Saturday, July 25, 2026

School shooters and drones

In its endless wars, America has been the true school shooter on this planet, terrorizing the global classroom with a remarkable lack of consequences.

The triumph and tragedy of the Olympic Refugee Team

It's beautiful that there's an Olympic team for 82 million displaced people. But have we accepted mass displacement as the new normal?

What the expanded child Tax credit means to me

Now families like mine, and every other family with kids, get life-changing help deposited directly into their bank accounts.
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America is exceptional in all the wrong ways

On the global stage, America is the exception, but not in the way we would like to believe.

‘Media coverage of this case has been sloppy when present at all’

CounterSpin interview with Sam Menefee-Libey on J20 Prosecution Update.

Line 3: Stopping the next big climate threat crossing the US-Canada border

An Indigenous-led resistance raises the alarm about a tar-sands pipeline that would cut through treaty territory of Anishinaabe people, threatening wild rice, fresh water and the climate.

Why the Washington Post’s Attack on Bernie Sanders is Bunk

Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold says as President Sanders couldn’t get any of his ideas implemented anyway because Congress would reject them. But if Bernie Sanders is elected president, American politics will have been altered, reducing the moneyed interests’ chokehold over the public agenda.
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‘It’s our future’: Meet the youth activists behind Fridays for Future Movements in Uganda...

"It is a very important issue for us because it’s us against our future. We either do something now or we don’t have a future."

The remarkable Mothers of Social Security

The best way to celebrate this Mother’s Day is for all of us to commit to fighting to expand Social Security, in memory of those brilliant, hard-driving, creative, and compassionate Mothers of Social Security.

Trump administration to force 200,000 Salvadorans to leave the US

The last time the government renewed the protections, they cited drought, poverty and widespread gang violence—all of which still exist in El Salvador.