Support justice-driven, accurate and transparent news — make a quick donation to Truthout today! Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (New York) went on an Islamophobic rant against New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani in a radio interview on Thursday, spewing lies about Mamdani and suggesting that he would represent a threat to public safety...
Thomas Edsall is a NY Times columnist who I’ve come to see as the doomiest of doomscrollers. His columns almost never contain any good news for anyone. What they do often contain is a lot of hot takes from university professors around the country and today’s installment is no exception. What makes this intersting (to...
Nada Tawfik BBC News, in New York City Shutterstock, Reuters Andrew Cuomo, left, and Zohran Mamdani A left-wing candidate has pulled up from behind to become the dark horse in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary. His surprise success is indicative of the debate raging within the Democratic Party on what kinds of leaders they...
Trump says he’s ordering his entire administration to attack cities he calls “the Democrat Power Center.” Truthout is a vital news source and a living history of political struggle. If you think our work is valuable, support us with a donation of any size. President Donald Trump openly ordered Democratic cities to be targeted with...
The assailant also shot and injured another Democratic lawmaker and his wife in a separate incident, officials said. DEVELOPING STORY… A gunman pretending to be a police officer assassinated a Democratic state legislator in Minnesota and killed the lawmaker’s husband in “an act of targeted political violence,” Gov. Tim Walz said Saturday. The assailant also...
David Wallace-Wells is an opinion writer at the NY Times. He has a newsletter up today titled “Our Regression on Gender Is a Tragedy, Not Just a Political Problem.” Some of what he says is worth considering but ultimately he’s writing this from a solidly progressive point of view so I think he mostly winds...
If you spend any amount of time on X, it’s impossible to miss the pattern. Democrats are angry. Depressed. They scream at the camera. They fantasize about violence against “oppressors.” They film themselves weeping, wailing, and gnashing their teeth. Just as you can be reasonably certain that anybody who flies an American flag is a...
There is no such thing as a “normal” president–there have only been 45 people in history to have held the job and “normal” people don’t rise to that level of political power. But some presidents are more normal than others. You have the machine politicians like Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson, for instance. You have...
Remember Dean Phillips? Few do. Few even know who he was. Even more have only the vaguest sense that the Minnesota Congressman challenged the President of the United States in the Democratic primaries in 2024, and most of them probably assume that he did so because he was egotistical or on a quixotic quest. It’s...
ActBlue said that Trump’s order was his latest move to “stamp out all political, electoral and ideological opposition.” President Donald Trump has directed the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate ActBlue, the Democratic Party’s primary fundraising platform, just months before the 2025 election cycle, in which numerous congressional seats are up for grabs. Trump’s presidential...
A group of 12 Democratic AGs have sued the Trump administration over the president’s tariffs. The group was led by the AGs from Arizona and Oregon but also included New York’s AG Letitia James. The legal challenge, led by Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes and Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield, seeks to halt the enforcement...
We have some pretty darn good relations with El Salvador’s charismatic and effective president, Nayib Bukele. Leave it to Democrats to possibly threaten a good thing, and why? Where they didn’t give two figs about the tiny country a month ago, all of a sudden you can’t keep the whiny camera Hoggs…oh. Sorry. Can’t keep...
When the legislation establishing Devon & Torbay Combined County Authority came into force in February, county council leader James McInnes described the event as a “monumental day” heralding a change in the relationship between Devon and Torbay and central government. No such fanfare accompanied the first formal meeting of the new authority, which is to...
Revolutionary struggle is never a solitary endeavor; rather it is an unfolding process replete with contradiction and tension. But sifting through the complexity what fundamentally endures is solidarity and principles. When we – anarchist and communist revolutionaries – embark on the path of struggle we expect to exist, grow and die in a life of...
Twenty-one Democratic attorneys general have filed suit to stop the dismantling of the Department of Education. Twenty-one Democratic attorneys general have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration to stop the dismantling of the Department of Education, arguing that firing approximately 50 percent of the department’s workforce significantly impairs its ability to fulfill its legal...