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Forget 'No Kings' Placards, Given What Trump Is Plotting Impeach Him This Minute

Forget 'No Kings' Placards, Given What Trump Is Plotting Impeach Him This Minute

Like every authoritarian before him, Trump is working to co-opt news sources and control what the public sees and hears. Too many corporate outlets...

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Ralph Nader

Defeating the Donroe Doctrine: Latin America Can Resist Trump’s Gunboat Racketeering

Defeating the Donroe Doctrine: Latin America Can Resist Trump’s Gunboat Racketeering

Like every authoritarian before him, Trump is working to co-opt news sources and control what the public sees and hears. Too many corporate outlets...

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Nancy Okail

A Top Law Firm Is Suing Animal Activists So That a Restaurant Can Keep Serving Foie Gras

A Top Law Firm Is Suing Animal Activists So That a Restaurant Can Keep Serving Foie Gras

Like every authoritarian before him, Trump is working to co-opt news sources and control what the public sees and hears. Too many corporate outlets...

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Samuel Mosley

The Lie at the Heart of Modern Motherhood

The Lie at the Heart of Modern Motherhood

Like every authoritarian before him, Trump is working to co-opt news sources and control what the public sees and hears. Too many corporate outlets...

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Sabrina Habib

Thank Idiot, Greedy Republicans If You're Upset With $40 Trillion in US Debt

Thank Idiot, Greedy Republicans If You're Upset With $40 Trillion in US Debt

Like every authoritarian before him, Trump is working to co-opt news sources and control what the public sees and hears. Too many corporate outlets...

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Dean Baker

Time to Raise Hell: Trump Taking GOP Voter Suppression Efforts to Heights Never Seen

Time to Raise Hell: Trump Taking GOP Voter Suppression Efforts to Heights Never Seen

Like every authoritarian before him, Trump is working to co-opt news sources and control what the public sees and hears. Too many corporate outlets...

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Thom Hartmann

John Roberts Proves Alexander Hamilton Wrong: You Cannot Trust the Judges

John Roberts Proves Alexander Hamilton Wrong: You Cannot Trust the Judges

Like every authoritarian before him, Trump is working to co-opt news sources and control what the public sees and hears. Too many corporate outlets...

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Bill Blum

Corporate Democrats to Young People: Run for Office! Corporate Press: No, Not Like That...

Corporate Democrats to Young People: Run for Office! Corporate Press: No, Not Like That...

Like every authoritarian before him, Trump is working to co-opt news sources and control what the public sees and hears. Too many corporate outlets...

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Raina Lipsitz

Almost Overnight, the Data Centers Were Everywhere in My Community—Don't Let This Happen to You

Almost Overnight, the Data Centers Were Everywhere in My Community—Don't Let This Happen to You

Like every authoritarian before him, Trump is working to co-opt news sources and control what the public sees and hears. Too many corporate outlets...

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Danielle Johnson

The 'Most Impossible Job in the World': Will a Woman Become the UN’s Next Chief?

The 'Most Impossible Job in the World': Will a Woman Become the UN’s Next Chief?

Like every authoritarian before him, Trump is working to co-opt news sources and control what the public sees and hears. Too many corporate outlets...

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Connie Peck

Be Quiet, Be Quiet: We Are All On the Decoy Plane Now

Be Quiet, Be Quiet: We Are All On the Decoy Plane Now

Like every authoritarian before him, Trump is working to co-opt news sources and control what the public sees and hears. Too many corporate outlets...

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Abby Zimet

$40 Trillion in US Debt and the Rich and Powerful Are Laughing

$40 Trillion in US Debt and the Rich and Powerful Are Laughing

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Robert Reich

Don't Coddle For-Profit Insurers—Take Them On! (or Why Paul Krugman Is Wrong About Medicare for All)

Don't Coddle For-Profit Insurers—Take Them On! (or Why Paul Krugman Is Wrong About Medicare for All)

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Dr. Rob Stone

Serious Question: Would Hakeem Jeffries Prefer Republicans Retain Congress?

Serious Question: Would Hakeem Jeffries Prefer Republicans Retain Congress?

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Miles Mogulescu

What the Corporate Media Never Says In Its Coverage of Cuba

What the Corporate Media Never Says In Its Coverage of Cuba

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Lea Aschkenas

A Grand Prix to the Bottom: Trump’s $183 Billion Attack on American Culture and Heritage

A Grand Prix to the Bottom: Trump’s $183 Billion Attack on American Culture and Heritage

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Alex Lawson

Hey, Republicans: Farmers Can't Build a Future on Constant Uncertainty

Hey, Republicans: Farmers Can't Build a Future on Constant Uncertainty

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Terry Brown

The Reign of Corporate Democrats Is Coming to an End

The Reign of Corporate Democrats Is Coming to an End

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Robert Reich

Independents Rise for Working People Where Democrats Once Upon a Time Stood

Independents Rise for Working People Where Democrats Once Upon a Time Stood

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Les Leopold

It's Simple: Progressives Are Winning Because What They Support Is Extremely Popular

It's Simple: Progressives Are Winning Because What They Support Is Extremely Popular

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Bernie Sanders

An AI Smarter Than the Humans Running Things Now? We Should Be So Lucky!

An AI Smarter Than the Humans Running Things Now? We Should Be So Lucky!

