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The Assassination That Paved the Way for Trump’s Venezuela Attack

How Trump’s illegal 2020 killing of Qassem Soleimani—and the West’s indifferent response—laid the groundwork for the brazen abduction of Nicolás Maduro. Ad Policy A billboard depicting symbolic images of former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani and Iranian athletes is hung on a state building in downtown Tehran,

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Meet Seattle’s New Mayor, Katie Wilson

Activism / January 7, 2026 Her victory was won by the precariat: renters, transit riders, and democratic socialists who rallied, rang doorbells, created social media, and registered new voters. Ad Policy Katie Wilson.(Sarah Kusz) A day after Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration, 3,000 miles west of New York, the people of Seattle celebrated their own democratic socialist

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Dismantling the Meme Logic Behind Renee Good’s ICE Execution

Politics / January 9, 2026 The Trump administration is once more invoking upside-down alibis of state to conjure the bogus specter of imminent threat. Ad Policy A sign in Minneapolis commemorates the killing of Renee Good. (Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images) There was the one in Ferguson. The one in Minnesota where the licensed gun

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European Cowardice Is Empowering Trump’s New Imperialism

NATO allies don’t want to confront Trump’s aggression. But they may ultimately not have a choice. Ad Policy President Donald Trump hosts a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders at the White House on August 18, 2025. (Win McNamee / Getty Images) On Tuesday, European leaders met in Paris to try and

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