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Poor, disabled, and vulnerable Americans who rely on Social Security to survive now have fewer resources to access those benefits thanks to cuts made by President Donald Trump’s administration. The cuts — made to the already-understaffed Social Security Administration (SSA) — will make it harder for some Americans to obtain …

Criminal legal reform advocates in New York state are pushing for the Reentry Assistance Bill, which would provide increased financial support for citizens returning from jail. Currently, New York offers citizens a one-time $200 stipend upon their release from state prison. The assistance bill, filed as New York Assembly Bill …

Last week, the Trump administration gutted one of the nation’s bedrock public health, environmental, and climate protection laws — the National Environmental Policy Act. NEPA has long been a target of polluting industries, particularly the fossil fuel industry. It requires federal agencies considering approval of expansions or new operations to …

Since Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) swept into Washington last month, an anonymous X account called DataRepublican has taken the government demolition crew’s supporters by storm. The account, and its alleged findings of mismanaged government agency spending, has been shared by Musk often, as well as Utah …

OMAHA, NEBRASKA — It’s a frigid Friday night in Omaha, and Bernie Sanders has come to this riverside Nebraska city to sound a battlecry for democracy — and rally Americans to fight the rising threats of authoritarianism and billionaire rule. The thin ice floes careening down the Missouri River offer …

After Hurricane Helene ripped through North Carolina, Francesca got to work. As an employee for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, she was deployed to the state for a month to coordinate aid for impacted residents, which included feeding families and sharing information at community events. From the start, her work …

Extortion, lies, and capitulation have formed the core of President Donald Trump’s effort to end one of the bloodiest conflicts in modern history, as the White House courts Russia and upends American policy, pressuring beleaguered Ukraine to give up billions of dollars in resources in exchange for U.S. support. Bad …

Over the past month, Donald Trump and Elon Musk have framed their senseless, openly corrupt crackdown on federal employees as a war on faceless, unpopular bureaucrats and the dreaded “deep state.”Meanwhile, the workers they are terrorizing if not firing include health care workers, working-class nurses at Veterans Affairs facilities, and …

This is an adapted excerpt from the new book, Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left. “Christianity, the main religion of the Western world, always takes the side of the victim,” Peter Thiel said, adding, “you should think of wokeness as ultra-Christianity or …

I met Karina on a sunny hillside in Eternal Glory Park in central Kyiv last April. The spring tulips and cherry blossoms that line the park were in full bloom. Ukraine’s omnipresent flowers have a rebellious quality during wartime. We sat to talk as the shouting and honking of a …