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King Donald the First: Fuck That

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Abby Zimet

Unmasking the Dangerous Extremism in Young Republicans

Unmasking the Dangerous Extremism in Young Republicans

If this is how the next generation of GOP leaders talks when they think nobody is listening, then the “jokes” about gas chambers today are warnings...

yesterday 6

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Thom Hartmann

An Inflatable Frog Is the Hero the Anti-Trump Resistance Needs

An Inflatable Frog Is the Hero the Anti-Trump Resistance Needs

Trump hates being laughed at, so it's a good strategy to show how ridiculous his contention that cities are dangerous hellholes protected by...

yesterday 8

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Bill Mckibben

Pete Hegseth Can't Handle the Truth

Pete Hegseth Can't Handle the Truth

Trump's secretary of war is trying to make it harder for inspectors general and reporters to investigate what's really going on at the Pentagon.

yesterday 3

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Steven Harper

It's Up to the Global Community to Transform the Gaza Ceasefire Into a Lasting Peace

It's Up to the Global Community to Transform the Gaza Ceasefire Into a Lasting Peace

Whether Israel actually withdraws from the occupied Gaza Strip and upholds the ceasefire remains in question so long as the Trump administration...

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Stephen Zunes

House of Dynamite Is a Chilling Reminder of the Nuclear Threat

House of Dynamite Is a Chilling Reminder of the Nuclear Threat

The film will spark myriad questions for viewers, which is sorely needed as humanity accepts the unacceptable, the scourge of these weapons that...

yesterday 3

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Kevin Martin

Trump Is Nudging the US Toward a Genuine Police State

Trump Is Nudging the US Toward a Genuine Police State

With Trump attempting to fashion a presidential police force of armed soldiers for domestic deployment, while claiming the right to kill anyone he...

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Nick Turse

Gaza Has a Ceasefire, Now Palestine Needs Self-Determination

Gaza Has a Ceasefire, Now Palestine Needs Self-Determination

Whether it’s the Israeli government, an international peacekeeping force, or a post-conflict reconstruction authority for Gaza chaired...

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John Feffer

No to Kings, Yes to Democracy

No to Kings, Yes to Democracy

Tyrants don’t care about popularity—they care about obedience. Our answer must be refusal.

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Rob Okun

Blame the Escalating Gerrymander Wars on Chief Justice John Roberts

Blame the Escalating Gerrymander Wars on Chief Justice John Roberts

Nobody has done more damage to US democracy and voting rights in the 21st Century than this one despicable jurist.

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Miles Mogulescu

How Taxing Billionaires Can Help Prevent Government Shutdowns

How Taxing Billionaires Can Help Prevent Government Shutdowns

Until Congress addresses the fundamental power imbalance allowing billionaires to benefit from—and drive—government dysfunction, Americans will...

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Igor Volsky

The Grave Danger—and Blinding Idiocy—of Trump's NSPM-7

The Grave Danger—and Blinding Idiocy—of Trump's NSPM-7

We cannot predict exactly how this authoritaruan presidential memo will be implemented or provide legal advice on the specific questions groups and...

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Hina Shamsi

What It Was Like to Captain a Vessel in the Global Sumud Flotilla

What It Was Like to Captain a Vessel in the Global Sumud Flotilla

The Global Sumud Flotilla was sailing to Gaza. If I joined, they could bring one more vessel. From the first, it felt inevitable.

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Adnaan Stumo

Hezbollah and MS-13 'R Us, Naked On Bikes In Frog Ears

Hezbollah and MS-13 'R Us, Naked On Bikes In Frog Ears

Despite court losses, public antipathy, ridicule, a shutdown they ignore, the nascent police state lurches on with its daft apocalyptic narrative...

wednesday 30

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Abby Zimet

Green Energy Is Still a Better Bet Than AI

Green Energy Is Still a Better Bet Than AI

The buildout of lots and lots of power-gobbling data centers is not as inevitable as it appears.

wednesday 3

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Bill Mckibben

Progressives Don’t Want David Brooks in Our Movement Anyway

Progressives Don’t Want David Brooks in Our Movement Anyway

The toxic attitudes of Brooks and others toward poor people are the problem. Direct cash works because it fundamentally trusts people to meet their...

wednesday 4

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Sukhi Samra

The Abundance Movement’s Deregulatory Deceit

The Abundance Movement’s Deregulatory Deceit

How Green Amendments, not rollbacks, can help usher in an era of true abundance.

