Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. On Wednesday, the United States Supreme Court ruled to uphold a Tennessee law that bans physicians from providing gender-affirming care to transgender children, a decision that will likely reverberate across the more than two dozen states that have...
Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. Over the objections of critics who say a landmark cryptocurrency bill lacks adequate consumer and financial system protections, among other concerns, several Senate Democrats voted with Republicans on Tuesday to pass the legislation that would establish a regulatory...
Perhaps my Javert analogy treated Gavin Newsom too kindly. This smells more like a Hunger Gamesí/Panem setup, in which the ridiculously baroque elites strut on stage but fear the people so much that they arrange death matches on the streets to distract the peasantry. In fact, that may be uncomfortably on the nose, given the...
Eight months after U.S. President Donald Trump publicly called for a policy of “remigration” — a term that’s become a rallying cry among far-right groups in Europe and sparked comparisons to ethnic cleansing — the U.S. State Department said Thursday that it plans to create an office devoted to the project, with refugee aid resources...
The all-Republican commission abandoned a lawsuit accusing PepsiCo of providing Walmart with pricing advantages. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Thursday dismissed a price discrimination lawsuit against the drink and food giant PepsiCo, a move that former FTC Chair Lina Khan, who served under former President Joe Biden, called “disturbing behavior.” The lawsuit, filed only...
Abortion rights defenders and scientists expressed deep concern after U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s remarks about mifepristone, a key medication used to end pregnancies, at a Wednesday congressional hearing. During the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) inquired about the secretary’s previous pledge to...
Reuters US President Donald Trump and Qatar’s Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani at a signing ceremony in Doha on Wednesday In his eagerness to accept a plane from Qatar, Donald Trump has achieved a remarkable feat, uniting many partisans across America’s bitter political divide. The problem for the White House is that unity is...
There are a lot of grating things about Trump’s critics, but perhaps the most frustrating one for me is how so many of them still fail to understand the fact that so much of what he says and does has to be understood not as literal statements of what he thinks at any given moment,...
“If it’s so easy to get to a final, then why doesn’t everyone who finishes in the top three do it?” In Norway, boss Ange Postecoglou took aim at Tottenham’s critics after they reached the Europa League final as he remained on course to continue his record of winning a trophy in his second season....
Francesca Gillett BBC News PA Media Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has rejected criticism of her leadership, saying anonymous critics from within her party are “cowards”. “I’m not afraid of cowards,” she told BBC Newsnight. Two anonymous Tories used an article in the Critic magazine to call for her to stand down, as the party braces...
Around 50,000 career civil servants would be reclassified as “at-will” employees and lose civil service protections. The largest federal labor union in the U.S. said Friday that tens of thousands of federal workers could soon “have their jobs politicized” and be swiftly fired under a new rule proposed by the Office of Personnel Management. Under...
We present here a translation of an article which appeared on July 7, 2024 in the recently revived Spanish anarchist journal Regeneración Libertaria. The journal describes itself as “a portal for the revolutionary anarchist tendency, concretely of the especifista current, adapted to the Iberian Peninsula”. Despite its original theoretical texts appearing in Spanish, the anarchist...