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To End Trumpism: A Tale of Three Reactions
Imagine you are about to crack open a new book and begin reading. The opening sentence goes like this: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of...
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More Women View Climate Change As Their Number One Political Issue
A new report from the Environmental Voter Project (EVP), shared first with The 19th, finds that far more women than men are listing climate and environmental issues as their top priority in voting. The...
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Appalled at Funding Genocide, Over 2,000 US Taxpayers Turn to the UN for Redress
Taxpayers Against Genocide (TAG), a nongovernmental grassroots mass movement comprised of more than 2,000 taxpayers who have been protesting their congressional representatives’ votes to fund Israel’s...
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With Congress Preparing a “Fiscal Tsunami,” States Can Choose Differently
Tax policy experts and lawmakers have long circled 2025 as a year to prepare for. What makes it so significant? For one thing, Federal COVID money to states is expiring, straining state budgets at the...
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Who Would Pay the Biggest Price for Postal Privatization?
President Trump and Elon Musk have expressed an interest in selling off the U.S. Postal Service to for-profit corporations. Even piecemeal privatization of this public agency would have wide-ranging...
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Standing Up by Sitting Down: The 1906 Sit-Down Strike in Schenectady, New York
There are hundreds if not tens of thousands of historical examples of the plight of organized labor, radical and otherwise. Some are more celebrated than others such as the Pullman Strike of 1894 and...
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Double Standard About Israel’s Foreign Interference
Benjamin Netanyahu is openly throwing his weight behind Pierre Poilievre. But few are pushing back against this flagrant interference in Canada’s election. On Friday the Israeli prime minister posted,...
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Why Is the BBC Middle East Desk Run By a Mossad Collaborator?
A senior figure at the BBC’s Middle East desk, Raffi Berg, has been exposed as a former employee of a CIA propaganda division and a collaborator with Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad, according to a...
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In Gaza: Relentless Bombardment, Lack of Water and Hospitals, People Burned...
In the 28th straight day since obliterating the ceasefire agreement on March 18th (the day that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was set to testify in his trial for corruption), Israeli forces...
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NATO Was Founded to Crush Communist, Socialist, and Anti-colonial Movements...
NATO was never a good idea gone wrong. It was founded to crush communist, socialist, and anti-colonial movements in Europe and around the world. Medea Benjamin and David Swanson explain NATO’s...
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No Resurrection: The Life and Death of the Modern University
My first academic job was at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. I was extremely lucky to have landed that job. I was fresh out of graduate school and had mailed off around 150 applications...
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Progressives Push for Emergency DNC Meeting to Confront ‘Dictatorial’ Trump
“Step by step, in effect, the regime is proceeding to shred the Constitution of the United States,” said the national director of RootsAction. “This is no time for Democratic Party business as usual.”...
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A Time of Living Dangerously – For Telling the Truth
The West has long cherished political correctness as though it were a core democratic value. This drive to ‘civilise’ public discourse has been especially aimed at illiberal democracies or...
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UK Arrest Warrant For Israeli Foreign Minister
Arrest Warrant Sought for Israeli Foreign Minister During Ongoing UK Visit An arrest warrant is being urgently sought for a senior member of Israel’s security cabinet, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar...
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Los Angeles Teachers’ Union Defends Students From Trump’s Anti-Migrant Crackdown
On April 7, federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) attempted to enter two elementary schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). According to LAUSD Superintendent...
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Against Militarization: Scientists Unite in Opposition to EU Rearmament
Scientists are uniting to voice against the recent proposal to rearm the European Union. They have released “Scientists against rearmament – A manifesto” and are calling on scientists, engineers,...
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Global Charade: Israel, Palestine and the ‘Rules-Based Order’
The post-WW2 ‘international rules-based order’ that supposedly underpins global affairs in the interests of peace, democracy and prosperity has always been largely a charade. But Israel’s continuing...
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Neurodiversity: Challenging Normality in Activism
As a starting point, neurodivergent refers to individuals whose neurocognitive functioning differs from what dominant societal standards define as “normal.” This includes conditions such as autism,...
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Unthinking, Apathy, and Genocide
Late last century I figured out that I needed to work on a job dedicated to making the world a better place. I know not everyone can find such a job if they try. I appreciate all the other useful jobs...
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Day of Action on 150+ Campuses Across US Will Target Trump Attack on Higher...
“What is at stake is the defense of our fundamental democratic rights and constitutional freedoms,” said one organizer. With universities across the U.S. facing attacks from the Trump administration...
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