The Missing Three-Letter Word in the Iran Crisis
“As the world’s only superpower, [the United States] must accept its special responsibilities for preserving access to [the]...
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Turkey Calls Trump’s Bluff
Turkey has just called Donald Trump’s bluff by going ahead with the purchase of Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missiles. The...
read moreIf the Supreme Court Won’t Prevent Gerrymandering, Who Will?
To fill this growing gap, reformers should take an unexpected route: states’ rights. Source: If the Supreme Court Won’t Prevent...
read moreSanders accuses Biden of parroting Big Pharma and insurance industry script with attacks on Medicare for All
In a CNN interview published online Monday, Biden—who came under fire in April for attending a fundraiser hosted by a health...
read moreIran’s Not the Aggressor. The U.S. Is.
It’s easy to be confused about what’s happening between the U.S. and Iran. Source: Iran’s Not the Aggressor. The U.S. Is. | Common...
read moreNo PAC Money Pledges Are in, But That Doesn’t Mean Big Money is Out: Understanding the No PAC Pledges
No Democratic candidate thus far has appeared to have worked as closely with a super PAC as Clinton did. And although President Trump...
read morePelosi’s War on Progressives Risks Another Trump Victory
There are three reasons Trump won, and some of the leading Democrats don’t seem to understand any of them Source:...
read moreAlert: Election Systems Across Country Use Software Vulnerable To Hackers
An AP analysis found the vast majority of 10,000 election jurisdictions nationwide use Windows 7 or an older operating system....
read moreThe Charter School Primary
Bernie Sanders wants to ban for-profit charters, which represent about 15 percent of the sector, and to halt federal funding for new...
read moreThe Border Crisis Is Fracturing the Democratic Party
The crisis provided the backdrop to an ugly back-and-forth between these progressive women of color and Nancy Pelosi and her staff,...
read more‘Racist’ and ‘Patently Unlawful’: Trump Unveils New Rule to Block Asylum-Seekers at Southern Border
“We’ll be challenging it in the courts and in the streets.” Source: ‘Racist’ and ‘Patently...
read moreHere Are 11 Questions We’d Ask Robert Mueller
Rather than mining the hearing for valuable new information on what happened between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign, they’ll...
read moreTrump Issues New Rule To End Asylum Protections For Central Americans
According to a new rule published in the Federal Register , asylum seekers who pass through another country first will be ineligible...
read moreLori Lightfoot: Why Chicago police will not assist ICE in its raids
I took these steps in response to a set of policies from your administration that don’t make us safer or stronger as a nation....
read moreBill Gates suggests higher taxes on ‘those with great wealth’
He and his wife run the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and are worth more than $90 billion. Source: Bill Gates suggests higher...
read moreDemocrats Continue Search For The Smoking Gun They Already Have
Nancy Pelosi insists on more investigations, even though she thinks Trump has committed crimes. Source: Democrats Continue Search For...
read moreWhen Trump Is Tweeting Racist Attacks on Progressive Democratic Women, It’s Time to Impeach
Rashida Tlaib sums it up: “Want a response to a lawless and complete failure of a President? He needs to be impeached.” Source: When...
read morePresidential Candidates Can’t Discuss Gun Deaths Without Discussing Cops
Since 2015, mass shooters have killed 339 people in the U.S., while police have used guns to take 4,355 lives. Source: Presidential...
read moreHere’s How Much the 2020 Presidential Candidates Have Raised and Spent So Far
Presidential campaigns report their financial activity to the Federal Election Commission on a regular schedule. Use this page to see...
read moreThousands Protest Concentration Camps At Vigils Across The US
Two days before the largest immigration raid in US history, thousands of people in over 700 cities held vigils and protests yesterday...
read moreHow Congress Manufactured a Postal Crisis—And How to Fix it
An unprecedented congressional mandate threatens the Postal Service’s ability to continue to provide good jobs and universal...
