Thursday, October 22, 2026

Tag: progressives

The collapse of Michèle Flournoy’s hopes for the top Pentagon job...

War preparations that increase the likelihood of war may excite laptop warriors. But the militarism they promote is madness nonetheless.

U.S. progressives and a Biden foreign policy

With more progressives than ever in the country’s federal government, there may be an opportunity for the United States to really re-evaluate its foreign policy and place in the world.

Corporate Democrats are to blame for congressional losses — so naturally...

Those who denounce the fight for a progressive agenda are telling us that, in essence, they don’t want much to change.

It’s not Trump’s country — even in ‘Trump country’

Progressive ballot initiatives passed handily across the country, even in so-called red states.

Broken truce: After Biden’s win, centrist Democrats turn on progressives

Rather than attacking AOC and other progressives as they've been doing for a week now, it’s about time the centrists in the Democratic Party stop talking and start listening to them.

Progressives made Trump’s defeat possible. Now it’s time to challenge Biden...

With enormous grassroots outreach that only they could credibly accomplish, progressive activists were a crucial part of the de facto united front to defeat Trump.

Hopes for a new party

Progressives can put these principles in practice, and we could retain the better parts of both capitalism and socialism, leading to a happy society.

Cornel West & Ben Jealous on whether progressives can push Joe...

“At this moment, with the decline and fall of the American empire, it looks as if the system is unable to generate enough energy to seriously reform itself."

Cornel West & Ben Jealous on the DNC and whether progressives...

“At this moment, with the decline and fall of the American empire, it looks as if the system is unable to generate enough energy to seriously reform itself. It remains sanitized, superficial."

“Listen to the people”: How progressives win

These voices and ideas will not be able to change the poor strategy of the national Democratic Party on their own.

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The U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington. Photo: Kjetil Ree / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Mahmoud Khalil asks Supreme Court to decide whether federal courts can review his detention

Justice Alito twice extended the filing deadline, and the full Third Circuit declined to rehear the case by a single vote.
A grocery store that accepts food stamps in New Orleans. Photo: Karen Apricot / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Analysis estimates 1.5 million Latinos have lost SNAP benefits since the tax law passed

Texas and Arizona account for more than 596,000 of the estimated losses in the seven states the groups examined, and the method assumes every enrollee was equally likely to be cut.
A female polar bear with cubs along the Beaufort Sea coast. Photo: Alaska Region U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (public domain)

Fish and Wildlife Service finalizes five-year Arctic oil rule covering polar bear and walrus...

The industry's own estimate counts 123 polar bear harassments and no deaths over the period, while the agency's rule lists how deaths could still occur.
Protesters outside the Supreme Court on June 24, 2022, the day of the Dobbs decision. Photo: John Brighenti / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Report counts 902 pregnancy-related prosecutions in three years after Dobbs

Pregnancy Justice found that most cases involved child neglect or endangerment charges and that substance use was alleged in 871 of them.
Downtown Ruidoso, New Mexico. Photo: public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

“The River Can’t Be Trusted”

After wildfires scarred the Sacramento Mountains above Ruidoso, New Mexico, the community was under heightened threat of catastrophic flooding. Officials were aware but continued to promote the town to tourists who were oblivious to the danger.