The Biden Administration’s Threat to Cut Military Aid to Israel Was, Once...
In mid-October, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin sent a strongly worded letter to top Israeli officials. In the note, they made clear the United States was aware...
View ArticleThe Plan to Silence Dissent
Donald Trump has made it clear that there are groups he’d like to punish. Much attention has been paid to the president-elect’s planned crusades for his next term against immigrants and transgender...
View ArticleHow a House Bill Could Let Trump Label Enemies as Terrorists
Last week, a bill that would give the Treasury Department power to designate a nonprofit as a “terrorist-supporting organization” for supporting pro-Palestine protests was narrowly voted down in...
View ArticleDNC Let Go of Staff With No Severance, Says Union
Last Thursday, workers with the Democratic National Committee (DNC) were told they would be laid off without severance and with little notice, according to the DNC’s union. The cuts included some...
View ArticleThe House Passes Bill Allowing Trump Admin to Declare Nonprofits Terrorist...
The long, strange saga of the “nonprofit-killer bill” continues. The legislation—officially called HR 9495, or the “Stop Terror Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act”—would give the...
View ArticleBernie Sanders’ Push to Limit Arms Sales to Israel Failed. But It Shows Dems...
It was clear from the outset that the Joint Resolutions of Disapproval from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) would not pass. The trio of bills, brought to a vote on Wednesday night, would have stopped $20...
View ArticleTrump Appoints In-Law to Bring Middle East Peace
There is a special relationship between a doting parent and his kid’s in-laws—machatunim in Yiddish, consuegros in Spanish. It doesn’t have a name in English. But, all the same, Donald Trump has...
View ArticleAs the Supreme Court Weighs Trans Care for Minors, Adults Are in the Crosshairs
After the Supreme Court ruled nine years ago that the Constitution protected same-sex marriage, far-right groups, in need of a new rallying cry, turned their attention to transgender people—in...
View ArticleThe Bipartisan Bill Fighting Trump’s Attempts to Silence Critics
Last week, Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and Kevin Kiley (R-Calif) introduced federal anti-SLAPP legislation, in a bid to protect journalists, whistleblowers, and individual internet users from those who use...
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