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Refusing to attend the speech would be the first indication that Democrats are not just playing politics—and playing them badly—but resisting. Ad Policy Donald Trump applauds while delivering a State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the US Capitol in 2018. (Win McNamee / Pool via Bloomberg) This Tuesday…
Ro Khanna represents Silicon Valley in the House, where he’s a member of the Progressive Caucus. He’s a key strategist for the Democrats. We asked him about the immediate task of protecting democracy, and then the longer-term project of winning back working-class voters who have abandoned the Democratic Party and helped make Trump president. This…
Books & the Arts / March 3, 2025 Shaina Potts’s Judicial Territory examines how the American legal system created an economic environment that subordinated the entire world to domestic business interests. Ad Policy A woman passes by posters that read “Enough Vultures—Argentine united in a national cause” in Buenos Aires, 2014. (Alejandro Pagni /…
“Did I make mistakes, some painfully? Definitely, and I believe I learned from them and that I am a better person for it,” Cuomo said. His detractors don’t believe him. Ad Policy Former New York governor Andrew Cuomo arrives to testify before the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic in the Rayburn House Office…
This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Capitol News Illinois. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. A new Illinois bill aims to add some oversight of families who homeschool their children, a response to concerns that the state does little…
Ad Policy Donald Trump during a news conference with Emmanuel Macron, France’s president, not pictured, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Feb. 24. (Al Drago / Bloomberg via Getty Images) During his first term in office, Donald Trump often talked about his radical America First agenda but…
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. A high-ranking NASA official warned his employees Friday to “use discretion” in public when displaying badges or emblems that identify them as federal workers — part of an effort, the agency says, to…
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. After the Trump administration moved to freeze nearly $60 billion in foreign aid in January, officials like Secretary of State Marco Rubio repeatedly assured Americans that lifesaving operations would continue. “We don’t want…
Politics / February 28, 2025 Donald Trump and JD Vance tried to humiliate Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday with the whole world watching. Ad Policy President Donald Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office on February 28, 2025. (Mystyslav Chernov / AP Photo) A day after President Donald Trump bantered with…
Ad Policy Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky gives a press conference in Kyiv on February 26, 2025. (Tetiana Dzhafarova / AFP via Getty Images) On this week’s news roundup from American Prestige: Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan calls for the group’s disarmament (0:32); Syria hosts a “National Dialogue” conference to work through the country’s transition…
