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May Day was even more important than you think
The mass mobilization on May Day was a show of power—and a dress rehearsal of the tactics it takes to win against an authoritarian regime.
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.
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.