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The Senate is set to pass the GENIUS Act early next week, a controversial piece of cryptocurrency legislation that critics say will hand an undue amount of financial power to the tech industry. On its face the bill, which has advanced with bipartisan support, purports to offer a regulatory framework …

Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” wouldn’t just force millions of poor people off their health insurance and food assistance to help pay for more tax cuts for the rich. The Trump tax bill would steer tens of billions of dollars to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for detention capacity, employee …

As the Senate debates the latest iteration of Donald Trump’s massive reconciliation package, the latest report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office confirms that the “Big, Beautiful Bill,” is, in fact, a massive giveaway to the rich, at the expense of the poor. According to a CBO report released on …

Even before Donald Trump militarized his crackdown on pro-immigrant protesters in Los Angeles, a massive, nationwide demonstration was in the works for Saturday. The “No Kings” protests on June 14 have been imagined as a peaceful uprising to counter President Trump throwing himself a military parade on his birthday (which …

It’s been less than a week since the explosive, extremely public breakdown in relations between Donald Trump, the most powerful person on the planet, and Elon Musk, the world’s richest man. Trump and his team have weighed various forms of vengeance against the billionaire for turning on the president and …

Donald Trump has long fantasized about deploying the U.S. military to various Democratic strongholds across the country, regardless of whether the elected liberals there want him to or not. He’s finally starting to get his wish, less than six months into a second term defined by his drive to rule …

Inside a packed arena at the University of Montana in April, 20-year-old Lander Busse stepped onto the stage to thunderous applause. More than 9,000 people had turned out here in Missoula for the Fighting Oligarchy rally organized by Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — a remarkable crowd in …

Lauren Miller Rogen was 22 years old, celebrating her graduation from college the first time she noticed something was happening to her mother, Adele. It was relatively minor: “She repeated herself — she told a story a few times about a friend of hers,” Rogen says. But for Rogen, who …

The House reconciliation bill — officially known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act — is extraordinary in how much it robs from the poor to boost the rich. Its tax cuts for the wealthy are financed by cuts to health care coverage (both in Medicaid and Obamacare) that will …

The MAGA right has responded to the explosive feud between Donald Trump and Elon Musk largely with pleas for the American president and world’s richest man to reconcile, if only for the greater good of Republican Party dominance. That doesn’t seem like that’s going to happen anytime soon considering the …