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Clinging to the Planetary Wreckage With Pete Hegseth

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Robert C. Koehler

Trump's Fascist National Security Strategy Is Full of Hemispheric Menace

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Paul Street

We Have to Create a New Form of Society

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Bernie Sanders

ICE Detention Is Even Deadlier Under Trump 2.0

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Farrah Hassen

New Polling Shows That the Bottom Has Fallen Out for Trump’s Economic Job Performance

New Polling Shows That the Bottom Has Fallen Out for Trump’s Economic Job Performance

These numbers are so dramatic that they argue for a reboot of the Trump administration’s economic messaging.

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Martin Burns

Trump Doesn't Have to Eliminate FEMA to Screw Disaster Victims

Trump Doesn't Have to Eliminate FEMA to Screw Disaster Victims

Just look at all of the ways the Trump administration has been slowly killing the federal relief agency in practice.

yesterday 2

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Kenny Stancil

You Could Be on Trump's Enemies List, But the Mainstream Media Won't Warn You

You Could Be on Trump's Enemies List, But the Mainstream Media Won't Warn You

A new Department of Justice memo is another giant step towards authoritarianism; however, establishment media didn’t see it that way.

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Jim Naureckas

Where’s Our Outrage for the World’s Hungry, Dying Poor?

Where’s Our Outrage for the World’s Hungry, Dying Poor?

The retreat from global development by wealthy nations is an insult to the founding vision of the United Nations. But the problem of ending poverty...

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Adam Parsons

Autopsy Results: Why the Democrats Lost in 2024—And How to Start Winning Again

Autopsy Results: Why the Democrats Lost in 2024—And How to Start Winning Again

Without a full and honest accounting of the Harris campaign and the Democratic Party’s myriad failures, there can be little realistic hope of...

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Christopher D. Cook

Trump Intensifies His Crusade to Re-Whiten America

Trump Intensifies His Crusade to Re-Whiten America

In the past two weeks alone, we’ve witnessed Trump’s racist rants against the Somali community in Minnesota, the freezing of all non-white asylum...

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Chuck Idelson

Trump, Faced With Global Armageddon, Does Everything He Can to Bring It On

Trump, Faced With Global Armageddon, Does Everything He Can to Bring It On

From opening 1.3 billion acres of coastline to oil and gas drilling to promising to resume nuclear testing, Trump invites us to pick our own...

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Tom Engelhardt

Why Walgreens’ New CEO Should Alarm Us

Why Walgreens’ New CEO Should Alarm Us

The man who oversaw massive store closures and job cuts at Staples is now in charge of one of America’s most important companies.

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Jim Baker

When Orders Cross the Line: Why US Troops Must Refuse an Illegal War in Venezuela

When Orders Cross the Line: Why US Troops Must Refuse an Illegal War in Venezuela

A soldier’s oath is to the Constitution, not to unlawful commands. If the United States launches a ground invasion of Venezuela without...

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Nile Stanton

Trump's Oil Piracy Shows Why the Push for Renewable Energy Is the Push for Peace

Trump's Oil Piracy Shows Why the Push for Renewable Energy Is the Push for Peace

Conflict like the US targeting of Venezuela is probably inevitable as long as the world depends on an energy source that is available only in a few...

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Bill Mckibben

Trump’s Empire of Hubris and Thuggery

Trump’s Empire of Hubris and Thuggery

The president's latest National Security Strategy memorandum treats the freedom to coerce others as the essence of US sovereignty. It is an ominous...

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Jeffrey D. Sachs

The Media Is Behind the Times: Criticizing Israel Is No Longer a Political Liability

The Media Is Behind the Times: Criticizing Israel Is No Longer a Political Liability

Israel’s war on Palestinians has taken a toll, both on that state’s favorable ratings with US voters and on the policies these voters want their...

wednesday 2

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James Zogby

Asking the Right Questions When Lawless US Officials Go on a Murder Spree

Asking the Right Questions When Lawless US Officials Go on a Murder Spree

From Venezuela to Yemen to Iran, the extrajudicial slaughter of civilians has been allowed to continue. What we are witnessing in the Caribbean and...

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Phyllis Bennis

Tim Robinson's The Chair Company Is a Primal Scream at Shitty Corporations

Tim Robinson's The Chair Company Is a Primal Scream at Shitty Corporations

Here’s the nightmarish truth at the heart of the show about a maladjusted middle manager: It's not all in our heads.

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Aaron Regunberg

Stop Trump's Murder Spree and We Could Also Stop a War With Venezuela

Stop Trump's Murder Spree and We Could Also Stop a War With Venezuela

Under international law, executing people outside a genuine armed conflict is an extrajudicial killing. Nothing about these strikes meets the legal...

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Michelle Ellner

Francesca Albanese: Winner of the Lay Down Your Arms Award

Francesca Albanese: Winner of the Lay Down Your Arms Award

An alternative to the Nobel Peace Prize honors those who truly align with Alfred Nobel's original will and celebrates their achievements.

wednesday 2

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Rachael Mellor

It Starts With a Single Sign: In Praise of Everyday Americans Defending Democracy

It Starts With a Single Sign: In Praise of Everyday Americans Defending Democracy

We need more Jared and Laurie Berezins who are standing up for democracy as civil rights and due process rights are being undermined by the Trump...

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Peyton Fleming

How Corporate Democrats Made Trump Possible: A 10-Year Timeline

How Corporate Democrats Made Trump Possible: A 10-Year Timeline

Saving the country from autocracy requires recognizing—and then overcoming—the chokehold that Democratic leaders have on the party.

09.12.2025 10

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Norman Solomon

Garbage: Racist Shits 'R Us

Garbage: Racist Shits 'R Us

Improbably, the White-Nationalist-In-Chief still plunges to lower, ranker, more nakedly racist depths as he tries to deflect from his failings,...

09.12.2025 2

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Abby Zimet

Republicans Have No Healthcare Plan Other Than Stealing From You to Enrich Billionaires

Republicans Have No Healthcare Plan Other Than Stealing From You to Enrich Billionaires

Despite Democrats giving them every opportunity to change course, Republicans are full steam ahead with their destruction of our healthcare system.

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Alex Lawson

We Need a Global Movement to Unrig the System Exploiting Indonesian Nickel Workers

We Need a Global Movement to Unrig the System Exploiting Indonesian Nickel Workers

Labor activist Raraa Rahmawati argues that the hazards in her country’s nickel industry are part of the broader problem of a global economy rigged...

09.12.2025 2

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Sarah Anderson

The Caribbean Strikes and the Moral Collapse of American Power

The Caribbean Strikes and the Moral Collapse of American Power

The strikes are more than tactical operations; they are a test of national character: What kind of country do we want to be?

09.12.2025 3

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George Cassidy Payne

We Must Protect Birthright Citizenship From Trump’s Xenophobic, Eugenic Ideology

We Must Protect Birthright Citizenship From Trump’s Xenophobic, Eugenic Ideology

If the Supreme Court rules in his favor, it could pave the way for any president (or wannabe-monarch) to redefine citizenship at their discretion.

09.12.2025 1

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Jordan Liz

Looming War With China Lurks Beneath US-Australia Talks

Looming War With China Lurks Beneath US-Australia Talks

Nuclear-powered submarines and critical-mineral investments under AUKUS tie Australia ever closer to US conflict with China, raising concern over...

09.12.2025 1

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Julia Norman