Saturday, May 16, 2026

2018 was a year of deadly climate disasters and an ‘ear splitting wake-up call’

“The evidence, if we needed any more, continues to stack up."

How health insurance became a boon for business and a plight for the rest...

A health system that allows business people to reap lofty profits even if it brings premature death, disability, and pain onto millions of families every day.

In search of a Green New Foreign Policy

To save ourselves and reduce the United States’ harmful global footprint, we need new thinking, new institutions, and a fundamental reordering of priorities.

The other America

The new politics of the poor in Joe Biden’s (and Mitch McConnell’s) U.S.A...

Why the Trump administration doesn’t just break the law

Whether the Trump administration cloaks its actions in legal rationales or disregards legality altogether, communities at home and abroad continue to resist.
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‘Victory for Julian”: UK blocks WikiLeaks founder Assange extradition to US on espionage charges

While the decision is a “very significant victory” for Assange, the judge has largely sided with the U.S. prosecution.

‘Our movement didn’t just win. We earned mandate for change,’ says Ilhan Omar after...

“In Minnesota, we know that organized people will always beat organized money. Despite outside efforts to defeat us, we once again broke turnout records. Despite the attacks, our support has only grown.”

Sanders, Jayapal plan would tax Wall Street speculation to fund tuition-free college

"The time is long overdue to make public colleges and universities tuition-free and debt-free for working families."
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I will not yield my values: Fired AP journalist Emily Wilder speaks out after...

Less than 48 hours after Stanford College Republicans began to post about me, I was fired.”

The Stock Market Is Getting Harder to Rig

The U.S. economy is in sad shape. Yet, corporate media tries to explain the recent stock market decline, which erased $2.1 trillion in the market value of stocks and in the pockets of Americans’ retirement savings, so logically.