Why the right is so mad about the ending of The Boys
It parodied Trump's death, but their anger goes deeper than that.
Long Island Audit confronted a powerful police union. They made him pay for it.
Why did “asking questions about tax dollars” turn into a retaliatory arrest, a pinched nerve, a towed truck, and a criminal trespass charge that may not even hold up under New York law.
Objective co-directors win the 2026 AAJA Award for Leadership in Diversity & Solidarity
One of the Asian American Journalists Association's Community Awards, the honor recognizes a commitment to the AAPI journalist community and to AAJA's goals of diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging.
Remembering Lindsey Graham Not for the Evil He Did But for the Fun He Had Doing It
Corporate media's elegiac coverage didn't just whitewash Lindsey Graham's record—it illustrated the affinity and symbiosis between him and the press corps.
The Download: perimenopause misinformation and China’s latest AI leap
This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. There’s a lot of hype around perimenopause. Don’t buy it.
Trump promoted companies on Truth Social days after buying their stocks
President Donald Trump hopped on Truth Social last year to share some “very big and exciting news.
Truth Without Reconciliation
Why did Brazil’s democratic institutions hold firm while those in the United States so quickly wilted?
How to Build a Real Strategy for Power
For Louder Days: Reaching Beyond a Politics of Powerlessness by Yotam Marom, New Press, 2026. Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links to Convergence’s Bookshop.
The People Fighting Back: Inside Maine’s Immigrant Defense Movement
An excerpt from 'Breaking ICE' on how Maine became the blueprint for an immigration defense movement that caught fire in the Trump era.
Fat Leonard pleads poverty, blaming lawyers, lobbyists — and Maduro
The defense contractor who bilked the U.S. Navy says he lacks funds to pay $30 million in restitution.
My Nipsey Hussles: the importance of Black haircare in prison
For incarcerated Black women, the ability to do our hair nicely on special occasions provides a crucial agency that is stripped from us in many other aspects of our lives My Nipsey Hussles: the …
Out-of-control Canadian wildfires prompt calls for ‘Nuremberg trials for big oil’
Climate change isn’t a tragedy, it’s a crime. The fossil fuel industry are arsonists at a global scale.
Trump Administration Subpoenas Law Firms, Escalating Pressure Campaign
The uneasy truce between the administration and the law firms it cut deals with last year has erupted into a pitched legal battle behind closed doors.
Will Congress Ban ‘Mud Dumping’ in Mobile Bay?
For decades, fishers, swimmers and environmental groups have complained that mud and silt from dredging operations in the Mobile Bay shipping channel have been smothering seagrasses, choking out …
Sino-Israeli Paradiplomacy
Documenting the history of backchannel diplomacy, secretive weapons transfers, and academic lobbying behind Sino-Israeli relations post-1989, Dezhang Yuan argues that the Gaza genocide and New Cold …
The risk of weather data sabotage is rising
Every morning, airline dispatchers, grid operators, and farmers around the world make decisions based on the same thing: a weather forecast.
There’s No Good Outcome to the Warner Bros. Takeover
Choosing between a rightwing billionaire and the Netflix slop factory is grim, thankless work.
On the Economic Crisis of Capitalism
Considering the “Structural Crisis of Capital” from the perspective of economics, Prabhat Patnaik sheds light on two major aspects that have risen to prominence in our current conjuncture.
