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Zohran Mamdani speaks to supporters during a Democratic primary election night gathering after running on a platform of affordability. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Dems should speak the language of pain

Chauncey DeVega
People gather in Miami to protest social safety net cuts by the Trump administration. (Jesus Olarte/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Privatizing Social Security is back

Heather Digby Parton
President Donald Trump returns to the White House from Scotland on July 29, 2025. (Tom Brenner for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump’s cruel policies have a human cost

Chauncey DeVega
President Donald Trump holds a chart as he delivers remarks on "reciprocal" tariffs during an event in the Rose Garden entitled "Make America Wealthy Again" at the White House in Washington, DC, on April 2, 2025. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's trade tantrum hurts U.S. economy

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Stephen Henriques
President Donald Trump speaks in the newly decorated Oval Office on April 7, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Trump is creating the Second Gilded Age

Alfred McCoy - TomDispatch.com
Caregivers with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) rally against Medicaid cuts outside the Capitol on June 26, 2025. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for SEIU)

Trump doesn't care for health caregivers

Danilyn Rutherford
Donald Trump | Trump Tower (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Greed vs. integrity in the Age of Trump

Chauncey DeVega
President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio (R) watch as House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) announces the passing of H.R. 1, the One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act on July 3, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Joyce Boghosian/The White House via Getty Images)

"Big, beautiful bill" deepens wealth gap

Beverly Moran - The Conversation
Meera G. Nair, Ph.D., and Declan F. McCole, Ph.D., AGAF, professors of biomedical sciences at the University of California, Riverside, observe intestinal epithelial cells on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. (Anjali Sharif-Paul/MediaNewsGroup/The Press-Enterprise via Getty Images)

Donald Trump's nuclear war on science

Heather Digby Parton
Federal immigration agents near MacArthur Park in Los Angeles on July 7, 2025. (Carlin Steihl/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

$178 billion to create a police state

Heather Digby Parton
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) speaks at a news conference to unveil the Take It Down Act to protect victims against non-consensual intimate image abuse, on Capitol Hill on June 18, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Cruz pushed NOAA cuts before floods

Cheyenne McNeill
President Trump has signed many executive orders in four months. One instituted merit-based hiring, which MAGA turned into a loyalty test. (MANDEL NGAN / Getty Images)

The midterms will require vigilance

Heather Digby Parton
A maintenance person uses a ladder and harnesses to install equipment around a Solar panel array on the roof of a house. (Andrew Aitchison / In pictures via Getty Images)

Trump attacks the clean energy industry

John J. Berger
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) walks off the House floor after speaking for 8 hours and 44 minutes as the House votes to pass Trump's sweeping tax and spending bill. (Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images)

Jeffries sets House record with speech

Garrett Owen
Donald Trump had to be told that his "Big Beautiful Bill" would touch Medicaid. (Joe Raedle / Getty Images)

Trump unaware of bill's Medicaid cuts

Garrett Owen
President Donald Trump tours a migrant detention center dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" in Ochopee, Florida on July 1, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)

Even insiders question Trump’s health

Brian Karem
Military drones with a bombs at sunset (Getty Images/Anton Petrus)

Feeding the warfare state

William D. Hartung - TomDispatch.com
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, takes an elevator just off the Senate floor after the Senate stayed in session throughout the night at the U.S. Capitol Building on July 1, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

How Lisa Murkowski was bought

Russell Payne
President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk watch the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket on November 19, 2024 in Brownsville, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

One Big Boondoggle bill reignites a feud

Heather Digby Parton
Care advocates attend 24-hour vigil at U.S. Capitol to share stories and urge lawmakers to protect Medicaid on May 07, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for Caring Across Generations)

Senate approves Trump's Medicaid cuts

Cheyenne McNeill
Elon Musk during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, March 24, 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Trump-Elon feud 2.0: Follow the money

Blaise Malley
President Donald Trump arrives at the "One, Big, Beautiful Event" in the East Room of the White House on June 26, 2025. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's "big, beautiful bill" is poison

Chauncey DeVega
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) pauses while speaking at a rally for Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz at York Exposition Center UPMC Arena on October 2, 2024 in York, Pennsylvania. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Fetterman: BBB is ruining my vacation

Cheyenne McNeill
Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist attends a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol April 18, 2023. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

The "big, beautiful" bill's true father

Heather Digby Parton
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