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In the Midst of Ecocide in Gaza, Some People Are Still Birding

If it weren’t for the Israeli occupation—and now the full-scale war that has killed more than 34,000 people, 72% of them women and children,...

yesterday 30

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Rebecca Gordon

Student Reporters Offer a Lesson on World Press Freedom Day

The escalating authoritarianism we’re witnessing in the crackdown on college campuses is, in part, a byproduct of a media system that fails to...

yesterday 6

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Tim Karr

As Biden Bets Reelection on Benjamin Netanyahu, We May All Pay the Price

If the president loses the 2024 election to Trump because he chose to cater to the whims of Israel's brutal, right-wing, authoritarian leader—he...

yesterday 4

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Steven Day

Are the Dems Finally Ready to Stand Up to Big Oil?

A May 1 Senate hearing on the industry’s history of deception is a signal of what a second-term Biden administration might be willing and able to...

yesterday 3

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Bill Mckibben

This ‘Super Election Year,’ Press Freedom Is More Essential—and More At Risk—Than Ever

If this year is a litmus test for democracy around the world, a pre-indicator will be how the media are treated.

yesterday 3

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Jodie Ginsberg

Opposed to Genocide in Gaza, This Is the Conscience of a Nation Speaking Through Your Kids

This is about a genocide being carried out with American money and with American weapons against a people that has been living under occupation for...

yesterday 1

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Rashid Khalidi

A War Against Humanity Itself

Amidst the ongoing, unfathomable slaughter, hunger, maiming, razing in Gaza at the hands of Israel's "voracious death machine," its leaders now...

previous day 50

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Abby Zimet

Big Oil Needs to Be Held Accountable for Its Climate Deception

Ultimately, the future of accountability for the fossil fuel industry is up to us.

previous day 10

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Jamie Henn

Antisemitism: The Big Lie Smearing Campus Protesters

The people who make, report, and teach history should take note: it has never been kind to those who spread Big Lies. This time will be no different.

previous day 7

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Richard Eskow

No, Anti-Zionism Isn't Inherently Antisemitic

Conflating free speech and hate crimes will not make Jewish students any safer on campus. This bill would stifle First Amendment rights to free...

previous day 9

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Sara Jacobs

Breaking Down AOC Derangement Syndrome

Relentlessly tearing down one of our most effective leaders undermines the capacity for progressives to win. And win we must.

previous day 6

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Aaron Regunberg

The Older Generation of Politicians Can’t Stop the American Intifada

Millions of Americans are clearly fed up, with war, with their government’s allegiance to a foreign country, to militarism, to police violence, to...

previous day 4

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Ramzy Baroud

Sanders Rips Colleagues for Attacking Student Protesters Instead of Netanyahu

Maybe it’s time to not simply worry about the violence we are seeing on American campuses, but focus on the unprecedented violence in Gaza.

previous day 3

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Bernie Sanders

Columbia’s President Sold Out Students and Faculty to Far-Right McCarthyism

The right is weaponizing antisemitism as a way of furthering its campaign to suppress the kind of freedom of thought and speech on campus that...

previous day 5

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Helen Benedict

May Day May Have Been Obliterated from US History, But It’s Legacy Continues

Progressive economic ideas have been on the whole an anathema to the U.S. political establishment and violence against labor militancy has always...

wednesday 10

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C.j. Polychroniou

The Biden Administration's Hypocrisy on College Protests Must End

While the White House is quick to condemn any allegation of antisemitism at protests, whether verified or manufactured, it has repeatedly failed to...

wednesday 10

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Edward Ahmed Mitchell

Get Ready. Working Class Will Reclaim May Day in 2028

To reshape the economy into one that works for the benefit of everyone — not just the wealthy — we need to reclaim our country’s history of...

wednesday 20

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Shawn Fain

The World Is Watching: UCLA Complicit in the Violence Against Its Own Students

Will someone have to die on our campus tonight for you to intervene, Gene Block?

wednesday 10

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Daily Bruin Editorial

Joe Scarborough’s Condescending, Irresponsible, and Ignorant Rant on Students Protesting Gaza War

The characterizations by politicians and cable TV personalities of the so-labeled pro-Palestinian protests by college students are over the...

wednesday 10

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Frederic H. Decker

Progressives Must Put Medicare for All Back on the Agenda

We need to put single payer back on the table, loudly, proudly, and strategically.

wednesday 10

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Ana Malinow

The FTC’s New Ban on ‘Noncompetes’ Helps Workers Reclaim Their Power

By restricting employees from joining competitors or starting their own ventures, noncompetes impede not only individual career and wage growth but...

30.04.2024 40

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Heidi Shierholz

For Turning Our Campus Into a Mini-Police State, Indiana University's President Must Go

We needed a leader who would protect students, the values of liberalism, and this institution of learning. Instead, Pamela Whitten called in armed...

30.04.2024 20

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Jeffrey C. Isaac

Restaurant Workers Are Fighting to End Rampant Exploitation

This movement is growing rapidly as workers across the country demand livable wages.

30.04.2024 10

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Helen H. Abraha

The Supreme Court Justices Colluding With Trump to 'Catch and Kill' Insurrection Case

There’s a reason the right-wing justices are eager to support Trump’s senseless arguments on presidential immunity.

30.04.2024 8

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Mitchell Zimmerman

To 3 of the Country’s Biggest Climate Liars: No Thanks for the Memories

The lies uttered and underwritten by the Koch brothers and ExxonMobil executives—as well as their employees and PACs’ contributions to climate...

30.04.2024 20

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Elliott Negin

The 2024 Litmus Test in a Word: Democracy

The GOP has made 2020 election denialism a litmus test for membership in their party. So we must make rejection of the Big Lie a prerequisite for...

29.04.2024 2

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Robert Reich

Student Protests Present Biden With Chance to Do the Right Thing on Gaza

The Biden camp continues to dismiss polls showing the President losing support among young and “minority” voters. This is a dangerous...

29.04.2024 20

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James Zogby

'Otherwise': The Word That Could Save Trump From Insurrection Conviction

The outcome of the case could hinge on how the U.S. Supreme Court interprets a single word contained in the obstruction statute.

29.04.2024 10

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Bill Blum

We've Been Warned: Infinite Growth Can't Continue on This Finite Planet

There’s big trouble ahead and we won’t be able to say that no one saw it coming.

29.04.2024 9

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Stan Cox

When Mass Graves Are Not Considered News

The discovery of these mass graves “horrified” UN rights chief Volker Turk. But it has yet to prompt so strong a reaction from several major US...

29.04.2024 1

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Xenia Gonikberg

Plastic Poisons People. Will the Biden Administration Protect Us?

No one is immune to the impacts of plastic pollution, and we are running out of time.

29.04.2024 10

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Break Free From Plastic Us

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