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Tariffs Can Be Useful, But Not the Way Trump is Using Them

President Donald Trump has said “tariff” is “the most beautiful word in the dictionary.” He claims tariffs will restore American trade...

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Sonali Kolhatkar

Trump Is Wielding Tariffs to Help Billionaires, But They Can Be a Tool for Fair Trade, Too

Trump Is Wielding Tariffs to Help Billionaires, But They Can Be a Tool for Fair Trade, Too
03.04.2025 3

Common Dreams

Sonali Kolhatkar

First, They Came for the Venezuelans

Trump is making clear that this is no longer about deporting undocumented immigrants and that anyone can be disappeared at any time. His government is...

27.03.2025 10

CounterPunch

Sonali Kolhatkar

First, They Came For The Venezuelans – OpEd

First, They Came For The Venezuelans – OpEd

Trump is turning deportation into a weapon of mass destruction. None of us—undocumented immigrants, people with papers, naturalized citizens, or

26.03.2025 6

Eurasia Review

Sonali Kolhatkar

Who Should Pay for Climate Disasters?

At the recent Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) conference, Trump aide Ric Grenell unabashedly endorsed “squeezing” California’s...

03.03.2025 10

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Sonali Kolhatkar

“Only the People Can Save the People,” Say Migrant Workers

When the Eaton Fire began on January 7, 2025, in Altadena, California, it blazed through residential neighborhoods, destroying thousands of family...

26.02.2025 10

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Sonali Kolhatkar

Abolish Climate Disasters

“Under racial capitalism, land is treated as nothing more than a natural resource to be extracted, and violence is committed against the climate and...

27.01.2025 8

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Sonali Kolhatkar

I’ve Covered Climate Disasters for Decades. Now I Live on the Front Lines.

There is only one certainty in our future: Unless we take action to reverse climate crisis, we will all be its victims.

26.01.2025 20

Truthout

Sonali Kolhatkar

“Nonprofit Killer” Bill Favors Corporations Not People

This fall, shortly after the election, the House passed a dangerous piece of legislation that many are calling the “nonprofit killer” bill. The...

31.12.2024 8

Truthout

Sonali Kolhatkar

Kill the Non-Profit Killer Bill

When the bill was introduced in the spring, it was largely viewed as an effort to silence pro-Palestinian activism. At the time, dozens of House...

20.12.2024 6

CounterPunch

Sonali Kolhatkar

Silencing Nonprofit Speech Would Be Another Giveaway to Corporate Power

For-profit industries have enjoyed continuous and ever-growing impunity to advocate for whatever they want, no matter how destructive.

19.12.2024 10

Common Dreams

Sonali Kolhatkar

Time for Truthful Narratives on Immigration

A quiet panic has broken out within immigrant communities across the United States ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2025. Mixed-...

09.12.2024 5

CounterPunch

Sonali Kolhatkar

Berlin Conference: Colonial Legacy Continues 140 Years Later – OpEd

By Abayomi Azikiwe Commonly known as the Berlin Conference, the gathering marked the consolidation of European imperialist rule on the African...

07.12.2024 2

Eurasia Review

Sonali Kolhatkar

Time For Truthful Narratives On Immigration – OpEd

A quiet panic has broken out within immigrant communities across the United States ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2025. Mixed-...

07.12.2024 5

Eurasia Review

Sonali Kolhatkar

It’s Up to Us to Stop Trump From Selling Our Future to His Billionaire Oil Buddies

Trump is relying on ordinary Americans not noticing he’s throwing them and their planet under the bus because of the chaos he’ll bring.

01.12.2024 3

Common Dreams

Sonali Kolhatkar

Trump’s Already Rewarding Fossil Fuel Executives For Funding His Campaign – OpEd

During his campaign, Donald Trump publicly promised to reward oil and gas executives handsomely in exchange for funding his campaign. Within weeks...

01.12.2024 5

Eurasia Review

Sonali Kolhatkar

Trump’s Already Rewarding Fossil Fuel Executives for Funding His Campaign

During his campaign, Donald Trump publicly promised to reward oil and gas executives handsomely in exchange for funding his campaign. Within weeks...

29.11.2024 4

CounterPunch

Sonali Kolhatkar

Why Are Young Working-Class Men More ‘Conservative’?

It has been a safe assumption for generations that young people tend to be more liberal than their elders. However, in today’s United States, some...

21.10.2024 10

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Sonali Kolhatkar

Scapegoating Immigrants Hurts All Of Us, Except Elites – OpEd

Republicans are counting on fears of immigrants to draw white conservatives to the polls. This calculation is dangerous — and it lets the real...

17.10.2024 4

Eurasia Review

Sonali Kolhatkar

What We Can Learn from Gen Z Workers

My oldest born is a high school junior, taking his first steps into the hypercompetitive and bewildering world of undergraduate college...

01.10.2024 4

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Sonali Kolhatkar

Hold GOP Officials Accountable For Illegal Voter Intimidation – OpEd

A Florida resident named Isaac Menasche received a home visit this September from a police officer asking whether he’d signed a petition for a...

27.09.2024 2

Eurasia Review

Sonali Kolhatkar

Hold GOP Officials Accountable for Illegal Voter Intimidation

A Florida resident named Isaac Menasche received a home visit this September from a police officer asking whether he’d signed a petition for a...

26.09.2024 10

CounterPunch

Sonali Kolhatkar

GOP Voter Intimidation Has a Long and Disturbing History

From ordering police raids on civil rights workers to spreading conspiracy theories about voter fraud, the Republican Party is finding new ways to...

20.09.2024 5

Common Dreams

Sonali Kolhatkar

Harris Can’t Embrace Billionaires If She Wants To Win – OpEd

The vast majority of Americans believe that the United States economy is unfairly rigged to benefit the rich. In the past few weeks, the Democratic...

16.09.2024 2

Eurasia Review

Sonali Kolhatkar

Harris Can’t Embrace Billionaires if She Wants to Win

The vast majority of Americans believe that the United States economy is unfairly rigged to benefit the rich. In the past few weeks, the Democratic...

16.09.2024 50

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Sonali Kolhatkar

Election Years Are Dangerous Times for People of Color

As he runs for reelection in 2024, former president Donald Trump has made the outlandish claim that “millions of people [have crossed the United...

30.08.2024 3

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Sonali Kolhatkar

Harris’s Failed Opportunity?

Harris’s language of “opportunity agenda” leans right. She shared at the DNC, “My mother kept a strict budget. We lived within our means. Yet, we...

27.08.2024 3

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Sonali Kolhatkar

Healthcare for All Isn’t on the Ballot This November, But It Should Be

In spite of the enormous amount of pro-corporate propaganda against universal healthcare, a majority of Americans have historically supported...

24.08.2024 4

Common Dreams

Sonali Kolhatkar

What Does Arming Israel Cost Us? – OpEd

What will it take to end Israel’s genocide in Gaza? That’s the question confounding people of conscience all over the world since last October....

07.08.2024 2

Eurasia Review

Sonali Kolhatkar

Who’s A Bigger Threat To Democracy—Immigrants, Or Billionaires? – OpEd

When President Joe Biden said in a phone call to MSNBC’s Morning Joe recently, “I’m getting so frustrated with the elites… the elites of the...

24.07.2024 1

Eurasia Review

Sonali Kolhatkar