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Incumbents prevailed in Massachusetts primaries, but divisions simmer
At first glance, Massachusetts primaries seemed to favor incumbents, but a closer look shows deep-set divisions in the voter base and campaign strategies from challengers that failed to meet the historic moment. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Ed Markey easily dispatched outgoing House Rep. Seth Moulton. Though a moderate through the early days of his 50-year […]
- By : Luke Rotello And Moth Wisnewski
- September 10, 2026
GOP mid-term ‘Convention’: More false promises inside, protests planned outside
DALLAS—The Republicans’ two-day “Midterm convention” opened in Dallas Sept. 9 and featured a promise by Trump, made after two-thirds of the audience had already left the arena, that he would send every American a $5,000 check if the GOP wins the midterm elections. Vice President Vance defended the promise when he spoke with the press, […]
- By : Mark Gruenberg
- September 10, 2026
UN climate report raises question: Is Earth already doomed?
In 2015, 196 nations came together to sign the Paris Agreement in order to combat the growing threat of climate change. The goal was set to prevent the Earth from exceeding a global warming limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit). Scientists warned that passing this threshold would raise the risk of severe, permanent […]
- By : Chauncey K. Robinson
- September 10, 2026
Make Philly Affordable campaign carries city budget demands into fall
PHILADELPHIA—Residents concerned over their ability to afford life’s necessities may want to follow the second phase of the Make Philly Affordable (MPA) campaign closely. This past spring, the grassroots coalition pressed Mayor Cherelle Parker and the City Council to allocate a portion of the $1.1 billion budget surplus to food, housing, schools, rec centers, libraries, […]
- By : Collin Kawan-Hemler
- September 10, 2026
After 37 years, federal oversight of Teamsters ends
NEW YORK—After 37 years, six U.S. presidents and four union presidents, U.S. government oversight over the Teamsters has come to an end. But the changes in the union’s structure, including making elections to top offices one-Teamster-one-vote, will remain, according to a final order the union and the U.S. Justice Department agreed to early this year […]
- By : Mark Gruenberg
- September 10, 2026
The resistible rise of a fascist party in Germany
Upon learning of the landslide electoral triumph of a fascist political party in a province that was once part of socialist Germany, these foreboding words immediately came to mind: “The womb is fertile still from which that crawled.” It is the concluding line from Bertolt Brecht’s brilliant 1941 denunciation of the Hitler regime, The Resistible Rise […]
- By : Werner Lange
- September 10, 2026
How a small park became part of D.C. mayor’s anti-immigrant agenda
WASHINGTON—Since 2014, residents of the Mount Pleasant community in Washington, D.C. have advocated for the establishment of a small community-controlled park adjacent to Kenyon St. and the main roadway. The piece of land has long been frequented by Latino immigrants and day laborers who play board games and gather as a community. This led to […]
- By : Jamal Rich
- September 9, 2026
Mamdani says Giuliani, Bush, and EPA hid 9/11 dangers
NEW YORK—In the days after the Sept. 11, 2001, al-Qaeda attacks on Manhattan and D.C., New York City officials—along with Republican President George W. Bush’s Environmental Protection Agency—hid the threat of toxic fumes, asbestos particles, ashes, dust, and flaming jet fuel from the public, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced on Sept.8. That exposed […]
- By : Mark Gruenberg
- September 9, 2026
Bot farms fuel right-wing takeover of Latin America
The sound of gunfire erupted outside a hotel in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, the epicenter of right-wing politics in Bolivia, on the evening of Aug. 17. By the time the commotion was over, a woman lay on the ground with three bullets in her, and within hours, the entire country was plunged into political […]
- By : W. T. Whitney, Jr.
- September 9, 2026
Danbury and Connecticut unite against anti-immigrant terror
DANBURY, Conn.—As families prepared for back-to-school days in Danbury last week, the Department of Homeland Security brought down a reign of terror on the community with massive ICE raids. Parents were taken in front of their children, at school buses and child care centers. The entire community was horrified, calling for an end to the […]
- By : Joelle Fishman
- September 9, 2026