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29 Aug 2025, 19:24
Politics
29 Aug 2025, 07:12
On August 29, 1970, journalist Rubén Salazar died instantly when Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy Thomas Wilson fired an 8-inch bullet-shaped tear gas projectile into the back of his head.
28 Aug 2025, 20:25
28 Aug 2025, 05:46
The image of National Guard troops, some of them from as far away as Louisiana and Mississippi, in Washington, D.C., spreading mulch around the cherry trees at the Tidal Basin and picking up trash, illustrates that President Donald J.
27 Aug 2025, 19:12
27 Aug 2025, 05:41
Today, for the second time in as many days, President Donald J.
26 Aug 2025, 19:47
Yesterday, I intended to write about the Nineteenth Amendment prohibiting states from denying women the right to vote because today is the anniversary of the amendment's certification in 1920.
26 Aug 2025, 17:37
26 Aug 2025, 06:01
This morning, President Donald J.
25 Aug 2025, 16:33
25 Aug 2025, 04:39
As the administration of President Donald Trump is using loopholes in the nation's laws to claim the right to use the military against American citizens, Democratic governors are pushing back.
24 Aug 2025, 18:03
24 Aug 2025, 05:47
"It is my Great Honor to report that the United States of America now fully owns and controls 10% of INTEL, a Great American Company that has an even more incredible future," President Donald Trump wrote yesterday afternoon on social media.
23 Aug 2025, 17:38
23 Aug 2025, 05:04
In these last days of August, with Congress on hiatus and the Epstein files looming, the Trump White House appears to be making a big move to consolidate power over the federal government, weaponize it against Trump's opponents, and keep him in power indefinitely.
22 Aug 2025, 20:05
22 Aug 2025, 07:01
Yesterday, Republicans in the Texas House of Representatives approved a new map redrawing congressional districts to switch five seats from Democratic control to Republican.
21 Aug 2025, 16:30
21 Aug 2025, 05:27
President Donald J.
20 Aug 2025, 17:47
20 Aug 2025, 03:27
Yesterday, the 51 Democratic Texas state representatives who left the state for Illinois, New York, and Massachusetts on August 3 to prevent Republican lawmakers from redistricting Texas to give five Democratic congressional seats to Republicans went back home.
19 Aug 2025, 21:03
19 Aug 2025, 04:53
This morning, J.D.
18 Aug 2025, 19:29
18 Aug 2025, 05:07
On the heels of President Donald J.
17 Aug 2025, 16:04
17 Aug 2025, 06:16
Yesterday, military personnel from the United States of America literally rolled out a red carpet for a dictator who invaded a sovereign country and is wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes including the stealing of children.
16 Aug 2025, 18:44
16 Aug 2025, 03:00
A friend tells me I've been burning the candle at both ends for far too long, and I'm not going to dispute it.
15 Aug 2025, 07:38
Today, flanked by California's Democratic elected officials and union leaders, California governor Gavin Newsom responded to Trump's attempt to strongarm the Texas legislature into redistricting the state to give Trump the five additional congressional representatives to which he feels "entitled." Newsom announced that California will hold a special election on November 4 for voters to consider redistricting their state temporarily if Texas redistricts, so that California can neutralize Trump's rigging of t...
14 Aug 2025, 23:33
A recording from Heather Cox Richardson's live video
14 Aug 2025, 21:15