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The Latest Chapter in the Ghislaine Maxwell Saga

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Steven Harper

For Social Security’s 90th Birthday, Don’t Celebrate–Organize!

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Martin Burns

Trump Is Vulnerable to Progressive Populism

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John Ripton

Trump’s Attacks on Citizenship Reveal a Deeper Problem with ‘Citizenship’ Itself

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Suruchi Rajan

The Misleading Allure of Plastic Credits

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Miko Aliño

Health Is a Basic Human Right—It’s Time Our Laws, Systems, and Values Reflected That

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Phillip Polakoff

Hello, Fascism

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Christopher Impiglia

Privatizing Freddie and Fannie Is Another Trump Scheme to Make the Rich Richer

Privatizing Freddie and Fannie Is Another Trump Scheme to Make the Rich Richer

The basic story here is that in order to give donors in the financial industry still more money, Trump is planning to privatize a perfectly well-...

yesterday 9

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Dean Baker

Christian Nationalism for Lunch? Thanks, But No Thanks

Christian Nationalism for Lunch? Thanks, But No Thanks

A new U.S. Office of Personnel Management memo allowing workplace proselytizing is not a great recipe for harmonious and productive coworker...

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Michael Felsen

We’re Going After Wells Fargo—Here’s Why

We’re Going After Wells Fargo—Here’s Why

On August 15, we’re planning a nationwide day of actions at Wells Fargo’s headquarters, corporate offices, and branches across the country, to...

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Michelle Merrill

Fear Can’t Hold Forever: How the Machinery of Tyranny Destroys Itself

Fear Can’t Hold Forever: How the Machinery of Tyranny Destroys Itself

When rulers isolate people to keep control, they also plant the seeds of their own downfall.

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George Cassidy Payne

Don’t Put a Social Security Hater in Charge of Our Economic Data

Don’t Put a Social Security Hater in Charge of Our Economic Data

With the nomination of EJ Antoni to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there is reason to be fearful of the Trump administration massaging or...

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Will Royce

The Dems Could Have Shielded DC From Trump By Pushing for Statehood When It Mattered

The Dems Could Have Shielded DC From Trump By Pushing for Statehood When It Mattered

As in so many arenas of American politics today, the Democrats’ inability or unwillingness to seize more power when the opportunity presents itself...

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Sam Rosenthal

Why Pointing the US Military at Cartels Won’t Stop the Flow of Drugs

Why Pointing the US Military at Cartels Won’t Stop the Flow of Drugs

The Trump administration may present this as some magic solution that will win the drug war once and for all, but the reality is bullets and bombs...

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Daniel R. Depetris

What Would It Mean to Remember Hiroshima Without Hypocrisy?

What Would It Mean to Remember Hiroshima Without Hypocrisy?

There is no true way to meaningfully honor its memory while so many countries, including the one that dropped the first bomb, actively prepare for...

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Eric Ross

Speak Out Now Against Netanyahu's Final Solution for Gaza

Speak Out Now Against Netanyahu's Final Solution for Gaza

It is morally and ethically irresponsible for mainstream Jewish and Christian groups not to condemn Netanyahu's continuation of the war as genocide.

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Steve Minkin

Killing the Witness: Gaza’s Journalists and the Global Blueprint of Disappearance

Killing the Witness: Gaza’s Journalists and the Global Blueprint of Disappearance

The Israeli missile that hit Al Jazeera’s tent targeted more than five people; it struck at the principle that the public has a right to know and...

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John Marks

The EPA Is Abandoning the 10 Commandments of Climate Policy

The EPA Is Abandoning the 10 Commandments of Climate Policy

By repealing the Endangerment Finding, Administrator Lee Zeldin is disabling the central moral and legal framework designed to keep us safe and...

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Rabbi Jennie Rosenn

Until Our Last Breath

Until Our Last Breath

Israel has murdered Anas Al-Sharif, 28, a steadfast, well-known Al Jazeera correspondent called "the voice of Gaza to the world," in a targeted...

monday 10

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Abby Zimet

Nations Must Act Directly to Stop Israel's Genocide in Gaza

Nations Must Act Directly to Stop Israel's Genocide in Gaza

The nightmare in Gaza has been unfolding for 22 months and during this entire time Israel’s savage use of violence and its punishment of innocent...

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James Zogby

The Democratic Party Must Change If It Wants to Defeat Trumpism

The Democratic Party Must Change If It Wants to Defeat Trumpism

The old mid-century world is gone. If the Democratic Party, and the country, want to survive, they need to wake up and choose what they want the...

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Max Moran

Open Letter to Israel Foreign Minister Sa’ar

Open Letter to Israel Foreign Minister Sa’ar

The great threat to Israel’s survival is not the Arab nations, the Palestinians, or Iran, but the policies of Israel’s extremist government.

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Jeffrey D. Sachs

Airplanes Are Today’s Deportation Trains; How Can We Slow Them Down?

Airplanes Are Today’s Deportation Trains; How Can We Slow Them Down?

ICE has taken over 450 people through Burlington Vermont’s airport, most without due process. How can local authorities and citizens intervene?

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Mary Dingee Fillmore

‘Do Not Forget Gaza’: The Last Words of a Martyred Journalist

‘Do Not Forget Gaza’: The Last Words of a Martyred Journalist

I urge you not to let chains silence you, nor borders restrain you. Be bridges toward the liberation of the land and its people, until the sun of...

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Anas Al-Sharif

Mourning a Friend Killed by the Israeli Occupation

Mourning a Friend Killed by the Israeli Occupation

Awdah Hathaleen and his community faced injustices and violence all the time, but simply because he was my friend, I never thought that he would die.

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Aman Abhishek

Trump Wants to Turn America Into a Police State

Trump Wants to Turn America Into a Police State

They're not even hiding it anymore.

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Thom Hartmann

Oslo’s Promise Was Always a Lie, Its Legacy Is Starving Palestinians

Oslo’s Promise Was Always a Lie, Its Legacy Is Starving Palestinians

The blueprint for Gaza’s starvation was laid in the 1993 Oslo Accords and operationalized in 2007, when Israel calculated the minimum number of...

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Saleema Gul

People With Disabilities Face Unmatched Cruelty From GOP Medicaid Cuts

People With Disabilities Face Unmatched Cruelty From GOP Medicaid Cuts

Trump’s administration is here to serve the wealthy-elite, not the regular working-class Americans and people with disabilities who rely on...

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Karina Smith

What Is Global Health in a Time of Excess and Despair?

What Is Global Health in a Time of Excess and Despair?

The essence of global health is neither charity nor rescue—but partnership.

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Navid Madani

Priced Out Of Paradise: When Ordinary People Get Shut Out of Extraordinary Places

Priced Out Of Paradise: When Ordinary People Get Shut Out of Extraordinary Places

When teachers, nurses, and factory workers are shut out by the wealthy, we lose a shared dignity, a shared claim to joy.

10.08.2025 5

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Sarena Neyman

Democrats: Say No to Endless Killing in Ukraine and Give Peace a Chance

Democrats: Say No to Endless Killing in Ukraine and Give Peace a Chance

While some hawks still pretend that Ukraine could "win" the war with enough missiles, bombs, ammunition, and other supplies from the U.S., realists...

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Norman Solomon

Tyrant Trump's Worst Crimes, Dangers, and Destructions Are Yet to Come

Tyrant Trump's Worst Crimes, Dangers, and Destructions Are Yet to Come

"Americans should start thinking about the unthinkable. Such foreshadowings may make us far more determined NOW to thwart, stop, and repeal the...

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Ralph Nader