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Looking Beyond the 2026 Midterms: Slogans Are Not a Strategy

The current buzzword is affordability. “‘Affordability’ mantra helps Democrats turn tide” the New York Times headlined. “Democrats used...

yesterday 20

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Daniel Warner

Portraits by the Mysterious “Master I.S.”:  An Art History Detective Story

It’s often difficult to tell if a Dutch work of art from the 17th century is a portrait (conterfeytsels) or a tronie. Many pictures lack...

yesterday 20

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Stephen F. Eisenman

Meditations on the Loss of a Voice

The ‘minutely privileged’, the people lucky enough not to be in the direct line of fire as of right now, are paralyzed in outrage and bewilderment,...

yesterday 10

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Julia Abusharr

Oligarchy XIV: Thoughts on the Anarchism of Dorothy Day

Remarking on the 1927 murder of Italian immigrants and anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Day noted that anarchism “is the word, or...

yesterday 10

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David S. D’Amato

10 Good Things That Happened in 2025

It’s true — 2025 has been a hard year. It’s easy to focus on the disasters, and there have been many. But we also had real victories that moved us...

yesterday 10

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Medea Benjamin

A Moment for Desire

I’ve been thinking about moments. Under the heavy onslaught of the last year, the moments of relief I’ve felt in these last twelve months have felt...

yesterday 10

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Laura Flanders

Bari Weiss Pulls 60 Minutes’ Report on Trump Outsourcing Torture to El Salvador’s CECOT Prison

According to the concept of “manufactured consent,” elaborated by Noam Chomsky and Ed Herman in the 1980s, the media carries out a propaganda...

yesterday 10

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Daniel Falcone

The Russian Idée Fixe

‘Russia’s defensive war against NATO expansion’ — a concept that has become almost axiomatic for many Western leftists. This concept conveniently...

yesterday 10

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Andriy Movchan

American Pogrom: the Year in ICE Abductions

A year into Trump’s mass purge of immigrants from the United States, it’s beyond debate that the people orchestrating and conducting the raids,...

yesterday 50

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Jeffrey St. Clair

Did Mark Zuckerberg Throw $77 Billion in Our Money Into the Toilet?

Meta recently announced that it was sharply cutting back its Metaverse division so that it could put more money into its AI projects. This is after...

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Dean Baker

What Happened at Mauser?

What has happened to the Mauser strikers — and what could have been different? Teamsters Mobilize believes that these are essential questions that...

previous day 4

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Chloe Palmer – Joe Allen

What’s at Stake in Trump’s Executive Order Aiming to Curb State-Level AI Regulation

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Dec. 11, 2025, that aims to supersede state-level artificial intelligence laws that the...

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Anjana Susarla

Out of the Greenhouse and Into the Madhouse: the Year in Climate Politics

2025 will go down as the second or third hottest year on record. The last decade has been the hottest decade in human history.  Driven by drought...

previous day 20

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Jeffrey St. Clair

A Moment of Hope in Gaza

On Thursday, December 25th, 2025, during Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians, 168 students graduated from medical school, in Gaza....

previous day 20

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Kathy Kelly

I Sat Next To Brigitte Bardot On The Bus In Nice

Okay, no. I did NOT sit next to the late French actress, Brigette Bardot. But it very easily could have been her. I was there on holiday with a...

previous day 10

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Kenn Maurice

Operation Domino: Italy’s War on Palestinian Charity and the Criminalization of Survival

In a chilling escalation of state repression, the Italian government has launched a full-scale judicial assault on the Palestinian solidarity...

previous day 2

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Michael Leonardi

Policymakers Must Address Earnings Instability

Current policy debates are often focused on static income or employment status, such as being employed or unemployed, and annual income changes....

previous day 1

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Julia Yixia Cai

The Case for Expelling Israel from Eurovision

The term ‘hypocrisy’ is the most convenient term, but certainly not the most apt to describe the inclusion of Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest...

previous day 1

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Ramzy Baroud - Romana Rubeo

The Charge of the Padded Brigade: England in Australia

It’s been one of the strangest cricket series on record.  Hurried, frenetic, foolish, haphazard and, at points, unbecomingly immature.  The cricket...

