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Trump, a Fascist Tyrant, Targets Universities and the Media

Trump, a Fascist Tyrant, Targets Universities and the Media

Trump is trying to destroy our nation's most vital asset—our innovative minds and ability to think for ourselves.

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Robert Reich

The Unyielding Reality—and Cruelty—of Israeli Settler Colonialism

The Unyielding Reality—and Cruelty—of Israeli Settler Colonialism

The only solution is that Israel's settler colonialism must be challenged, curtailed, and ultimately defeated.

yesterday 1

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Ramzy Baroud

The Painful Irony of Trump’s Plan to Build an American-Owned Gaza Riviera

The Painful Irony of Trump’s Plan to Build an American-Owned Gaza Riviera

Attempts to develop independent Palestinian economic growth through the Builders for Peace program 30 years ago were derailed by Israeli restrictions.

yesterday 1

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James Zogby

Small Town Courage Means the World in the Age of Trump

Small Town Courage Means the World in the Age of Trump

All over the country, resistance is rising. Here's my advice: be part of it.

yesterday 1

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Frida Berrigan

Can We Go Back from the Nuclear Brink? Time Will Tell

Can We Go Back from the Nuclear Brink? Time Will Tell

Simultaneously we face two interconnected existential threats. We must abolish nuclear weapons so that we can move forward and properly address our...

yesterday 1

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Robert Dodge

Mahmoud Khalil Is Not a Threat; the Trump Administration Is

Mahmoud Khalil Is Not a Threat; the Trump Administration Is

The arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil is part of the Trump administration’s larger project of creating and sustaining the illusion of endless...

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Nafisa Tanjeem

Team Trump Tries to Export Its Fossil Fuel Madness

Team Trump Tries to Export Its Fossil Fuel Madness

This week's gambit: Africa should rely on... coal

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Bill Mckibben

Could Reckoning With the Gaza War Revive International Law?

Could Reckoning With the Gaza War Revive International Law?

There is an opportunity for the international legal and political system to be fixed based on new standards, justice that applies to all, and...

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Ramzy Baroud

Elon Sinks Our Ships to Assure There Will Be No Going Back

Elon Sinks Our Ships to Assure There Will Be No Going Back

As Musk and crew gleefully erase 250 years of accomplishment—by turns, glorious and imperfect—they are creating a seemingly irreversible path to...

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Donna Cameron

Capitalism And The Lexicon Of Loneliness: Your Wounds Demand You Speak Your Truth

Capitalism And The Lexicon Of Loneliness: Your Wounds Demand You Speak Your Truth

Do not pretend to be anything other than yourself attempting to gain the approval of heartless authority and petty tyrants of the everyday kind.

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Phil Rockstroh

Like a Bad Neighbor, State Farm Is There... in California

Like a Bad Neighbor, State Farm Is There... in California

The insurers that played a role in facilitating the very climate disasters now affecting their former customers have effectively cut and run,...

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Lindsay Fenlock

Why DEI Was Doomed to Fail

Why DEI Was Doomed to Fail

DEI’s fundamental contradiction was this: It argued that race is a social invention—a system created to control people by reducing...

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Vinnie Rotondaro

Elon Musk's Shiny New Dystopia Is Just White Supremacy in Cyberpunk Dress

Elon Musk's Shiny New Dystopia Is Just White Supremacy in Cyberpunk Dress

The current cyber-coup in Washington, D.C. by this country’s tech broligarchy is intended in part to remove the stigma from the politics of hatred...

saturday 4

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Juan Cole

Trump’s Cabinet of Planet-Wreckers Are Destroying What They’ve Sworn to Protect

Trump’s Cabinet of Planet-Wreckers Are Destroying What They’ve Sworn to Protect

In just one month, the only demonstrated deference of Zeldin, Burgum, Wright, Duffy, and Lutnick is to President Trump’s mantra of “drill, baby,...

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Derrick Z. Jackson

Dear Canada: Beware of Peter Hoekstra!

Dear Canada: Beware of Peter Hoekstra!

As long as U.S. policy is one of annexation and domination, Hoekstra deserves to be treated as a hostile guest—not an ambassador worthy of...

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Hank Kennedy

Is It Happening Here?

Is It Happening Here?

Two generations of family history has convinced me that a deeply divided Weimer-like democracy can be destroyed from the inside out, even one that...

saturday 5

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David Helvarg

Women’s Land Rights: The Missing Key to Climate Action

Women’s Land Rights: The Missing Key to Climate Action

This year’s International Women’s Day theme, #AccelerateAction, calls on the world to address the structural barriers slowing progress. If we are...