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R. D. Crano

Spoiled Rotten Donald Trump Can't Buy His Way Out of the Mess He Made When He Started War With Iran

Spoiled Rotten Donald Trump Can't Buy His Way Out of the Mess He Made When He Started War With Iran

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Juan Cole

We Are All Living at the Mercy of Donald Trump's Brain

We Are All Living at the Mercy of Donald Trump's Brain

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Tom Engelhardt

From Teapot Dome to Corruption 2.0

From Teapot Dome to Corruption 2.0

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18.08.2026 8

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Marc Edelman

The Right Invests in Sex Ed—Progressive Philanthropies Should Too

The Right Invests in Sex Ed—Progressive Philanthropies Should Too

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18.08.2026 7

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Debra Hauser

Independent Interviewers Expose How Mainstream Media Lets Politicians Off the Hook

Independent Interviewers Expose How Mainstream Media Lets Politicians Off the Hook

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18.08.2026 10

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James Zogby

The AI Emergency Is Already Here—and Progressives Must Confront It

The AI Emergency Is Already Here—and Progressives Must Confront It

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18.08.2026 8

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Marc Rosenthal

The Century-Old Legal Fiction Costing America $35.5 Billion a Year

The Century-Old Legal Fiction Costing America $35.5 Billion a Year

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18.08.2026 6

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Alison Schultz

Establishment Media: Narrow Wisconsin Loss for Hong I​s Massive Defeat for the Left

Establishment Media: Narrow Wisconsin Loss for Hong I​s Massive Defeat for the Left

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17.08.2026 6

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Roger Bybee

Scott Bessent Is Dead Wrong on the K-Shaped Economy—And I'm Right

Scott Bessent Is Dead Wrong on the K-Shaped Economy—And I'm Right

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17.08.2026 10

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Robert Reich

Israel-Funded Hanover Institute Seemingly Has One Goal: Propagandize to the AI Chat Bots

Israel-Funded Hanover Institute Seemingly Has One Goal: Propagandize to the AI Chat Bots

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17.08.2026 10

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Nick Cleveland-Stout

Brazil's Election: Lula, Bolsonaro, and the Battle for the Future

Brazil's Election: Lula, Bolsonaro, and the Battle for the Future

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17.08.2026 10

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Medea Benjamin

Medicare for All Would Be $40 Trillion Cheaper Than Our Shitty For-Profit System

Medicare for All Would Be $40 Trillion Cheaper Than Our Shitty For-Profit System

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17.08.2026 10

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Corbin Trent

The Deplorable Extremism of the So-Called "Moderates"

The Deplorable Extremism of the So-Called

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17.08.2026 8

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Norman Solomon

The Quantum Con: How Chicago’s Southside Became a Sacrificial Altar to the War Machine

The Quantum Con: How Chicago’s Southside Became a Sacrificial Altar to the War Machine

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16.08.2026 10

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Eli S. Walsh

From Xanadu to Mar-a-Lago: Does a 1941 Film Foretell the Fate of Donald J. Trump?

From Xanadu to Mar-a-Lago: Does a 1941 Film Foretell the Fate of Donald J. Trump?

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16.08.2026 8

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Jeff Peck

The Blue Pearl

The Blue Pearl

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16.08.2026 10

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Robert C. Koehler

100 Years Later, We’re Still Fighting for the Right to Vote and Equal Pay

100 Years Later, We’re Still Fighting for the Right to Vote and Equal Pay

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16.08.2026 7

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Carolyn B. Maloney

The Delusion of Strategic Stability in a Nuclear World

The Delusion of Strategic Stability in a Nuclear World

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16.08.2026 7

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John Burroughs

The Gaza Peace Trump Announced, and the Rejection Netanyahu Delivered

The Gaza Peace Trump Announced, and the Rejection Netanyahu Delivered

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15.08.2026 10

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Jamal Kanj

Corrupt Trump Makes $1.1 Million an Hour by Grifting the US People

Corrupt Trump Makes $1.1 Million an Hour by Grifting the US People

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15.08.2026 30

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Ralph Nader

A Bold Demand to Liberate the US From the Medical-Industrial Complex

A Bold Demand to Liberate the US From the Medical-Industrial Complex

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15.08.2026 9

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Judy Albert

Open the Files: Fauci Should Not Take the Fifth on the Truth About COVID-19 Origins

Open the Files: Fauci Should Not Take the Fifth on the Truth About COVID-19 Origins

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15.08.2026 10

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Neil L. Harrison

America: We Need to Talk

America: We Need to Talk

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15.08.2026 10

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Frances Moore Lappé

SEND ME (But Then Bring Me Feckin' Home Again)

SEND ME (But Then Bring Me Feckin' Home Again)

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14.08.2026 10

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Abby Zimet

Doctors Like El-Sayed and Me Agree: It's Time for Medicare for All

Doctors Like El-Sayed and Me Agree: It's Time for Medicare for All

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14.08.2026 7

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Cheryl Huckins

The Climate Crisis and Its Solutions, by the Numbers

The Climate Crisis and Its Solutions, by the Numbers

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14.08.2026 10

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Bill McKibben

Venezuela: Don’t Blame the Victim

Venezuela: Don’t Blame the Victim

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14.08.2026 8

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Roger D. Harris

US Military Morale in the Middle East Is in the Overflowing Toilet

US Military Morale in the Middle East Is in the Overflowing Toilet

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14.08.2026 8

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Ann Wright

Solidarity Is Not Enough: Why the World Must Force Accountability for Gaza Now

Solidarity Is Not Enough: Why the World Must Force Accountability for Gaza Now

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14.08.2026 10

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Ramzy Baroud