In a delightful Easter egg for fans of Stephen Colbert, local television, or the improbable combination of the two, following Colbert’s last-ever Late Show, he popped up the following day as the guest host of “Only in Monroe,” a public access show in Monroe, Michigan. Colbert presented an hour of local news, assisted, sort of, […]
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced on Friday that she would resign, saying that her husband, Abraham, has been diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer. “At this time, I must step away from public service to be by his side and fully support him through this battle,” Gabbard wrote in her resignation […]
Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. The capitalist system rewards short-term cycles. Building a dignified future is a slow task that requires disciplined organisation and an enduring struggle to bring forth the social forces of a new world. In 1921, a few years into the Soviet experiment, V. I. Lenin published an essay with the […]
All of us can agree the climate situation is bad and getting worse. After a sustained period of decline, US emissions increased in 2025. The second Trump administration has rolled back the Inflation Reduction Act and is using state power to keep uneconomical coal plants open and deregulate oil and gas production. No amount of knowledge of science [...]
Rafael Carranza, Arizona Luminaria, and Gabriel Sandoval, ProPublica, illustrations by Shoshana Gordon, ProPublica Co-published with Arizona Luminaria More than $7,000 in cable TV subscriptions. An $11,000 golf cart. $1.5 million in renovations to office space in a swanky Phoenix high-rise. And another $1.7 million for Tasers. Those were among more than $200 million in expenses that the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office […]