ICE Agents Can Be Charged With Murder     David Dayen January 7, 2026 The American Prospect As a killing in Minneapolis is documented the law clearly stipulates federal agents do not have universal immunity. Federal officers are not, merely because they ar…

How Did Astoria Become So Socialist?     Naaman Zhou January 6, 2026 The New Yorker One neighborhood in New York has elected so many democratic socialists—including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Zohran Mamdani—that people have started calling it “the People…

Trump’s Childcare Funding Freezes Are Going To Hit All Kids Hard     Grace Segers January 8, 2026 The New Republic The administration added new strings for states to receive funding. This could have ripple effects for all households, not just those with lo…

Policies of Denial     Sara Roy, interviewed by Max Nelson January 3, 2026 The New York Review of Books “What I sense most powerfully from my friends in Gaza is a feeling of abandonment. Quiet is not the absence of conflict nor is it peace.” Plans for the …

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Bush Walked So Trump Could Run Into Venezuela     Grant Morgan January 5, 2026 The American Prospect Trump’s blunder into Venezuela and how we got here Demonstrators protest the Trump administration’s actions in Venezuela, January 3, 2026, in fro…

Trump’s EPA Could Limit Its Own Ability To Use New Science To Strengthen Air Pollution Rules     Lisa Song January 7, 2026 ProPublica In government records that have flown under the radar, the EPA is questioning its legal authority to revise pollution rule…

Videos From Scene of Fatal ICE Shooting in Minneapolis Betray ‘Garbage’ DHS Claims     Brad Reed January 7, 2026 The US Department of Homeland Security accused the slain woman of committing “an act of domestic terrorism” by “attempting to run over our law e…

The Depraved New White House Website Isn’t Just a Lie: It’s an Invitation     Thom Hartmann January 7, 2026 Hartmann Report Once a government convinces its people that what they saw with their own eyes never really happened, what’s left of democracy in tha…

Portside Culture Why Propaganda, Hate and Political Extremism Thrive in the Attention Economy     Chris Featherman November 13, 2025 LSE Review of Books These two books reveal the urgent challenge of combatting harmful speech and propaganda – and t…

Global Left Midweek — January 7, 2026     January 7, 2026 xxxxxx A time to try our souls Government supporters demand President Nicolas Maduro’s release from U.S. custody during a protest in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, Jan. 4, 2026., AP Photo/Arian…