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February 20, 2025
One Big Beautiful Mess of a Bill
(Composite / Photos: Shutterstock / GettyImages) Republicans are trying to advance a budget resolution that would provide the framework to support the most critical parts of President Trump’s agenda—or, at least, the parts the president can’t unilaterally accomplish on his own. But no one seems to be on the same […]
February 20, 2025
The Communist International’s Failure Still Haunts the Left
Review of Travellers of the World Revolution: A Global History of the Communist International by Brigitte Studer (Verso Books, 2023) The Communist International was conceived in March 1919 amid the siege conditions of revolutionary Russia, within weeks of Berlin’s Spartacist Uprising and the murders of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. […]
February 20, 2025
JD Vance’s memoir ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ is the latest target of book bans
Published 2025-02-20 14:15 2:15 February 20, 2025 pm Vice President JD Vance’s memoir became a political lightning rod that propelled him to office, but now “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis” has been caught up in a censorship controversy sparked by the White House. The […]
February 20, 2025
Jewish people must retain agency over their identity and narratives
Holocaust Remembrance Day, marked in January, served as a solemn reminder of the necessity for marginalized groups, particularly Jewish people, to retain agency over their histories and narratives. During the Holocaust, the erasure of Jewish voices allowed external forces to dehumanize and distort their identities, culminating in systemic genocide. Today, […]
February 20, 2025
Is Lil Marco a Cuban Communist Agent?
If Marco Rubio was NOT playing the long game masquerading as a patriotic neocon who gets placed in the State Department to then give Russia everything it wanted, what would he be doing differently? Meanwhile, a Democratic version of the Tea Party may be brewing, the tensions between Elon and […]
February 20, 2025
Trump disbands health equity panel examining Medicare and Medicaid
Published 2025-02-20 13:13 1:13 February 20, 2025 pm President Donald Trump late Wednesday directed the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to disband a committee to identify and reduce systemic barriers that people of color, LGBTQ+ people and rural Americans encounter when trying to access government health care programs. […]
February 20, 2025
What Musk’s Black Hat Means
Today we’re going to talk about Elon Musk’s black MAGA hat. I know what you’re thinking: With everything else going on you want to talk about a forking hat? But bear with me, because Musk’s black hat isn’t random. It’s an intentional choice made to crack up MAGA. Musk is […]
February 20, 2025
Tech Workers Can Still Fight Silicon Valley’s Overlords
Silicon Valley is moving sharply and openly to the right. In a presidential inauguration where the best seats were essentially sold at auction, tech billionaires and CEOs from Apple, Amazon, Google, and Meta paid premiums to sit close to Donald Trump. The world’s richest man, Elon Musk — once a […]