If you haven’t heard of the massive new tar sands pipeline proposed to transport oil from Alberta to Cushing, Oklahoma, yet, you’re not alone — and that may be by design. The pipeline has misleadingly been dubbed in the media as “Keystone Light” due to its similarities to the now defunct Keystone XL pipeline, though…
It’s been nearly two years since I started reporting on abuses of foreign farmworkers in Georgia. Some of the workers I tracked down had come to the U.S. legally through the H-2A visa program and were harmed and exploited by labor contractors — despite protections that were supposed to be guaranteed by the federal government. …
Jon Wiener: From The Nation magazine, this is Start Making Sense. I’m Jon Wiener. Later in the show: John Nichols on Progressive Senate candidates to challenge Republicans in Maine and Nebraska. One is a Democrat–and one isn’t. But first: How are we going to win the midterms? Ben Wikler will explain – in a minute.[BREAK]Everybody…
President Donald Trump has weathered fierce criticism over the past five months after beginning a devastating, never-ending war in Iran. But throughout it all, there’s been one brave man firmly in his corner: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who on Tuesday told senators they’d been thinking about this forever war situation all wrong. Instead of criticism,…
When New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order instituting a one-year moratorium on the construction of the largest, most energy-consuming data centers in the state, President Donald Trump was not happy. "New York should change its Policy, IMMEDIATELY," he posted to Truth Social. "The Radical Left Dumocrats must not be allowed to cause…
Over the past year, I’ve reported about crimes against farmworkers who have come to the U.S. legally from Mexico and Central America. Over the past year, I’ve reported about crimes against farmworkers who have come to the U.S. legally from Mexico and Central America. I haven’t stopped thinking about how they suffered. Their wages were…
Unprecedented sums are being spent on Democratic primaries, reshaping races while keeping their policy agendas largely out of public view. Ad Policy People gather outside of the Supreme Court Building to protest Citizens United in 2019.(Caroline Brehman / Getty) In Democratic primaries across the country, three special interests have been shelling out tens of millions…
For the past six weeks or so I’ve been having a recurring fight with my friends. The dispute is over whether or not it’s ethical to support the U.S. national team in the World Cup. To the vast majority of people reading this article, this is an absurd question: of course you can and should…
In March of 2026 President Trump issued Executive Order 14399, "Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections," directing the U.S. Postal Service to create a rule whereby any state that intends to send mail-in ballots to voters must provide a list of those eligible to participate in federal elections or the USPS "shall not…
