Category: Politics
Trump's Imaginary Red Scare
Democratic socialists keep winning primary elections, and Democratic voters are trending in the same direction: Recent polling suggests that a third of Democrats and Democratic-leaning adults now identify as democratic socialists. Most recently, Abdul El-Sayed, who does not identify as a democratic socialist but was endorsed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez…
Democrats Demand Answers From VA on Vets’ Struggles for Mental Healthcare — ProPublica
What Happened: More than 60 House Democrats are pressing Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins for answers about how the agency’s mental healthcare has been increasingly strained under President Donald Trump’s second administration. The lawmakers sent the secretary a letter last week asking questions about the state of VA care, citing a ProPublica investigation…
Texas’s DNA Doesn’t Run As Red as the Right Wants You to Think
David Griscom is a sixth-generation Texan, political commentator, and host of The Jacobin Show, a weekly political analysis broadcast. In his new book, The Myth of Red Texas: Cowboys, Populism, and Class War in the Radical South, he undoes the idea of Texas as a place with conservatism inherent to its political bloodline. I have…
Mitch McConnell Announces Discharge From Rehab Center After Fall
The Kentucky senator was initially hospitalized on June 14 Nearly two months after Mitch McConnell was admitted into a hospital in Washington, the Kentucky senator announced on Thursday that he has been discharged from a rehabilitation facility. “Earlier today, I was discharged from the rehabilitation center to continue my recovery at home. Elaine and I are grateful…
America's Political Divide Is a Strategic Vulnerability
As a U.S. Army veteran who faced radical Islamic terrorists in combat, I have looked into the eyes of men taught from childhood – in madrassas and through propaganda – to hate Americans with a purity of purpose that left little room for doubt. Their hatred was not something I merely observed. It was something…
James Talarico’s Voter Registration Is Raising Questions as He Hits at Ken Paxton — ProPublica
Texas state Rep. James Talarico voted in five elections using his parents’ address after purchasing a home for himself nearby, a practice that may have violated state voting laws, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found. This comes weeks after Talarico accused Attorney General Ken Paxton, his opponent in the race for U.S. Senate, of voter…
Abdul El-Sayed: “The Power of Our Many Is Greater Than the Power of Their Money”
Politics / August 5, 2026 The lessons from a primary win that can be applied to defeat a Republican in November. Ad Policy Abdul El-Sayed speaks during a news conference at the Spirit of Detroit shortly after winning the Democratic nomination for US Senate in Michigan, Wednesday, August 5, 2026, in Detroit. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson…
Trump’s Iran War Is Using Up the Military’s Stockpiles
In 2022 and 2023, shortly before the portable drone changed armed conflict forever, the war in Ukraine was defined largely by a single, simple statistic: which side could shoot more artillery shells. The answer, for most of those first two years, was Russia. They had a massive stockpile of 152-millimeter shells, produced by a flourishing…
