Atlanta City Leaders Are Subverting Democracy to Save Cop City
With a referendum against the police facility in the works, Atlanta is making sure it won’t be valid. Activists have other ways to fight.
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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.
This Week, America Failed to Get Josh Hawley to Feel Shame
Everyone pulled together to get Hawley to correct a false “quote” from Patrick Henry on the U.S. and Christianity. It didn’t work.
Judges Keep Ruling That Anti-Trans Health Care Bans Make Shitty Law. The GOP Isn’t Giving Up.
Republicans’ anti-abortion playbook shows they’re ready to fight the legal challenges — all the way to the Supreme Court.
For July 4, Here Are 10 Shockingly Radical Things the Founding Fathers Said
The Founding Fathers made startlingly progressive statements that didn’t make it into popular history.
Prigozhin Told the Truth About Putin's War in Ukraine
Yevgeny Prigozhin is a disinformation artist whose failed rebellion was marked by a burst of radical honesty.
Supreme Court: Affirmative Action Is OK — If the Students Are Getting Sent to Die in Wars
By making an exception for military academies — and legacy admissions — the court once again sided with the ruling class.
Prigozhin and Putin: Dead Men Walking
In the duel between the Wagner Group’s Yevgeny Prigozhin and Russian President Vladimir Putin, both men lost their nerve.
Trump's “Final Battle”
The ranting about “communism” from Trump and the right is unsettlingly familiar.
Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Coup Targets Putin and His “Oligarchic Clan”
The mercenary leader’s bid for control may be the greatest threat to Moscow since the 1991 coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev.