1+ hour ago   (364+ words) By elevating Kirk to a martyr, the right made his ridicule a logical reaction to their repression. Charlie Kirk will live forever — at least online. The ridicule comes as a product of the American right’s insistence that Kirk’s violent death…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (703+ words) The leftist Mexican president seeks to block Washington's meddling with new citizenship requirements. Critics say it's authoritarian. Left-wing Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has a proposal to shield her country from Donald Trump’s growing influence over Latin American politics: changing the…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1772+ words) Rozina Ali on the rise of Islamophobia in America and the vague terrorism laws now being wielded against dissidents like the Prairieland protesters. A quarter century after the September 11 attacks emboldened then-President George W. Bush to launch the “war on terror,…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (618+ words) Trump’s Justice Department filed a brief on behalf of OpenAI in a landmark copyright lawsuit by The Intercept and other media companies. President Donald Trump’s Justice Department took the side of tech giant OpenAI in its court battle with The…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (682+ words) In a leaked memo, an ICE official tells employees the new AI tech will protect them from doxing. Some worry it could be used to root out whistleblowers. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is launching a new “Doxing Mitigation Initiative” using…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (776+ words) Centrist Democrats opened the door for anti-Muslim attacks on their party’s nominee in Michigan — finding common cause with right-wing bigots. Eoin Higgins is the author of “Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voice on the Left....

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (965+ words) A settlement with the Christian Employers Alliance blocks the EEOC from ever investigating the group’s members for gender identity discrimination. The lawsuit that led to the settlement was in reaction to EEOC guidance issued under the Biden administration and after…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1820+ words) How the right’s attacks on trans people have infiltrated a sports league with no trans women. But the stories about the WNBA capturing national attention in recent weeks are about none of that. Instead, the focus has been on two…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (563+ words) Right-leaning and libertarian groups told the court that ICE engaged in illegal “ideological targeting” of the left in the Minneapolis 15 case. A trio of conservative and libertarian-leaning groups have asked a federal judge to force the disclosure of confidential files…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (424+ words) A government official accused the Pentagon of “an accounting trick” in its slow tally of Iran war casualties. The increase of 60 wounded last week was called “an accounting trick,” by one U.S. government official who accused the Pentagon of…...