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The Trump Administration Is Banning Books on Military Bases. We Sued.

From the Left / ACLU / Jul 14, 2025

On military bases across the globe, books are disappearing from shelves. Posters of historical figures, such as Frida Kahlo, are being removed from walls. Black History Month celebrations are being canceled.

This rampant censorship is the result of the Department of Defense's new policies banning books, classroom discussions, events and ...Read more

Eva Policastro protests outside the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse as the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell begins in New York on Nov. 29, 2021. The 59-year-old was convicted of recruiting underage girls for her former partner, the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial. (Bryan R. Smith/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)

Is the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal Finally Behind U? Don't Bet On It

From the Left / Clarence Page / Jul 14, 2025

When a reporter asked Attorney General Pam Bondi about the Jeffrey Epstein investigation on Tuesday, President Trump could not contain himself a moment longer.

”Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein?” he said, pushing back against the question. “This guy’s been talked about for years. ... Are people still talking about this guy? ...Read more

What the Marriage Equality Backlash Taught Me About the Fight for Trans Rights

From the Left / ACLU / Jul 08, 2025

On June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court ruled that excluding same-sex couples from civil marriage was unconstitutional. I was outside the Supreme Court that day, celebrating the advocacy achievement that seemed impossible a decade prior when bans on marriage for same-sex couples passed by wide margins in state after state. Couples, families and ...Read more

US House Speaker Mike Johnson shows the final tally of the vote on US President Donald Trump's tax bill on the floor of the House of Representatives at the US Capitol in Washington, D.C., on July 3, 2025. Congress passed the

Old 'Welfare Queen' Legends Haunt Trump’s Budget Plan

From the Left / Clarence Page / Jul 07, 2025

As the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives neared passage of President Donald Trump’s beloved — and enormous — “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” my mind raced back as it often does in such debates to memories of the late Linda Taylor, a Chicago woman better known as “the ...Read more

Welcome to the World of MAGA Machismo, Where Muscles Trump Brains

From the Left / Dick Polman / Nov 16, 2023

Ladies and gentleman, here is your United States Senate, then and now:

Sen. Daniel Webster on March 7, 1850: “It is fortunate that there is a Senate of the United States (with) a just sense of its own dignity, and its own high responsibilities, and a body to which the country looks with confidence for wise, moderate, patriotic, and healing ...Read more

Trump and his lawyers think he can get away with anything. It's outlandish.

From the Left / Ruth Marcus / Oct 25, 2019

WASHINGTON -- "The king can do no wrong." That is the ancient legal maxim used to explain why a sovereign should not be held to account for misdeeds. President Trump and his lawyers are now making arguments that make this legal doctrine look wimpy. Their vision boils down to: The king can do whatever wrong he damn pleases, and there's nothing ...Read more