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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,...
The escalating authoritarianism we’re witnessing in the crackdown on college campuses is, in part, a byproduct of a media system that fails to...
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...
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...
If this year is a litmus test for democracy around the world, a pre-indicator will be how the media are treated.
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...
Amidst the ongoing, unfathomable slaughter, hunger, maiming, razing in Gaza at the hands of Israel's "voracious death machine," its leaders now...
Ultimately, the future of accountability for the fossil fuel industry is up to us.
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.
Conflating free speech and hate crimes will not make Jewish students any safer on campus. This bill would stifle First Amendment rights to free...
Relentlessly tearing down one of our most effective leaders undermines the capacity for progressives to win. And win we must.
Millions of Americans are clearly fed up, with war, with their government’s allegiance to a foreign country, to militarism, to police violence, to...
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.
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...
Progressive economic ideas have been on the whole an anathema to the U.S. political establishment and violence against labor militancy has always...
While the White House is quick to condemn any allegation of antisemitism at protests, whether verified or manufactured, it has repeatedly failed to...
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...
Will someone have to die on our campus tonight for you to intervene, Gene Block?
The characterizations by politicians and cable TV personalities of the so-labeled pro-Palestinian protests by college students are over the...
We need to put single payer back on the table, loudly, proudly, and strategically.
By restricting employees from joining competitors or starting their own ventures, noncompetes impede not only individual career and wage growth but...
We needed a leader who would protect students, the values of liberalism, and this institution of learning. Instead, Pamela Whitten called in armed...
This movement is growing rapidly as workers across the country demand livable wages.
There’s a reason the right-wing justices are eager to support Trump’s senseless arguments on presidential immunity.
The lies uttered and underwritten by the Koch brothers and ExxonMobil executives—as well as their employees and PACs’ contributions to climate...
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...
The Biden camp continues to dismiss polls showing the President losing support among young and “minority” voters. This is a dangerous...
The outcome of the case could hinge on how the U.S. Supreme Court interprets a single word contained in the obstruction statute.
There’s big trouble ahead and we won’t be able to say that no one saw it coming.
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...
No one is immune to the impacts of plastic pollution, and we are running out of time.