Mike Lawler donated to staffer accused of inciting town hall chaos

By Jesse Valentine | January 27, 2026
New York Rep. Mike Lawler wrote a New York Times op-ed this week urging leaders in both parties to tone down their rhetoric and ease political divisions. This came mere months after Lawler donated to a candidate accused of inciting a riot. Campaign finance disclosures show that Lawler’s campaign gave $1,000 to Erin Crowley in October 2025. At the time,…Read More

1/27/2026 — What You Can Do This Week

By Devante Jefferson | January 27, 2026
JOIN OUR LIST Every week, People’s Action shares actions you can take online and with our member group After the killings of Alex Pretti by border patrol and Renee Good by ICE agents, it’s clear that these masked, violent, and untrained agents must be removed from our communities.We demand that: * ICE and border patrol agents be removed from Minnesota and…Read More

They're lying about the left's reaction to Charlie Kirk

By Carl Beijer | January 27, 2026
For all the talk one hears about political polarization shoving everyone into opposite camps, our pundit class is still disproportionately infected with the scourge of political centrism. And predictably, in the wake of the Renee Good and Alex Pretti shootings, a new conventional wisdom has crept into the discourse: the right has reacted to their deaths with shocking sadism and…Read More

Voters Do Not Want the U.S. to Acquire Greenland

By Lew Blank | January 27, 2026
After invading Venezuela to oust its leader and begin “running” the country, the Trump administration set its sights on Greenland. On January 21, after threatening to use military force to annex the island, President Donald Trump announced a “framework of a future deal” over Greenland. Trump continues to claim that the U.S. will have “total access” to Greenland, while European…Read More

Should Billionaires Exist?

By Jack Meserve | January 27, 2026
We at Democracy have tracked recent arguments around wealth taxes, but felt there’s an almost philosophical question underlying these scholarly questions. Is the goal of optimal tax policy to create revenue, to create a fair distribution of wealth across society, to enhance economic growth? And does this debate go beyond economics and funding government and into the health of our democracy…Read More

30% of Britons think Burnham would do better job than Starmer as prime minister, poll suggests – as it happened

By Andrew Sparrow | January 27, 2026
This blog is now closed. View all our UK politics coverage hereAs Dave Burke reports for the Daily Mirror, the Reform UK MP Lee Anderson posted a picture on social media of himself and activists campaigning in the Gorton and Denton byelection – standing outside a hotel that is actually in Angela Rayner’s neigbouring Ashton-under-Lyne constituency. Rayner told the paper:…Read More

Field Guide to Falling Ill: A Conversation with Jonathan Gleason

By Qu, Celina | January 27, 2026
Field Guide to Falling Ill is Jonathan Gleason’s prizewinning collection of essays on disease,medicine, and humanity. We sit down with Gleason in this interview to discuss the capacity oflanguage to express, experimental essays, HIV/AIDS, moving beyond medical establishments,the heart, and more. Tell us more about the title of Field Guide to Falling Ill. Jonathan Gleason: The title began as an…Read More