Friday, March 13, 2026

Dear Mr. Holder: Here’s Why Edward Snowden Can’t Get a Fair Trial in Your...

Not only did the US torture Manning, US officials have on many occasions practiced arbitrary arrest and imprisonment and torture.

Trumping Europe? Steve Bannon’s manufactured ‘movement’

The new reality is that progressives, here in North America as in Europe, must fight on two fronts simultaneously.

Texas Democrats flee to block GOP gerrymandering as Trump pushes national redistricting blitz

Fleeing the state to break quorum, Texas Democrats are fighting what they call a racist, Trump-backed effort to rig congressional maps ahead of 2026—sparking a broader national confrontation over voting rights.

The art of shaping memory

How best to describe the recently completed allied commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of France? Two words come...

New economic study ‘demolishes’ myth about student debt parroted by Joe Biden

“The vast majority of borrowers that benefit from forgiveness hail from low- and lower-income communities,” the study’s authors affirmed.

Thousands in Baghdad Protest Lack of Electricity and Services, Demand End of Corruption (Video)

Thousands gathered in the sweltering heat in downtown Baghdad’s Liberation Square protesting against corruption and lack of electricity—a political crisis underlining the dangers of fossil fuels.

Progressive groups unveil ‘Rural New Deal’ to ‘reverse decades of economic decline’

"Rebuilding and renewing supportive social and economic connections across rural and urban lines, empowering rural people and communities, moving away from extractive relationships of the past, is the course we must chart together."

Trump’s trophy hunting council disbanded after legal defeat

"The end of Trump's thrill-kill council is a huge victory for elephants, lions and other imperiled animals targeted by trophy hunters."

The psychology of the wall

Wall are cropping up all over the world. But as with guns, the sense of safety and security that comes from a wall is almost entirely illusory.

DNC fraud suit exposes anti-democratic views in Democratic Party

The suit has already clarified and underscored a crucial reality.