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Trump wants Charlie Kirk to be his Horst Wessel—don’t give him...
The greatest tragedy of all would be President Donald Trump successfully exploiting Kirk’s senseless killing as a pretext to carry out a nationwide crackdown on the political left.
The life & death of Aaron Bushnell: US airman self-immolates protesting...
“It was an act of courage, an act of bravery, to call attention to U.S. policies.”
Shot with rubber bullets, hospitalized, jailed: Line 3 protester Tara Houska...
20 water protectors were brutally arrested in Minnesota as resistance to the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline continues.
There’s no predicting when movements will erupt, but this classic activist...
With Black Lives Matter in the midst of an unprecedented moment, now is the perfect time to read “The Movement Action Plan” — a model for understanding the long arc of movements.
Bon Jovi feeds the hungry opening the doors to his third...
"What this restaurant is truly meant to do is empower."
Arizona will retry No More Deaths’ activist Scott Warren
The largely ministry-led movement provided humanitarian assistance to the thousands of individuals fleeing violence-ravaged Central American countries.
Open letter from Noam Chomsky, Arundhati Roy, Dave Eggers, Pamela Anderson...
We can’t have privacy without agency.
Environmental defender murdered in Mexico days before vote on pipeline project
"This is a political crime for the human rights defense that Samir Flores Samir and the FPDTA carried out against the [project] and for people's autonomy and self-determination."
Respect: A tribute to Aretha Franklin, an icon of the Civil...
Aretha Franklin has been celebrated as one of the greatest American singers of any genre, who helped give birth to soul and redefined the American musical tradition.
Meet Ahed Tamimi, 17-year-old West Bank activist jailed for 8 months...
Known to some as the Rosa Parks of Palestine, Tamimi became a hero to Palestinians and people around the world last year.
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Pentagon seeks $200 billion for Iran war as costs surge and Congress pushes back
Lawmakers question the scale, legality, and strategy of a massive funding request as troop deployments expand and the conflict shows signs of escalation.
Balanced budget amendment would put Social Security, Medicare, and core public services on the...
The proposal would make revenue increases extraordinarily difficult while allowing tax cuts to pass more easily, shifting pressure onto widely used federal programs.
Scale raises the ceiling, but fiscal foundations determine whether autocracy or democracy prevails
The implication is stark: democracy is not only a constitutional or ideological arrangement; it is fundamentally a fiscal one.
State Department purge left US exposed as Iran war sent energy prices soaring
Internal layoffs removed the very officials who would have modeled oil supply disruptions, coordinated with Gulf energy partners, and prepared for retaliatory strikes as war with Iran drove gas and crude prices sharply higher.
The Paris Prelude: Why the US and China are moving toward a Cold Peace
Nuanced engagement is an improvement over chaotic confrontation.