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A Victorious Hamburg Climate Resolution Is a Model of Hope-Fueled People Power

While the current German government is rolling back or even boycotting climate action, Hamburg is showing the world that grassroots climate action...

yesterday 30

Sabine Von Mering

Blessed Are the Peacemakers. And, No, None of Them Are Trump

People are tired of funding wars instead of aid and basic services that could help millions at home and abroad, but simply dumping on Trump’s...

yesterday 5

Diana Duarte

The Corporate 'Moderates' Had Their Chance—They Blew It

The moderate establishment looks at this moment and offers more of what created it. More of the same kind of visionless hopeless feckless...

yesterday 3

Corbin Trent

COP30: 'A Real Opening for Quicker Progress'

Why it's not all bad news for Bill McKibben regarding the climate crisis. Five questions to one of the leading environmentalists in the US.

yesterday 2

David Goeßmann

COP30: Climate Course Correction or Another Collision Course?

With 2024 confirmed as the hottest year ever on record, the US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, and the massive financial shortfalls left by...

yesterday 2

Rachael Mellor

Turn It Up: Hero With A Hero Is Icing On the Cake

Hope glimmers. After an election that saw "democrats in array" rising up to thunderously repudiate anything connected with a doddering tyrant - "...

previous day 10

Abby Zimet

While Trump Posts Marble Bathrooms, Americans Go Hungry

Trump plasters his social media with a floor-to-ceiling marble bathroom remodel while families across America wonder how they can keep their...

previous day 10

Emese Ilyés

Mandani's Win Proves That Hope Is Power

Perhaps the most important takeaway from Mr. Mamdani’s campaign is this: Hope grounded in possibility is the fuel for democracy.

previous day 4

Frances Moore Lappé

'Earth's Greatest Enemy' Shows Us We Have No Choice

A new documentary details how the US military is destroying all forms of life—from oceans, plants, and animals to the communities it attacks and...

previous day 3

Aaron Kirshenbaum

The Hemispheric Presidency: Emergency Powers and the New US Doctrine in Latin America

Trump's emerging doctrine is anchored in the expansion of presidential authority, representing the full extension of the unitary executive theory...

previous day 3

Jose Atiles

Why Aren't American Farmers Protesting in the Streets?

Perhaps farmers in the United States should look south, to Mexico specifically, for guidance on what they should do to improve their economic...

previous day 1

Anthony Pahnke

Bad Bunny vs. MAGA’s Bigoted Vision of America

The hatefulness and histrionics of Trump's allies exemplify how the ill-formed and culturally biased so easily make fools of themselves.

previous day 2

Ediberto Román

Mandani Won by Centering the Needs of New Yorkers

Mamdani has taken a page out of the Community Health Scientists’ playbook and has developed a plan by the people and for the people.

friday 5

Daylan Dufelmeier

Time to Flex: Lessons for Mamdani From My Time With AOC

You can’t change a system by sending one or two people into it and hoping for the best. You have to build and use political power to break the...

friday 2

Corbin Trent

Our Cities Are Not Training Grounds for War

What neighborhoods need are affordable housing, accessible healthcare, well-funded schools, and good jobs—not Humvees on their corners.

friday 3

Katerina Canyon

Mamdani Won New York City, But the Battle for Winning a Working-Class Agenda Has Just Begun

The battle for a more affordable and egalitarian society is just beginning. Leaders like Zohran Mamdani need to gain even deeper traction with...

friday 1

Les Leopold

Trump's Reckless War Drums in Nigeria Stink of Islamophobia and Imperial Arrogance

For the sake of Nigerian lives and the American soul, we must not allow Trump to drag America into a quagmire of his own making.

friday 2

Chloe Atkinson

It’s 2025. The AI Revolution Is Destroying the American Dream

The rise of AI will exacerbate income inequality throughout the country, and it’s the government’s duty to step up and take care of its citizens...

friday 1

Stephanie Justice

On Cheney, Trump, and the Nature of Violence

As a nation, as a unified planet, we need to create a future that’s bigger than Trump, bigger than Cheney—bigger than what they could imagine in...

06.11.2025 20

Robert C. Koehler

Welcome Back Inflation! Thanks to Trump, Soon You’ll Be Bigger Than Ever!

When Americans hurt by the rising cost of living believed Donald Trump, they made a big mistake.

06.11.2025 20

Mitchell Zimmerman

Mamdani's Win Is Proof That an Organized Public Can Defeat Organized Money

The most consistent project of elite politics is to cultivate resignation: Nothing can change, no one like you can win, best not to try. When that...

06.11.2025 10

Tim Hjersed

Trump's Murderous Policy Against Venezuela Is Part of a Bloody History

On the long tail of US intervention in Latin America and the Caribbean.

06.11.2025 2

Chuck Idelson

Mamdani’s Win and the Price of Urban Life: Why City Voters Are Seeking Change

The soaring costs of city life appear to be sending urban voters toward progressive leaders who promise relief, both in the US and globally.

