Why Americans Support Unions and Distrust Big Business
Justin Arango said support for a union built over the years among workers at JSW Steel in Mingo Junction, Ohio, as the company repeatedly failed to deliver fair pay, sufficient sick time, and safety...
View ArticleSaid or Unsaid, Palestine Is Here To Stay
The Talmud contends that “Whosoever saves a single life is as if he had saved the whole world; whosoever destroys a single life is as if he had destroyed the whole world.” How would this central text...
View ArticleGreening the Sahara: For a Nourishing and Regenerative Algeria
Algeria is celebrating Eid al-Adha, the Feast of the Sacrifice. A sacred moment of remembrance, sharing, and spirituality. Yet, once again this year, a large portion of the population is faced with a...
View ArticleThis Father’s Day, Let’s Break the Manosphere’s Hold on Young Men
On Father’s Day, imagine fathers and father figures sitting down with their sons and the young men in their lives—to talk, to listen, and to speak the truth about the dangerous forces vying for boys’...
View ArticleRethinking Climate Action: A New Guidance for Planetary Health
The Global Environmental Outlook (GEO), compiled by the member states of the United Nations, reports on a range of planetary disasters, including coral reef bleaching, species loss, wildfires, extreme...
View ArticleTrump Will Make the US Irrelevant
There are various reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, but there is one important factor that has not been sufficiently explored. The Soviet Union in the 1980s had become increasingly...
View ArticleIsrael Attacks Iran, Again, Over Trump’s Objection
This is a statement by Peace Action and Peace Action Education Fund President Kevin Martin. Israel has attacked Iran once again, allegedly hitting dozens of targets including nuclear and ballistic...
View ArticleGermans, Hungarians, Russians, Italians All Waited Until It Was Too Late: Are...
“The fog crept in on little cat feet.” — Carl Sandburg, Fog (1916) Eventually, people in countries that are in the process of flipping from democracy to fascism figure out that they’re now living in a...
View ArticleAmerican Spring? How Nonviolent Protest in the US is Accelerating
On streets and highway passes, at intersections and in parks, millions of Americans continue to turn out to protest against the Trump administration and its policies. The media spotlight is currently...
View ArticleRed Card For Genocide: Why FIFA Must Be Held to Account
Fans worldwide are unequivocally challenging FIFA’s continued support for Israel, organizing with unprecedented unity for Palestine. Unlike previous actions, this mobilization is now notably...
View Article“We Are in the Midst of the Creation of a Police State”: Rep. Ilhan Omar on...
Democratic Congressmember Ilhan Omar of Minnesota joins Democracy Now! to discuss the increasing authoritarianism of the Trump administration, including its crackdown on anti-ICE protesters in Los...
View ArticleAid as a Means of Ethnic Cleansing
It’s been apparent for some time that the Israeli government intends to expel the population of Gaza and claim the territory. This has become so obvious that even the establishment press is belatedly...
View ArticleTrump Is Delivering an Iran War No One Wants
There are moments in a presidency of no turning back, decisions made and actions taken that are so consequential and far-reaching, they mark a fundamental turning point. George W. Bush’s invasion of...
View ArticleHow to Subtly Undermine a Promising Left-Wing Candidate
There’s an art to writing a profile of a political candidate that sows doubt about their fitness for office without attacking them directly. Done smoothly, it can be more damaging than an overt hit...
View Article1.5 Is Dead: How Hot Will The Earth Get?
2024 was the warmest year since records began being kept 175 years ago. According to the World Meteorological Organization’s latest State of the Global Climate report: There is no room for doubt: Earth...
View ArticleTrump Is Rapidly Expanding the Surveillance State as Protests Grow
President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard and military against protesters in Los Angeles is widely being interpreted as a display of intimidation and state power ahead of his birthday,...
View ArticleScience In The Dark
The Police State performance On Sunday, June 8, my partner and I were at the MOCA Geffen Contemporary museum in Downtown Los Angeles, attending part of a day-long performance by Nadya Tolokonnikova (of...
View ArticleThe Illegal Attack on Iran
Israel’s consistent attacks on Iran since 2023 have all been illegal, violations of the United Nations Charter (1945). Iran is a member state of the United Nations and is therefore a sovereign state in...
View ArticleDissent Is Patriotic: Daniel Ellsberg’s Legacy Demands Action
Two years ago this week, Daniel Ellsberg died at the age of 92. In the popular imagination, his legacy is often reduced to a singular act of conscience and courage: the 1971 release of the Pentagon...
View ArticleWhen All Else Fails, Fire Burns In We the People’s Belly
‘Cause sometimes it’s hard to let the future begin! ― Lorraine Hansberry Many people believe the nation’s current turmoil is traceable to a single fact: that Trump and his 2025 Project strategists now...
View ArticleFor Media, Unruly Protesters Are Bigger Problem Than Trump’s Police State
In the early morning of Friday, June 6, several federal agencies carried out militarized immigration raids across Los Angeles (Al Jazeera, 6/7/25). Armed and masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
View ArticleDoes Trump Have White Working-Class Support for Deporting Undocumented Workers?
As Trump stokes conflict at immigration demonstrations, will the public side with Trump or the demonstrators? Attacks on immigrant workers are accelerating as ICE zeros in on sites where immigrants...
View ArticleDemocrat Michigan AG Asked FBI to Raid Protesters’ Homes — But Won’t Tell...
On the morning of April 23, around 7 a.m., the FBI, along with other local and state police, battered down the doors of four residences across Ann Arbor, Canton, and Ypsilanti, Michigan. The homes...
View ArticleEurope Is Still Enabling Israel’s Crimes in Gaza
Twenty months into Israel’s daily devastation of Gaza, its US-backed “aid relief” scheme has left 230 people dead or injured in a single day. This single incident is just the latest in the truly...
View ArticleYears of LAPD Impunity Paved Way for Trump’s Repression of Protests Today
Armored National Guard trucks rumbling down Sunset Boulevard. The mayor declaring a citywide curfew. LAPD officers in riot gear firing flash bangs and rubber bullets. Street medics rushing to...
View ArticleBe Like Greta Thunberg
It’s been six years since that white, middle-class teenage girl with autism stood before world leaders at the UN Climate Summit and exclaimed indignantly “How dare you!” Greta Thunberg became an object...
View ArticleCan Zohran Mamdani Expand the Left’s Base?
Alittle over a year ago, I organized a meeting in New York City between a visiting member of Congress and a handful of local activists from across the Left. Among those present was New York Assembly...
View ArticleClimate Socialism
I am writing this message to the millions of people who have been involved in the climate movement over the past several years. This movement has been an incredible force, thanks to your courage,...
View ArticleAnatomy Of A Genocide, With Francesca Albanese
An international lawyer, Albanese has served since May 2022 as the United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories.
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