Under the current Trump administration, at both the state and federal level, far-right forces and wannabe dictators are smearing teachers, slashing public school funding, banning books, outlawing honest history, and expanding private school vouchers. American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten‘s upcoming book, Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education and …
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I t was after 3 a.m. on Nov. 6 last year, and nobody on the planet was happier than a balding, slender man standing near the reception desk of the Hilton West Palm Beach. Donald Trump had just finished hosting his 2024 election watch party at the adjacent Florida convention …
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T here’s a 3D hand on a black screen. J. Galen Buckwalter concentrates on the image, trying to move one of the virtual hand’s fingers — with his mind. For more than 50 years, Buckwalter hasn’t felt his fingers after breaking his neck in an accident as a teenager. But …
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On the morning of Sept. 12, 2001, I trudged into my office in Midtown Manhattan, still shellshocked from having watched the Twin Towers collapse to the ground the day before from the roof of my apartment building in the West Village. I was an editor at Maxim, at the time …
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The U.S. Senate race in Texas just got a lot more intriguing — with the addition of a young, charismatic foe of Christian nationalism, who is himself studying to be a minister. James Talarico declared Tuesday that he’s seeking the Democratic nomination, vying to contest the Senate seat now held …
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America’s pro-democracy movement is gearing up for what may be its biggest mass demonstration yet against the increasingly militaristic Trump administration — which has sent armed troops to occupy the nation’s capital and is threatening to do the same in large cities from Chicago to New Orleans. Popular resistance in …
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Trump administration officials are perplexed, as many people are, by House Speaker Mike Johnson’s claims that Donald Trump was an FBI informant in the case against Jeffrey Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial on charges he sexually abused and trafficked scores of underage girls. The president …
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SAVANNAH, Ga. — Tori Branum is a Marine Corps veteran, firearms instructor, and Republican candidate for Georgia’s 12th congressional district. She’s also a proud “America first” supporter of President Donald Trump. On Thursday, as agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security were still carrying out …
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Blue-state governors are sounding the alarm that an increasingly “authoritarian” President Donald Trump has designs to disrupt upcoming elections with military assets. J.B. Pritzker, the governor of Illinois, is exhorting Americans to treat Trump’s stated goals for deploying the National Guard to blue cities like Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and …
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Donald Trump is expanding his military intimidation campaigns against his enemies, foreign and domestic. Trump’s decision to destroy a purported drug boat from Venezuela, in international waters, is the latest escalation from a president who spent years conning his followers into believing he hates neocons and values “peace,” and is …
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