President Donald Trump has fired Benjamin Hovland and Thomas Hicks, the Democrats on the federal Election Assistance Commission, while Christy McCormick, the Republican, was allowed to resign.

Things have only gotten worse at the paper since an editorial clampdown caused the biggest one-day wipeout of journalists in a generation.

A month after Albanians erupted in opposition to a Trump family takeover of a remote island, can the leaderless uprising maintain momentum?

ICE has arrested 10,000 people in five days in smaller, “silent” operations rather than the militarized occupations and raids.

Trump is helping climate change accomplish what British military might could not, putting in question the future of America in places like Washington, D.C.

George Washington sent nine enslaved people back to Virginia every few months. It was the only way to stop them from qualifying for freedom under Pennsylvania law.

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Several Maine gubernatorial candidates, as well as former Platner rivals, have already expressed interest in replacing him on the ballot.

Debt crises in the Global South already reach into American wages, pensions and grocery prices — few people realize how directly.

Rather than fueling media spectacles, lawsuits and community backlash, ICE is now going about its ruthless business in more hushed tones.

When the GOP slashed funding for federal health insurance assistance, rural residents were disproportionately hit.

The president’s portfolio kept accumulating shares in companies — like Palantir and Lockheed Martin — that were benefiting directly from his global military escalations.

A new documentary connects the life and music of the Depression-era singer-songwriter to today’s struggles for social justice, equality and immigrant rights. www.truthdig.com/articles/how...

Tenaculum forceps are routinely used on 120 million patients a year despite causing pain in 90% of patients. It has remained largely unchanged for over 135 years. A new medical device is part of a broader effort to make gynecological care less painful. Co-published with @truthdig.com

Trump's administration revoked American Prairie's grazing permits — then drafted rules that could strip similar permits from tribes trying to preserve their land.

As climate information disappears from federal websites, scientists are rebuilding it elsewhere.

ICE's arrests have doubled, its budget has tripled, its illegalities have multiplied.

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ICE's arrests have doubled, its budget has tripled, its illegalities have multiplied.

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Musk fast-tracked SpaceX into major index funds, sending rapidly devaluing stock into working people's retirement accounts.

The agency improved millions of lives. It also created a system that rewarded dependence on its money.

Since 2018, some 13,000 Americans have died from heat.

The tenaculum forceps is a highly effective tool that is routinely used without anesthesia on 120 million patients a year for IUD insertions, biopsies, hysteroscopies and fertility treatments. It causes pain in up to 90% of patients, and was designed 135 years ago.

George Washington kept slaves from petitioning for their freedom in violation of Pennsylvania state law. Now Trump wants their memory scrubbed from history.

Several Maine gubernatorial candidates, as well as former Platner rivals, have already expressed interest in replacing Graham Platner on the ballot.

Gynecology has a pain problem. In my latest for @truthdig.com, I look at the doctors and inventors challenging the Civil War-era instrument that has caused women pain for over 135 years, and — finally — designing gynecological tools with women in mind. www.truthdig.com/articles/rev...

U.S. workers, consumers, and taxpayers have a big stake in developing countries' debt crises — and the power to tackle the problem.

A new medical device is part of a broader effort to make gynecological care less painful — and to take women’s pain more seriously. Co-published with @19thnews.org By @diane2v.bsky.social

Abdul El-Sayed’s insurgent campaign has become a key battle in the fight between the party establishment and the progressive left.

Most of the $150 million allocated by Congress for anniversary events has instead gone into Freedom250’s nonprofit black box within the National Park Service.

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As climate information disappears from federal websites, scientists are rebuilding it elsewhere.

The Bureau of Land Management is rewriting grazing regulations for 155 million acres of public land — with rules that heavily favor the livestock industry.

Secret Supreme Court rulings now outnumber transparent ones. What's left of judicial accountability?

A salute to @truthdig.com, for a long, vital explanation of why it's so hard to stop the latest #ebola outbreak in the DR #Congo. Hint: Musk's vicious cuts to U.S. foreign aid are a factor. @kambale.bsky.social @michelawrong.bsky.social www.truthdig.com/articles/in-...

The six unscrupulous Republicans on the Supreme Court — over the loud objections of the three true constitutionalists on the court — are aggressively dragging America back not just to the 1950s but, as of last week, to the 1830s.

Two hundred and fifty years after a revolution against a king, Kovic says "bold and daring actions" — including general strikes and mass civil disobedience — are now the solemn duty of every citizen.

When the previous ocean record for June was set in 2023, scientists described the trends as “worrying”, “terrifying” and “bonkers”. This year, temperatures are even higher.

The attacks boosted El-Sayed by significantly increasing his name recognition statewide and nationally, and cementing his position as the race’s change candidate.

The U.S. and Puerto Rican governments appear to be working toward a Puerto Rico without Puerto Ricans.

True to form, the network ran a series of infomercials for the stock, helping investors sell overvalued shares to retail customers.

The agency improved millions of lives. It also created a system that rewarded dependence on its money.

By accelerating human-caused climate breakdown, Trump is doing what the British military never could — making the nation's capital unlivable.

George Washington kept slaves from petitioning for their freedom in violation of Pennsylvania state law. Now Trump wants their memory scrubbed from history. www.truthdig.com/articles/tru...

Trump’s decision to stuff his own candles into America’s semiquincentennial cake with UFC Freedom 250 set the tone for everything that has followed.

Americans are told to fear socialism while the social safety net they actually depend on, from humanitarian aid and public health to Medicaid, Medicare and SNAP, is chipped away under soothing slogans like “efficiency” and “fiscal responsibility.”