November 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM EST
Will a Mamdani win tell us anything about Democrats' future?

Survey Says is a weekly series rounding up the most important polling trends or data points you need to know about, plus a vibe check on a trend that's driving politics or culture. Early voting for New York City's mayoral race kicked off about a week ago, and turnout is smashing records""surpassing both the 2021 mayoral election and June's Democratic primary, when democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani stunned the establishment with a comfortable win.

November 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM EST
Will a Mamdani win tell us anything about Democrats' future?

Survey Says is a weekly series rounding up the most important polling trends or data points you need to know about, plus a vibe check on a trend that's driving politics or culture. Early voting for New York City's mayoral race kicked off about a week ago, and turnout is smashing records""surpassing both the 2021 mayoral election and June's Democratic primary, when democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani stunned the establishment with a comfortable win.

November 2, 2025 at 6:55 PM EST
Cartoon: Fifth Avenue

A cartoon by Clay Bennett. Related | Democrat calls bullsh-t on Trump's lawless boat bombing lies

November 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM EST
Red state workers could lose out on disability benefits as Trump administration rewrites eligibility

By Eli Hager for ProPublica It's never been easy to qualify for Social Security disability benefits. Christopher Tincher knows this firsthand. Tincher began his working life in a coal mine in Aflex, Kentucky, as a teenager in the 1980s. As mines across the region shuttered, he turned to scraping grills at a Hardee's, then cleaning office buildings at night, then stocking shelves and changing tires at a Walmart in Arkansas. Later, he was hired by a nearby town's wastewater department. Often, he had to wade into sewage to fix equipment and clean out feces, needles and tampons entering the treatment facility.

November 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM EST
Red state workers could lose out on disability benefits as Trump administration rewrites eligibility

By Eli Hager for ProPublica It's never been easy to qualify for Social Security disability benefits. Christopher Tincher knows this firsthand. Tincher began his working life in a coal mine in Aflex, Kentucky, as a teenager in the 1980s. As mines across the region shuttered, he turned to scraping grills at a Hardee's, then cleaning office buildings at night, then stocking shelves and changing tires at a Walmart in Arkansas. Later, he was hired by a nearby town's wastewater department. Often, he had to wade into sewage to fix equipment and clean out feces, needles and tampons entering the treatment facility.

November 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM EST
Red state workers could lose out on disability benefits as Trump administration rewrites eligibility

By Eli Hager for ProPublica It's never been easy to qualify for Social Security disability benefits. Christopher Tincher knows this firsthand. Tincher began his working life in a coal mine in Aflex, Kentucky, as a teenager in the 1980s. As mines across the region shuttered, he turned to scraping grills at a Hardee's, then cleaning office buildings at night, then stocking shelves and changing tires at a Walmart in Arkansas. Later, he was hired by a nearby town's wastewater department. Often, he had to wade into sewage to fix equipment and clean out feces, needles and tampons entering the treatment facility.

November 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM EST
Americans call bullsh-t on GOP's shutdown spin

Congressional Cowards is a weekly series highlighting the worst Donald Trump defenders on Capitol Hill, who refuse to criticize him""no matter how disgraceful or lawless his actions. Republican lawmakers threw hissy fit after hissy fit this week as their efforts to blame Democrats for their government shutdown continued to fail.

November 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM EST
Cartoon: Art with authoritarians

A cartoon by Tim Campbell. Related | Trump's birthday card to Epstein is real""and it will give you the ick

November 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM EST
Without the federal government, almost no money exists to fight domestic violence

Work to prevent intimate partner violence, feed families in shelters fleeing abuse or help survivors file for legal protection would not exist on the scale it does today if the federal government stepped back. By Mel Leonor Barclay and Jasmine Mithani for The 19th

November 2, 2025 at 12:55 PM EST
Cartoon: What Constitution?

A cartoon by Jack Ohman. Related | Trump admits he maybe probably can't be president forever

November 2, 2025 at 11:00 AM EST
Refugees Will be among the first to lose food stamps under federal changes

By Renuka Rayasam for KFF Separated from her adult children and grieving her husband's death in the war, she started a job packing boxes in a warehouse, making just enough to cover rent for her own apartment and bills.

November 2, 2025 at 9:00 AM EST
Black Music Sunday: Songs to get us through daylight saving

  Black Music Sunday is a weekly series highlighting all things Black music, with over 285 stories covering performers, genres, history, and more, each featuring its own vibrant soundtrack. I hope you'll find some familiar tunes and perhaps an introduction to something new. For most of us here in the U.S., daylight saving time has ended and we go into "fall back" mode. Time-related tunes span all the genres we cover here, from doo-wop, R&B, jazz, blues, and pop, to reggae and rap. I covered quite a few of them two years ago. Here are more of my favorites.