Trump Can’t Stop the Populist Uprising Against Data Centers The grassroots revolt against AI oligarchs is reviving a more than a century-old fight against robber barons and their attempts to seize land, water, and political power. There’s a hulking irony ... See more
Don’t look now, but one of the great shibboleths of the MAGA era is unraveling: the notion that a brutal crackdown on undocumented immigrants represents a key political strength of the Trumpified Republican Party. The campaign to deploy blanket ICE raids ... See more
Democrats Really, Really, Really Don’t Want People Investigating Their Scammy Fundraising Several of the party’s top committees threatened to raise legal hell over a new study into the way they pry money out of seniors. The Democratic Party’s overlords ar... See more
A specter is haunting the 2028 Democratic presidential field: the specter of reactionary centrism, which sports the political brand name of Rahm Emanuel. Emanuel, the former Clinton White House policy enforcer who went on to become chief of staff in the O... See more
The GOP’s New Red Scare McCarthyism, the second time as farce. Shortly after announcing the mission of turning the 2026 midterms into a “hate election,” the campaign brain trust for the Republican Party has settled on the secret-weapon epithet it plans to... See more