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Lily Maxwell-Lwin

Democratic Leaders—Get Tough and Hold Unofficial Congressional Hearings By and For the People!

Democratic Leaders—Get Tough and Hold Unofficial Congressional Hearings By and For the People!

If the Democrats stand with the fast-growing resistance by the people, they can stop the Trump madness and save what is left of our democracy.

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Ralph Nader

Some Things are Worth Losing for the Greater Things We Gain

Some Things are Worth Losing for the Greater Things We Gain

Used as a poster child for health and justice in the academy when it was politically convenient, I am now facing intense repression for speaking up...

saturday 10

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Rupa Marya

Imperialist Peace: Trump’s Strategic Rebranding of Empire

Imperialist Peace: Trump’s Strategic Rebranding of Empire

His rhetoric of ending “forever wars” masks a calculated strategy—one that replaces direct military intervention with economic control, resource...

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Peter Bloom

What Could Come After NATO?

What Could Come After NATO?

If Trump moves forward with reducing U.S. involvement in the alliance, European countries may be forced to explore alternative security frameworks.

07.03.2025 10

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Robert Francis

Trump, Hitler, Dogs, Vance, Cats, Flags, and Putin

Trump, Hitler, Dogs, Vance, Cats, Flags, and Putin

Perhaps Trump’s big lie about Haitians eating pets was just a smokescreen to squelch speculations about something diabolical occurring at...

07.03.2025 6

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Steve Minkin

Don’t Let Trump and Musk Fire the Consumer Protection Referee

Don’t Let Trump and Musk Fire the Consumer Protection Referee

As we enter a period of our history defined by billionaire oligarchs and the rule of the richest, it’s more important than ever to have agencies...

07.03.2025 3

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Chloe Rogers

Gaza Cease-Fire Runs Into Sinister Brick Wall of Trump and Netanyahu

Gaza Cease-Fire Runs Into Sinister Brick Wall of Trump and Netanyahu

Due largely to the U.S. president's deference to Israel's far-right prime minister, the most likely near-term scenario for the Gaza Strip is thus a...

07.03.2025 4

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Paul Pillar

From Mardi Gras to Plastic-Free Fridays: The RISE of Sustainable Celebrations

From Mardi Gras to Plastic-Free Fridays: The RISE of Sustainable Celebrations

Whether you’re driven by a desire to protect the environment or the need to reduce waste mindfully, dedicating one day each week to a plastic-free...

07.03.2025 3

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Sharon Lavigne

In Support of Alien,104-Year-Old, Transgender Mice

In Support of Alien,104-Year-Old, Transgender Mice

if you've understandably been under a rock, know that our great leader just hurled a long weird bilious speech to what's left of Congress. He vowed...

06.03.2025 20

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Abby Zimet

Trump Presents the Gravest Threat to Social Security in Its 90-Year History

Trump Presents the Gravest Threat to Social Security in Its 90-Year History

It isn’t too late to stop this disaster. Everyone should call their members of Congress. Tell them that cuts to the Social Security Administration...

06.03.2025 2

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Nancy J. Altman

Trump Ushers in the Second Coming of McKinley’s Gilded Age Imperialism

Trump Ushers in the Second Coming of McKinley’s Gilded Age Imperialism

Trump’s foreign policy has already proved a surprising throwback to a McKinleyesque version of great-power politics marked by the urge to take...

06.03.2025 3

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Alfred W. Mccoy

Solidarity Lessons: Western MA Stands With Smith College Students for Justice in Palestine

Solidarity Lessons: Western MA Stands With Smith College Students for Justice in Palestine

We hope that communities and non-academic organizations across the country find ways to stand with all college and university students on the...

06.03.2025 1

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Jennifer Scarlott

Social Security Advantage: Trump and Musk’s Evil Plan to Privatize Our Safety Net

Social Security Advantage: Trump and Musk’s Evil Plan to Privatize Our Safety Net

The goal is to make interacting with Social Security such a difficult and painful process that retired Americans will get angry with the government...

06.03.2025 1

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Thom Hartmann

Negotiating a Lasting Peace in Ukraine

Negotiating a Lasting Peace in Ukraine

The time has arrived for diplomacy that brings collective security to Europe, Ukraine, and Russia.

06.03.2025 1

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Jeffrey D. Sachs

English as the Official US Language Is a Win for Trump's Culture War, But a Loser for All of Us

English as the Official US Language Is a Win for Trump's Culture War, But a Loser for All of Us

Immigrant families are the latest punished in our political—and informational—crisis.

06.03.2025 1

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Conor P. Williams