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Trump Is Following in the Footsteps of the Worst Traitor in US History

yesterday 5

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Thom Hartmann

Israel's Unprovoked Bombing of Iran Violates International Law. Full Stop.

yesterday 4

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Juan Cole

No War With Iran!

yesterday 2

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Kevin Martin

Those Who Would Be King

yesterday 2

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Camillo Mac Bica

Is This the Moment That We Became a Fascist Country? Not If We Say No!

yesterday 0

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Bill Mckibben

Trump Authoritarianism Drags US Democracy Into Darkness

yesterday 0

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Jeffrey C. Isaac

Pick Your Fate, Humanity: Climate-Chaos Summer, Nuclear Winter, Both... or Neither

Pick Your Fate, Humanity: Climate-Chaos Summer, Nuclear Winter, Both... or Neither

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...

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Norman Solomon

Reclaiming the Flag for No Kings Day

Reclaiming the Flag for No Kings Day

The flag represents the imperfect but essential mechanisms of democracy that Trump’s regime so profoundly threatens, ones that allow us to keep...

previous day 10

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Paul Rogat Loeb

Courage: A Letter to the Oberlin College Class of 2025

Courage: A Letter to the Oberlin College Class of 2025

Whatever the causes, the world has gone haywire and in the years ahead all of us will need courage more than ever.

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David Orr

To Defeat Trump's Fascism, We Must Confront Militarism

To Defeat Trump's Fascism, We Must Confront Militarism

While most Americans instinctively understand the threat U.S. militarism poses to democracy, the times call for more explicit links between...

previous day 6

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Christine Ahn

Work Requirements for Medicaid Imply a Federal Duty To Hire

Work Requirements for Medicaid Imply a Federal Duty To Hire

If Congress actually imposes a work requirement for Medicaid recipients, it should also enact a governmental program to employ anybody who is...

previous day 4

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Paul F. Delespinasse

Trump in Los Angeles Is Exactly What We Have Been Warning About

Trump in Los Angeles Is Exactly What We Have Been Warning About

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...

wednesday 10

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Michael Waldman

Does the Working Class Support Trump's Attack on Migrant Workers? No!

Does the Working Class Support Trump's Attack on Migrant Workers? No!

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...

wednesday 2

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Les Leopold

Authoritarianism Isn't Coming—It's Here

Authoritarianism Isn't Coming—It's Here

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.

wednesday 2

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Joseph Geevarghese

No Kings, No Corporations: Rejecting Authoritarian and Corporate Rule

No Kings, No Corporations: Rejecting Authoritarian and Corporate Rule

As we protest authoritarianism this Saturday—and legitimately condemn the many anti-democratic and unjust actions of Trump—let us also remember the...

wednesday 5

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Greg Coleridge

Measuring Corporate Power by the Number of Marines in Los Angeles

Measuring Corporate Power by the Number of Marines in Los Angeles

Trump's authoritarianism didn't come from nowhere. It came from decades of corporate power building a system of exploitation, then using their...

wednesday 6

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Corbin Trent

When the Starved Become the Starvers: A Jewish Voice on Gaza

When the Starved Become the Starvers: A Jewish Voice on Gaza

The images from Gaza haunt me not despite my Jewish identity, but because of it—because I recognize in Palestinian faces the same hollow...

wednesday 5

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John Kiss

Shame Shame Shame: What American Justice Looks Like

Shame Shame Shame: What American Justice Looks Like

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...

10.06.2025 20

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Abby Zimet

This Is How Trump Kills US Democracy—With US Marines in the Street

This Is How Trump Kills US Democracy—With US Marines in the Street

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....

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Thom Hartmann

Return of Abrego Garcia a Major Blow to Trump

Return of Abrego Garcia a Major Blow to Trump

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...

10.06.2025 9

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Martin Burns

The Sudan Crisis and America's Complicity: When Corruption Fuels Atrocity

The Sudan Crisis and America's Complicity: When Corruption Fuels Atrocity

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.

10.06.2025 4

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Jon Rainwater

The L.A. Awakening: Repression, Resistance, and the Possibility of Radical Democratic Renewal

The L.A. Awakening: Repression, Resistance, and the Possibility of Radical Democratic Renewal

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...

10.06.2025 2

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Peter Bloom

How a Newfound Love of Quotas Drove Trump's Military Invasion of Los Angeles

How a Newfound Love of Quotas Drove Trump's Military Invasion of Los Angeles

The administration's shock troops are not going over after criminals, but rather hard-working people nationwide simply going about their lives as...

10.06.2025 2

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Chuck Idelson

Who Will Defend Our Oceans—the Last Global Commons?

Who Will Defend Our Oceans—the Last Global Commons?

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,...

10.06.2025 4

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Sushma Raman

Mass Deportation and Global Apartheid

Mass Deportation and Global Apartheid

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.

10.06.2025 10

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Aviva Chomsky