[ad_1] Since taking office in August 2022, Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro has pursued an ambitious agenda—with mixed results. Ad Policy Colombian President Gustavo Petro looks on before the 2024 Colombia Independence Day Parade on July 20, 2024, in Bogotá. (Diego Cuevas / Getty Images) Bogotá—Manuel Martínez, a technician in Colombia’s Finance Ministry, is under no […]

[ad_1] Politics / August 15, 2024 The alt-right grifter’s new book echoes and endorses fascist rhetoric. And the Republican vice presidential candidate blurbed it. Ad Policy Jack Posobiec addresses the conservative Turning Point People’s Convention on June 16, 2024, at Huntington Place in Detroit, Michigan. (Jeff Kowalsky / AFP) Imagine that Tim Walz had blurbed […]

[ad_1] ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. On July 18, federal wildfire managers placed the nation under a designation known as Preparedness Level 5 — bureaucratic code for all hands on deck or, as one veteran wildland firefighter called […]

[ad_1] ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Is there anything more pathetic than a used plastic bag? They rip and tear. They float away in the slightest breeze. Left in the wild, their mangled remains entangle birds and choke […]

[ad_1] Vice President Harris speaks during a campaign rally on Aug. 10, 2024 in Las Vegas. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Vice President Harris has had a three-week launch to her campaign that most candidates can only dream of. Democratic enthusiasm is off the charts, money is flowing in, and […]

[ad_1] Attendees at the Republican National Convention hold up signs reading “Mass Deportation Now!” last month in Milwaukee. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Scott Olson/Getty Images At the Republican National Convention this summer, hundreds of attendees waved signs demanding “Mass Deportation Now!” When former President Donald Trump took the stage on the final […]

[ad_1] Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images The Fourteenth Amendment. Of all the amendments to the U.S. Constitution, the 14th is a big one. It’s shaped all of our lives, whether we realize it or not: Roe v. Wade, Brown v. Board of Education, Bush v. Gore, plus other Supreme Court […]

[ad_1] Politics / August 13, 2024 Trump’s obsession with crowd sizes is part of his lifelong quest to prevent reality from blocking his path to success. Ad Policy A section of empty seats at an event headlined by former president Donald Trump in Commerce, Georgia, on March 26, 2022. (Elijah Nouvelage / Bloomberg via Getty […]

[ad_1] Jon Wiener: From The Nation magazine, this is Start Making Sense. I’m Jon Wiener.  Later in the show: talking politics, and history, with Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown – he’s up for reelection this year, in a state where Biden got only 45%.  But first: what is happening with the Trump campaign?  He seems to […]

[ad_1] Politics / August 14, 2024 Palestinian Americans have learned that the Democratic Party will bomb your homeland, kill your family, use your own money to do it, and still expect your vote. Ad Policy Kamala Harris arrives at Philadelphia International Airport on August 6, 2024.(Matthew Hatcher / AFP via Getty Images) The genocide in […]