US Politics

Fired “60 Minutes” journalist reveals pro-Trump censorship at CBS News

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:19:54 GMT

In a lengthy interview with the New York Times, Scott Pelley details the demands by newly installed corporate bosses for a pro-Trump slant in coverage.

Trump denounces California election, defends January 6 attackers

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 03:21:26 GMT

The US president walked out of an interview with NBC when asked to provide proof of his claims about “rigged” elections.

Court rules that Trump’s name must be removed from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 02:04:56 GMT

A Washington DC federal district judge ruled that the president’s stacking of the board with his loyalists and placing the Trump name on the Kennedy Center was a “procedurally defective and substantively unlawful action.”

Scientists expelled by police at diabetes conference as Trump administration accelerates dismantling of biomedical research

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 01:38:23 GMT

The expulsion of leading researchers from the American Diabetes Association conference by armed police exposes the capitulation of medical institutions to the Trump administration’s fascistic anti-science agenda.

How the Democrats enabled the allocation of an extra $70 billion for Trump’s immigration Gestapo

Sat, 06 Jun 2026 03:38:01 GMT

The nearly $70 billion funding package is the outcome of a political operation carried out by the Democrats to strangle the mass movement that erupted after the murders of Renée Nicole Good and Alex Pretti.

US House approves fraudulent resolution on Iran war

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:09:48 GMT

The resolution is not an “anti-war” measure at all, but rather an appeal to Trump to make Congress a full partner in the war-making process.

Minnesota Republicans observe moment of silence for Derek Chauvin, police officer who murdered George Floyd

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 03:41:03 GMT

On May 30, delegates to the Minnesota Republican Party convention approved the motion for and then observed a moment of silence for Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer who was convicted by a 12-member jury in April 2021 on state charges of murdering George Floyd.

Trump taps personal fixers to lead Justice Department and intelligence apparatus

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 03:19:00 GMT

Todd Blanche and Bill Pulte have been selected not for independence or competence, but for their proven willingness to wield state power on Trump’s behalf.

Billionaire Trump backers smash up CBS’ “60 Minutes”

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:41:49 GMT

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and his son David, CEO of Paramount, are seeking to convert CBS into another Trump mouthpiece like Fox News.

New York Democrats and Mamdani administration provide platform for Israel Day pro-genocide march

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 02:52:21 GMT

The DSA mayor did not attend the Israel Day parade, but his administration provided the permits and police protection for a march featuring Israeli officials implicated in genocide, annexation and ethnic cleansing.

The “Great American State Fair” debacle: Trump’s megalomania and extreme isolation

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 02:00:25 GMT

One of the centerpieces of the anniversary is a mixed martial arts cage match scheduled to take place June 14 on the South Lawn of the White House.

Democrats enforce crackdown outside Delaney Hall as Congress prepares billions more for ICE and Border Patrol

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:05:33 GMT

The curfew and police crackdown in Newark are part of a broader assault on immigrants and anti-ICE protesters, backed by both capitalist parties.

Left Voice’s “united front” aims to prop up the union bureaucracy and Democratic Party

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 03:13:22 GMT

Left Voice’s publication of an article by DSA member Joe Wrote—who celebrated Trotsky’s murder with an ice-pick tweet— exposes the politics behind the organization’s call for a “united front” with the Democratic Party-aligned pseudo-left.

Democratic Party austerity, pseudo-left posturing and a MAGA aspirant: The 2026 Los Angeles mayoral race

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:32:03 GMT

Los Angeles voters head to the polls amid a billion-dollar budget crisis, mass layoffs and ecological disaster to choose among candidates offering austerity, pseudo-left posturing or right-wing populism.

US murder spree in Latin American waters moves beyond 200 killed

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:22:40 GMT

The Trump administration’s campaign of extrajudicial killings off the coast of Latin America has killed more than 200 people, exposing the complicity of the Democratic Party and all regional governments in the normalization of mass murder as imperialist policy.

New Jersey Democrats unleash police riot against anti-ICE protesters outside Delaney Hall

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:12:10 GMT

As immigrants inside Delaney Hall continue their hunger and labor strike, Democratic officials have deployed state and local police to attack protesters, journalists and residents outside the facility.

Mamdani’s “COGE” commission to prepare deeper cuts to New York City social programs and regulations

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:33:22 GMT

After avoiding mass layoffs and cuts to social programs in the 2027 New York City budget, Mamdani has announced the formation of COGE to recommend the implementation of permanent austerity.