tuesday 10

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Binoy Kampmark

Africa Deindustrializes Due to China’s Overproduction and Trump’s Tariffs

At the close of a year in which Africa’s underlying economic problems continue to worsen, the Johannesburg G20 summit on November 22-23 utterly...

tuesday 20

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Patrick Bond

The Venezuela Escalation Ignores a Long History of U.S. Hypocrisy on Drugs

Every accusation is a confession. This is clearly true of the Trump administration’s insistence that Venezuela operates as a “narco-state,”...

tuesday 8

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Eric Ross

America’s Loss of Science and Loss of Virtue

The Trump administration has issued a death warrant for science. This kills one of America’s greatest most productive avenues to GDP growth....

tuesday 20

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Robert Hunziker

The US Doesn’t Need a Party, It Needs a Revolution

Two hundred and fifty years ago, European colonists mostly from Britain were conspiring to chase the elements of the British monarchy from the...

tuesday 4

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Ron Jacobs

Killjoy Was Here: Monument Envy and the Trump Regime

I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said – “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert…. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a...

tuesday 4

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John Russell

Trillionaire Cometh, Democracy Goeth

I wrote my first post for Inequality.org, Our First Trillionaire: Only a Matter of Time, over twelve years ago. I hoped, at the time, that the post...

tuesday 6

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Bob Lord

Antiracism in the Age of Trump

We are today living in an era of historically ferocious political regression, a massive conservative backlash whose grievances are often more...

tuesday 5

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Joshua Sperber

The National Security Strategy Paper on China

The Trump administration’s National Security Strategy paper, released this month, is filled with nasty, nativist language and half-truths straight...

tuesday 20

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Mel Gurtov

Sanctioning Fever: The United States, European Union and Free Speech

At present, there is a pot-calling-the-kettle-black approach being taken by the European Union and the United States regarding the imposition of...

29.12.2025 5

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Binoy Kampmark

The Vietnam Draft Revisited With Trump’s Class of Ships

The jokes about the first ship of Trump’s planned new class of naval vessels being called the USS Bone Spurs abound. Herr Trump, who some thought...

29.12.2025 2

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Howard Lisnoff

Trump’s War on Epistemic Institutions

Contemporary liberal democracies such as the United States depend on more than free elections and stable, functioning economies. They also rely on...

29.12.2025 3

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Steve Macek

The Body as the Final Weapon: Palestine Action and the Spirit of Bobby Sands

When the machinery of the state is totally dedicated to the protection of genocide; when the courts act as private security for arms dealers and...

29.12.2025 9

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Michael Leonardi

Private Cultivated-Meat Failures Reaffirm Need for Public Research

Recently, two notable cultivated-meat companies failed. If you’re unfamiliar with the concept, cultivated meat is grown from livestock cells,...

29.12.2025 4

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Jon Hochschartner

The Washington Post’s Trumpian Ideology Exposed

Most people stopped taking the Washington Post opinion section seriously since its billionaire owner Jeff Bezos decided to make it another prop for...

29.12.2025 6

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Dean Baker

Gaza as the Last Moral Frontier against Israel’s Policy of Annihilation

Three dominant narratives contend for the future of Gaza and occupied Palestine, yet only one is being translated into consequential action: the...

29.12.2025 30

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Ramzy Baroud

The Limits of European Strategic Autonomy

Europe is entering a moment of renewed strategic doubt. Conversations about security that once seemed theoretical have taken on a sharper edge as...

29.12.2025 8

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Imran Khalid

Shaming the UN by Ratifying Genocide

In my view, the 15 members of the Security Council, disgracefully voted unanimously in favor of the US draft resolution, adopted as SC Resolution...

29.12.2025 10

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Richard Falk

The Dream of Korean Independence

“People of this nation, please come to the National Assembly now. Protect the final bastion of our democracy!” —Lee Jae Myung, 3 December 2024 This...

28.12.2025 3

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Simone Chun

We Can’t Understand Capitalism Without Understanding Slavery

At the same time as slavery came to an end in the British Empire, still harsher restrictions on working people were promulgated. That was not a...

28.12.2025 2

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Pete Dolack