Archive for May 2026
A Timeline of RFK Jr.’s Mixed Messaging on the Measles Vaccine
[ad_1] In defending his record on measles, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. twice said during a recent Senate hearing, “We promote” the measles vaccine. While it’s true that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continues to recommend the shot, Kennedy has rarely made an unequivocal endorsement of it, even as the nation has seen an…Read More
Song of the Day 5/28: Milli Vanilli, “Girl You Know It’s True”
Trump’s cheesy idea of class comes out in myriad ways – gold-colored plastic trim in the Oval Office, a triumph-free triumphal arch – but nothing drives it home like his plans to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. The tackiness of holding UFC bouts on the White House lawn isn’t even the […] Source link delawareliberal.netRead More
The American Revolution in Global Retreat
More so than at any point in the last century, U.S. independence now seems like a parochial affair. Source link dissentmagazine.orgRead More
Market Humanism: A New Paradigm for a New Era
[ad_1] In 1962, the historian of science Thomas Kuhn published a short book that changed how educated people think about intellectual progress. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions argued that knowledge does not advance through the steady accumulation of better facts. It advances through ruptures—moments when a prevailing framework, or paradigm, collapses under the weight of anomalies it cannot explain, and…Read More
“Deport Them All” — Who’s to Blame for Springfield’s Immigrant Crisis?
[ad_1] Donald Trump named Springfield, Ohio, as his first target for mass deportations. He claimed Haitian immigrants there were eating pets. We went to Springfield to hear the real story from the people who live there. It turns out the city’s decline isn’t new — and that its causes aren’t what you’ve been told. The post “Deport Them All” —…Read More
The White House Intervened to Get a $620 Million Deal for a Company Tied to Donald Trump Jr.
[ad_1] When the Pentagon announced a $620 million loan last year to a small North Carolina startup linked to Donald Trump Jr., defense officials and the company tried to tamp down suspicions of cronyism. The president’s eldest son said through a spokesperson that he wasn’t involved. The Pentagon said Trump Jr. played no role in the record-setting deal. And the…Read More
Esta oficina del sheriff dice que reformas contra el perfil racial son costosas. Auditores encontraron $163 millones malgastados.
[ad_1] Más de 7 mil dólares en suscripciones de televisión por cable. Un carrito de golf de 11 mil dólares. 1.5 millones de dólares en remodelaciones de oficinas en un lujoso rascacielos de Phoenix. Y también 1.7 millones de dólares para pistolas Taser. Esos rubros estuvieron entre los más de 200 millones de dólares en gastos que la Oficina del…Read More
The Texas Senate candidates have two radically different visions of Christianity
[ad_1] Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks to supporters on May 26, 2026, in Plano, Texas. | Amanda McCoy/Fort Worth Star-Telegram/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Now that Ken Paxton, the conservative attorney general of Texas, has defeated incumbent John Cornyn for the Republican Senate nomination, we may see something unusual in modern American elections: a theological throwdown. In a…Read More
The White House’s Latest Anti-Fraud Spin Does Not Come Close to Adding Up
[ad_1] No Easy Fix During his State of the Union address in February, President Trump made an absurd, fantastical and quickly debunked claim: Once Vice President JD Vance had a chance to root out fraud from (blue states’) social services programs, the federal budget would be balanced and the deficit would disappear. [ad_2] Source link talkingpointsmemo.com In his February State…Read More
'Dirty Tricks' Operation Behind GOP-Aligned Super PAC With a Progressive-Sounding Name Exposed
[ad_1] A super political action committee with a progressive-sounding but with Republican financial backers that has been meddling in Democratic primaries was further exposed Wednesday by independent journalist Judd Legum as a clear example of a “dirty tricks operation.” Legum’s new reporting on the funding behind a mysterious super PAC called Lead Left, which recently spent hundreds of thousands of…Read More