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Saturday, July 19, 2025 ■ The Week in Review
"Congress surrendered to the onslaught of crypto political spending and legitimized the world's biggest Ponzi scheme," said one GENIUS Act critic. "They also forfeited an opportunity to stop Trump's massive crypto grift."By Jessica Corbett • Jul 17, 2025
"If congressional Republicans think these burdens are appropriate for struggling families, then members of Congress should shoulder them too," said BURDEN Act sponsor Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi.By Jessica Corbett • Jul 17, 2025
"At 2 am, Republicans just passed a bill to defund public broadcasting and lifesaving aid because Trump told them to—they wouldn't even protect rural radio or emergency alerts."By Jake Johnson • Jul 17, 2025
"These measures show that we will no longer allow international law to be treated as optional, or Palestinian life as disposable," said Colombian President Gustavo Petro.By Brett Wilkins • Jul 16, 2025
"In a time of record-breaking income inequality and rampant corporate greed," said one lawmaker, "it is more important than ever that we as Democrats reassert and reinforce our commitment to working people."By Julia Conley • Jul 16, 2025
More than 17,000 children have been reported killed over the past 20 months of bombardment by Israel. But that figure only scratches the surface of the suffering being inflicted.By Stephen Prager • Jul 16, 2025
"We won't stop until the files are released," Rep. Ro Khanna said after the GOP shot down his amendment. "This may have been our first attempt, but the public will not be gaslit. We will keep fighting for transparency."By Stephen Prager • Jul 15, 2025
"That decision is indefensible," the justice wrote. "It hands the executive the power to repeal statutes by firing all those necessary to carry them out."By Jessica Corbett • Jul 14, 2025
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| | | ■ Opinion
With the ADL appealing to the NEA’s nine-member executive committee to reconsider the motion, union President Becky Pringle walks a tightrope as the committee studies whether to say yay or nay to the majority of delegates rejecting the ADL.By Marcy Winograd • Jul 16, 2025
To ignore the fact that global warming amplified this flood is to invite the next storm—wetter, hotter, and deadlier.By Conor Macdonald,Charles Slidders,Lindsey Jurca Durland • Jul 16, 2025
The question is not why they hid the list. The question is why they need it at all when the ledger is already written in their laws.By Jesse Mackinnon • Jul 15, 2025
As bank accounts swell, more Palestinian bodies are piled up in morgues, mass graves, or are scattered in the streets of Jabaliya and Khan Younis.By Ramzy Baroud • Jul 13, 2025
We are not sure what Bible President Trump is reading. But it bears no resemblance to the sacred text we have studied and loved for our entire lives.By Rev. Dr. Serene Jones,Rev. Fred Davie • Jul 13, 2025
It’s the opposite of Trump, who was interested only in building a vehicle for his own self-advancement. Musk is far more dangerous.By John Feffer • Jul 13, 2025
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