06.11.2025 2

Lynn Parramore

MAMDANI WINS!!!—Now the Hard Work Begins

Any success he achieves as mayor will be due to the strength of the movement that prevailed in the primary and continued to grow for his election...

06.11.2025 1

Peter Olney

To the Long Hopeful Query, Is He Dead Yet? Yes.

Variously dubbed Darth Vader, the Prince of Darkness and "one of the most evil people to exist in modern history," Dick Cheney, the lying, blood-...

05.11.2025 2

Abby Zimet

Why the Left Should Not Join Trump or BRICS' Attack on Globalism

US hegemony and a neoliberal faith in unfettered markets are noxious to be sure, but don’t be fooled by autocrats championing sovereignty

05.11.2025 2

John Feffer

'New York, This City Belongs to You': Zohran Mamdani's Victory Speech

If tonight teaches us anything, it is that convention has held us back. We have bowed at the altar of caution, and we have paid a mighty price......

05.11.2025 9

Zohran Mamdani

The Democratic Party Needs a Soul, Not a Focus Group

What Deciding to Win and similar analyses miss is that the Democratic Party’s core challenge isn’t that it has moved too far left, but that it...

05.11.2025 2

Sam Rosenthal

How Cheney's Destructive War on Terror Became Trump's Authoritarian War on Truth

In seeking to defend democracy at all costs, Dick Cheney helped build the machinery that would one day dismantle it. His war on terror became our...

05.11.2025 2

George Cassidy Payne

The Second World Summit for Social Development: Mind the (Equality) Gap

Putting wind in the sails of the flagging UN Sustainable Development Goals

05.11.2025 1

Rachael Mellor

Voters To Democrats: Fight!

Democrats won big by fighting against Trump’s attempts at tyranny and pledging to do everything in their power to make America affordable for...

05.11.2025 1

Alex Lawson

When Palestine Was on the Ballot: The Meaning of Zohran Mamdani's Victory

Palestine is the moral litmus test of our time, and against all odds, the people of New York City voted for conscience.

05.11.2025 1

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A Victorious Hamburg Climate Resolution Is a Model of Hope-Fueled People Power

Sabine Von Mering

Blessed Are the Peacemakers. And, No, None of Them Are Trump

Diana Duarte

The Corporate 'Moderates' Had Their Chance—They Blew It

Corbin Trent

COP30: 'A Real Opening for Quicker Progress'

David Goeßmann

COP30: Climate Course Correction or Another Collision Course?

Rachael Mellor

Turn It Up: Hero With A Hero Is Icing On the Cake

Abby Zimet

While Trump Posts Marble Bathrooms, Americans Go Hungry

Emese Ilyés

Mandani's Win Proves That Hope Is Power

Frances Moore Lappé

'Earth's Greatest Enemy' Shows Us We Have No Choice

Aaron Kirshenbaum

The Hemispheric Presidency: Emergency Powers and the New US Doctrine in Latin America

Jose Atiles

Why Aren't American Farmers Protesting in the Streets?

Anthony Pahnke

Bad Bunny vs. MAGA’s Bigoted Vision of America

Ediberto Román

Mandani Won by Centering the Needs of New Yorkers

Daylan Dufelmeier

Time to Flex: Lessons for Mamdani From My Time With AOC

Corbin Trent

Our Cities Are Not Training Grounds for War

Katerina Canyon

Mamdani Won New York City, But the Battle for Winning a Working-Class Agenda Has Just Begun

Les Leopold

Trump's Reckless War Drums in Nigeria Stink of Islamophobia and Imperial Arrogance

Chloe Atkinson

It’s 2025. The AI Revolution Is Destroying the American Dream

Stephanie Justice

On Cheney, Trump, and the Nature of Violence

Robert C. Koehler

Welcome Back Inflation! Thanks to Trump, Soon You’ll Be Bigger Than Ever!

Mitchell Zimmerman

Mamdani's Win Is Proof That an Organized Public Can Defeat Organized Money

Tim Hjersed

Trump's Murderous Policy Against Venezuela Is Part of a Bloody History

Chuck Idelson

Mamdani’s Win and the Price of Urban Life: Why City Voters Are Seeking Change

Lynn Parramore

MAMDANI WINS!!!—Now the Hard Work Begins

Peter Olney

To the Long Hopeful Query, Is He Dead Yet? Yes.

Abby Zimet

Why the Left Should Not Join Trump or BRICS' Attack on Globalism

John Feffer

'New York, This City Belongs to You': Zohran Mamdani's Victory Speech

Zohran Mamdani

The Democratic Party Needs a Soul, Not a Focus Group

Sam Rosenthal

How Cheney's Destructive War on Terror Became Trump's Authoritarian War on Truth

George Cassidy Payne

The Second World Summit for Social Development: Mind the (Equality) Gap

Rachael Mellor

Voters To Democrats: Fight!

Alex Lawson

When Palestine Was on the Ballot: The Meaning of Zohran Mamdani's Victory

Zainab Chaudry