Good news from a left-wing perspective
We have a silver bullet that can end this crisis. Why are we afraid to pull the trigger? Source: Opinion | It’s time to admit it: The...
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As I look to the 2022 midterm elections and the 2024 presidential election, I see dark storm clouds on the horizon. Source: Opinion |...
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“The longer billions of people remain unvaccinated, the more variants will develop that threaten all of us.” Source: As...
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For now, conservative groups seem to be doubling down on their investments in false election-fraud alarmism. In the next two years,...
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Kevin McCarthy “jokes” about hitting Nancy Pelosi with a gavel. Jim Jordan admits that he talked to Donald Trump on January 6. And a...
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“I think the message here today is clear,” said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. “It’s that everyday people can...
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“We need massive investments in proven renewable solutions, not carbon capture fantasies.” Source: Bipartisan...
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There’s little doubt the US helped install Haiti’s new prime minister following the assassination of the country’s president. So here...
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“Every dose helps. Yet 100 million doses amount to only one one-hundredth of the current global need,” said Peter...
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Polls show the September vote will be close. Here’s how the Democrats can prevail. Source: How a Newsom Recall Could End the...
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Both sides have much to lose if a delicate negotiation over limiting Iran’s activities in return for a lifting of sanctions...
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Amazon improperly pressured Alabama warehouse workers to vote against joining the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union and...
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Former U.S. President Donald Trump will challenge a recent U.S. Justice Department order that his tax returns should be turned over...
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President Biden called on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) to resign on Tuesday after an independent investigation found that Cuomo...
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More than two thirds of people support an increase in taxes for wealthy and large corporations to fund areas such as education, job...
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Climate models project that heat waves will regularly break records and induce more heat stress before the end of the century....
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We’ve heard this siren song before. Whose interests are they articulating? Source: Beware Wall Street Democrats Calling for Austerity...
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The rights group is resuming a lawsuit against the administration for its use of a public health order to expel migrants. Biden...
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The Interior Department has approved royalty relief for one of America’s largest coal companies — a move that...
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Valorizing, pathologizing, and demonizing vets are all ways of refusing to listen to the actual experiences of those who carry out...
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Leaving a war already lost is different than leaving prematurely. Source: Opinion | Don’t ask whether we should leave Afghanistan....
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The news could prove difficult in passing the bills, as Sinema is a crucial vote in the reconciliation bill and negotiator for the...
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The race between frontrunners Shontel Brown and Nina Turner was especially contentious and attracted national attention Source:...
read moreCarlos Rojas Rodriguez, longtime immigration organizer who Biden told to ‘vote for Trump’ Grade: F Source: Immigration...
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“Democrats were bought off for leaving six million Americans without an eviction moratorium.”—Jackie Fielder,...
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This removal is not only a missed opportunity, but also hinders the framework’s capacity to implement transformative change to...
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The International Committee of the Red Cross has released a detailed study of life for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip that is just as...
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New Yorkers will need to show proof of vaccination to enter restaurants, gyms, and theaters starting next month. Source: NYC to...
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Operating with battalion-level staffs, the major tech companies (including Google and Apple) in 2020 spent $124 million in lobbying...
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“Having anything close to one-third of election workers fearing for their safety is simply unsustainable.” Source: Now...
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“It is now August of 2021. The election of November 2020 is over. If you haven’t figured out that the election in Maricopa County was...
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Responding to an urgent call from protesters to defund police departments and, in effect, reallocate a portion of police budgets to...
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“We found that the virus affects the blood vessels that supply the penis, causing erectile dysfunction,” said senior...
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Activists urge lawmakers to reverse a relevant 2017 law, “cancel the leases issued by the Trump administration, and shut down...
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“This poll confirms that high drug prices are a top-of-mind issue for seniors when making voting decisions.” Source:...
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We, the undersigned 218 organizations, oppose the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework that promotes privatization, and we urge you to...
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Despite reforms, on-duty police officers have fatally shot more than 6,000 people since The Washington Post began tracking such...
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Trump has apparently refused to contribute to Giuliani’s legal fund, which could come back to haunt him when his ex-lawyer is faced...
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The officers were filmed repeatedly kicking Dalonta Crudup in his head and striking Khalid Vaughn as he filmed the incident, the...
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A new constitution could therefore open the doors for a radical transformation of Chilean society. Source: Union Hopes High as...
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New Virginia Majority has expanded the state’s electorate by registering nearly 300,000 new voters and knocking on over 3 million...
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Unless and until the Republican Party recommits itself to playing by democratic rules of the game, American democracy will remain at...
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former COVID-19 testing czar Adm. Brett Giroir appeared on CNN’s Cuomo Prime Time Friday to launch a big, bright warning flare into...
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“Capitalism never fails to not surprise,” wrote one observer. Source: Insulated From Patent Waivers, Pfizer and Moderna...
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Clergy and low-wage workers with the Poor People’s Campaign are also calling on Congress to treat the nation’s immigrants...
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Physician Rupa Marya and co-author Raj Patel’s new book examines the social and environmental roots of poor health. Source:...
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the House Democratic leaders on Sunday called on the Biden administration to immediately extend the...
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progressives believe that Sinema, along with Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, has agreed to an infrastructure package that is...
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“Two weeks for Dems to pass redistricting reform before the GOP gerrymanders them out of power for a decade in Congress and at...
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There’s nothing in US law that says the contribution to the Fund couldn’t have been higher. At the same time there are three US laws...
