Wednesday, May 27, 2026

International law uncanceled

The Biden administration lifted sanctions against the International Criminal Court. It's not enough.
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Native American communities bear brunt of shutdown with medicine shortages & suspended food programs

Democratic members of Congress held a hearing Tuesday on the effects of the shutdown on health, education and employment in Native communities.

The United States needs a ‘Robin Hood Tax’

A giant tax fight awaits next year—when a number of the 2017 tax cuts for the rich and businesses expire.

Been there, done that (not!)

The imperial presidency comes home to roost.

Excessive corporate power breeds political repression

In the face of extractive industries’ enormous economic clout, Central Americans are facing increasing displacement and threats to their democratic rights.

The UN crisis

This problem of rogue actors has long bedeviled the United Nations. But the rise of right-wing populists who insist on their sovereign right to do whatever they please poses an additional challenge to the international community.

‘It’s not coming out’: Bernie Sanders stands firm on Medicare expansion

Sanders and other progressives have spent months defending the provisions in the $3.5 trillion, 10-year investment in climate action and social supports for lower- and middle-income families.
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Georgia runoffs: How you can help flip the Senate

The stakes couldn’t be higher. Let’s bring this home, flip the Senate, and usher in the transformative change this nation requires.
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How the system is failing young people

We cannot continue on the way we are right now.

They’re not conservatives, they’re extremists

By mislabelling the radical members of the Republican Party "conservative," the mainstream media gives them a veneer of respectability.