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America—Democracy or Plutocracy?

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Frances Moore Lappé

Over and Over Again, The Corporate Media Spews GOP Propaganda on Social Security

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Eric Kleefeld

First They Came for the Homeless, Now the Students

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Ghulam Karim Khan

Biden and Blinken—Weapons to Israel Violates US and International Law

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Kevin Martin

Big Oil's Un-American Scheme to Price-Gouge Consumers

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Cassidy Dipaola

Mexico GM Corn Case Update: U.S. Assertions Rebutted by Civil Society Experts

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Karen Hansen-Kuhn

What I Told House Republicans About Their Dangerous Attempt to Defund NPR

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Craig Aaron

The Price We Pay for Bezos and Gates? Less Moral Societies

The longer we let inequality define our contemporary daily lives, new research helps us understand, the more the unethical behavior all around us...

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Sam Pizzigati

Anti-Genocide Students Are Fulfilling Their Duty to Prevent War Crimes; Will You?

Are students who protest war and genocide in Gaza criminals? International law says no.

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Jeremy Brecher

Big Oil Should Pay for the US to Reach Net Zero

The cost of climate action must shift from taxpayers to fossil fuel producers, in other words, to those who profit from the products that pollute...

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Hugh Helferty

Tom Cotton: The Nation's Very Worst Veteran

At a time when the United States needs to be careful and clear-headed about how it responds to the Middle East crisis, Cotton’s cheerleading for...

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Bob Keeler

The Main Obstacle to Peace in Gaza? The United States

Now that the Biden administration has established that it will not tolerate any criticism of Israel, the siege of Gaza is likely to continue.

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Edward Hunt

Hind's Hall: Unfurling Love From a Window

A banner and a name remind student protesters for whom they are fighting.

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Kathy Kelly

They Walk Among Us: Mississippi Goddamn, Still

As the dystopian movie Civil War sets records depicting the "colorful horrors of the American future" on its current trajectory, we saw the same...

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Abby Zimet

Students Demanding Divestment: You’re on the Right Side of History

To the brave students following in our noble tradition, I say, keep going.

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Marjorie Cohn

The Global Left Must Dare to Win on a Tight Deadline

We must be honest and serious about what climate collapse means to our struggles for justice, peace and wages, bread, housing, education, and...

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João Camargo

What the Pro-Nuclear Bros Don’t Want You to Know About Their Mini Reactors

SMRs may have a role to play in our energy future, but only if they are sufficiently safe and secure; for that to happen, it is essential to have a...

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Ed Lyman

The Two Lessons of the Holocaust Confront Each Other Over Gaza

On the one hand stands the particular lesson, the Holocaust as a reminder that only Israel can offer true safety to the Jewish people; on the other...

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Eran Zelnik

Trump and O.J.: Delusional Psychos in Court Put America on Trial

Just as O.J. became symbolic of the false promise of a color-blind America, so has Trump masqueraded as the champion of Americans underserved by...

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Robert Lipsyte

To Achieve Peace and Stability, the Middle East Needs a Regional Security Framework

To get there, the U.S. needs to change direction and work within the framework of the United Nations to promote cooperation over conflict.

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James Zogby

War, Money, and US Universities' Response to Israel Divestment Protests

Peaceful, intensely determined protesters, demanding their institutions divest from the Israeli war machine, face violent resistance from police.

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Robert C. Koehler

Israeli Is Ignoring the Lessons of Settler-Colonial History

The more resistance that the colonized shows, the more brutal the colonizer becomes. Genocidal Israel is now walking in the footsteps of all other...

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Haidar Eid

Ban Stock Buybacks to Curb Inequality and Save Lives

Every dollar spent lining the pockets of CEOs and investors is a dollar less to upgrade equipment and protect workers and the public.

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Robert Reich

It's Been a Horrible Couple of Weeks and Know This: Trump Would Be Much, Much Worse

Nobody is going to like the way out of this mess, because it requires the nearly impossible — mixing pragmatism with an almost hopeless idealism.

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Will Bunch

US Corporate Media Complicit in Demonizing Pro-Palestinian Protesters

Mainstream outlets give the impression of circling the wagons with Israeli and American officialdom to prevent at all costs an open, honest,...

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Rami G. Khouri

Biden, Buttigieg, and the People in MVP’s Blast Zone Got Lucky

If the 42-inch pipeline ever explodes at 1,480 pounds per square inch of gas pressure, it will be like nothing we have ever seen.

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Bill Kitchen

Three Simple Tests to Weigh the Protesters’ Legitimacy

For example: The Israeli government is murdering tens of thousands of innocent, defenseless women and children. Is that acceptable? If it is not,...

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Robert Freeman

Why Wall Street Wants You to Fear AI

The same Wall Street firms and their media cousins that want us to marvel at the shock and awe of AI, are destroying jobs the old-fashioned way –...

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Les Leopold

Treaty Negotiations Should See Plastics for What They Are: an Ocean Justice Crisis

Much like the case of climate change, those who bear the worst impacts of plastics gain the fewest benefits from their production or use.

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Rachel Bustamante

How AI Disinformation Poses New Risks to Southern Voters

The disenfranchising effects of high-tech deception will likely be compounded in the South, a region with a troubled history of election-related...

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Benjamin Barber

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