read moreThe Workers in Our Homes Deserve Rights
A new bill would give nannies, house cleaners and home care workers long overdue protections Source: The Workers in Our Homes Deserve...
read more‘Not Acceptable’: Analysis Estimates Biden Healthcare Plan Would Kill 125,000 People in First Decade Alone
As Biden vows to “do everything in my power” to defend system based on for-profit insurance industry, People’s...
read moreDescribing ‘Future We Want to Live In’ Scores of Groups Unveil New Blueprint for Reproductive Rights
“The last two years,” says new agenda, “have seen increasingly hostile attacks on reproductive autonomy and...
read moreAlert: Beyond Flint, Lead Contamination Plagues Communities Across the US
Water systems, especially in rural areas, can report much higher levels than the EPA cutoff. In 2017, for example, an elementary...
read moreThe Top Trump Administration Scandals—Aside From Trump’s
Let us just review the record, because it gets hard to remember them all after a while. Source: The Top Trump Administration...
read moreNo Sign On Sunday Of Trump’s Large-Scale Nationwide Immigration Raids
The American Civil Liberties Union, representing four immigration legal aid nonprofit groups, sued Thursday to block the raids,...
read moreUS Journalist Faces Death Threats for Exposing Brazil’s Web of Corruption
The Intercept’s revelations, known on social media as #VazaJato, (a play on the title of the Car Wash corruption scandal, meaning...
read more15 States Have Already Taken Steps to Make the Electoral College Obsolete
Momentum is growing among state legislatures to award electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote. Source: 15 States...
read moreToo Poor to Vote: How the Criminal Justice System Has Created a New Era of Poll Taxes
In the United States nearly six million individuals are denied the right to vote due to a past conviction, and, for many of those...
read moreTrump admin stole at least 18 babies as young as 4 months from migrant families, House report says
At least 18 babies and toddlers under the age of two—“including nine infants under the age of one”—were kidnapped from...
read moreVeteran MD Drops Bombshell About 5G Technology Dangers At 5G Hearing – YouTube
Dr. Sharon Goldberg, an internal medicine physician & professor gives her testimony regarding 5g technology dangers specifically...
read moreUN chief: Colombia must respect commitments to rebels
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says he regrets the “polarization and division” in Colombia over elements of the 2016 peace...
read moreNew Report Finds Ecuador’s IMF Austerity Program Likely to Result in Economic Recession, Higher Unemployment
“The IMF’s program for Ecuador calls for undoing a whole range of policies that have been quite successful in recent years in...
read moreWill San Francisco Become the Second City to Tax Extreme CEO-Worker Pay Gaps?
the San Francisco ballot initiative will undoubtedly educate millions of people about this approach to narrowing the extremely unfair...
read moreUS mayors call on candidates to declare their stance on nuclear weapons
On July 1, at the close of its 87thAnnual Meeting, the United States Conference of Mayors (USCM), unanimously adopted a bold new...
read moreAlert: The Guardian Campaign Against Corbyn
If criticism against state Zionism is sufficient to prove antisemitism, then many Jewish critics of the Israeli government are...
read moreCensus data was used to identify Japanese Americans to Secret Service for incarceration
A new study of U.S. Department of Commerce documents now shows that the Census Bureau complied with an August 4, 1943, request by...
read moreAlert: American Dark Money Is Fueling the Rise of Europe’s Far Right
America’s Christian right has spent at least $50 million in the last decade to fund campaigns and advocacy in Europe. Source:...
read moreWere the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki a war crime and a crime against humanity?
