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The forces that have done so much to heat the planet and drive the nuclear arms race are today stronger than ever. The fact is that both must be...
The flag represents the imperfect but essential mechanisms of democracy that Trump’s regime so profoundly threatens, ones that allow us to keep...
Whatever the causes, the world has gone haywire and in the years ahead all of us will need courage more than ever.
While most Americans instinctively understand the threat U.S. militarism poses to democracy, the times call for more explicit links between...
If Congress actually imposes a work requirement for Medicaid recipients, it should also enact a governmental program to employ anybody who is...
This is a critical moment in U.S. history, and it demands that we stand strong in our opposition to the administration’s reckless and unlawful use...
Trump’s getting away with this even though nearly two-thirds of the public doesn’t agree with him on deporting hard-working immigrants. Where are...
What's playing out on the streets of Los Angeles and in the halls of Washington, D.C. is not a metaphor. This is a turning point.
As we protest authoritarianism this Saturday—and legitimately condemn the many anti-democratic and unjust actions of Trump—let us also remember the...
Trump's authoritarianism didn't come from nowhere. It came from decades of corporate power building a system of exploitation, then using their...
The images from Gaza haunt me not despite my Jewish identity, but because of it—because I recognize in Palestinian faces the same hollow...
Today in our deportation police state: ICE goons in combat gear like they're on recon in Fallujah abduct 4th-graders and dishwashers at taco...
No Kings Day isn’t just a rally. It’s a declaration. That we will not be ruled by strongmen. That we do not recognize the Trump family as royalty....
It would be very helpful to American democracy if the media would do its job and focus on the fact that the Garcia case represents a significant...
The world is watching. So are the people of Sudan. The question is whether the United States will choose complicity—or conscience. We must act now.
It is increasingly clear that the real threat lies not with the person crossing a border, working a warehouse shift, or marching in the street—but...
The administration's shock troops are not going over after criminals, but rather hard-working people nationwide simply going about their lives as...
Now is the moment to make it clear that the deep ocean, recognized by the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea as the common heritage of humankind,...
Most of the world agrees that apartheid inside a country’s borders is the epitome of injustice. But we have an entire world built like this.