Snowden and Assange Deserve Pardons. So Do the Whistleblowers Trump Imprisoned.
Press freedom advocates must be careful not to indulge Trump’s conspiracy theories while they lobby for whistleblower pardons.
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I Sued Blackwater for the Massacre of Iraqi Civilians. Trump Just Pardoned Those Convicted Killers.
Trump’s pardon of the Blackwater mercenaries who murdered 14 Iraqi civilians at Nisour Square shows the world what justice means in the United States.
Warnock Is Taking White People to Church. That Could Be a Problem for Loeffler.
Ahead of Georgia’s Senate runoff, Sen. Kelly Loeffler has been focused on dog whistle attacks that paint Rev. Raphael Warnock as a radical Black preacher.
Tom Vilsack for Agriculture Secretary Is Everything That's Wrong With the Democratic Party
Our planet and rural communities cannot afford four more years of Vilsack’s aggressive corporatism.
Why Is Marcia Fudge Being Nominated to HUD, if Not Tokenism?
The guarantee of safe and affordable housing is too important for HUD to continue being treated as the short straw.
The Great Reset Conspiracy Smoothie
A viral conspiracy theory blends together legitimate critiques with truly dangerous anti-vaccination fantasies and outright coronavirus denialism.
Biden Is the Perfect Figurehead for the Post-Trump National Security Establishment
Make no mistake, Joe Biden is a Washington creature with a multidecade record of support for wars and militarism.
Amazon Workers Are Organizing a Global Struggle
Amazon is seeing record profits — but little trickles down to the ground-level workers who keep the online giant running.
Biden’s Choice on Julian Assange and the First Amendment
Assange’s liberty represents that of all journalists and publishers whose job is to expose government and corporate criminality without fear of prosecution.
Obama Book Explains How Birtherism Made Trump’s Presidency
Having a Black president simply caused a large number of Americans to completely lose their minds — leading directly to Trump.