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How the UN Can Act Decisively to End Genocide in Gaza

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Medea Benjamin

Israel Can Only Deter the Global Sumud Flotilla by Stoping Its Genocide in Gaza

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Ann Wright

The Real Deal: Susan Collins Is Very Concerned

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Abby Zimet

How to Research Your Way to a Better World

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William Hartung

By Keeping Climate Funds on Ice, the DC Circuit Is Complicit in Trump’s Overreach

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Matt Watkins

Just Say No to AI-Assisted Medicare Preauthorization

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Martin Burns

Trump’s Immigration Policies Are Feeding the Private Prison Industrial Complex

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F. Douglas Stephenson

Trump Goes Socialist—Well... Not Quite

Trump Goes Socialist—Well... Not Quite

Draining the swamp means ending corporate socialism, dismantling the apparatus that rewards big corporate contributions and empowers lobbyists...

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Les Leopold

Why the Debate at the DNC Was a Victory for Palestinian Rights

Why the Debate at the DNC Was a Victory for Palestinian Rights

Chair Martin’s decision to withdraw his resolution and create a task force to continue the conversation within the party was a recognition of the...

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James Zogby

We Must Stop Israel From Starving the People of Gaza—Here's How

We Must Stop Israel From Starving the People of Gaza—Here's How

Even in the face of American intransigence, the world can act—and the US government will stand naked and alone in its criminal complicity with...

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Jeffrey D. Sachs

Fighting Crime Is a Pretext; Trump Wants Control

Fighting Crime Is a Pretext; Trump Wants Control

The deployment of out-of-state troops to occupy cities cannot plausibly promote public order. It’s blunt force, a brutal power grab, and it runs...

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Michael Waldman

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Deadly Obsession

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Deadly Obsession

The harm Trump's health secretary is doing when it comes to disease prevention could end being nearly impossible to calculate.

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Steven Harper

Suicide Rates Among Young Men Are On the Rise; Toxic Masculinity May Be To Blame

Suicide Rates Among Young Men Are On the Rise; Toxic Masculinity May Be To Blame

Masculine representations rooted in ideals that reward toughness, emotional suppression, and dominance are quietly accelerating a mental health...

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Ishimwe Felicien

A Compact for American Workers to Share This Labor Day

A Compact for American Workers to Share This Labor Day

Most of the long-overdue planks on this Domestic Compact for America are supported by both liberal and conservative families who live, work, and...

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Ralph Nader

Trump's Attack on EPA Workers Is an Attack on You

Trump's Attack on EPA Workers Is an Attack on You

Silencing our union members, working on the front line of environmental protection, is beyond dangerous. It strips away a critical check against...

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Justin Chen

Immigrant or US-Born, We’re All in the Same Boat

Immigrant or US-Born, We’re All in the Same Boat

Politicians divide us, but all workers share the same struggles. Only together can we demand dignity and safety at work.

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Mariana M

Labor Day, Chicago, and Presidential Despotism Then and Now

Labor Day, Chicago, and Presidential Despotism Then and Now

Trump is poised to commemorate Labor Day this week by reenacting on the streets of Chicago one of the most dictatorial and violent acts of federal...

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Jeffrey C. Isaac

3 Simple Things a Republican Congress Could Do to Help Workers (But Probably Won’t)

3 Simple Things a Republican Congress Could Do to Help Workers (But Probably Won’t)

If Republicans in Congress were willing to listen to the voices of their constituents, they could act immediately to help millions of workers in...

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Lauren Mcferran

Sandwich Guy Redux: In Your Fascist Face

Sandwich Guy Redux: In Your Fascist Face

When Pigs Fly Dept: The "remarkable failure" of prosecutors to indict the D.C. "hero with a hero" who hurled his sub at a neighborhood thug...

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Abby Zimet

The Community-Based Refugee Reception Act Is a Great Hope for Sudanese

The Community-Based Refugee Reception Act Is a Great Hope for Sudanese

The core idea is that community volunteer groups, in collaboration with established resettlement agencies, help sponsor incoming refugees and...

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Mohamed Suliman

To Create Shared Prosperity, Rebuild Trust in Government

To Create Shared Prosperity, Rebuild Trust in Government

Government needs to deliver for everyone, not just the wealthy. Local government can lead the way.

31.08.2025 9

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Alvaro S. Sanchez

Speaking Out Against Genocide: Reckoning and Accountability

Speaking Out Against Genocide: Reckoning and Accountability

The truth is that most of us—not all of us, but most of us who grew up in Jewish communities—supported Israel and Zionism, until, often after a...

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Donna Nevel

The Not-So-Impossible Quest to Evict War Profiteer L3Harris From Northampton, Mass.

The Not-So-Impossible Quest to Evict War Profiteer L3Harris From Northampton, Mass.

The sudden emergence of candidates for every single local office, who are eager to remove L3Harris from the city, reframes our weekly protests and...

31.08.2025 4

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Phil Wilson

Is the Pentagon Spending Taxpayer Money on Alien Tech?

Is the Pentagon Spending Taxpayer Money on Alien Tech?

Too over the top? Perhaps, but the Pentagon is so secretive that the public is left to speculate. Congress must hold the DOD accountability for how...

31.08.2025 3

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Ellen Brown

Why We Must Defend the Marine Mammal Protection Act

Why We Must Defend the Marine Mammal Protection Act

Kirsten Donald, a marine biologist, educator, and advocate with the Pacific Marine Mammal Center, explains why the animals she works with need more...

31.08.2025 4

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David Helvarg

Trump's Labor Day Assault on American Workers

Trump's Labor Day Assault on American Workers

This self-anointed man of the working people has waged an all-out attack on the unions that make workers’ lives better, thrashing away at workers’...

31.08.2025 2

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Christopher D. Cook

US Cash Keeps the Israeli War Machine Running

US Cash Keeps the Israeli War Machine Running

Divestment efforts must increase significantly to balance out the US push to keep the Israeli economy from imploding.

30.08.2025 9

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Ramzy Baroud

Trump’s New Substance Use Policy Would Have Made My Own Recovery Impossible

Trump’s New Substance Use Policy Would Have Made My Own Recovery Impossible

My daughter exists because someone gave me a hotel room, a hospital bed, and a second chance. If EO 14321 had been in place, I would have been...

30.08.2025 3

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Apple Cronk

The Disappearance Machine

The Disappearance Machine

If this machine succeeds, it will not stop with immigrants. It will become the blueprint for domestic control and the silencing of millions.

30.08.2025 3

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John Marks

'Workers Over Billionaires': It's Time to Put Heat on the Oligarchy

'Workers Over Billionaires': It's Time to Put Heat on the Oligarchy

From the Hamptons to DC and across this nation, the working class get nothing but pain from the billionaire agenda. We’re fed up with fascist...

30.08.2025 4

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Michael Kink

From Revolution to Reparations: Black August and Haiti’s Ongoing Struggle for Freedom

From Revolution to Reparations: Black August and Haiti’s Ongoing Struggle for Freedom

Haiti’s struggle for restitution is not a historical footnote—it is the next chapter in the global struggle for Black liberation.

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Nixon Boumba

Will Democrats Have the Courage to Blame Trump for Hurricane Deaths?

Will Democrats Have the Courage to Blame Trump for Hurricane Deaths?

When a major hurricane kills hundreds or thousands of people made vulnerable by the Trump administration’s unprecedented assault on weather...

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Kenny Stancil