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23 Dem AGs Think They’ve Cracked the Code to Fighting Trump
The resistance meets daily on Microsoft Teams. The country’s 23 Democratic state attorneys general log on at 4pm ET for a thirty-minute confidential video chat to coordinate their plans for pushing...
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Woe to You Who Deprive the Poor of Their Rights
“There has almost always been an outright hostility that is shown towards people of the Christian faith,” House Speaker Mike Johnson said on a podcast recently. He was talking with Tony Perkins, a...
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In Its Fight Against Fascism, Israeli Academia Remains Blind to a Basic Truth
Never before have the two Israeli communities between which I divide most of my time, the academic and the activist, been so estranged from one another — and this, despite both being genuinely...
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Trump Is Not a Localist
It has been dismaying to see people who should know better—I won’t name names yet—excuse the dangerous and chaotic first month of the Trump Administration as a victory for localism. Hey, they say, he’s...
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The Left’s Dilemma Amid a Crumbling World Order: Prepare to Fight or Let...
With a madman in the White House, all pretences have fallen away and raw power again reigns supreme. Trade wars, huge aid cuts, explicit demands to annex Greenland and depopulate Gaza — every new day...
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Amid Immigration Raids, Medical Workers Train Up on Constitutional Rights
The lobby at this St. John’s Community Health clinic in South Los Angeles bustles with patients. But community health worker Ana Ruth Varela is worried that it’s about to get a lot quieter. Many...
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Latin America’s New Right Ushers in Pan-American Trumpism
Donald Trump is a wild card in Latin America. Who will he galvanize more? His natural allies, including leaders who share many of his culture-war obsessions? Or politicians and activists who see in...
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Russian Political Prisoner Boris Kagarlitsky on the Moscow-Washington Axis
Editor’s note: This letter was sent by Boris Kagarlitsky on February 19 from the penal colony in Torzhok, Russia, where he is serving a five-year sentence for “justification of terrorism.” As such, it...
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The Lost ‘Arab’: Gaza and the Evolving Language of the Palestinian Struggle
Language matters. Aside from its immediate impact on our perception of great political events, including war, language also defines our understanding of these events throughout history, thereby shaping...
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Letters From an American: Zelensky In the Oval Office
As seemed evident even at the time, the ambush of Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office on Friday was a setup to provide justification for cutting off congressionally approved aid to...
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‘Never Let Anyone Break Your Spirit’: How an Environmental Justice Forefather...
This interview is a collaboration between Inside Climate News and “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine. The interview is conducted by host Steve Curwood with the Rev. Ben...
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Trump 2.0 – The View from China
Donald Trump’s second term may not be all bad for all nations, especially China. According to many Chinese internet users, Trump’s policies have unwittingly strengthened their country. This is why he...
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The Elites’ Big Lie on Inequality
(I saw that Jeff Bezos wants the Washington Post’s editorial page to run pieces touting the merits of free markets. Here’s my submission.) There are not many issues on which there is largely bipartisan...
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Seattle Has Voted to Build Social Housing
In early February, Seattle voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition 1A, making Seattle the first city in the country to explicitly commit itself to building social housing. Prop 1A funds the Seattle...
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Global Peace Movement Needed to Combat Climate Change and Avoid Nuclear...
Reading all the news in my temporary flat at Cambridge University, where my wife is on a year’s sabbatical leave, I’m able to view all the slaughter in the world and the chaos, increasingly blatant...
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Israel Suspends Aid Into Gaza, Bringing Ceasefire Closest It’s Been to Collapse
The ceasefire in Gaza came closest to collapsing since it began in mid-January after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Israel’s halt of the entry of humanitarian aid into the strip....
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For a Democratic Society, Democratize Finance
Michael McCarthy’s The Master’s Tools opens with an evocative description of life under a new social order. “It’s a sunny Friday morning in 2045, and you’re running late for a meeting to deliberate...
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Ken Roth on Israel’s “Starvation Strategy” in Gaza &“Righting Wrongs” of...
Democracy Now! continue their conversation with Kenneth Roth, the former executive director of Human Rights Watch and the author of the new book, Righting Wrongs: Three Decades on the Front Lines...
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Alberta’s First Nations and Non-Indigenous Unite Against Big Oil
The oil boom in Alberta, Canada has brought Big Oil in confrontation with First Nations for decades. This year, a breakthrough struggle occurred as the Woodland Cree First Nation established a blockade...
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The Oscar-Winning Film “No Other Land” is About Palestinians Who Have No...
The title of the Oscar-winning documentary, No Other Land, reflects the sad reality that these people have no place else to go. The residents are mostly goat and sheep herders, and endure...
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