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Close Guantánamo Permanently to Prevent It Being Used for Further Human Rights Abuses

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Farrah Hassen

We Can Accelerate the Clean Energy Transition, Even Under Trump

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Matt Traldi

Trump’s South Africa Executive Order Reflects the Global History of White Supremacy

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Zeb Larson

Real Horror Could Lurk Beneath Trump’s Social Security Zombies Lie

Real Horror Could Lurk Beneath Trump’s Social Security Zombies Lie

Elon Musk and Donald Trump may want to foster the belief that there are large numbers of dead people getting Social Security benefit so that they...

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Dean Baker

Resisting Trump and Musk’s Cultural Revolution

Resisting Trump and Musk’s Cultural Revolution

Team MAGA wants a “second American Revolution” that roots out all vestiges of progressivism, liberalism, and secularism and that “will remain...

yesterday 3

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John Feffer

We Too Must ‘Flood the Zone’

We Too Must ‘Flood the Zone’

Generate so many lawsuits to in effect flood the Supreme Court docket so that many cases brought against Trump will be forced to stay in the lower...

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Jeffrey Potent

This Tattoo Could Land You in Guantánamo

This Tattoo Could Land You in Guantánamo

The U.S. government is using tattoos, sometimes nothing more than a name, a date, or even a tribute to a favorite athlete, as justification to...

yesterday 3

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Michelle Ellner

How Would Gandhi Have Faced Down Trump?

How Would Gandhi Have Faced Down Trump?

Whatever injustices, cruelties, and evils you seek to end, Gandhi’s life and message are worth studying and emulating.

yesterday 4

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Zoe Weil

10 Reasons for Modest Optimism in the Fight Against the Trump-Vance-Musk Regime

10 Reasons for Modest Optimism in the Fight Against the Trump-Vance-Musk Regime

They want a dictatorship built on hopelessness and fear, but we can take courage from the green shoots of rebellion now appearing across America...

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Robert Reich

The Trump Admin Is Engaging in Corruption on a Massive Scale to Benefit Big Oil

The Trump Admin Is Engaging in Corruption on a Massive Scale to Benefit Big Oil

By censoring and defunding climate science, Trump and his cronies are trying to erase the link between extreme weather impacts and fossil fuel...

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Basav Sen

Our 2 Choices: Join the Democratic Party to Transform It, or Acquiesce to Fascism

Our 2 Choices: Join the Democratic Party to Transform It, or Acquiesce to Fascism

Because of the structure of American society and politics, the Democratic Party is the only institution positioned to challenge, defeat, and...

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Alan Minsky

Energy Transfer Is Putting Free Speech and Climate Activism on Trial

Energy Transfer Is Putting Free Speech and Climate Activism on Trial

A lawsuit against Greenpeace in North Dakota threatens the existence of all nonprofits.

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Davin Faris

Why Trump Is Detaining Migrants Out of Sight and Out of Mind in Guantánamo Bay

Why Trump Is Detaining Migrants Out of Sight and Out of Mind in Guantánamo Bay

Whatever the treatment of the “worst of the worst” at or near that infamous prison, now a recyclable holder for whoever is the enemy of the day, it...

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Andrea Mazzarino

Intentional Journalism Owes a Debt to the Dead in a Swedish Mass Shooting

Intentional Journalism Owes a Debt to the Dead in a Swedish Mass Shooting

The majority of those who died were immigrants to Sweden, and the debt is simple: telling their stories in a way that counters common stereotypes...

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Christian Christensen

Trump and Musk Are Returning Us to the Age of the Robber Barons

Trump and Musk Are Returning Us to the Age of the Robber Barons

For generations, the ultra-rich have been pushing to overthrow the Progressive Era’s and the New Deal’s utilitarian reforms. They have now found...

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Peter F. Crowley

Trump's Bogus 'Unitary Executive' Theory and the Dismantling of Democracy

Trump's Bogus 'Unitary Executive' Theory and the Dismantling of Democracy

We are a nation of laws, and we cannot be ruled by executive fiat.

thursday 9

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John Bergmayer

In Defiance of Monsters: Resisting the Trump-Musk Kleptocracy

In Defiance of Monsters: Resisting the Trump-Musk Kleptocracy

The tepid pushback from the courts, the Democratic Party, and most of the media make it clear that the heart of resistance only beats beyond the...

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Brian Tierney

No Nazis: Be Like Chris Kluwe, And All Who Came Before

No Nazis: Be Like Chris Kluwe, And All Who Came Before

Amidst the dark chaos, we got a "masterclass in effective resistance" this week when former NFL punter Chris Kluwe rose in a California city...

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Abby Zimet

Attacking Trump Without a Positive Alternative Is a Losing Game

Attacking Trump Without a Positive Alternative Is a Losing Game

Trump winning twice is not an accident. It’s the result of the abject failure of a left political strategy that ignores financial reform and...

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Les Leopold

What We Can Learn From Leonard Peltier: ‘I Rise Only When I Help You Rise’

The release of Leonard Peltier after nearly half a century in prison offers a chance for a reflection on the nature of justice and how we treat...

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Robert C. Koehler

To Curb Government Waste, Musk Should Start With Pentagon Contractors... Like Himself

To Curb Government Waste, Musk Should Start With Pentagon Contractors... Like Himself

The Pentagon’s deep over-reliance on private corporations not only wastes billions of taxpayer dollars, but also feeds conflicts and contributes to...

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Chisom Okorafor

An Actual Neofascist Coup Is Now Underway in the United States

An Actual Neofascist Coup Is Now Underway in the United States

Trump’s attempt to incite a coup in 2021 and his subsequent victory in the 2024 presidential election speak volumes of the democratic decline in...

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C.j. Polychroniou

Musk Is Lying About Waste and Fraud in Social Security to Have an Excuse to Kill It

Musk Is Lying About Waste and Fraud in Social Security to Have an Excuse to Kill It

The richest man alive wants to cut off your benefits and then have Congress use the savings to give himself a gigantic tax cut.

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Nancy J. Altman

Who Voted for This?

Who Voted for This?

As Elon Musk destroys the federal labor force, a simple question emerges: Who voted for this?

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Steven Harper

The Last Thing Gaza Needs Is Another Blackwater

The Last Thing Gaza Needs Is Another Blackwater

Nearly 100 former U.S. special forces are patrolling a checkpoint in the middle of Gaza, as Palestinians return to their homes in the north. If the...

19.02.2025 3

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Nuvpreet Kalra

What Would Be a Truly Fair Way to Tax Capital Gains?

What Would Be a Truly Fair Way to Tax Capital Gains?

The Billionaires Income Tax proposal that Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) introduced last year would require billionaires to pay tax annually on the growth...

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Bob Lord

Will the EPA’s Zeldin Uphold His Agency’s Mission or Reverse the Endangerment Finding?

Will the EPA’s Zeldin Uphold His Agency’s Mission or Reverse the Endangerment Finding?

Gutting the Endangerment Finding would completely undermine EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and put a stop to all of EPA’s...

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Rachel Cleetus

For Cruel, Stupid, ​Dastardly Deeds Done and Proposed

For Cruel, Stupid, ​Dastardly Deeds Done and Proposed

A belated Happy (sic) Not My President's Day, from a populace bruised and reeling yet still defiant in the face of a right-wing junta by...

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Abby Zimet