The intense attacks against Harris so far are only a fraction of what will come. Trump is skilled at both character assassination and political self-defense.
Ukrainians have been able to destroy 26 Russian vessels since the start of the war and force Russia’s powerful Black Sea Fleet to flee hundreds of miles to a safer harbor.
The Sackler family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma has been desperately trying to keep their wealth and avoid prosecution through a bankruptcy settlement. Hopefully a reckoning is now closer.
Homelessness in the U.S. is a function of poverty, not criminality, and criminalizing people experiencing homelessness in no way helps solve the problem—it just makes it worse.
Many journalists and political scientists view populism as a “cultural backlash” of conservative white men who fear the loss of their privilege in a diversifying world.
The legacy of slavery is still enshrined in thousands of judicial opinions and briefs that are cited today by American judges and lawyers in cases involving everything from property rights to criminal law.
200 years ago, welfare reformers could have turned an eye on the systemic drivers of poverty. Instead, they focused on supposed scammers who didn’t really exist.
Ultimately, QAnon is underpinned by a trust that’s rooted in fear and anxiety. By overcoming these fears and anxieties, one stands a better chance of escaping its grip.
Across the U.S., there’s not a single state where firearms are taxed as much as alcohol and tobacco. But starting in July, California will tax firearms at about the level of alcohol.
Even before Dobbs overturned Roe V Wade, many rural women had to travel more than 180 miles to get an abortion. And as of December 2023, over a dozen states have now lack any abortion clinic.
Trump claims he can replicate Operation Wetback on a much grander scale by setting up immigration detention centers to remove the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants now living in the U.S.
Dissatisfaction with government performance and concerns about socioeconomic well-being can lead citizens to support someone who is willing to flout constitutional rules to restore what they consider to be a broken democracy.