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Did Trump Meddle in the World Cup to Help the U.S. Win?

President Donald Trump may have revealed just how corrupt FIFA’s 2026 World Cup really is. Just hours after top U.S. Soccer scorer Folarin Balogun received a red card and a minimum automatic one-game suspension, Trump urged FIFA President Gianni Infantino to review the

How Unions Can Save Higher Education—and Democracy

American higher education is in crisis. Changes to student loan financing , a decline in the number of international students , and a weaponized federal research apparatus are creating historic challenges for everyone. Every day, new pitfalls emerge out of Washington and state

How Historians Took Over Liberal Punditry

Every nation sustains itself with mythmaking. This is why Augustus commissioned Virgil to write The Aeneid at the moment the emperor was transforming the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire, why the British monarch is crowned atop the Stone of Destiny, why Marianne looks over

MAGA Wants to Force Women to Pee in Cups at Airports

Ever since the Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship in June, MAGA personalities have really gone off the rails. Many angrily started saying it’s time for the U.S. to find new ways to bar women from coming to this country and having babies. Some are talking about

McMorrow suspends campaign for Michigan Senate seat

Michigan Senate candidate Mallory McMorrow (D) suspended her campaign on Sunday, amid low polling numbers in the race. “Today, I’m announcing that I am suspending my campaign for United States Senate. And I’m doing it with a deep, deep sense of gratitude,” McMorrow said in a

It’s not 'just' to erase someone's home equity

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that property owners are not entitled to fair market value when the government seizes and sells their home to satisfy a debt, but the process must be fair, and the Pung family's case was sent back to a lower court to decide whether the auction of