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This article is an adapted excerpt from Those Who Should Be Seized Should Be Seized, which follows the Chinese security state’s oppression of its Muslim minorities from Xinjiang to the streets of New York and Washington, D.C. The book is available for purchase here. Serikzhan Bilash went sightseeing not long …

Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is a reverse-Robin Hood nightmare. It steals from the poor to give to the rich. The 1,038-page version that passed the House will also balloon the deficit by nearly $4 trillion. The Trump tax bill achieves this feat by extending (and in many cases expanding) …

I t’s an early May afternoon in Washington, D.C., and as a group of demonstrators gather outside of the Capitol protesting cuts to Medicaid, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is in her congressional office, excitedly pulling bright pink, blue, and yellow yarns out of her purse. “I am knitting a cardigan; I …

On Thursday, the Supreme Court dealt a body blow to America’s bedrock environmental law, the National Environmental Policy Act. The court issued a unanimous decision that will buttress the Donald Trump administration’s efforts to gut the law and fast track fossil fuel projects. Environmental advocates contend that the result of …

Donald Trump’s administration has appealed to the Supreme Court, asking the justices to bless his effort to deport a group of migrants to South Sudan, a war-torn African country, with little notice and in express violation of a judge’s order. The high court has already smacked down the administration’s efforts …

In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s morbidly authoritarian return to the White House, several members of the Democratic Party elite have been pitching plans and multimillion-dollar ideas for how to win back young male voters, many of whom spurned Democrats last fall. One of these proposals, “Speaking With American Men: …

Sabrina Bishop, a California home care worker, and her disabled patient, Ronald Penn, traveled to Washington, D.C., last week to warn lawmakers about the impact that Donald Trump and Republicans’ tax bill, which would massively cut Medicaid, will have on Americans who rely on home health care services. “We’re really …

Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s deeply reported book, Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, takes a sledgehammer to Joe Biden’s legacy, already in grave disrepair. Claiming to have interviewed more than 200 sources around the 46th president, the CNN anchor and the …

President Donald Trump and Republicans’ “big, beautiful” tax bill already promises to leave millions of Americans without access to Medicaid and food assistance programs. The GOP is using Congress’ massive budget reconciliation bill to slash taxes on the wealthy and enact a host of right-wing policy dreams, and among them …

President Donald Trump will host a gathering of VIPs today at his private golf resort outside Washington, D.C. These are not diplomats or heads of state. They are rich people, foreign and domestic, who have put money into the Trump family’s pockets. The dinner is for winners of a contest …