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Toxic Waters Know No Borders: The Tijuana River Crisis

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Sofia Barboza

Gabbard and Trump’s Obama Treason ‘Claims’ Fuel Violent Far-Right Fantasies

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Wendy Via

The GOP Is Taking Food From Kids to Give Billionaires a Tax Break

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Ta&39Kyla Bates

How to Make Sure People and the Planet Don’t Pay for the Data Center Buildout

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Maria Chavez

Trump Brings the Authoritarianism We Propped up in the Middle East Back Home

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Juan Cole

Trump’s Gravestones, Carved by Reality Denial

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Steven Day

Do the Starving in Gaza Feel Betrayed by Humanity?

Do the Starving in Gaza Feel Betrayed by Humanity?

What do they feel, knowing that they have survived thousands of air strikes, artillery shells, field executions, epidemics, and the collapse of the...

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Maha Hussaini

Let’s (Not) Choose Sides and Fight

Let’s (Not) Choose Sides and Fight

It would be harder to stoke homicidal zeal if everyone understood that behind all our hostilities is the simple, though stark, reality that...

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Richard Heinberg

The Disappearing Face of Authority

The Disappearing Face of Authority

When those who enforce the law hide their faces, democracy itself is under threat. But history shows people can—and have—pushed back.

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George Cassidy Payne

Watching The Trump Administration Violate Basic Human Rights with Impunity

Watching The Trump Administration Violate Basic Human Rights with Impunity

How long it will be before the U.S. does not simply “do deals” with Bukele’s El Salvador, but become Bukele’s El Salvador on a much grander scale...

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Jeffrey C. Isaac

Urgent Appeal to Rep. McGovern: Stop the US-Israeli Starvation of Gaza

Urgent Appeal to Rep. McGovern: Stop the US-Israeli Starvation of Gaza

Are we expected to observe this genocide through starvation being conducted with our tax dollars, with our own government's full partnership,...

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Jennifer Scarlott

The Grassroots Fight For Affordable Housing

The Grassroots Fight For Affordable Housing

From Tacoma, Washington to Kansas City, Missouri, people power is key to creating communities where working people can live.

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Chris Green

Own Goal: Throwing Spaghetti At the Desperate Wall

Own Goal: Throwing Spaghetti At the Desperate Wall

Flailing to distract once-loyal cultists who've turned unexpectedly unruly on the murky matter of bestie Jeffrey Epstein - "The people are...

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Abby Zimet

To Resist Injustice in Gaza and the Wider World

To Resist Injustice in Gaza and the Wider World

Omar El Akkad’s excellent and troubling book, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, is an appeal to readers not to wait for “one...

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Charles Glass

Trump Is the Most Dangerous Criminal in US History

Trump Is the Most Dangerous Criminal in US History

His most dangerous crime is not simply corruption or obstruction, nor even incitement of insurrection: It’s the deliberate attempted destruction of...

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Thom Hartmann

How Can the Dems Win Back the Working Class? Economic Populism

How Can the Dems Win Back the Working Class? Economic Populism

A new report, which analyzes responses to 128 survey questions from gold standard academic surveys, finds that championing progressive economic...

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Sean Mason

A Battle for the Soul of America in Pennsylvania’s Bible Belt

A Battle for the Soul of America in Pennsylvania’s Bible Belt

There are Christians who are preaching and practicing the ministry of Jesus, the son of God, who himself was unhoused and undocumented and sided...

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Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis

The Big Bad Trump Refugee Machine

The Big Bad Trump Refugee Machine

U.S. President Donald Trump's climate denialism produces the refugee drives he publicizes and punishes.

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William E. Connolly

Trump’s Budget Plan Would Make America Sicker, Hungrier, Poorer, Dirtier, and Hotter

Trump’s Budget Plan Would Make America Sicker, Hungrier, Poorer, Dirtier, and Hotter

His spending vision depicts a country where basic government functions—like keeping water safe and providing safety nets—are destroyed and...

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Mia Difelice

Justice Under Siege: Trump and His Allies’ Assault on the Rule of Law Threatens Us All

Justice Under Siege: Trump and His Allies’ Assault on the Rule of Law Threatens Us All

Legal protections are meaningless if the government can disregard them at will.

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Maggie Jo Buchanan

Europe’s Betrayal of Gaza

Europe’s Betrayal of Gaza

Europe has a choice. It could follow the will of its citizens. Instead, it is chosinge profits over Palestinian lives.

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Medea Benjamin

Despite 2 Sabotage Attempts, the Gaza Flotilla Ship Handala Sails Onward

Despite 2 Sabotage Attempts, the Gaza Flotilla Ship Handala Sails Onward

The Handala departed for Gaza on July 20, 2025 with 21 participants, including seven U.S. citizens.

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Ann Wright

Stephen Colbert’s Firing: The Critical Unanswered Question

Stephen Colbert’s Firing: The Critical Unanswered Question

Why now? It was either pandering to Trump, management’s incompetence, or both.

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Steven Harper

All They Will Call You Will Be ‘Deportees’

All They Will Call You Will Be ‘Deportees’

A recording of an iconic Woody Guthrie folk song has resurfaced just as the Trump administration has unleashed another wave of deportations against...

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Chuck Idelson

Beyond Thoughts and Prayers: Climate Catastrophes as Teachable Moments

Beyond Thoughts and Prayers: Climate Catastrophes as Teachable Moments

We need to talk about the choices presented to us by the Texas flooding tragedy—and all the others that will come.

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Paul Rogat Loeb

We Need Human Connection to Heal Democracy and Build Shared Prosperity

We Need Human Connection to Heal Democracy and Build Shared Prosperity

If we want to have an economic system that looks out for everyone—a system of belonging and inclusion—we must improve how we relate to each other.

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Alvaro S. Sanchez

I Went From Chicago to Egypt to March for Gaza—This Was My Experience

I Went From Chicago to Egypt to March for Gaza—This Was My Experience

The lesson: Egypt is in full “compliance” with Israeli directives, fully complicit in its crimes toward the people of Gaza, and never had the...

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Nancy Roberts

Despite Board Capitulation, NEA Teachers Still Reject Anti-Defamation League

Despite Board Capitulation, NEA Teachers Still Reject Anti-Defamation League

NEA's commitment to free speech may be tested should the ADL object to teachers introducing lessons on the history of Zionist erasure of Palestine.

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Marcy Winograd

Don’t Listen to the Corporate Media; Progressive Candidates Are on a Roll

Don’t Listen to the Corporate Media; Progressive Candidates Are on a Roll

The Times’ repeated attempts to twist reality to fit a narrative depicting the collapse of progressive politics is evidence that just the opposite...

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Sam Rosenthal

The Status of Palestinian Resistance: an Interview With Jibril Rajoub

The Status of Palestinian Resistance: an Interview With Jibril Rajoub

The secretary general of Fatah’s Central Committee delivers indispensable insight on topics such as Fatah-Hamas unification, Israeli fascism, the...

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Richard Mcdaniel