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When Obedience Becomes Complicity: From Mỹ Lai to Today’s Military Conscience

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George Cassidy Payne

Experts Agree: It Was Illegal to Follow Hegseth's Illegal Orders

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Michael Schmitt

Reverse Migration Is Not A Cure. It Will Only Make America Weak and Alone

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Jordan Liz

The ‘COP of Truth’ Just Normalized a New Kind of Climate Denialism

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Sara Yassi

Trump Is Lying About Grocery Prices; What Else?​

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Mitchell Zimmerman

Spending More Money on New Nukes Is a Moral Obscenity

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William Astore

What Can Prevent Trump's American From Becoming Putin's Russia? Us

What Can Prevent Trump's American From Becoming Putin's Russia? Us

The one thing we still do have that Russia doesn’t is mass demonstrations and a (relatively) free press, which is not to be taken for granted or...

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Andrea Mazzarino

Comparing the Ukraine and Gaza Peace Deals

Comparing the Ukraine and Gaza Peace Deals

Both what is similar and what is different about the agreements orchestrated by the Trump administration have lessons to teach us about these...

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James Zogby

The Words We Use to Describe Homelessness Will Get People Killed

The Words We Use to Describe Homelessness Will Get People Killed

A huge swath of the political and media spectrum sees a person living on the street as either an aesthetic nuisance or criminal-in-waiting. We...

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Perry Perlmutter

Don't Wait for the Supreme Court to Put the Brakes on Trump's Fascism

Don't Wait for the Supreme Court to Put the Brakes on Trump's Fascism

The court has given the country sparse assurance that it will push back on Trump’s unique claims of expansive presidential powers.

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Robert S. Rivkin

A Dangerous Step Back: The Renewed Threat of Landmines and Cluster Munitions

A Dangerous Step Back: The Renewed Threat of Landmines and Cluster Munitions

Ninety percent of the more than 6,000 killed by landmines last year were civilians, and half of them were children. There can be no justification...

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Hannah Guedenet

The Trumpian Nightmare Has a Long Way to Go Before It's Over

The Trumpian Nightmare Has a Long Way to Go Before It's Over

Trump’s second term is indeed so much worse than the first, and I fear that we haven’t seen anything yet.

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C.j. Polychroniou

Amnesty Confirms What It's Plain to See: Israel's Genocide in Gaza Continues

Amnesty Confirms What It's Plain to See: Israel's Genocide in Gaza Continues

The international human rights group said it clearly, which is how it should be said: "Israel’s genocide is not over.”

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Juan Cole

Why We Must Save the 'Sistine Chapel of the New Deal' From Trump Destruction

Why We Must Save the 'Sistine Chapel of the New Deal' From Trump Destruction

It is a tragic irony that murals meant to represent the contract between the government and its citizens—the Social Security that over 70 million...

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John P. Murphy

Why It Matters That Mamdani Is an Immigrant Mayor

Why It Matters That Mamdani Is an Immigrant Mayor

Mamdani will be there to lead his communicating in opposing the colossal, catastrophic war on immigrants being waged by the world's most powerful man.

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Nadia Marin-Molina

COP30 Was Another Failed Climate Summit, But the Path Away From Fossil Fuels Is Here

COP30 Was Another Failed Climate Summit, But the Path Away From Fossil Fuels Is Here

The path from COP30 requires fewer pledges and more enforceable governance. Countries already know what must be done. They must do it.

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Daphne Wysham

Another Broken Campaign Promise: Trump Has Failed Family Caregivers

Another Broken Campaign Promise: Trump Has Failed Family Caregivers

Instead of following through on his proposed tax credit for family caregivers, Trump has made their lives even harder with Medicaid cuts and...

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Martin Burns

As America Faces a Caregiving Catastrophe, We Need to Name the Real Villains

As America Faces a Caregiving Catastrophe, We Need to Name the Real Villains

I can tell you from firsthand experience that we’re not in a “sudden” caregiving crisis. It’s a catastrophe 50 years in the making.

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Neal K. Shah

Facing the Climate Crisis, Can We Make Politics Move Faster Than Physics?

Facing the Climate Crisis, Can We Make Politics Move Faster Than Physics?

As Tehran runs low on water, New York City considers divesting from planet-wrecker Blackrock. We need more of the latter to prevent more of the...

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Bill Mckibben

Will the Roberts Court Finally Stand Up to Trump and Liberate Us From His Tariffs?

Will the Roberts Court Finally Stand Up to Trump and Liberate Us From His Tariffs?

To strike down the tariffs, the court will have to use its favorite analytical tools—the conservative legal doctrines of originalism and...

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Bill Blum

What's Driving the Electricity Price Hike and What Can We Do About It?

What's Driving the Electricity Price Hike and What Can We Do About It?

Electricity prices can’t keep going up and up something’s got to give: A hybrid supply-demand response would minimize the economic pain of high...

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Richard Heinberg

Trump's Tariffs Are Squeezing Small Businesses

Trump's Tariffs Are Squeezing Small Businesses

The rising costs that small business owners are paying for imports due to President Donald Trump’s trade tariffs, a tax on American consumers and...

29.11.2025 4

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Seth Sandronsky

Don't Let Trump Make America's Waterways Toxic Again

The question is whether the nation values its water enough to resist the administration's wholesale attack on environmental protections.

28.11.2025 10

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Derrick Z. Jackson

Trump Delivers Darkest Thanksgiving in US History

Trump Delivers Darkest Thanksgiving in US History

A story from the nation's founding to bring us hope in these terrible times. There is a way out of this.

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Thom Hartmann