For men to choose to kill the innocent as a means to their ends is always murder” Source: Were the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and...
read moreWill Democratic Superdelegates Block a Progressive in 2020?
since there’s so many candidates, wouldn’t that actually significantly increase the chances of no candidate winning in a clear...
read moreHouse Votes to Prevent Trump From Entering Unauthorized War With Iran, Setting Up Showdown With Senate
The move sets up a likely showdown with the Senate over whether the Iran restriction, which includes an exception for cases of...
read moreAlert: Report Shows How War Profiteers Are Now Refugee Profiteers, Too
Arms dealers flood war-torn Middle East with weapons and then lobby EU to militarize borders against refugees—profiting from...
read moreRashida Tlaib Wants to Tax the Rich, Save Detroit, and Free Palestine
Rashida Tlaib talks to Jacobin about her family’s struggles, fighting giveaways to Detroit’s mega-rich developers, trespassing...
read moreAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez: The Democrats Shouldn’t Be Afraid of Being the Party of FDR
It’s hard to recall a newly elected freshman representative to Congress who has made a bigger impact than Alexandria...
read moreU.S. House of Representatives Creates Requirement That There Be Some Basis for Any Foreign Bases
By a vote of 219 to 210, at 2:31 p.m. on Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed an amendment introduced by Congresswoman...
read moreMaine Governor Mills Signs Law To Support Net Neutrality And Protect Internet Users
The legislation restricts internet service providers from blocking, slowing down, or speeding up the delivery of online content at...
read moreAlert: Top Assange Defense Account Deleted By Twitter
One of the biggest Twitter accounts dedicated to circulating information and advocacy for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, @Unity4J,...
read moreFacebook to be fined $5 billion for Cambridge Analytica privacy violations – reports
The $5bn fine would be the largest ever levied by the Federal Trade Commission against a technology company.The Federal Trade...
read moreThe U.S. Needs to Clean Up Its Own Act on Nuclear Weapons
The U.S. frets about nuclear weapons in North Korea and accuses Iran of wanting the same, all while refusing to honor its own...
read moreMajority of US Veterans doubt Value of Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria Wars
If a majority of Republican veterans can’t be found to uphold the value of the Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria Wars, we damn sure...
read moreHow Europe Can Save What’s Left of the Iran Nuclear Deal
With the help of Russia and China, European leaders can prevent the total collapse of the 2015 agreement—and keep the region...
read moreTrump tells four liberal congresswomen to ‘go back’ to their countries, prompting Pelosi to defend them
Pressley was born in Cincinnati, Tlaib was born in Detroit and Ocasio-Cortez was born in New York — about 20 miles from where...
read moreNancy Pelosi’s renewed attacks on AOC aren’t just disrespectful, they’re dangerous
As America grows increasingly brazen in its bigotry, Pelosi should be standing up for her new colleagues — so why isn’t she?...
read more‘Epstein was running a blackmail scheme under the cover of a hedge fund’: NY magazine reports on Wall St speculation
Convicted sex offend Jeffrey Epstein claims to be a billionaire hedge fund manager. But his real business may have been a blackmail...
read more‘Visit the Camps Yet?’ Campaign Urges Pelosi to See for Herself the Horrific Conditions at Trump Detention Centers
Instead of attacking members of Congress who are fighting to end the appalling conditions inside President Donald Trump’s...
read moreJeffrey Epstein is ‘Exhibit A’ for capitalism’s moral bankruptcy
The elevation of Donald Trump to the Presidency marks the high-water mark for this underworld crew who masterfully play the compliant...
read moreTell Rep. Adam Schiff to Remove This Dangerous Secrecy Provision From This Year’s Intelligence Bill
Largely unnoticed until yesterday, the CIA is pushing Congress to pass a bill that will vastly expand secrecy laws, threaten press...
read moreVoters Don’t Want Democrats to Be Moderates. Pelosi Should Take the Hint.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi should be attacking Trump, not AOC. Source: Voters Don’t Want Democrats to Be Moderates. Pelosi Should...
read moreOn First Anniversary of Kavanaugh Nomination, Groups Demand Democrats Follow Through on Promise to Probe Perjury and Assault Accusations
“Serious questions remain about whether Kavanaugh is ultimately fit to be a Supreme Court justice, and House Democrats now have...
