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Let’s be clear. The problem is not the protesters. It’s the armed thugs who are shooting and murdering them.

The most violent period of Israeli aggression in the West Bank since the Second Intifada has been largely overlooked, in part because of the sheer...

If climate change isn’t reason enough to break the political power of this industry, its role in incentivizing war and conflict is another.

The existence of this profoundly unaccountable, overtly fascist military apparatus poses a structural danger to our democracy. This is why "Abolish...

Democrats in Congress must hold hearings to protect beneficiaries.

We taxpayers fund ICE, the Border Patrol, and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s salary (and her two jets). Without congressional action...

Violence has followed wherever President Donald Trump has dispatched immigration agents in the name of “public safety.”

All of us have a dark side, and Trump has been successfully summoning the darkness of his supporters. Go get ’em, boys! And wear your masks.

Venezuela needs recovery, investment, and reform but that process must be led by Venezuelans, not dictated by foreign powers claiming historical...

The response to this act, regardless of one’s political orientation or views on the Maduro government, will determine whether the concepts of...

Despite affecting far more people than the 2017 ban, Trump's second ban passed almost without notice: no airport protests, no sustained outrage,...

Kristi Noel’s preposterous lies about the killing confirm that ICE encourages agent violence.

We now know that most of the big money boys couldn’t care less about democracy, but it's worth asking how the markets will react if the current US...

It's imperative that we stand up to the forces of ecocide, while developing a more realistic vision of the better world that awaits us once we’ve...

A republic cannot survive this indefinitely. The removal of Donald Trump from office—which is now imperative—is not about vengeance; it is about...

The Trump administration is trying to prop up coal at the expense of cheaper sources of energy like wind and solar that would benefit the nation as...

It’s virtually impossible to predict what lies ahead for Iran and its people. But if President Donald Trump decides to take military action against...

The Democrats could push Trump—or go around him to make better inroads with working people—but will they dare to take that leap? One would hope so,...

The Trump-Vance administration believed they could turn back the clock on the LGBTQI community by cutting services, weaponizing laws and...

I sit with the reality that I have no idea what Iranians really want. I don’t know what they go through day to day. I haven’t been on the ground. I...

I began writing for TomDispatch during Barack Obama’s somewhat disappointing second presidential term, observed with horror Trump’s first time...

Trump has unleashed violence on America’s streets for much the same reason he has unleashed violence on Latin America and is planning to unleash it...

The atrocities and the fury mount. Astoundingly, after a murderous thug shot a mother of three in the face in broad daylight - "He didn't kill her...

Right-wing leaders are trying to convince all of us that what we saw on video with our own eyes was not actually what we saw, and for far too many,...

The popular protests in Iran are just, but rolling back the regime through US intervention, rather than through the actions of the Iranian people...

Billionaire Larry Ellison's takeover of US TikTok is a clear attempt to censor pro-Palestine content on the popular social media app. Here's how...

In light of the Trump administration’s lies, the odds of getting a credible federal probe into the killing of Renee Good are slim.

AI data centers have been added to the limited menu for economic development in marginalized US communities, but people in those communities have...

When a key treaty expires on February 5, Russian and American leaders will face no barriers whatsoever to the expansion of their nuclear arsenals...

$30 billion of federal spending for ACA subsidies is a drop in the bucket of a $1 trillion defense budget.

At the heart of this test lie two irreconcilable viewpoints: those who align themselves with armed agents and the task of protecting America from...

Even though many things are currently moving in the wrong direction, there are also reasons for hope and prospects for positive developments.