One year ago this January, in one of the first acts of his second term, President Donald Trump issued blanket pardons, clemency, or commutations to those charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021 …

GOP reversals in last year’s elections, especially in some urban and immigrant communities, are setting off alarm bells for Republicans using redistricting to try to keep control of Congress in …

Read these words slowly:Invading Venezuela “falls within the president’s inherent authority under Article II of the Constitution to protect U.S. personnel from an actual or imminent attack.” …

At a time when nearly half of Americans say they’re struggling to afford basic necessities, President Donald Trump has turned his attention to invading and ruling Venezuela. One in two …

When the legal deadline arrived for the Justice Department to release all its files on the late sexual predator and shady financier Jeffrey Epstein, the country awaited new and significant …

Those with high hopes for a two-party system in Iowa must put their minds and means on reaching rural voters. We had a balanced government a decade ago, before shelled-out river towns went …

President Donald J. Trump loves to point out that farmers "love" him. The Nov. 2024 election results prove it's no boast. In fact, while the then-former president beat Vice President Kamala …

“Just FYI if you’re seeing the news right now, I’m totally safe,” a son enrolled at Brown University texted me. “I’ve been home for a few hours now and wasn’t there when stuff started …

I was unsurprised to read that newly-Republicanized county election boards had begun taking steps to make it more difficult for students to vote. In Jackson County, a new 3-2 Republican majority …

In 2025 it was hard to be a human who cares about the Earth, especially for Americans. However the rest of the world is not burdened by a blundering baboon like we are, so they have actually made …

Pollution Protector — For Profiteering Polluters   There’s greed ... and then there’s the nauseating greed of profiteering corporations that make a killing — literally — by …

When Donald Trump launched his first regime in 2017, I warned - cinch prediction - that he will “get a lot of people killed.” Since nobody seems to be keeping track, I’ll cite The …

Like the song says, it’s time for mistletoe and holly. The holly tree has been a winter favorite throughout human history, but the genus, which includes hundreds of species, goes back much …

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth claims he had nothing to do with killing two survivors clinging to the wreckage of their boat following U.S. missile strikes on Sept.2. The first strike killed most of …

Over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend in Washington, D.C., two members of the West Virginia National Guard, 20-year-old Sarah Beckstrom and 24-year-old Andrew Wolfe, were shot at a short metro ride …

As I watched the 2019 documentary “Manson: The Women” on Apple TV, I couldn’t help but sense some parallels between then and now. Reexamining the horrific Tate/LaBianca murderers in …

Do Western senators really care about keeping public lands in public hands? Steve Pearce, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Bureau of Land Management, is a litmus test of their …

Everyone’s talking about affordability or, more precisely, unaffordability—and the issue is likely to drive U.S. politics for the foreseeable future. Affordability is subtraction. If …

The government shutdown ended with a failure to solve the problem of steeply rising health insurance premiums. The GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” which slashed programs like …

The editor here at The Progressive Populist tells me this is my 99th column, which means if you bet the UNDER (+/-100) on the first time I would use one of them to say something nice about retiring …