Janine Jackson interviewed Color of Change’s Portia Allen-Kyle about predatory tax preparers for the February 21, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.
Jeff Bezos at the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20, 2025.
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An unvaccinated child is dead amid a rapidly growing measles outbreak in West Texas, marking the first death from the disease in the US in a decade. Confirmed cases in the area are now at 124 with 18 people—all unvaccinated—hospitalized.
Protecting Medicaid:
Eliminating the waitlists for the 11,000 seniors and children with disabilities who are on waitlists for Medicaid programs and services.
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You can ignore Trump slyly hinting to the Lord’s chosen that he just might call off the next election.
Janine Jackson interviewed the University of Guelph-Humber’s Gregory Shupak about the ethnic cleansing of Palestine for the February 21, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.
Trump reportedly intends to fire the entire independent board that oversees the United States Postal Service and park the USPS under the control of a MAGA diehard who just took over as secretary of commerce.
US President Donald Trump has appeared to accuse Ukraine of being responsible for the war with Russia, in a flurry of claims from his Mar-a-Lago mansion in Florida.
Speaking to reporters, Trump also made claims about President Volodymyr Zelensky's popularity and observed that Ukraine had yet to hold scheduled elections due to martial law. He later doubled down on those comments in a fiery Truth Social post on Wednesday.
Last week, I had separate lunches with two women I know, and the conversations in both revolved around anxieties produced by Trump’s coup. Both of my companions focused on the same question: what can an individual do? Both women seemed to think that–because I’m a political policy blogger– I would have an answer, or at the very least, a suggestion.
If only!
If you are younger than 30, you probably don’t remember there was a time in the United States when we were practically ordered to hate France.
Shortly after President Donald Trump's inauguration, rumors of ICE agents in Massachusetts schools led students to stay home. Mother Jones illustration; LM Otero/AP
Donald Trump has been back in the White House for a month.
His fifth week in office saw more dramatic moves as the president continued on his plan to remake the federal government, implement sweeping cuts and reshape American foreign policy.
This week he called Ukraine's war-time president a "dictator", pledged to make IVF more affordable and dismissed his highest-ranking military officer.
Are the corporate media outlets reporting on Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s authoritarian takeover smarter than a fifth grader? Recent coverage of the president and his henchman’s blatantly unconstitutional dismembering of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) would suggest some are not.
A screenshot from the White House’s video showing the deportation of an unidentified immigrant.
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