Thursday, July 2, 2026

Biden’s proposal to lift limits on Israel’s US weapons access sparks debate

U.S.-Israel arms policy in flux: Biden's bold proposal to lift restrictions on weapon access.

Fourth Alabama correctional officer convicted for allowing inmate abuse

“When a law enforcement officer accepts his or her oath of office, they also accept the higher standard they must adhere to,”

How privatization cuts us in two, while public institutions make us a better people

More profits for the privatizers, more health concerns and expense and disdain for the public. 

Senate Democrats demand investigation into Iran school bombing as Fetterman stands apart

Nearly the entire Democratic caucus calls for a probe into a deadly strike on a girls’ school in Minab while one senator backs the military operation.

Why society is increasingly turning to community schools to address the youth mental health...

The struggles of a rural school district in New Mexico illustrate how educators and parents believe they know what will work—if only they can get policy leaders to support it.

Trump shrinks national monuments in largest reduction in history. Here’s how groups are fighting...

The fight will not be easy, but with so much support and on-the-ground activism, hopefully it is a fight that conservationists can win.

A deal with the devil

What’s that tax deduction really worth?

The pandemic that exposes the full Trump pandemic

We are about to test whether Trump can win re-election by crushing Bush-Cheney’s formidable record as the most inhumanely destructive, financially irresponsible presidency in our history.

Imagine Something Different

“The shadow of crisis has passed, and the State of the Union is strong,” President Obama assured us. From whose lives has the shadow of crisis passed? And for whom is this Union strong?

The Execution of Nimr Al-Nimr: One More Reason to Re-evaluate the Toxic U.S.-Saudi Alliance

The killing of Sheikh Al-Nimr should serve as a prime moment for the U.S. to reconsider its alliance with the Saudi regime, a regime that not only denies human rights to its own people but exports death and destruction abroad.