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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 /

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

The Justice Department Whistleblower

From the Left / Susan Estrich /

"If they can do this sort of thing to Abrego Garcia, to 238 people that nobody knows, and send them to CECOT forever with no due process, they can do that to anyone," Erez Reuveni, a former Justice Department lawyer who has filed a whistleblower complaint with the Senate Judiciary Committee told The New York Times. "It should be deeply, deeply ...Read more

Why Congress Must Probe the Epstein Coverup

From the Left / Joe Conason /

Years after his apparent suicide in a Manhattan federal lockup, the notorious sex offender and financial manipulator Jeffrey Epstein has returned from the dead to haunt Donald Trump and instigate a massive rupture in Trump's government and MAGA movement.

Having long encouraged the proliferation of conspiracy theories on the right -- from the ...Read more

How to Third Party

From the Left / Ted Rall /

Elon Musk says he is going to start a new third party. Assuming he's serious, he'll soon learn that the Democratic-Republican duopoly has made it insanely hard to break into their -- emphasis intentional -- system. As The New York Times observes, "Launching a new national political party in the United States may be more difficult than...Read more

Why Scientists Are Hellbent on Helping the Hellbenders

When I first heard about eastern hellbenders, I thought they sounded like a motorcycle gang, not large salamanders the color of river rocks. I also had no idea they were important ecosystem indicators for clean water.

The story goes that the amphibian got its name from early settlers who thought the thing was so ugly it must be a creature from ...Read more

Epstein's What?

From the Left / Marc Munroe Dion /

I knew a guy in Kansas City, and he got arrested for something involving somebody else's money.

The guy was looking at a sentence of maybe five years, but he didn't have much of a record, and his mother put up her house for bail, and his defense attorney took the deal, and the guy got three years of supervised probation.

After he completed ...Read more

Drunk and Defiant: 'A Bar Song (Tipsy)' Tops the Charts

From the Left / Froma Harrop /

Every year, there's a song of summer. It's often something to argue over when conversation lags at the barbecue.

In 2013, feminists attacked Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" for allegedly glamorizing sexual violence. "Blurred Lines" was a huge hit. According to Rolling Stone, "It held the whole world in its slightly skeevy grasp all summer long...Read more

It's Too Damn Hot

From the Left / Susan Estrich /

Speaking of his budget bill, which will kick millions of people off the health insurance rolls, give tax breaks to the wealthy and add $3 trillion to our kids' debts, President Donald Trump said last Thursday in Des Moines:

"(Democrats opposed the measure) only because they hate Trump. But I hate them, too. You know that? I really do. I hate ...Read more

A Heartland Scene: Democracy Writ Small

From the Left / Jamie Stiehm /

The village egg toss on the Fourth of July sings of democracy to me.

An exuberant gaggle of 100-plus people lined up for the competition. A little bit of everybody joined in, all ages, sizes and colors, with partners.

The playing field by the fire station and elementary school filled up in an overflowing line.

The price: free.

Just come as...Read more

Idea: Let Big Oil Dump Its Fracking Into Our Lakes and Rivers

From the Left / Jim Hightower /

A major political group says that to solve America's environmental problems, we must let Big Oil have more control over public policy. That group is Big Oil.

Indeed, such giants as Exxon and Shell Oil have long complained that environmentalists, consumers, and other busybodies keep using legislation and lawsuits to interfere with their ...Read more

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

From the Left / ACLU /

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

Attention Disorder: America Sleeps as Trump Hands Putin What He Wants

From the Left / Jeff Robbins /

The late Charlie Munger, who with longtime friend Warren Buffett turned Berkshire Hathaway into a behemoth, attributed his investment successes to his ability to pay sustained attention. "I did not succeed in life by intelligence," Munger recounted. "I succeeded because I have a long attention span."

Americans are notorious for having a short...Read more

Trump Turns on Trump Country

From the Left / Froma Harrop /

The flooding in Texas is cataclysmic. It was a hellscape as dozens, many of them girls from a summer camp, were swept to their deaths. Such tragedies spawn questions over whether the National Weather Service could have better warned the public. But this one is different in that the Trump administration is shrinking the weather service and vows...Read more

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Now the Second (and Worse) Stage of Trump’s Police State

From the Left / Robert B. Reich /

Trump’s Big Ugly Bill delivers $170 billion for border and immigration enforcement.

This is on the scale of supplemental budgets passed by the United States when we enter war.

ICE will add 10,000 agents to the 20,000 already on the streets.

Its annual budget for detentions will skyrocket from $3.4 billion in the current fiscal year to $45 ...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 /

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

What's Wrong With the Democrats? They Need More Democracy.

From the Left / Ted Rall /

What's wrong with the Democrats and how can the party be fixed? When an insurgent outsider candidate from the party's progressive Left defeats a moderate endorsed by the establishment, Democratic leaders reject the results and deny the will of their voters. They refuse the infusion of new ideas and tactics every organization needs to evolve. ...Read more

SCOTUS Ruling Misses the Point of Reading

Literature fuels empathy and conversation. It can foster belonging and it can also fuel productive discourse. But only if you actually read. If you choose to opt out altogether, you only fuel ignorance, which is what the Supreme Court ruling on Mahmoud v. Taylor accomplished. Parents can now opt their children out of instruction that includes ...Read more

Cheap and Fast

From the Left / Marc Munroe Dion /

I remember being impressed when the Jehovah's Witnesses in the city where I lived needed a new Kingdom Hall, which is what they call their churches.

That thing got built fast, I mean in just a few days. Religiously motivated volunteer labor doesn't dog it on the job. You go to hell for that.

Down in Florida, where hurricanes are the will of ...Read more

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Freedom of the Press: Great While It Lasted

From the Left / Bill Press /

There was a time, not so long ago, when we celebrated the press for doing its job of holding elected officials accountable and telling the truth, no matter how much government pressure they encountered.

In 1971, for example, we hailed the New York Times and the Washington Post for defying the Nixon administration by publishing the Pentagon ...Read more

Musk Should Return to the Democratic Party

From the Left / Froma Harrop /

Elon Musk warned that if Republicans passed their big domestic policy bill, he would form a new "America Party" to primary those who voted for it. He doesn't need a new party. He has his old one, the Democrats.

Many Democrats have grown to intensely dislike Musk, and they have their reasons. His prancing around with a chainsaw as he gleefully...Read more

 

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