Police-state riot outside New Jersey’s Delaney Hall as 300 immigrants continue hunger and labor strike

Sat, 30 May 2026 02:53:36 GMT

Democratic officials have responded to the federal rampage not by opposing ICE, but by deploying state police to disperse the protests.

Miles Davis at 100, a complex figure reflecting a complex time

Sat, 30 May 2026 01:31:38 GMT

The jazz world is celebrating the centenary of jazz trumpet master and bandleader Miles Davis, one of the 20th century’s most impactful musicians.

Justice Department begins retaliatory investigation against Trump victim E. Jean Carroll

Fri, 29 May 2026 04:23:03 GMT

Carroll won civil judgements against Trump for sexual abuse and defamation, with damages totaling $88 million. Both cases are on appeal to the US Supreme Court.

The politics of Hasan Piker: Radical rhetoric in service of the Democratic Party

Fri, 29 May 2026 03:01:54 GMT

Piker represents a certain social and political type, who can gain a widespread following but are easily absorbed into the milieu of the Democratic Party.

Democratic Socialist Chris Rabb wins Democratic primary in Pennsylvania’s 3rd Congressional District

Fri, 29 May 2026 01:51:56 GMT

Rabb appealed to voters based on his opposition to inequality, ICE, genocide and war, but promotes the dead end of the Democratic Party.

Trump-backed fascist wins Texas Republican primary

Thu, 28 May 2026 04:44:22 GMT

State Attorney General Ken Paxton defeated incumbent Senator John Cornyn to be the Republican candidate for Senate in November.

ICE brutalizes protesters at detention center in New Jersey as detainees go on hunger strike

Thu, 28 May 2026 03:11:00 GMT

The attack marked a new escalation in ICE’s repression at the prison, where 300 immigrant detainees are waging a hunger and labor strike.

Beef Season 2: “The people in charge have made it impossible for us”

Tue, 26 May 2026 04:02:17 GMT

Series creator, co-director and co-writer Lee Sung Jin makes the pressures of capitalism and class society a persistent theme and source of crises in the series.

Trump administration targets Hasan Piker, Medea Benjamin over Cuba trip

Tue, 26 May 2026 03:38:22 GMT

The McCarthyite probe, first reported by Fox News, targets antiwar activists, journalists and streamers who traveled to Cuba with medical aid.

Law-and-order frenzy dominates final weeks of D.C. mayoral primary campaign

Tue, 26 May 2026 01:25:40 GMT

Washington D.C.‘s Democratic establishment is responding to youth gatherings by adopting Trump’s law-and-order agenda, criminalizing the impoverished children of communities its own policies have hurt.

Gerrymandering in the South: The working class and the defense of democratic rights

Mon, 25 May 2026 04:21:27 GMT

The Supreme Court decision further undermined the Voting Rights Act, enabling a Republican gerrymander in Louisiana to eliminate the seat held by a black Democratic congressman.

Democrats join Republicans to attack Trump over Iran negotiations

Mon, 25 May 2026 04:18:38 GMT

The announcement Saturday by the Trump administration that it had “largely” reached an agreement with Iran has drawn denunciations from broad factions of the US political establishment, with Democrats joining Republicans to attack the proposed agreement as insufficiently advantageous to US imperialism.

Chemical disaster at Garden Grove, California aerospace plant displaces 50,000 people

Mon, 25 May 2026 04:10:27 GMT

Decades of regulatory negligence in the Democratic Party-dominated state turned a preventable chemical hazard into a crisis threatening thousands of lives.

Trump administration moves to force green card applicants out of the US

Mon, 25 May 2026 03:43:33 GMT

New USCIS policy threatens to separate families and strand workers, students and spouses abroad.

Jailed 37 days for a Charlie Kirk meme: Tennessee man’s settlement exposes the fraud of Trump’s “Anti-Weaponization” Fund

Mon, 25 May 2026 01:49:49 GMT

Larry Bushart was awarded $835,000 after being jailed for sharing a Facebook meme critical of Charlie Kirk. His case exposes the severe limitations being placed on “free speech” in America.

Virginia Governor Spanberger vetoes collective bargaining and immigrant protection bills

Mon, 25 May 2026 01:49:01 GMT

The veto of these two bills confirms—for the thousandth and first time—this fundamental reality of American politics: the Democratic party is a capitalist party charged with diffusing and disorienting popular hostility to the profit system.

