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Returning to Draconian Abortion Bans Doesn’t Make America Great
“When exactly was America great?” is a common question often asked of Donald Trump loyalists sporting MAGA (Make America Great Again) hats. The Republican-dominated Arizona Supreme Court has an answer:...
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Interview With Asad Abukhalil on Gaza, Hezbollah and the Decline of Zionism
Joining me on today’s program, Professor Asad Abukhalil grew up and studied political science in Beirut and later received his Doctorate in the United States. He’s taught at multiple US universities...
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Groups Bring Tortuguita’s Killing to International Human Rights Commission
Several nonprofit organizations filed a petition this month asking the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to rule on the police-perpetrated killing of Manuel Terán, an activist known to...
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Take That, Joe Manchin
“We are a married couple of 45 years. We are taking action together as elders deeply concerned about the future facing our 3-year-old grandson, all children, and all life on earth. That is why we have...
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How Are US Tax Dollars Being Spent? Hint: The Pentagon Is Cashing In.
Every year at tax time, the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies releases a tax receipt to show where your federal income tax dollars go. Every year, militarism in all its...
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Bipartisan Lawmakers Rush to Battle Stations After Iran Attack
Members of Congress who have said little to nothing about the over 33,000 Palestinians dead amid Israeli bombs and artillery — two-thirds deemed innocent civilians — in retaliation for the Oct. 7 Hamas...
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Israel Conflict Spreads to 16 Nations as Biden Admin Says There’s No War
The regional war in the Middle East now involves at least 16 different countries and includes the first strikes from Iranian territory on Israel, but the United States continues to insist that there is...
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She Won an Alabama Swing District. Her Supporters Want More Women To Do the...
Democrat Marilyn Lands gained national attention in March when she flipped an Alabama state House seat with a campaign focused on abortion and reproductive rights. And she doesn’t want to be the last....
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Israel and Israel Alone Kicked Off This Escalation — In a Bid to Drag U.S....
The Israeli bombing of an Iranian consular office in Damascus on April 1 was the first salvo in a new phase of a regional conflict between the two countries. The attack, which killed several senior...
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How Unions and Joe Biden Are Launching a New Frontier in American Manufacturing
Tom Bixler and several hundred of his co-workers produced top-quality glassware at the Libbey Glass plant in Toledo, Ohio, over the years while keeping the aging equipment there operating through sheer...
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Project 2025: A Warning For Labor
The right to strike, the eight-hour day, and the minimum wage have only been recognized by federal law since the 1930s. Even those basic protections come riddled with loopholes. Important groups, such...
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SCOTUS Declines to Review First Amendment Mass Protest Rights Case
In Monday, the Supreme Court declined to review a case with significant ramifications for protest rights in Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana. The Court’s denial of certiorari allows the anti-First...
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Iran Doesn’t Want Larger War with Israel But is Ready For It
What is Iran’s military and political strategy now that it has struck back against Israel’s illegal bombing of its embassy, and with another cycle of escalation looming? Israel’s strikes killed over a...
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The Sad Spectacle of Lesser-Evil Elections
One of the two major-party candidates for the presidency of the United States has allowed an decades-long ethnic cleansing to morph into a genocide, a horror that could be stopped with one phone call;...
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No Tech for Apartheid: Google Workers Arrested for Protesting Company’s $1.2B...
Democracy Now! speaks with two of the Google employees who were arrested staging sit-ins on Tuesday at the company’s offices in New York City and in Sunnyvale, California, to protest the tech giant’s...
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Nobody “Earns” a Billion Dollars. We Need a Wealth Tax.
U.S. billionaires have seen their wealth nearly double since the Trump tax cuts took effect in 2017. In the meantime, the planet is getting hotter and the richest 1 percent of humanity accounts for...
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The Farce of Diplomatic Assurances
The United States has now, on the face of it, produced the Diplomatic Note giving the two assurances required by the High Court to allow the extradition of Julian Assange to proceed. The assurance that...
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Leaked Cables Show White House Opposes Palestinian Statehood
Ahead of the United Nations Security Council action to consider the Palestinian Authority’s application to become a full member of the international body, the United States is lobbying nations to...
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Outraged by White Rural Rage
I don’t like to slam books, especially those ahead of mine on the best seller list. It might seem like petty jealousy. But one recent release, White Rural Rage by Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman, is...
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What Ecuador’s Lawless Assault on Mexico Means
The U.S. puppet in Ecuador, President Daniel Noboa, is on quite a roll. First Mexico severs diplomatic relations with Ecuador, after cops storm the Mexican embassy on April 5 to arrest former vice...
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