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Can We Build a Country That Chooses Butter Over Guns?

Can We Build a Country That Chooses Butter Over Guns?

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Every Rocket Fired in Iran Is Money Stolen From the American People

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The War Against Iran, Up Close and Personal (and All Too Far Away)

Guns or butter. Butter or guns. Can we have both? If not, which should come first? Consider it one of those chicken-and-egg conundrums of modern...

14.05.2026 2

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Scared of Nuclear War? Don't Panic, Organize!

America is barreling towards authoritarianism at such a breakneck pace that it should alarm every single one of us. But instead of meeting this moment...

20.02.2026 30

Common Dreams

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Or Our Nuclear World, Up Close and Personal

“I’m not scared, you’re scared!” is the repeated line in a children’s story we recently read to the kids at the Unitarian Universalist...

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How Do We Truly Care for Each Other in the Trump Era?

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Common Dreams

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Water, Water, Everywhere? (Not Anymore!)

The truck wheel’s inner tube was right in front of me, no longer half-submerged in the pond’s late summer muck. After so many hot weeks without...

25.09.2025 30

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We’re Not Ready for a World of Water Scarcity

24.09.2025 10

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Rain Barrels at the End of the World

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Common Dreams

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Imagine a World Without Your iPhone—I Dare You

08.06.2025 10

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Courage Is Contagious

“It is pretty wild how you can make someone mad by just holding a sign,” my 18-year-old Ro told me, as an irate driver peeled out of the...

11.03.2025 20

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Small Town Courage Means the World in the Age of Trump

10.03.2025 10

Common Dreams

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