — But No One Told Residents
Lawmakers helped with a plan to put the natural gas export facility in already polluted Chester, Pennsylvania.
Voices
Today’s Class War Is the 1 Percent Versus the People Just Below Them
America’s privileged technocrats are not ready for what’s about to happen to them.
UPS CEO’s Political Donations Boost Anti-Union Republicans
Carol Tomé, who positioned herself as a friend of workers when she took the helm at UPS, is facing a potential strike by her workforce.
Making a Killing
Saudi Arabia’s Huge U.S. Investments Lose Money — but Buy Influence
Following Saudi Arabia’s purchase of the PGA Tour, a new Senate report revealed the dictatorship’s ballooning share of the American economy.
The War on Immigrants
ICE Disobeyed Biden’s Order to Drop Trump’s Blanket Deportation Policy
A third of ICE enforcement actions during Biden’s first year in office targeted people who posed no threat to public safety.
Origins of Covid
House Republicans Accidentally Released a Trove of Damning Covid Documents
New documents show a scientist calling a lab leak “highly likely” — after drafting a paper claiming the opposite.
Campaign to Recall Oakland Reform District Attorney Gets Rolling
Oakland District Attorney Pamela Price is the target of a recall campaign, joining a slew of reformist prosecutors in California and elsewhere.
Trump Revives “Muslim Ban” While GOP Courts Muslim Voters for 2024
In his 2024 run, Donald Trump is tripling down on his “Muslim ban” — and making the Islamophobia explicit.
The Military-Industrial Complex Is Finally Facing Intense Bipartisan Scrutiny
A loose coalition of Democrats and Freedom Caucus Republicans are pushing NDAA amendments that challenge Washington’s foreign policy orthodoxy.