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An Iranian bill, a U.S. sanctions campaign and a British law each claim to target Iran-based hostility. But together they leave Iranians very isolated.

Lula’s chances don’t look particularly strong.

A family doctor thought the high school protests were “harebrained.” Then he watched what police did to his daughter’s classmates and what they did next.

Trending Story: ‘If We Burn, You Burn With Us’: France’s Youth Ignite a Massive Revolt

Cartoon — GOP Regrets Retaining Trump

Idaho voters will decide more than abortion this November. A second measure on the same ballot threatens the process that put abortion rights there.

Trump’s Venezuela oil deal protects its CEO and sets a powerful board for an initial 15 years. People with knowledge of the deal said the design was meant to prevent future U.S. and Venezuelan leaders from dismantling it.

Meta’s conduct in Brazil’s election is a warning sign for the world. U.N. experts called on the company to stop interfering in the country’s democratic process.

Republican megadonors may not be able to spend candidates out of the party's deep political holes.

The monitors will be dispatched to Portland and Lewiston, home to the state’s largest share of immigrants.

Replacing patent monopolies with public funding for medical research could further lower costs and improve access to treatments.

The Workers Party’s long recovery of the urban vote continues as Lula wins 49% of the vote in Brazil’s 200 largest cities to overtake Bolsonaro.

Draft rules circulating among congressional staff suggest what Anthropic is willing to sacrifice in its pursuit of AI dominance.

This talks about something obvious that "liberal me" has previously been distracted from: "national wealth – the sum of private and public assets minus private and public debts".

A decade-spanning documentary makes a plea for imperfect victims of war.

Two weeks before the midterms, The New York Times analyzed more than 13,000 X posts from a single Michigan Senate debate and buried what’s really at stake.

France’s government said it can’t afford to invest more in education, while the country’s private wealth climbed from 300% to 600% of GDP.

While nearly all cases fall apart under scrutiny, the narrative of a gray-zone conflict with Moscow conditions citizens of Europe to believe they are under attack.

A Bolsonaro win would push Latin America’s largest progressive democracy rightward.

Coverage of France’s protests focused on the violence. It missed that high schoolers pulled a tired, resigned country back into the streets in less than a month.

Tennessee House Republicans expelled Justin Pearson in 2023. Voters sent him back, and now he’s running for Congress in a seat Republicans redrew to protect their party.

Abortion is on Idaho’s ballot this November. So is voter power.

Political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security asked the department’s cybersecurity agency to secretly acquire a voting machine and hack it. They wanted to share the findings with the White House.

Donald Trump has said voting is vulnerable, even as his administration has undermined the agency that is supposed to protect it.

Congressional Republicans let enhanced ACA subsidies expire, and premium payments skyrocketed for many enrollees. Now Trump is sending some enrollees a $500 check.

Well, well, well…. An analysis of voter registration records reveals Republican operative Scott Presler had 3 out-of-state voters use his Pennsylvania address to vote in the 2024 election. This is what voter fraud looks like.

Cartoon — Trade Isolation Savings

More than two centuries after the American Colonization Society shipped free Black Americans to Liberia, Washington is again using it as a dumping ground for its undesirables.

Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican, said, “It’s wrong to run this ad.” President Trump called it “very powerful.”

How can Rubio say a review with U.S. law enforcement found no investigations of Trump’s Venezuelan oil partner when he has faced money-laundering investigations in three countries?

U.N. experts said monitoring reports show thousands of accounts and posts on Meta's platforms faced suspensions, reduced visibility, and sharing limitations during Brazil’s election, including those of journalists and human rights defenders.

Anthropic has pitched itself as the “safety-first” AI company. Its draft bill would let the federal government intervene only if a model poses a risk of more than $1 billion in damages or more than 50 deaths.

The country is two weeks from deciding the future of democracy, and The New York Times is burying what matters most.

Trending Story — How Washington Forces Doctors to Defraud Seniors

“This…is a different kind of beast entirely.” Students’ insistence that their own futures are at stake has helped make connections between movements visible…older demonstrators have found it harder to justify their own resignation. “What we have here is a convergence not of struggles, but of anger.”

Cartoon - Gas Prices Shape Voter Choices

If Flávio Bolsonaro wins on Oct. 25, Latin America will see its biggest shift to the right since the days of Operation Condor.

France’s government labeled a high school protest movement “urban violence” and sent riot squads into schools. Then doctors, nurses, farmers, and firefighters joined the students.

President Trump has repeatedly warned that America’s elections are vulnerable to hacking. His administration pushed out more than 1,000 employees at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which is responsible for protecting them.

Trump’s rebate is sending money to voters in states such as Alaska, Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Ohio and Texas, where tight races have been breaking spending records.

MAGA Republicans now have a pattern of misogyny, dismissal of pedophilia, and cruelty.

More than two centuries after the American Colonization Society shipped free Black Americans to Liberia, Washington is again using the country as a dumping ground for its undesirables.

France’s most famous economist says its youth are revolting against a model that has destroyed shared goods while funneling unprecedented wealth upward to a small few.

As voters prepare to decide on the Reproductive Freedom and Privacy Act, a collapsing healthcare system and the future of direct democracy hang in the balance.

Trump narrowly won this Michigan district. A Sunrise Movement co-founder leads his Republican opponent by 2 percentage points in a poll sponsored by a Democratic PAC.

Check or no check, America’s entire healthcare system is broken in all 50 states. Five hundred bucks won’t make anyone forget that.

Trending Story — Big Box Medicare for All

About one third of claimed carbon capture just dumped secretly into the atmosphere by chevron