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We need to a new “people’s” military as a force that could truly defend the American republic, focused above all on supporting the...
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It turns out sedition, treason, and conspiracy theories are pretty profitable. Source: Opinion | Trump ‘Shadow Cabinet’...
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“We gave the Biden administration more than enough time to fix any problems left behind by the Trump administration, but it has...
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Mayor Dan Gelber went after the GOP governor as his state tallies the highest daily number of cases of the entire pandemic. Source:...
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Iran denied responsibility. “Israel should stop leveling such accusations against Iran,” a spokesman for the Iranian foreign...
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New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) said on Sunday that there would be ‘more than enough’ votes to prevent a...
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This year, 37,803 fires have burned more than 3 million acres across the United States, per NIFC. During the same period in 2020,...
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Longtime front-runner Nina Turner tries to fend off Shontel Brown for House seat in special election primary Source: Ohio Race...
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Election officials nationwide are facing unprecedented threats to both their independence and personal safety. Source: Opinion |...
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Private prosecutions of criminal contempt charges, said a pair of senators, “are highly unusual and can raise concerning...
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“Officer Gunther Hashida, assigned to the Emergency Response Team within the Special Operations Division, was found deceased in his...
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Pulling out of Israel’s illegal settlements, encouraged by a petition campaign in their home state of Vermont, is consistent with...
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Whistleblowers had sounded alarm about the detention center contractors betraying children’s health and wellbeing. Source: Amid...
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The agency is integral to the immigration system, but hasn’t had a Senate-confirmed leader in more than two years. Source: Senate...
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The move comes after Democratic leadership in the House blocked an amendment to roll back limits on how much money people in the...
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“About half of U.S. clean energy now comes from solar and wind, and the other half from hydroelectric power.” Source:...
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The real answer to homelessness can only be homes, and the proper funding to make them supportive and livable. Source: Homes —...
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Within the agri-food problem may lie a golden opportunity for climate solutions: That’s because the productivity and, ultimately, the...
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Air pollution surrounds cities, subjecting residents to particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and other compounds that...
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The OAS’s false accusations led to the expulsion of Evo Morales. Now members of Congress want the State Department to investigate....
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not only were sperm counts reduced, COVID-19 can continue to live in the testes months after the initial infection. And another study...
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Police are citing racial justice protests and routine 911 calls to ask for armored vehicles built for a battlefield — and the...
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“With Kevin McCarthy voting against the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, it is clear that his Pelosi comments...
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Republican U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham revealed on Monday that he has tested positive for COVID-19 despite being vaccinated, has...
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A legacy of colonialism and 20th century international trade agreements, so-called “investor-state dispute...
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Former UK diplomat and whistleblower Craig Murray was denied an appeal by UK Supreme Court. He’ll surrender himself for 8-month...
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Curtis Crosland spent years trying to prove his innocence. A review of his case found that the information proving his innocence was...
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if you want mercenaries for hire on the cheap, often trained by the US military, you can find them in spades in Colombia. Source:...
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A steady trickle of new information from a Senate probe is showing how vaccine shortages are linked to corruption. Source: Brazil:...
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Legislation is pushing back against a waste-based economy by requiring companies to help customers fix their appliances...
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Guatemala’s attorney general fired a top prosecutor of corruption last week. Now, Indigenous peoples and social movements are calling...
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The moneyed interests bankrolling both parties fear that a more robust democracy would make it easier for the majority of Americans...
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The biology of the delta variant has made mass revaccination an urgent necessity. Source: The Science Says Everyone Needs a COVID-19...
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Nearly half of Republicans say a time will come when patriotic Americans have to take the law into their own hands Source: Poll:...
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In the Republicans’ disinformation campaign, the arrested Capitol rioters are political prisoners and Speaker Nancy Pelosi is to...
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As disaster after disaster unfolds, any plan that doesn’t tackle the climate crisis with urgency isn’t worth taking seriously....
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Under pressure from conservative groups, GOP senators refused to strengthen IRS enforcement to pay for the bipartisan infrastructure...
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Pockets of the American West continued to burn over the weekend, as another nine large fires were reported on Saturday in California,...
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“People need to understand that we’re not crying wolf here,” said the CDC director. “It’s one of the...
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Despite disastrous wars against poor, third world countries Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, the U.S. is preparing to to wage war with...
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“It kind of feels like that with a grassroots campaign against a corporate-backed Democrat,” the 21-year-old said. “I believe...
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Donald Trump insisted on Saturday that when he told senior justice department officials to “Just say that the election was corrupt...
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Homeowners behind on their mortgage payments who aren’t forced out will still be displaced if selling is their only option, and an...
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the only thing the Democrats seem to be concentrating on– at least in a meta sense– is how to lose the midterms and turn...
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Will the entire process at least motivate and mobilize Democrats in and out of Congress to move forward from this trial to do the...
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“This case is now bigger even than Donald Trump’s crimes. Neither the courts, nor the machinery of our government, exist...
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A nationwide eviction moratorium officially expired Saturday after the Biden administration refused to extend it unilaterally and...
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Adm. Brett Giroir, Trump’s coronavirus testing czar, is appealing to the unvaccinated American public to get vaccinated as soon...
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Secretive gangs are hacking the computers of governments, firms, even hospitals, and demanding huge sums. But if we pay these...
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Unfortunately, recent military action in Somalia, tit-for-tat airstrikes between U.S. forces and anti-U.S. nonstate armed groups in...
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