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The Left Needs a New Globalization Vision to Counter the Far-Right Surge

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C.j. Polychroniou

Trump’s Chaotic Tariffs Benefit His Best Buddy Elon (As We Predicted)

Musk’s proximity to the White House and Trump’s innermost circle has provided him with powerful new leverage to push his businesses on foreign...

yesterday 10

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Sarah Grace Spurgin

The Conquest of Gaza and the Dissolving of Humanity

Both Spanish officials in the Americans then and Israeli spokesmen now have openly declared their intention to “conquer” their enemies by forcing...

yesterday 7

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Greg Grandin

Trump and His Feral Crew of Wreckers Want to Kill America’s Future

The House budget is the Make America Immobile Act. Trump is doing his best to freeze things in place: on behalf of oil companies that want to keep...

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Bill Mckibben

The Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza Must End Now

How does a genocide end? And specifically, how do people of conscience, acting with majority support of the U.S. public, organize to end it?

yesterday 10

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Kevin Martin

UK Foreign Secretary’s Empty Words: Weapons and Spy Flights Expose Hollow Promises

Lammy called Israel’s escalation of the genocide “morally unjustifiable.” But what is beyond unjustifiable is for Lammy to say this while directly...

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Nuvpreet Kalra

Sen. Collins Must Do More to Truly Stand Up for Energy Assistance

In her questioning she did not challenge the nonsensical reasoning of the Trump administration. Instead, Sen. Collins, who certainly should know...

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Martin Burns

A Sea Of Sorrow: Mindless Cruelty Remains the Point

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Abby Zimet

Medicaid Cuts Put Services for Vulnerable People at Grave Risk

Medicaid doesn’t just provide healthcare. It is the single largest payer for the community-based services people with intellectual and...

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Barbara Merrill

Systematic Starvation: Genocide and the Engineered Collapse of Gazan Society

The deliberate destruction of food systems, water infrastructure, medical systems, and communal cohesion is not incidental, it is an intentional...

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Yoav Litvin

Laura Loomer: Trump Whisperer

Meet the influential right-wing conspiracy theorist who has U.S. President Donald Trump’s ear.

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Steven Harper

Abortion Pills Aren't Uncomfortable; Censorship Is

Here's my message to The Times-Picayune and every other institution that finds truth "uncomfortable": Get comfortable with discomfort. Because...

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Liv Raisner

The House’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Is Only Beautiful If You’re Rich

The bill will cut 8.6 million people off Medicaid to pay for tax cuts that overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy, among other provisions that most...

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Robert Reich

The Tip Trick: How the Trump Budget Starves the Working Class

It takes programs that millions rely on—Medicaid, food assistance, student aid—and sacrifices them to fund tax breaks that primarily benefit those...

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Matt Watkins

A Proposed House Tax Break Would Help the Rich at the Expense of the Rest

Extending or increasing a deduction for pass-through businesses is likely to exacerbate economic inequality, while delivering no economic benefits...

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Ignacio Gonzalez

Is This the Beginning of the End for Benjamin Netanyahu's Political Career?

It remains uncertain how long Netanyahu will remain in power, but his political standing has significantly deteriorated as he faces widespread...

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Ramzy Baroud

Don’t Be Fooled: the Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project Is a Corporate Land Grab

This project is a textbook case of environmental injustice. It would carve through preserved farmland and forests, pollute streams and wetlands,...

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Karyn Strickler

From Power as an Aphrodisiac to Prostate Cancer: Democrats and the Fall of Joe Biden

The presidency is the ultimate source of power in American politics. But individuals lusting for power does not typically end well for the masses—...

wednesday 3

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Les Leopold

We've Endured a Half-Century of Kleptocrats' Plunder of People's Wealth and Health

Neoliberalism has spurred 45 years of financialization, as Wall St. pillages-for-profit every sector, from healthcare to housing.

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Michele Swenson

Dear Refaat Alareer: A Letter of Gratitude

As per your wishes we’re striving to live—hopefully a deeper and more reflective life, including a life of action against the genocide in Palestine...

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Claudia Lefko

Trump and Co Are Doing Their Best to Make America White Again (As If It Ever Was!)

Along with overlapping groups, including immigrants, transgender and other LGBTQ folks, women, and union workers, Black Americans are clear...

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Rebecca Gordon

Take This Home With You: Let Freedom Ring

The indefatigable Bruce Springsteen just launched his aptly bittersweet Land of Hope & Dreams Tour in England, where he preceded three songs in...

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Abby Zimet

Trump Cares More About Growing Fossil Fuel Profits Than Shrinking Your Energy Bill

Many things the Trump administration does are simply designed to waste energy, because that is good for the incumbent producers, i.e. Big Oil.

20.05.2025 2

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Bill Mckibben

Trump’s America First Agenda Threatens the Fight Against Global Poverty

As it retreats from multilateralism, the Trump administration is rejecting the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals, which provide a blueprint to...

20.05.2025 10

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Christian Mortelliti

A Graduation Message Amid the Trumpian Assault on Higher Education

Pick up the pieces and imagine the worlds of collective liberation that you have practiced building in classrooms where you worked across...

20.05.2025 10

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Emese Ilyés

Republicans Are Trying, But They Can’t Stop Abortion Pills

Despite RFK Jr.’s review of mifepristone, two things will remain true: Abortions pills will still be extremely safe, and abortion pills will still...

20.05.2025 3

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Elisa Wells

How Many Dead Palestinian Children Are Enough?

This is ethnic cleansing, pure and simple. The goal is to eliminate Palestinians from both Gaza and the West Bank, as well as Jerusalem.

20.05.2025 2

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Gary Smith

Attacks on ‘Political’ Graduation Speakers Are Craven Attacks on Intellectual Freedom

All students, faculty, and staff—and indeed all who care about public education—are threatened by the “The New Campus McCarthyism,” which...

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Jeffrey C. Isaac