With each passing day of the shutdown, millions of low-income Americans face the loss or reduction of their SNAP benefits —a lifeline for families struggling to make ends meet. In California, the ...
The threat to shut off food stamps is part of a broader social counter-revolution, which will not stop until the oligarchs behind Trump are finally expropriated, and society put under workers’ control ...
For many, the difference — about $1,000 a year on average — would make the plans unaffordable. Indeed, one reason the premiums are rising is that insurers anticipate the cost increases will cause a ...
The Muhammad Ali stamps will first be issued ... The stamps feature photos of the vehicles captured by Philip Gordon and ...
Without question, the cruelty of this shutdown is intentional,” said Alexsis Rodgers, political director at Black to the ...
If there is a flaw in Reform’s plan to win power in 2029, an unguarded exhaust port on Nigel Farage’s electoral Death Star, ...
November 10th marks the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, perhaps the most famous of all the estimated ...
The Gruffalo illustrator Axel Scheffler is encouraging children to send postcards and letters to their grandparents, parents and friends to stop the trend "dying out". Scheffler, who describes himself ...

Are We Losing

When a democracy slides toward autocracy, the leader often finds ways to neuter the legislature, turning it into a body that ...
Mr. Mike Bordes starts one of his lengthy posts by saying the “Laconia mayor’s race is nonpartisan, let’s talk about what that really means.” There is not another single word about “nonpartisan.” Also ...
Get live updates and the latest news as the government shutdown hits the one month mark, with Trump administration promising military paychecks but not SNAP funds.