On Friday night, June 13, two political assassinations took place in Minnesota by a man who violently angry about abortion and LGBTQ rights. https://minnesotareformer.com/2025/06/15/vance-boelter-accused-of-assassination-of-dfl-house-leader-melissa-hortman-apprehended...
This just in: despite Trump’s warnings to GOP legislators on cutting benefits to Medicare and Social Security recipients, GOP legislators are reportedly considering cuts on both. They have already discussed cuts to Medicare, which is why an anguished woman cried...
The first few months of Trump 2.0 have been a cascade of cruelty, both verbal and physical. More on the varieties of that cruelty below, but the headline-grabbing moment recently was when Iowa Senator Joni Ernst’s replied at a Town Hall to an anguished woman. Ernst...
85,000 citizens of El Salvador have been imprisoned, most of them without fair trials. In a May 20 broadcast of The World (from PRX), Marco Werman interviews Noah Bullock, executive director of Cristosal, the Salvadoran human rights group. Werman and Bullock talk...
In 1957, Senator John F. Kennedy won the Pulitzer Prize for his book,Profiles in Courage, about U.S. politicians who took courageous stands to do what was right, not just what was expedient. It was not a huge book; only eight US Senators were profiled for their...
