Category: Politics

Mifepristone, sold under the brand name Mifeprex by Danco Laboratories, is one of two medicines used in the preferred method of medication abortion and for miscarriage management. The company GenBioPro makes a generic version of the drug. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images The Supreme Court on Monday gave itself more […]

NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado.

President Donald speaks, flanked by FBI Director Kash Patel, Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin, and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, during a press briefing shortly after a shooting incident at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on April 25, 2026. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images At […]

Democrats must stop conceding that the only answer for various racist voting laws is that Democrats just have to vote more and harder and better. Ad Policy Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger at an event in Woodbridge, promoting the redistricting measure that was on the ballot in April. (Graeme Sloan / Bloomberg via Getty Images) We […]

Gas prices over $6 a gallon are displayed at a Mobil station on May 4 in Los Angeles, California. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Justin Sullivan/Getty Images President Trump says he wants the gas tax to be temporarily suspended as the war in Iran extends into its 11th week and keeps oil prices […]

Jeet Heer Branko Marcetic on the fake populism of a sordid elite. The post What Jeffrey Epstein Taught Peter Thiel and Steve Bannon appeared first on The Nation.

Communities in World Cup host cities across the United States are organizing to ensure that the tournament lives up to its promise of making soccer a force for good. Ad Policy SoFi stadium workers protest outside FIFA World Cup 26 Los Angeles Office calling for ICE to be banned from the World Cup on May […]

No one agrees on when, where, or how capitalism began, or whether it had a beginning at all, but everyone agrees that capitalism, the word, first appeared in the 19th century. Capital and capitalist slipped into use, unnoticed and unremarked, in the 13th and 17th centuries. Capitalism burst through the barricades of political argument in […]

J. Schuberth, who is running for Oregon governor as Pencil, speaks with voters and curious passersby as they walk around downtown Portland, Ore., to campaign on April 23. Schuberth is an advocate for reforming the state’s K-12 school system. Eli Imadali/OPB hide caption toggle caption Eli Imadali/OPB PORTLAND, Ore. — The downtown Saturday farmer’s market […]

NPR’s A Martínez asks Rep. Ro Khanna, ranking member of the House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the U.S. and China, about President Trump’s talks with his Chinese counterpart.