Getting Iran Wrong, to the Nth Power
uttu Trump’s unhinged war in Iran is but an escalation of our willful misapprehension of the country’s history and…
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How RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Return of Childhood Plagues — ProPublica
Reporting Highlights Sowing Doubt, Risking Supply: Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is spreading doubts about the safety…
Illinois’s Next Black Senator Deserves Credit for Her Own Campaign
Politics / March 18, 2026 Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton was buoyed by millions spent by Governor JB Pritzker,…
Sean Duffy’s Son-in-Law Michael Alfonso Running Congressional Campaign Fueled by Transportation Lobby — ProPublica
The $16 billion Hudson Tunnel Project, under construction between Manhattan and New Jersey, will improve passenger rail service,…
An Open Letter to the Inspectors General Community — ProPublica
Dear current and former members of the inspectors general community, Last year, in a highly unusual move, President…
Despite Doubts, Federal Cyber Experts Approved Microsoft Cloud Service — ProPublica
Reporting Highlights “Cloud First”: To move federal agencies to the cloud, the government created a program known as…
How to Defend Democracy One State at a Time
The courts are issuing rulings that the Trump administration just ignores. And the Supreme Court is going along…
Topple the Regime! | The Nation
Even before February 28, the reasons for Donald Trump’s imploding approval rating were abundantly clear: untrammeled corruption and…
Oklahoma Ignored Records Revealing 600 Illegally Operating Injection Wells — ProPublica
Five years ago, Oklahoma oil regulators took on a project with an impressive name: the Source of Truth.…
In Defense of Being Performative
Politics / March 17, 2026 The critics of “performative politics” misunderstand something fundamental: Democracy survives only when citizens…