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Trump's Greed New Deal

The Republican president's rampant mining and drilling could potentially be the ultimate act of destruction that the prophets have predicted.

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Joshua Frank

The New Frontline: How Technology Fuels Awakening—And Punishes Dissent

As the U.S. deepens its support for Israel, social media has become both a site of political awareness and a tool of control, where anti-war...

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Saleema Gul

Sinister Dark Money Is Consuming US Democracy

A new Brennan Center study found that dark money groups spent almost $2 billion on the 2024 election, roughly double the total spent in 2020.

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Daniel I. Weiner

Grifter-in-Chief Trump and the Grift That Keeps on Grifting

In case you haven't noticed, the bribes Trump is taking are getting bigger and bigger.

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Robert Reich

Climate Policy on Thin Ice: A Lesson from Canada

Canada’s experience with its carbon price-and-dividend system for fossil fuels has important implications for the rest of the world, including the...

yesterday 2

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James K. Boyce

An Open Letter to Mahmoud Khalil and Noor Abdalla’s Newborn Child

The miracle of this moment is that even genocide cannot exterminate our will to live, nor the love that endures through the pain.

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Nyle Fort

Still Marching: 25 Years After the Million Mom March

We didn’t march 25-years ago because we wanted to. We marched because we had to—children were dying. They still are.

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Heidi Yewman

Meet the People Profiting from US Military Aid to Israel

A genocide backed by economic interests is a big problem involving powerful actors. However, many people are taking action to affect the status quo.

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Alix Underwood

Advanced Recycling Is a Fraud—And the Big Oil Plastics Industry Knows It

This is just a new version of a sad and familiar story: the plastics industry's attempt to use the idea of recycling to protect its license to...

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Davis Allen

Which Is Not Like the Other: Teeth or a Windshield?

Happy Mother's Day 2025.

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Donna Smith

The US Is in Free Fall, But We Can Turn Things Around by Valuing Our Neighbors Over Money

The United States’ version of capitalism has systematically failed its population through corporate greed and manipulation of the legislature. But...

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Quenten Sheldon

The Extinction Order: Trump’s Executive Order 14270 Doesn’t Deregulate; It Dismantles

Henry David Thoreau once wrote, “In wildness is the preservation of the world.” But wildness cannot survive without protection, and protection is...

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John Marks

Scapegoating Wild Birds Won’t Solve Avian Flu: We Need Radical Farming Reform

As we reflect on the wonder of migratory birds, and the spotlight focuses on how our cities and communities can be made more bird-friendly, we must...

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Peter Stevenson

The GOP Is Already Planning to Win the Midterms... by Suppressing Your Vote!

The party is taking no chances on the upcoming plebiscite and has hatched a plan to rig all future federal elections with the goal of transforming...

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Bill Blum

Trump Is Robbing Public Health to Pay for His Deportation Conveyer Belt

For $40 billion-worth of health cuts to come as our government wants to spend $45 billion to become Amazon-efficient at shipping human beings to...

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Derrick Z. Jackson

Your Designated Sports Break From Trumpalooza

Here are eight topics currently lost in the sauce to take our minds and emotions off the Trump-backed whale. Then it’s time to get back in the game...

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Robert Lipsyte

Hope Is Not a Strategy: The Urgent Need for India and Pakistan to De-escalate

The heinous terrorist attack near Pahalgam in Indian-administered Kashmir on April 22 and the retaliatory May 6 missile and drone attacks by India,...

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Daryl G. Kimball

Trump's Tax Rate for Richest Would Affect Very Little of Their Income

Nobody should be deceived: The wealthiest taxpayers got enormous tax breaks from Trump’s 2017 law and are getting additional large tax breaks in...

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Steve Wamhoff

We Are the Evil Empire We’ve Been Looking for

The U.S. has the mega-weapons and the urge to dominate of Darth Vader and yet, miraculously enough, we continue to believe that we’re Luke...

09.05.2025 6

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William Astore

Trump Is Making the Pentagon an Even Bigger Budget Buster, Purging Programs People Need

In the Republican’s budget, programs elevating lives in the working and middle class are sacrificed to enrich the wealthiest and the defense...

09.05.2025 2

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Frederic H. Decker

Instead of ‘Abundance,’ Let’s Have a Conversation About ‘Shared Prosperity’

“Abundance” without an eye for who the abundance serves runs the risk of exacerbating the problem at the core of our economic challenges—the...

09.05.2025 2

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Alvaro S. Sanchez

Pope Leo XIV Must Follow in Francis’ Footsteps and Stand up for the Environment and Against Nuclear Weapons

There is much that Pope Leo XIV can do to advance a better world. Following Francis, he has big shoes to fill.

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Ivana Nikolić Hughes

Starbase: the Future Trump and Musk Want for America

Starbase is a company town, and America is starting to look like one big national company town.

09.05.2025 10

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Robert Reich

Can We Build a World of Sanctuary Cities?

A sanctuary city is a place of reverence, committed to the enormous value that all people are fully human. This is the first step to true...

08.05.2025 6

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Robert C. Koehler

How Can the Global South Fulfill the Promise of Bandung in the 21st Century?

To celebrate the spirit of Bandung is not simply to mark 70 years since the Asia-Africa Conference, but to affirm what being faithful to its...

08.05.2025 5

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Walden Bello

Missouri Puts Profits Over People's Lives With New Israeli Chemical Limited Facility

A new ICL facility would further establish St. Louis as a hub of militarization and an exporter of global death and destruction while threatening...

08.05.2025 10

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Lauren Filla

Why Ours Became the First US Pension Fund to Cease New Tesla Stock Purchases

Tesla no longer behaves like a company focused on innovation, customer loyalty, or product integrity. It behaves like a company driven by ego.

08.05.2025 2

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Mark Pinsley

Why Is US Congress Silent on the Manmade Nightmare It Is Enabling in Gaza?

History will not forgive our complicity. The time is long overdue for us to end our support for Netanyahu’s destruction of the Palestinian people.

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Bernie Sanders

How Trump Promotes Grotesque Corporate Lawlessness

Dropping corporate cases en masse, as the Trump administration is doing, portends a return to recklessness and greed that fueled corporate...

08.05.2025 2

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Rick Claypool

The 2024 Election Was Smothered in Dark Money—How Do We Turn on the Lights?

A new Brennan Center study found that dark money groups spent almost $2 billion on the 2024 election, roughly double the total spent in 2020.

08.05.2025 2

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Daniel I. Weiner