read more1 Million Americans Will Be Shot in the Next Decade’- Trauma Doctors Take On the NRA and Gun Violence
Trauma surgeons describe gun violence as a public-health crisis. Source: Trauma Doctors Take On the NRA and Gun Violence – The...
read moreWyoming Billionaire Plans To Buy Around 15% Of The Planet To Protect Its Nature
this retired billionaire is set to help mend the planet’s most fractured natural areas by establishing a new campaign –...
read moreArizona city fights to spread compassion for migrants amid border crisis
The progressive stance of Tucson, Arizona’s second largest city, is evident in the area’s rich history of immigration activism...
read more‘I accused Donald Trump of sexual assault. Now I sleep with a loaded gun’
Advice columnist E Jean Carroll on what happened after she told her story Source: ‘I accused Donald Trump of sexual assault. Now I...
read more1,500 executions; 166 exonerations
Or, to put it another way: for every nine condemned men or women executed, one condemned person has been found innocent and released....
read moreTrump Gives Up on Census, Launches New Attack on Democracy
The president rolled out plans for an executive order demanding every federal agency hand over records outlining the number of...
read moreThere’s No Such Thing As “Underage Women”. They Are Children
Jeffrey Epstein, a billionaire financier who has been tied to Price Andrew, President Trump, and former President Clinton has been...
read moreAlex Acosta resigns as Trump’s labor secretary
Labor Secretary Alex Acosta announced Friday that he will resign next week during an appearance with President Trump at the White...
read moreIllinois is going to expunge marijuana convictions from 800,000 criminal records
If you’ve been arrested for weed in Illinois, you can breathe a sigh of relief. Source: Illinois is going to expunge marijuana...
read moreFormerly incarcerated citizens across Louisiana are celebrating their right to vote
Many of those affected will be eligible to vote as soon as October 12 of this year—a change they say finally gives them a...
read moreWave-Powered Desalination Promises To Deliver Clean Water To Developing Countries And Island Nations
Using the power of ocean waves, innovators from Boston, U.S., have developed a technology that can produce fresh water off-grid and...
read moreJeffrey Epstein: how US media – with one star exception – whitewashed the story
The Miami Herald exposed a vast criminal network and a government cover-up – but why the silence elsewhere? Source: Jeffrey Epstein:...
read moreProtesters Demand Amazon Break Ties With ICE and Homeland Security
Hundreds of protestors demonstrated outside of the annual Amazon Web Services summit in New York on Thursday, demanding the tech...
read moreBorder Patrol Chief Carla Provost Was a Member of Secret Facebook Group
Provost is one of several Border Patrol supervisors The Intercept has identified as current or former participants in the secret...
read moreTrump’s Epstein problem isn’t going to go away with Acosta, with more women coming forward
“The people we are speaking to are underage victims in Florida and in New York. They are not individuals whose claims have...
read moreWe Have The Money To Fix Our Food System
Poverty is expensive, but fixing it doesn’t have to be — at least not compared to the status quo. The Institute for Policy Studies...
read more‘Just as We Said They Would,’ Says Ocasio-Cortez as ICE Opens Three New Detention Centers in Defiance of Congress
“DHS and ICE are flagrantly violating congressional orders.” Source: ‘Just as We Said They Would,’ Says...
read moreWhy do billionaires keep presenting themselves as America’s great new hope?
From Ross Perot to Tom Steyer, rich megalomaniacs run for president by preying on voters’ disillusionment Source: Why do billionaires...
read moreThe United States Can Afford The Programs Needed For People And Planet
The Democratic Party has clearly swung to the progressive left, with candidates in the first round of presidential debates coming up...
read moreNancy Pelosi’s Leadership Now Constitutes a Constant Dereliction of Duty
The Speaker is beefing with her own caucus while failing, repeatedly, to hold a lawless administration to account. Source: Nancy...
read moreAlert: Nancy Pelosi is not on our side
Do as I say, not as I do, never publicly criticize the so-called “Blue Dogs” in the Democratic caucus, no matter how...
read moreCongress Can Prevent a War with Iran. And It’s More Important than Ever.
