The American Prospect
Mamdani Announces Balanced Budget Without Cuts
Buoyed by billions in assistance from the state, real talk about what it takes to run New York City, and some taxes on the rich, the mayor closed a historic leftover budget deficit.
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15mCongress Face-Plants on Surprise Health Care Bills
Lawmakers wanted to reform surprise billing so patients weren’t hit with unexpected charges. But they also created a parallel system with new middlemen that is increasing health care costs.
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14mNo Minority Is Safe From Trump’s Mass Deportation Machine
ICE is specifically targeting immigrant communities of Asian and Pacific Islander descent.
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20mRight-Wing Activists Co-opt Environmental Laws to Fight ‘Abortion Pollution’
In their zeal to create a de facto national abortion ban, anti–abortion rights groups are claiming that medications like mifepristone poison the water supply.
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8mAftermath: Donald Trump Invented a New Forever War
In Iran, he can’t win and he can’t lose either.
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12mA World From the Inside
Theo Baker is exposed to the inner sanctum of how Silicon Valley makes its anointed fellow travelers unspeakably rich.