When Immigrants Oppose Immigration | The Walrus
In Canada, a case of gangplank mentality?
‘There’s an appetite for this brand of politics’: the independent politician making a bid for US Senate
Dan Osborn is challenging Republican incumbent Pete Ricketts in Nebraska to become a rare independent senator
Senate rejects NIH cuts
The Senate Appropriations Committee rejected the Trump administration’s massive proposed funding cut to the National Institutes of Health, advancing a measure that would increase the agency’s budget by $400 million. The White House budget called for slashing NIH by $18 billion, a decrease of 40 percent. Instead, the committee advanced the bill on a 26-3…
The Media Can’t Handle the Absence of Truth
And their diffidence empowers pathological liars
US government may be abandoning the global climate fight, but new leaders are filling the void – including China
Trump’s efforts haven’t sunk global efforts to fight climate change – instead, new leaders are stepping up and working together, even within the US.
1 in 4 Americans reject evolution, a century after the Scopes monkey trial spotlighted the clash between science and religion
One hundred years after the Scopes trial, the culture war over evolution and creationism remains intense.
Why the traditional college major may be holding students back in a rapidly changing job market
A scholar and former college dean explains why higher education’s reliance on majors to measure academic quality may be an outdated approach.
The Decline and Fall of Christianity in America
If we imagine religion as a technology, argues Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith, we can better see the cause of its decline: obsolescence.
What the data says about Medicaid
The joint federal-state health insurance program covered 71.4 million Americans as of January 2025.
Leaving MAGA
MISSION STATEMENT Empower others to leave MAGA and tell their stories. Foster reconciliation with their friends and family. Develop movement leaders to help others leave. Dear MAGA Americans, I was a devoted member of MAGA nation for seven years; it made me feel I was part of something important: a movement that was trying to
Many countries have decoupled economic growth from CO2 emissions, even if we take offshored production into account
It is possible to reduce emissions while growing the economy. But this decoupling needs to happen faster.
Why Gen X is the real loser generation
Don’t cry for millennials or Gen Z. Save your pity for those in their 50s
Trying bring back manufacturing jobs fools errand
Winner-take-all ranked ballot - it's no solution - Fair Vote Canada
Argues that winner-take-all ranked ballot isn't great, but a proportional RCV works
Big ten joint pact trump administration universities
The potential pact would mark an escalation in resistance from universities to President Trump's push for them to follow his agenda.
Advocates Beat 91% of Last Year's Anti-LGBTQ Bills. How?
Also: Full credit to Mike DeWine for educating himself about the issue.
New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120,000 people above the poverty line
The state, which has long ranked worst in the US for child wellbeing, became the first and only in the country to offer free childcare to a majority of families
New Mexico Governor Signs Open Primaries Bill, Granting 330,000 Voters A More Meaningful Say | Unite America
With SB 16 now law, independent voters will have the freedom to participate in the most consequential elections
German experiment gave people a basic monthly income – the effect on their work ethic was surprising | CNN
A German experiment has found that people are likely to continue working full-time even if they receive no-strings-attached universal basic income payments.
Trump Vows To Unite Nation Against Common Enemy Of Other Americans
GRAND RAPIDS, MI—Addressing supporters at his latest rally, former President Donald Trump vowed over the weekend to unite the nation against the common enemy of other Americans. “We must come together to defeat the scourge that is our fellow Americans,” said the Republican presidential nominee, who reportedly spoke from the heart as he called upon every member of the U.S. populace to stand together against one another. “Look to your right. Now look to your left. Every man, woman, and child you see? We will fight them all. With your support, the American people will be defeated once and for all.” At press time, Trump promised that by the end of his second term, there wouldn’t be a single American remaining.
State lawmaker leaves GOP for Forward Party on last day of session
Utah Sen. Dan Thatcher left the Republican Party. The Forward Party promotes ranked choice voting.
In the Press - Protect Democracy
"Gradually, then suddenly”: How the Protecting Our Democracy Act addresses institutional decay | ACS
Judge finds Newsmax aired false and defamatory claims about voting-tech company
A Delaware judge finds the right-wing network aired false and defamatory statements about Dominion Voting Systems' role in the 2020 presidential election. A jury trial is slated for late April.
Protecting Our Democracy Act
VOTE QUESTION: On Passage, DESCRIPTION: Protecting Our Democracy Act, VOTE TYPE: Yea-And-Nay, STATUS: Passed
A.1. Sauce jumped in to savor Linda McMahon's 'AI' gaffe
Secretary of Education Linda McMahon referred to artificial intelligence as "A1" during a panel this week.
The Upside Down | Blog | Andrew Yang
The President is upending longstanding alliances and seems to gravitate to strongmen – perhaps because that’s what he aspires to be. Career professionals are cast aside arbitrarily. Health researchers are on the run. Projects that have been on the books for years might get thrown out the window.
I have felt for a long time that our two-party system has devolved into the Democrats as defenders of faltering institutions vs. the ‘burn it down’ crew that has come to define today’s Republican Party. Institutional mistrust and polarization, and Joe Biden overstaying his welcome, led to this past November’s outcome. Meanwhile, most of us are somewhere in the middle, thinking that the institutions do indeed need revamping and modernization but that a chainsaw isn’t the tool of choice.
The President is upending longstanding alliances and seems to gravitate to strongmen – perhaps because that’s what he aspires to be. Career professionals are cast aside arbitrarily. Health researchers are on the run. Projects that have been on the books for years might get thrown out the window.I have felt for a long time that our two-party system has devolved into the Democrats as defenders of faltering institutions vs. the ‘burn it down’ crew that has come to define today’s Republican Party. Institutional mistrust and polarization, and Joe Biden overstaying his welcome, led to this past November’s outcome. Meanwhile, most of us are somewhere in the middle, thinking that the institutions do indeed need revamping and modernization but that a chainsaw isn’t the tool of choice.
What’s behind the ongoing Bay Area tech layoffs? ‘Nobody is safe,’ expert says
"The main culprit is artificial intelligence driving the industry’s economic success while also driving its workers out."
The main culprit is artificial intelligence driving the industry’s economic success while also driving its workers out.
Fossil fuels fall below 50% of US electricity for the first month on record | Ember
Record-high solar and wind bring the US to a clean power tipping point.
Billionaire Dipshit And His Strike Team Of Greasy Beavises Are Stripping The Wires From The Federal Government | Defector
The most important thing to know about both the chittering Renfields chewing through the ductwork of the American administrative state and the billionaire sociopath they serve is that they don’t care. Every bit of damage they have done and will do springs from and follows this fundamental fact. They don’t know anything about what they’re […]