Politics: Left

The former public school teacher and labor organizer won voters over with his new vision for Chicago....

Outside of a Manhattan courthouse, two factions faced off against one another—occasionally in ways that made sense....

Jair Bolsonaro returned to Brazil the same day Trump was indicted. The parallels are uncanny....

GOP Governor Bill Lee, who signed those bills into law, would now like to offer his thoughts and prayers....

The new setlist features many of the old hits—xenophobia, racism. But he's added two new tunes that make him a much bigger threat now than he was the first time....

Former state Representative Joseph Harding now faces up to 35 years in prison....

A Texas judge's decision on access to medication abortion has reproductive rights advocates on edge and providers bracing for a fresh round of chaos....

Workers are greeting the company's new CEO with a demand for a "real seat at the table."...

Outside a courthouse in New York City, it was difficult to tell who had come to protest the pending indictment of the former president and who had come to troll....

Ahead of a potential criminal indictment, the former president is planning out the spectacle of his arrest....

I was one of the few TNR staffers in 2003 who opposed the invasion. The magazine's case for war has not aged well....

Repeated requests to review the footage were ignored....

The Democrats who joined Republicans in rolling back Dodd-Frank seem perfectly fine with their vote, even after SVB's collapse....

Texas Republicans are fanning the flames of xenophobia and racism....

The ICC has issued arrest warrants for the Russian leader as well as his children's rights commissioner....

Support for Johnson seems to be growing ahead of the April runoff....

2024 is going to be wild....

"Do you think I want to talk about that? You think I'm crazy?"...

Neither ill health nor old age has stopped past presidents from seeking reelection, but the most illuminating parallel to Biden's expected reelection bid isn't Reagan. It's Eisenhower....

The overturning of Roe has spawned dozens of new fights for reproductive freedom....

He's pissing off environmentalists, and oil executives are still donating to Republicans....

An increasing number of voices are urging people to refocus on the hyperlocal when national events feel too overwhelming....

Can the United States and China avoid military conflict?...

"Biography of X" is a search for a woman so powerful and prominent that no one really knew her....

In the public relations parade that led to war, it was impossible to insert any observations that humanized Iraqis. It haunts me still....

The measure is part of a larger attack on health education in Florida schools....

BNSF is busy paying politicians, and meanwhile, another one of its trains just derailed in Washington....

Georgia is on track to become the ninth state blocking gender-affirming care for transgender youth....

Unclear why the list on this AUMF vote is this long....

A burned-out journalist searches for meaning at a sensory deprivation party and in Jenny Odell's new book on reconceptualizing time....

The symbolic AUMF vote comes ahead of the 20th anniversary of the 2003 invasion of Iraq....

Conservative author Bethany Mandel's struggle to define the word "woke" spoke volumes....

The freshman Republican raised the money using a photo of his stillborn child....

The merger of Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern comes as East, Palestine, Ohio, is still recovering from a disastrous train derailment....

The Trump-appointed judge is set to issue a decision on mifepristone, one of two drugs used in medication abortion. Here's what his track record reveals....

The city's board of supervisors moved forward a draft plan with suggestions on how to compensate Black residents for centuries of slavery and systemic racism....

Republican lawmakers read Bible verses and talked about the need for physical discipline, before voting against the bill....

"It's clear that we can't count on Biden to keep his word on confronting climate change and halting drilling on public lands."...

Valparaiso University's student body is shrinking and its dormitories are aging. But is selling the campus museum's most famous artwork the right solution to the problem?...

"What would Ronald Reagan do right now," the Republican senator asked on Fox News...

The former vice president has some brand new criticisms of Trump's conduct on January 6. They all ring hollow....

A note to Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, and others: find a new scapegoat....

Conservative legal activists and jurists hate it when the government throws a lifeline to poor people and students, but not when it does the same for banks....

With Republicans in control of the House, the tech giants appear likely to evade stricter regulations yet again....

"Biden approved Willow knowing full well that it'll cause massive and irreversible destruction, which is appalling."...

The actor spent a year in a refugee camp before arriving to the United States. But today, it's getting harder for people to claim asylum here....

This is what happens when you deregulate checks on financial institutions....

Daniel Scheinert used his emotional Oscars acceptance speech to defend drag....

The lawsuit is thought to be the first of its kind since the state's severe abortion law went into effect last year....

Have fun with this one, Speaker McCarthy!...