Saturday, April 18, 2026
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Chomsky: Arrest of Assange is ‘scandalous’ and highlights shocking extraterritorial reach of US

"Why is it acceptable for the United States to have the power to even begin to give even a proposal to extradite somebody whose crime is to expose to the public materials that people in power don’t want them to see?"
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Judge halts Trump’s asylum ban that represents a “relentless attack on the very idea...

The rule would effectively stop people from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala from seeking refuge in the United States.

Meet Alexander von Humboldt, the first person to understand climate change — more than...

As the world burns — and as kids sound the alarm — the original environmental scientist is worth revisiting.

Can progressives talk about love without embarrassment?

A review of Michael Lerner’s new book, Revolutionary Love: A Political Manifesto to Heal and Transform the World.

Kamala Harris and the legacy of black women running for president

Shirley Chisholm and other Black women have set their eyes on the Oval Office for 50 years. Now it’s within reach.

Nearly two-thirds of older Black Americans can’t afford to live alone without help –...

The scale of the economic insecurity we’ve measured among older adults of color shows how critical government support can be to people living near the financial edge.

How to fight for a better world when hope feels scarce

Instead of stifling our despair and pushing forward with more work, we need to make time for our fears.

Hit Piece on Sanders Proposals Relies on Pro-Clinton Economists Mislabeled as ‘Leftists’

NY Times runs hit piece on Sanders and his Medicare-for-all health plan, citing four supposedly independent "left-leaning" economists, all of whom actually worked for the Clinton and/or Obama administrations, are not "left-leaning" and who are actually Clinton backers.
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Chris Hedges explains the importance of ‘robust’ public broadcasting

Hedges elaborates on why airtime for these “dissident voices” is more crucial than ever before.

Facebook’s secret censorship rules protect white men from hate speech but not black children

A trove of internal documents sheds light on the algorithms that Facebook’s censors use to differentiate between hate speech and legitimate political expression.