Politics

Kilmar Abrego Garcia described a harrowing account of his detainment during the nearly three months he was wrongfully imprisoned in El Salvador thanks to Donald Trump’s administration, claiming he was beaten, deprived of sleep, and psychologically tortured. According to court papers filed by his lawyers on Wednesday, upon his arrival …

The Republican-led House of Representatives is expected to vote Thursday on President Donald Trump’s profoundly unpopular tax and spending bill. It has been called “the most regressive U.S. tax and budget law in at least the past four decades — and possibly ever,” according to researchers at Yale University. Trump’s …

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries spoke for eight hours and 44 minutes on the House floor on Thursday, in a marathon speech delaying the passage of = Donald Trump’s Medicaid-and-food-assistance slashing, tax-gift-for-the-wealthy abomination of a reconciliation bill. The speech breaks the record for longest ever delivered on the House floor, …

Republicans are clapping each other on the back after passing one of the most destructive pieces of legislation to ever target the American poor and middle class. Donald Trump and the GOP’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” belly-flopped through Congress not because it makes sense economically, environmentally, or morally — but …

Republicans in Congress have obeyed Donald Trump and passed the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill,” a sweeping reconciliation package that pairs massive tax breaks for the wealthy with massive cuts to Medicaid and other social services. The bill’s journey through Capitol Hill has been fraught. Democrats were universally opposed to the …

The Supreme Court will weigh in on state efforts to bar transgender athletes from competing in girls’ and women’s sports. On Thursday, the court accepted two cases involving transgender students challenging state-level bans in Idaho and West Virginia that bar their participation in high school and collegiate level sports leagues. …

As millions of low-income and disabled Americans are at risk of losing their health insurance thanks to the passing of Donald Trumpand the GOP’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill,” Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wisc.) joined Republicans in celebrating one of the most destructive pieces of legislation in U.S. history. Van Orden …

Scenes of “law enforcement” that look like lawlessness are unfolding, daily, on the streets of America. Masked agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agencies jump out of unmarked cars. They wear masks and are often irregularly uniformed, in a slapdash assemblage of jeans and security vests. …

About midway through our film Familiar Touch, Ruth (played by me, Kathleen), bursts into the kitchen of the memory care facility she’s just moved into. A professional cook, she believes she’s there for a day on the job. Knife in hand, she confidently takes over the prep station, showing the …

It’s now official: New York State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani is the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City, having toppled disgraced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the establishment pick, in a wild primary that has already had seismic effects throughout the party. A 33-year-old Democratic Socialist, he will go up …