New Jersey may soon become one of the most progressive states in the country on school nutrition — eliminating income verification for school breakfast entirely and guaranteeing a free morning meal to every public school student, regardless of what their…
She survived something no one in American history had survived before. Christa Pike, the 50-year-old Tennessee woman who endured two doses of the lethal drug pentobarbital without dying during a scheduled execution on September 30th, has been discharged from the…
In 2030, American mortality and morbidity statistics will appear to spike. Not because a new pathogen emerges, not because hospital access collapses, not because the population suddenly grows sicker — but because the Trump administration is quietly engineering a census…
Picture the scene at the United Nations General Assembly last month: world leaders assembled in formal rows, diplomats in pressed suits, the full theater of international order on display — and then Donald Trump at the podium, declaring that Venezuela’s…
Members of Congress passed legislation this past June demanding that private-sector employers reach union contracts within 90 days of negotiations beginning — yet the same lawmakers have imposed no equivalent obligation on themselves, a contradiction thrown into sharp relief by…
New York City’s streets are measurably safer than they were a year ago, and by several measures safer than they have ever been. Yet one corner of the city’s vast public infrastructure is moving in the opposite direction — and…
A Public Health Crisis Decades in the Making Pennsylvania has officially crossed a grim threshold. State health officials confirmed Monday that the number of measles cases in the commonwealth has surpassed 1,000 in 2026, making it the largest state-level outbreak…
The federal government is making it harder for working parents to keep their children in child care — and the consequences are landing hardest on exactly the kinds of families the Republican Party claims to champion. In Nebraska, a state…
In New York’s Third Congressional District, something genuinely unusual is happening. Law enforcement and firefighter unions — institutions that have leaned Republican for years, particularly since Albany’s 2019 bail reform law reshaped the political landscape — are endorsing a Democrat.…
The Trump administration has produced at least 13 taxpayer-funded advertisements celebrating the president’s record, his military posturing, and his personal mythology — including one that intones, with apparent sincerity, that God himself fashioned Donald Trump for the presidency. The spots,…