US Politics

The English-speaking left does not need to invent immigrant-worker organizing from scratch. It needs to recognize, join, and resource the networks already leading it.

Sangwoo Cho traces Ben Shapiro’s changing place in a conservative movement increasingly divided over Israel, media, and America First.

The Freedom 250 Grand Prix is being sold as national celebration, but racing through the capital also reveals who gets to define public space and patriotism.

As U.S. Open attention begins, Althea Gibson’s 1950 breakthrough is a reminder that exclusion can survive without an explicitly discriminatory rule.

Sangwoo Cho argues that the Epstein-files controversy was more than a communications failure: it exposed the cost of cultivating distrust that cannot be contained.

After the Supreme Court reaffirmed birthright citizenship, Sangwoo Cho examines what the renewed fight reveals about who America allows to belong.

Ninety-one years after the Social Security Act became law, its promise remains indispensable and financially vulnerable.

Payrolls fell by 23,000 in July as unemployment held at 4.1 percent, while sharp downward revisions and subdued participation revealed weaker momentum.

The decline of shared public life may be giving partisan identity more power to define how Americans see one another.

The 250-year anniversary of the Declaration’s signing reveals how America turned a messy political sequence into one clean national myth.

A 49–50 vote left the war in the president’s hands, and exposed how far Congress has retreated from its own constitutional power.

A close reading of Alabama’s prison crisis, and why a real solution must be measured by accountability, care, safety, and the lives inside the system.

After the Supreme Court rejected Trump’s emergency tariffs, the administration rebuilt them under a different law. The legal label changed; the constitutional fight did not.

The Genesis Mission could accelerate medicine, energy, and discovery. Its success will depend on privacy, transparency, independent validation, and who gets access.

Two decades after Jon Stewart confronted Crossfire, political commentary has moved online, but its incentives still reward performance, outrage, and partisan theater.

We’ve come far as a country, from role-playing Hollywood-level combat scenarios in Atropia to embedding artificial intelligence in virtual warfare simulations. The U.S. military leaves no stone unturned in preparing its soldiers for the uncertainties of war. But if “closing the loop” is what makes the system better, who remains outside to evaluate it? Shield AI’s recent acquisition of Aechelon Technology paints a picture of a future where, as Shield AI CEO Gary Steele remarke

On June 29, 2026, the Supreme Court ruled 6 to 3 that President Trump's firing of Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter without cause was lawful. In doing so, the Court overturned a 91-year-old precedent that had prevented presidents from removing members of independent agencies at will. The decision represents the most significant expansion of presidential power over the federal government in nearly a century. Independent agencies were designed by Congress to fu

The Democratic Party has a Hakeem Jeffries problem. Not because Jeffries has done anything wrong, but because his position at the center of a fracturing coalition has made him the symbol of a debate that the party can no longer manage with careful language and calls for unity. Jeffries, if Democrats retake the House, would be the first Black speaker in history. Some members of his own party's insurgent wing are running against his allies and chanting at their victory parties

The United States turns 250 years old this week. The NPR/PBS News/Marist poll released July 1, 2026 asked Americans how they feel about that milestone. The results do not describe a nation in the mood for celebration. They describe a nation that is exhausted, divided, and deeply uncertain about whether the system it inherited is capable of delivering on what it promised. The poll is worth sitting with. Not because any single survey can capture the full complexity of what 330

We are raised to not think outside ourselves, to ignore the unhoused person asking for food, to avert our eyes at the sight of struggling families desperate for medical care. The United States and similar capitalist Western cultures have cultivated a mindset of “not owing anyone anything” and of watching out for yourself above all else. This seems to remain true in closer-knit groups like family and friends as well as in larger community bodies. We have created a culture wher