A $1 billion evening for the art world

Sat, 23 May 2026 03:33:15 GMT

How is it that one individual can accumulate such an art collection and withhold it from the public?

Trump’s “Anti-Weaponization Fund”: The fusion of the gangster-oligarchy and the state

Fri, 22 May 2026 04:44:29 GMT

Trump’s $1.776 billion slush fund would reward those who sought to overturn the 2020 elections, including those who attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Socialism AI answers the New York Times: Not yes or no to AI, but who controls it

Fri, 22 May 2026 01:25:26 GMT

The New York Times welcomes the backlash against AI while channeling it toward a more responsible capitalism that leaves the oligarchy’s ownership of the technology untouched.

First They Came for My College: Right-wing “human dust” mount takeover of New College of Florida

Thu, 21 May 2026 03:56:18 GMT

Bresnan’s film sets out the sordid details of this far-right maneuver in all its repulsive transparency.

The US indictment of Raúl Castro and the record of CIA terror against Cuba

Thu, 21 May 2026 03:47:39 GMT

The indictment of Raúl Castro is an abominable act of hypocrisy and imperialist propaganda to justify military aggression against an impoverished nation of less than 10 million people.

Trump tightens grip on Republican Party as his poll numbers plunge

Thu, 21 May 2026 02:28:41 GMT

While his hand-picked candidates defeated several Republican incumbents, both Trump and his policies are deeply unpopular.

ICE operations continue in Michigan as local cops play key role

Thu, 21 May 2026 01:32:17 GMT

ICE has shifted toward local police partnerships while aggressive arrests continue in Michigan and Democratic officials offer token objections.

Trump’s $1.776 billion slush fund includes side deal blocking tax probes into president and family

Thu, 21 May 2026 01:05:51 GMT

While Trump officials refuse to rule out payouts to violent January 6 fascists, the Justice Department addendum seeks to foreclose claims against Trump and his related entities.

Details emerge of sellout deal as Long Island Rail Road workers return to work

Wed, 20 May 2026 05:15:52 GMT

The result of the deal used to betray a three-day strike is that workers will be poorer due to inflation when the contract expires.

Whitney Biennial 2026: Taking the pulse and finding it feeble

Wed, 20 May 2026 05:00:48 GMT

Through the biennial, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City maintains it is taking the pulse of the contemporary art scene in the US.

3 dead in San Diego mosque attack by teenage neo-Nazis

Wed, 20 May 2026 04:21:48 GMT

The killers’ manifesto glorified fascist mass murderers and echoed Republican anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim propaganda.

California scholars demand accountability for death of Chinese researcher Danhao Wang

Wed, 20 May 2026 03:19:23 GMT

California Scholars for Academic Freedom's Professor Stephen Roddy opposes the McCarthyite witch-hunt targeting Chinese scientists at American universities and calls for transparency over the recent suicide at the University of Michigan of Danhao Wang.

Trump creates unconstitutional $1.776 billion slush fund to pay off fascist allies

Tue, 19 May 2026 04:11:10 GMT

The “Anti-Weaponization Fund” defies Congress’ power of the purse and creates a secretive claims process with no appeal or judicial review.

Trump-backed “Rededicate 250” rally: Christian nationalism in the service of dictatorship

Mon, 18 May 2026 04:01:16 GMT

Backed by the Trump administration and major corporations, Rededicate 250 fused Christian nationalism, historical falsification and authoritarian politics.

After Trump’s China trip, White House plans new attack on Iran

Mon, 18 May 2026 03:57:09 GMT

Just days after Trump’s return from Beijing, American imperialism is making active preparations for a renewed onslaught against Iran.

Science magazine investigates FBI’s witch-hunt against Chinese researchers

Mon, 18 May 2026 03:31:36 GMT

Science magazine, one of the most prestigious peer-reviewed publications in the world, has published an investigative report titled “Researching While Chinese,” detailing the Department of Justice (DOJ) persecution of Chinese researchers at the University of Michigan and Indiana University.

Criminal charges filed against ship operators in Baltimore’s Key Bridge collapse that killed six workers

Mon, 18 May 2026 02:39:12 GMT

The Department of Justice has charged the ship operator and a supervisor with criminal behavior connected to the Key Bridge collapse, but avoided any scrutiny of decades of neglect.