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Trillionaires at the Gates

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Bob Lord

I Lost My Father to Violence—Executing the Wrong Man Won’t Bring Justice

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Tori Battle

Our Unequal Economy Means the US Can't Quit War

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Emanuel Pastreich

Whatever Happened to Trump’s 'Golden Age' for American Workers?

Whatever Happened to Trump’s 'Golden Age' for American Workers?

Trump administration policies have lowered wages, reduced employment, and made work less safe.

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Lawrence Wittner

'The Humanity Cohort': Med School Graduates Offer Hope in Gaza

'The Humanity Cohort': Med School Graduates Offer Hope in Gaza

Israel has waged a systematic campaign to destroy Gaza’s healthcare delivery and to kill or imprison healthcare professionals, but these 168...

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Kathy Kelly

Alone for the Holidays? Blame Late Stage Capitalism

Alone for the Holidays? Blame Late Stage Capitalism

Loneliness is not an individual pathology. It is a failure of how we have designed our economy, our politics, and our shared spaces.

yesterday 4

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Sarah Van Gelder

From Powell to Venezuela: The High Cost of Evidence-Free Escalation

From Powell to Venezuela: The High Cost of Evidence-Free Escalation

We are witnessing the reemergence of a dangerous repetition: one where the pattern of assertion becomes the prelude to action, and where action can...

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Angel Gomez

Stephen Miller, Frank Sinatra, and the Promise and Limits of American Liberalism ​

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Jeffrey C. Isaac

The Least Among Us: The Elemental Heart of the Story

The Least Among Us: The Elemental Heart of the Story

This holiday season, writes John Pavlovitz, "it’s a Herculean task to let our hearts be light." Daily, we confront the afflictions of an impossibly...

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Abby Zimet

Donald Trump’s First Year Report Card Made Public: D+

Donald Trump’s First Year Report Card Made Public: D+

Trump spent 2025 in a full-throated effort to destroy US democracy.

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Paul Josephson

Trump Cabinet Officials Re-Name Themselves

Trump Cabinet Officials Re-Name Themselves

“Good enough for a battleship, it’s good enough for me,” said Homeland Security chief Kristi Trump-Noem.

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Mitchell Zimmerman

No, Trump Did Not End Taxes on Social Security

No, Trump Did Not End Taxes on Social Security

Time after time, fact-checkers and news outlets have pointed out that contrary to Trump and Vance’s claims, the “One Big Beautiful Bill” (OBBB) did...

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Martin Burns

As the Year Ends, What Did We Choose to Fund?

As the Year Ends, What Did We Choose to Fund?

Cancer and other noncommunicable diseases remain chronically underfunded in low- and middle-income countries. This neglect is not only unjust; it...

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Navid Madani

Progressive Educator Myles Horton's Lessons for Fighting for Social Justice Today

Progressive Educator Myles Horton's Lessons for Fighting for Social Justice Today

Horton’s work offers a compelling model of how popular education can contribute to progressive change, fostering critical thinking in slow times...

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Mark Engler

What's at Stake When the President Uses the R-Word

What's at Stake When the President Uses the R-Word

The real question is not whether Trump is allowed to use degrading language, but whether a president who does so honors the dignity of the...

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George Cassidy Payne

What Part Is Canada Playing in Trump's Murder Spree at Sea?

What Part Is Canada Playing in Trump's Murder Spree at Sea?

Ottawa should break its silence now and speak out against the unlawful attacks and extrajudicial killings of civilians by US military forces in the...

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Rick Arnold

Clean Energy Bright Spots in a Trump-Clouded Year

Clean Energy Bright Spots in a Trump-Clouded Year

Clean energy is strong. And in 2025, it showed its strength in some really notable ways, as momentum, economics, policies, and people carried clean...

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John Rogers

Trump Is Just the Gilded Nail in the Coffin of the American Century

Trump Is Just the Gilded Nail in the Coffin of the American Century

If the first 25 years of the 21st century have proved anything, it is that America was emotionally, morally, and intellectually incapable of acting...

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David Hearst

Tacoma Activists Offer a Model for Building People Power

Tacoma Activists Offer a Model for Building People Power

With mainstream US politics offering at the moment only Trumpian neofascism and tepid, corporate-friendly Democratic progressivism, a group of...

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Chris Green

Backward American Capitalism (and Trump) Are Getting Electrical Vehicles All Wrong

The dirty fossil fuel industry keeping gas-powered vehicles on the road are like the horse-and-buggy companies of 1902, which laughed at Henry...

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Juan Cole

Instacart, Stop Using American Shoppers as Lab Rats During an Affordability Crisis

Instacart, Stop Using American Shoppers as Lab Rats During an Affordability Crisis

The grocery delivery app is conducting large-scale, hidden pricing experiments on unsuspecting shoppers to determine just how much money they can...

26.12.2025 7

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Lindsay Owens

What Mess Will Trump Have Made of the USA by 2029?

What Mess Will Trump Have Made of the USA by 2029?

If he simply persists in his policies for another 37 months, his impact on the American version of a world order will undoubtedly prove so profound...

26.12.2025 4

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Alfred W. Mccoy

The Morbidly Rich Have Killed the American Dream

The Morbidly Rich Have Killed the American Dream

The promise that if you work hard and play by the rules, you will get ahead, or if you don’t, surely your children will, was broken long ago. But...

26.12.2025 4

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John Miller

JD Vance Is Wrong: DEI Is Not What’s Dividing America—He Is

JD Vance Is Wrong: DEI Is Not What’s Dividing America—He Is

In the America that Vance envisions, people are only judged for "who they are"—unless they’re immigrants, transgender, women, Muslims, or people of...

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Jordan Liz