Author: Gary Wilson

On June 30, Denver voters ended the 30-year congressional career of Diana DeGette. They gave the Democratic nomination in Colorado’s 1st District to Melat Kiros, a 29-year-old barista, first-time candidate and member of the Democratic […]

The White House says the war on Iran is winding down. On June 29, it declared a national emergency over the U.S. food supply. The proclamation, published in the Federal Register on July 2, temporarily […]

The Supreme Court closed its term by showing how the capitalist state works. On June 30, the court struck down Donald Trump’s executive order denying birthright citizenship to children born in the U.S. to undocumented […]

Outside Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, protesters demanding the shutdown of the immigration jail have been met with tear gas and pepper spray. Inside, during the late-June 2026 heat wave, temperatures hit 102 degrees […]

On June 24, a senior U.S. State Department official stood at a Victor Pinchuk Foundation dinner in Gdansk, Poland, and announced that Ukraine was winning the war. “We do have a moment right now where […]

On July 3, fireworks will burst over Tȟuŋkášila Šákpe (the Six Grandfathers), the sacred Lakota mountain the settlers renamed Mount Rushmore. The four presidents blasted into the rock will glow above the Black Hills — […]

U.S. warplanes struck Iran again June 28, the second round of bombing in two days near the Strait of Hormuz. Iran answered with missile and drone attacks on U.S. military sites in Kuwait and Bahrain. […]