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When Truth Social, President Donald Trump's media mouthpiece, announced that it would be selling advance access to Trump's posts, I thought they were kidding. I mean, have they no shame? When the announcement met with a round of criticism and Democratic demands that the SEC investigate, I figured they'd back off.

Why do I keep underestimating...Read more

Why is socialism a growing force in American politics for the first time in over a century?

It's not happenstance. Socialism meets the historical moment.

The Socialist Party of America founded in 1901 reached its apex of organizational strength, membership, electoral success and national visibility just before World War I, during the 1912 ...Read more

I'm 69 years old and I have a Snoop Dogg T-shirt, a black one.

On the front of the shirt is Snoop's picture in black and white. He has a mustache and goatee and braids in his hair. His eyes are half-closed. Maybe he was sleepy when they took the picture.

Even though it was the day before her birthday, my wife Deborah bought it for me at a ...Read more

You couldn't find a wackier candidate than Francesca Hong, the Democratic Socialist vying to become the governor of Wisconsin. She wanted to defund police and abolish ICE, topping it all off with a call to end Thanksgiving. "Saturday Night Live" couldn't have made her up.

Hong lost the Democratic primary but left behind some sobering thoughts...Read more

Last month, President Donald Trump left the summit in Ankara, Turkey in a catering truck. He walked onto the old Air Force One in view of all the cameras, then snuck onto a catering truck to be whisked to a military jet, which flew him to England, where he snuck back onto Air Force One. And no one was the wiser until this week, when the ...Read more

In April, ICE held one mother, who was five months pregnant, with her husband and four children, including her 11-month-old baby, in a cell with no sunlight and little access to running water for nearly a month. The mother lost consciousness twice from the heat before anyone took her seriously.

"My children were confused and scared about why ...Read more

Researcher Katie Edwards has dedicated her career to reducing violence among LGBTQ+ and Indigenous youth, building programs that help young people feel safe and supported. Josefina Navar, deputy director of HOPE Fair Housing, works to help families across Illinois access safe and stable housing. Adam Odsess-Rubin helped found the National ...Read more

Just last week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement shot and killed a man in Houston who had lived in the country for 35 years; he was a father to three sons and a business owner. ICE didn't even allege that he posed a danger at the time or had committed crimes in the past. This wasn't a lone occurrence: Senior White House official Tom Homan ...Read more

Ladies and gentleman, here is your United States Senate, then and now:

Sen. Daniel Webster on March 7, 1850: “It is fortunate that there is a Senate of the United States (with) a just sense of its own dignity, and its own high responsibilities, and a body to which the country looks with confidence for wise, moderate, patriotic, and healing ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- "The king can do no wrong." That is the ancient legal maxim used to explain why a sovereign should not be held to account for misdeeds. President Trump and his lawyers are now making arguments that make this legal doctrine look wimpy. Their vision boils down to: The king can do whatever wrong he damn pleases, and there's nothing ...Read more