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Maya K. Van Rossum 

10 Ways Billionaires Are Making Your Life Worse and 5 Ways to Fight Back

10 Ways Billionaires Are Making Your Life Worse and 5 Ways to Fight Back

An economy rigged to funnel so much wealth and power to the billionaire class is bad for you and everyone else. It undermines your life in some...

wednesday 3

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Chuck Collins

The Quiet Shuttering of a Main Street Lending Program Will Make Inequality Worse

The Quiet Shuttering of a Main Street Lending Program Will Make Inequality Worse

What looks like administrative housekeeping represents the dismantling of one of the most effective tools the federal government ever created to...

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Matt Watkins

Trump Is Vindicating Every Warning About the Potential Misuse of War-on-Terror Powers

Trump Is Vindicating Every Warning About the Potential Misuse of War-on-Terror Powers

What we are witnessing is the war on terror in zombie form: devoid of its original life force and human drive, but more dangerous than ever, as it...

wednesday 2

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Branko Marcetic

Beware the Big Tech Oligarchs: Their AI-Crypto Bubble Is Bound to Burst

Beware the Big Tech Oligarchs: Their AI-Crypto Bubble Is Bound to Burst

And when the artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency bubbles do burst, we’ll likely see what damage the wrecking ball of Trump and his fellow...

14.10.2025 5

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Robert Reich

What Does Terrorism Actually Mean? Maybe Orwell Can Help

What Does Terrorism Actually Mean? Maybe Orwell Can Help

International activists kidnapped and brought to Israel by force, people simply being alive in a place an Israeli minister doesn’t want them to be,...

14.10.2025 2

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Mark Milinich

Universities Didn't Fail, They Succeeded—That's Why They're Under Attack

Universities Didn't Fail, They Succeeded—That's Why They're Under Attack

Universities need to recognize that they are being targeted because of what they represent, not because of what they've failed to do, and resist...

14.10.2025 4

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Emese Ilyés

American Soybean Farmers Sold Out by Trump While Argentina Gets Bailed Out

American Soybean Farmers Sold Out by Trump While Argentina Gets Bailed Out

"The farm economy is suffering," says the head of the American Soybean Association, "while our competitors supplant the United States in the...

14.10.2025 2

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Seth Sandronsky

Gaza: The Peace of the Genocide Alliance

Gaza: The Peace of the Genocide Alliance

The great war may be coming to an end, but the violence of occupation, apartheid, and territorial expansion is not.

14.10.2025 4

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David Goeßmann

Israel's Air-Power Colonialism

Israel's Air-Power Colonialism

Like the British empire before it, Israel is attempting to dominate the Middle East from the skies.

14.10.2025 5

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Juan Cole

Trump's Anti-Immigrant Violence Is a Message for the Rest of Us

Trump's Anti-Immigrant Violence Is a Message for the Rest of Us

This is how it always starts, this process of getting citizens used to the government using violence that will one day be turned against them.

13.10.2025 30

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Thom Hartmann

From Gaza, Palestinians Have Reasserted Their Agency on the World Stage

From Gaza, Palestinians Have Reasserted Their Agency on the World Stage

If we are to speak of a Palestinian victory in Gaza, it is a resounding triumph for the Palestinian people, their indomitable spirit, and their...

13.10.2025 2

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Ramzy Baroud

Taking Stock of America's Violent Century

Taking Stock of America's Violent Century

US hegemony, however frayed at the edges, continues to be taken for granted in ruling circles. What do we make of it these days?

13.10.2025 6

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John Dower

Illinois Proved Bail Reform Works; Washington Wants to Undermine It

Illinois Proved Bail Reform Works; Washington Wants to Undermine It

Illinois did not just pass bail reform with the Pretrial Fairness Act—it built a safer, fairer, and more lasting pretrial system. Other states...

13.10.2025 3

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Erin George

From Fields to Kitchens, the Fight Against Extreme Heat Is a Fight for Workers’ Lives

From Fields to Kitchens, the Fight Against Extreme Heat Is a Fight for Workers’ Lives

Worker organizing points the way forward, reminding us that the fight for safe working conditions is inseparable from the fight for dignity, racial...

13.10.2025 20

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Chris Ramsaroop

The Fourth Branch: How Conscience and Civic Vigilance May Save the Republic

The Fourth Branch: How Conscience and Civic Vigilance May Save the Republic

Ordinary citizens, lower courts, military officers, advocacy groups, and artists together form a novel “fourth branch,” acting as a moral immune...

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Martina Moneke