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This Supreme Court is Constitutionally illegitimate—and everyone knows it
This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on June 25, 2022. It is shared here with permission under a Creative Commons license. On Friday, June…
More Americans want Congress to prioritize plastic waste problem: poll
Nearly a quarter of Americans surveyed in a new opinion poll identified plastic waste pollution as an issue that Congress must address in the next…
After receiving Alabama coal miners’ endorsement, will Tim James be there when it counts?
Culture war hysteria is the cornerstone of Tim James’s 2022 Alabama gubernatorial campaign. Similar to many Republicans running for office around the country during this…
Why the son of a hated dictator won the Philippine elections
This story originally appeared in Foreign Policy in Focus on May 18, 2022. It is shared here with permission. As a progressive activist, I am…
An on-the-ground view from Venezuela, ‘the model for true democracy in the Americas’
This story originally appeared in Black Agenda Report on May 3, 2022. It is shared here with permission. From April 11-13, 2022, the Bolivarian Republic…
Opinion | Fossil fuel firms and agricultural traders cash in on the war in Ukraine
This story originally appeared in openDemocracy on May 6, 2022. It is shared here with permission under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC 4.0) license. As…
Farewell to the dumbest Senate primary ever
Nearly every politician commits an occasional gaffe, and nearly every election features at least one news cycle about something stupid that a candidate did or said….
Capitalism has always wanted to control our bodies
Perhaps there was no more fitting of a backdrop for the announcement that the Supreme Court appears to be planning to overturn Roe v. Wade…
How the war in Ukraine is being fought in the media
As is the case with any war, the war in Ukraine is being fought on many fronts: in the streets, in the financial realm, and…
How the war in Ukraine is being fought in the media
As is the case with any war, the war in Ukraine is being fought on many fronts: in the streets, in the financial realm, and…
Opinion | There is no wisdom in pretending that Ukraine’s neo-Nazis don’t exist
This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on March 9, 2022. It is shared here with permission under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license….
Opinion | The Western Left doesn’t understand Putin–or the world outside the US
This story originally appeared in openDemocracy on March 4, 2022. It is shared here with permission under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC 4.0) license. Here…
Opinion | A letter to the Western Left from Kyiv
This story originally appeared in openDemocracy on Feb. 25, 2022. It is shared here with permission under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC 4.0) license. I…
Opinion | Prescription opioids aren’t driving the overdose crisis. Illicitly manufactured synthetic opioids are.
This story originally appeared in the Garrison Project on Feb. 15, 2022. It is shared here with permission. New recommendations for addressing the opioid crisis…
Opinion | Everyone loses when nations forcefully limit global migration
This story originally appeared in openDemocracy on Jan. 31, 2022. It is shared here with permission under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC 4.0) license. Free…
Opinion | The embarrassingly banal fall of a university president
This story originally appeared in The Tourist on Jan. 16, 2022. It is shared here with permission. The news of the firing of Mark Schlissel,…
Opinion | CSX explosion in Curtis Bay should alarm Baltimore City and accelerate real change
An explosion at the CSX facility—the second largest coal export pier on the East Coast—in South Baltimore on Dec. 30 is just the latest example…
Opinion | Nurses unions around the world mobilize against Big Pharma
This story originally appeared in Progressive International on Nov. 29, 2021. It is shared here with permission. The pandemic rages on—not by accident, but by…
Opinion | Amazon’s hunt for public contracts generates backlash
This story originally appeared in Progressive International on Oct. 22, 2021. It is shared here with permission. In July 2021, the world witnessed Jeff Bezos’…
Bret Baier confirms his ‘concerns’ about Tucker Carlson’s Jan. 6 documentary
Fox News anchor Bret Baier confirmed he has “concerns” about a documentary produced by the network’s leading prime-time host, Tucker Carlson, that focuses on the Jan….
‘Economic freedom’ rankings are contrived, meaningless nonsense
This story originally appeared in Jacobin on Oct. 31, 2021. It is shared here with permission. Last month, the Fraser Institute put out its annual…
Opinion | Crime rates rise and fall. The police mostly have nothing to do with it.
This story originally appeared in the Garrison Project on Oct. 26, 2021. It is shared here with permission. Murder rates go down; people exalt policing….
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