Two bills making their way through the Senate are continuing the administration’s attack on national forest land, with both taking different approaches to

Author Judy Karofsky’s DisElderly Conduct: The Flawed Business of Assisted Living and Hospice (New Village Press, May 2025) is a riveting read. In it, she

The roughly 42 million Americans who rely on food stamps did not receive their November 1 SNAP benefits as the government shutdown entered its sixth week.

The ongoing shutdown of the US federal government threatens the distribution of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits this November.

We are living in an age of autocrats — leaders who sit at varying points along a spectrum of repression and violence. Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed

One’s relationship to the world of mushrooms, toadstools and fungi in general is probably shaped largely by one’s perception of these organisms’ role in

Gaza — a city unlike any other, a place that breathes life even when surrounded by ruin and death. I have always loved to call her the Phoenix, for she

The House of Representatives took all of October off. In fact, the GOP-led chamber has only worked 14 days since July 25. As Congress sat idle,

Like most progressives, I was thrilled by the results of the November 4 elections, which featured Democratic victories in just about every competitive

Hospitals denying maternal mental health care, employers using AI tools that drive workplace discrimination, and “phantom” nitrates in water supplies

As states across America brace for economic turbulence, it’s tempting to look back to the Great Recession, when states also faced significant revenue

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants to classify “gas station heroin” as a Schedule I substance. 7-OH, the synthetic derivative of kratom, a leaf

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. - Robert F. Kennedy President Trump admits that neither Xi nor Putin worry about being called out by

Alliance for the Wild Rockies understands that when the government breaks the law and destroys the essential habitat upon which endangered species like

The United States, once an outlier among industrialized countries with respect to its high birth rate, has caught up with the low fertility trend. As

Benjamin Balthaser teaches multi-ethnic U.S. literature at Indiana University in South Bend. He is the author of Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism

There are those who want to make America great again who generally fail to discuss one area in which the U.S. has already achieved greatness by not just

It has been more than three weeks since the massacre in Muridke, and yet, like every other atrocity in Pakistan’s recent history, it has already faded

In the opening scene of Abby Martin and Mike Prysner’s new documentary, Earth’s Greatest Enemy, an unhoused veteran sits and plays piano in an encampment

President Trump isn’t only bulldozing the East Wing of the White House with the help of his billionaire friends. The former developer is also taking a

From most accounts of the justices’ reactions, it seems they were unimpressed with the argument from Donald Trump’s lawyers about his power to impose