Last month, we were ten minutes from war with Iran. After Iran downed an unmanned U.S. drone, President Trump reportedly called off a...
read moreDavid Cay Johnston: Here’s how the super rich avoid paying taxes — and what we can do about it
Our investigative series The Koch Papers illustrates many deep problems in America’s creaky, century-old income tax system,...
read moreThe War Against Gerrymandering Successfully Goes On
With SCOTUS having made clear that no relief from the federal courts is coming, it’s more important than ever to double down on the...
read moreCan Iran’s Shrewd Diplomacy Avert War With Washington?
White House bullying and sanctions have succeeded in uniting an otherwise divided Iranian public behind the government. Source: Can...
read moreWarning: New Climate Data Points To Mass Extermination
in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, has found that when the rate at which carbon dioxide enters the...
read moreO-I-L: The Missing Three-Letter Word in the Iran Crisis
The fossil fuel’s enduring sway in U.S. policy in the Middle East Source: O-I-L: The Missing Three-Letter Word in the Iran...
read moreAlert: Former members of Robert Mueller’s special counsel team ordered not to testify to Congress
Robert Mueller’s upcoming testimony before the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees is still scheduled for July 17, despite...
read moreFed Up With Constant Attacks and Insults, Ocasio-Cortez Slams Pelosi as ‘Outright Disrespectful’ for Singling Out Progressives
“I think that it would be hypocritical for me to remain silent on injustices just because those injustices may come from our...
read moreWarren Releases Immigration Plans Showing Progressive Approach
Elizabeth Warren released a far-reaching immigration agenda on Thursday that envisions a significant leftward shift in U.S. policy,...
read moreDid Jeffrey Epstein “Belong to Intelligence?”
In an article for The Daily Beast,investigative journalist Vicky Ward quotes a former senior White House official, in turn quoting...
read moreDespite Trump’s Threats of Retaliatory Tariffs, France Passes ‘Pioneering’ Tax on Tech Giants
The move by French lawmakers came as the U.K. moved forward with a similar tax plan announced last year Source: Despite Trump’s...
read moreMajorities of Both US Veterans and Public Believe Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan ‘Not Worth Fighting’
The polled groups also told the Pew Research Center that the U.S. military campaign in Syria wasn’t worthwhile Source:...
read moreWhy Won’t New York Times Disclose Corporate Ties of Sanders Critics?
New York Times reporter Sydney Ember has a problem with Bernie Sanders. Source: Why Won’t New York Times Disclose Corporate...
read moreRussia’s ‘Invulnerable’ Satan 2 Nuclear Missile Will Be Ready to Fire by the End of 2020, Space Agency Official Says
The RS-28 Sarmat is reportedly able to carry a nuclear payload capable of destroying an area the size of Texas. Source:...
read moreHouse Judiciary to subpoena Jared Kushner, Jeff Sessions, John Kelly and other key figures in Mueller probe
The House Judiciary Committee approved on Thursday a long list of new subpoenas in their investigation of President Donald Trump, the...
read moreD.C. Mayor Asks Trump For Reimbursement After Costly July 4 Bash
Mayor Muriel Bowser said Trump’s “Salute to America” expenses will further deplete a fund that was never repaid for costs of the...
read moreAmerica Is Drowning in Student Debt. Here’s My Plan to End It
A decade ago, America committed trillions of dollars to bail out Wall Street banks, whose greed had cratered the economy. Now, it is...
read moreMass Exodus From Venezuela: Anther Big Regime Change Lie
It is not true that more than 3 million people have emigrated from Venezuela during 2018.Donald Trump, as well as all the White House...
read moreSome States Are Expanding Taxes on the Wealthy
States are responding to wealth concentration by closing loopholes and ending special tax benefits. Source: Some States Are Expanding...
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