Here are two ways an American can make a citizen.
1. Take your partner out for a nice dinner and a romantic dance.
2. Once home, with no light but candles, remove unnecessary clothing, and let Nature guide you.
3. Roughly nine months later, a citizen arrives…
…OR,
1. Spend $75 online to set up a Limited Liability Corporation in Delaware.
A bridge destroyed by a US attack is seen in Iran’s Hormozgan province on July 19, 2026.
Nolan Wells’s mother Christine Wonsley held a press conference on July 10, 2026, in New York City after her son’s mysterious death over the Fourth of July off the coast of Mississippi. Photo: Steve Sanchez/Sipa USA via AP Images
The deaths of Nolan Wells and Kohen Wiley are symptoms of a nation retreating from any pretense of equal rights.
There is a tangible heat to being Black in America this summer.
manatee swims in the Haulover Canal waterway on June 4, 2024, in Mims, Florida.
Smoke from massive wildfires in Canada engulfed the New York City skyline on July 16, 2026.
Janine Jackson interviewed the Institute for Policy Studies’ Phyllis Bennis about the costs of the Iran War for the July 10, 2026, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.
President Donald Trump speaks in the East Room of the White House, July 16, 2026, in Washington. (Saul Loeb/Pool via AP)
I laughed when Trump announced that the Chinese “hacked” a hundred million US voter files — voter’s address, party preference etc. If China spent money to hack this info, they overspent because THIS INFORMATION IS PUBLIC, available to anyone on request — tho’ some states simply post a big fat DOWNLOAD LIST button.
On Monday, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in the town of Biddeford, Maine, shot into a car and killed the driver, a man named Joan Sebastian Guerrero.
The Wingspan ran a cartoon in January by Aidan McClaren, comparing modern-day actions of ICE with the Palmer Raids against American radicals in the 1920s and the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans.
As Republicans rammed their so-called One Big Beautiful Bill through Congress last year on the way to President Donald Trump’s desk, opponents of the legislation sounded the alarm over the pain it would inflict upon working families for the benefit of the wealthiest Americans. One year in, those warnings have borne out—and experts say the worst is yet to come.
Just moments ago, a federal judge ruled that the Trump regime’s attempt to weaponize the United States Postal Service — and prevent eligible voters from casting their ballots — violates the settlement in a lawsuit Public Citizen brought on behalf of the NAACP during Trump’s first term.
In other words, Trump cannot enlist the USPS in his campaign to disenfranchise Americans who rely on mail-in voting.
It seems like progressive patriots are still stuck in the rut of responding 1x1 to Trump’s daily outrages – from a failed war to a botched pool renovation – even as he tries to kidnap this week’s Semiquincentiennal. Yet there’s no modern Tom Paine – at least not until presidential aspirants speak up post-Fall – with a unifying theory-of-the-case to renew an unpopular Democratic party. Not for enactment now but in case a Blue Backlash provides it with a working majority.
Here’s one possible framework…in case:
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Supporters of birthright citizenship rally outside the US Supreme Court on April 1, 2026. (Mehmet Eser / Anadolu via Getty Images)
The battle over birthright citizenship is over. The war against birthright citizenship is just beginning.
Israeli soldiers deployed in Tulkarm refugee camp in the occupied West Bank look on as displaced Palestinians granted temporary permits retrieve belongings from their destroyed or heavily damaged homes on June 21, 2026. Photo by Aseel Mfarajeh.
Today, strategic studies scholar Phillips P. O’Brien gave a comprehensive review of the events and outcomes of Trump’s war on Iran. In his Phillips’s Newsletter, O’Brien noted that “the USA is now negotiating without much, if any, leverage. That really is extraordinary. The Trump administration has put itself in a position where it cannot go back to the use of military force, cannot put much if any real pressure on Iran, and therefore will have to concede most of the main points to the Iranians.”
Every once a while I encounter a quote that brings me up short and helps reframe how I see the world. Such was the case when I came across this quote by Theodor Adorno as I researched the rise of Nazi Germany and the origins of the Holocaust: “A wrong life cannot be lived rightly.”
Observers are noting that the reflecting pool fiasco, in which Trump created the idea there was an emergency, ignored experts, bypassed normal procedures to give a wildly inflated contract to a crony, bragged about his success, ignored the problems, claimed his enemies had sabotaged him, and finally stationed troops around the landmark he had turned into a swamp, represents the Trump administration perfectly.
President Donald Trump’s administration is preparing to file hundreds of cases this year to strip foreign-born Americans of their citizenship in a bid to surpass the number of cases filed in the past two decades combined.
On April 24, a new super PAC called Lead Left quietly filed a Statement of Organization with the Federal Election Commission (FEC). According to the group’s website, “Lead Left PAC stands against MAGA extremists who will infect our country with Donald Trump’s agenda.”
On May 7, Lead Left began spending heavily in Democratic primaries. Since that time, the group has spent over $3 million in support of Democratic House candidates in key races across the country.
Public Citizen is taking legal action to stop the Trump regime from weaponizing the United States Postal Service and preventing eligible voters from voting.
US President Donald Trump, joined by Republican lawmakers, signs the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law at the White House in Washington, DC on July 4, 2025.
Youssef Suleiman (right) grieves over the body of his eight-year-old son, Jad, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike as he was returning home from school wearing his backpack. June 8, 2026. Screenshot of video by Abdel Qader Sabbah.
U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth arrives on Capitol Hill for a secure briefing on November 5, 2025. Photo by Tom Brenner/Getty Images.
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria—On the evening of May 16, the village of Metele in Nigeria’s Borno state was hit by a series of airstrikes carried out in coordination between the U.S. and Nigerian militaries.
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents with a person in custody.
A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data collecting buoy is moored in the Indian Ocean.
