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Federal Judge Delivers 'Huge Victory' for Immigrants, Ordering Trump Administration to Fully Restore DACA

DACA recipients and their supporters rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court on June 18, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Pentagon Says Almost All US Troops to Leave Somalia—But Military Operations Will Continue

Brett Wilkins, staff writer

A group of Somalian troops trained by the U.S. military stand at attention at a graduation ceremony. (Photo: U.S. Africa Command)

"This action is not a change in U.S. policy," said the Defense Department, which has been conducting an air and ground war in the East African nation since 2007.

Ahead of Youth-Led Day of Action, Young Elected Officials Push Biden to Enact National Emergency Climate Plan

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden speaks on November job numbers at the Queen Theater December 4, 2020 Wilmington, Delaware. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

In a letter to the president-elect, the officials say they "believe it is...

'Strong Hearts to the Front!': Indigenous Water Protectors Take Direct Action Against Minnesota Tar Sands Pipeline

Brett Wilkins, staff writer

Native American and allied people gather on the shore of Lake Superior on September 27, 2019 to protest the Enbridge Line 3 tar sands pipeline

Construction on the Enbridge Line 3 extension—which will transport up to 760,...

Sanders Opposed to Relief Plan That Gives 'Absolutely No Financial Help' to Tens of Millions of Suffering People

'50 Years in the Making': In Historic Vote Against Failed War on Drugs, House Passes Marijuana Decriminalization

Trump—Consumed With 'Narcissistic Crusade' Over Election Loss—Slammed for Silence on Surging Pandemic

'One Person Standing in the Way': Abysmal Jobs Report Puts New Pressure on McConnell for Covid Relief

'Few Things Matter More to Humans': UN Report Says We Must Protect and Restore Biodiversity of World's Soil

Demanding Clemency for Lisa Montgomery, UN Experts Warn US on Verge of 'Arbitrary Execution'

Because She Was Wrong About Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Libya, Daniel Ellsberg Joins Campaign Against Flournoy

'What the Hell Are They Doing?' Outrage as GOP Tries to Adjourn House With Millions Going Hungry, Covid Surging

'We're in a Climate Emergency. Act Accordingly': Greta Thunberg Says Denmark's 30-Year Fossil Fuel Phase-Out Not Fast Enough

Largest US Federal Workers Union Blasts Trump-GOP Push for Pay Freeze as 'Demeaning, Dishonest, and Cruel'

'Short-Sighted and Inhumane': Human Rights Groups Sound Warnings as Bangladesh Sends Rohingya Refugees to Low-Lying Silt Island

155 Years After Abolition, Slavery Is Still Legal in the United States—Democratic Lawmakers Are Trying to Fix That

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Christopher Brauchli

Crimes and Punishments

Basav Sen

Corporations Paying Lawmakers to Outlaw Protest Is a Crime Against Democracy

Shenaz Kermalli

The Assassination of an Iranian Scientist and the Double-Standards of American Outrage

Sister Helen Prejean

Each Inmate Awaiting Execution on Trump’s Watch Is a Person—One Whose Life Story Cries Out for Mercy

Carmen Scurato

The Trump FCC’s Parting Gift to Fox Is Bad News for Media Diversity

Bonnie Kristian

The Next President Should Get Us Out of Yemen

Sarah Lazare

Congress Is Deadlocked on Covid Relief But Came Together to Fund the Pentagon for $740 Billion

Ari Paul

Critics of Canceling Student Debt Aren’t Afraid It Won’t Work—They’re Afraid It Will

Ben Price

Remembering Debra White Plume

Jim Hightower, Jane Kleeb

Make USDA 'The People’s Department' Again

Mark L. Mawrence

The "Trump Virus"

Kassandra Frederique

The Pandemic Is Making Our Deadly Drug Policy Even More Lethal

Markie Miller, Crystal Jankowski

Rights of Nature Debate Reaches New Heights

Ellen Brown

Why the Fed Needs Public Banks

Sarah Anderson, Margot Rathke

Biden Could Cancel Student Debt. Will He?

Reagan M. Sova

US, UK Governments Should Free Julian Assange

Fabian Scheidler

The Megamachine and the Roots of the Planetary Crisis

Heidi Shierholz

Unless Congress Acts, Millions of Americans Will Soon Be Left With No Safety Net

Andrea Mazzarino

Stop Thanking the Troops and Lend a Hand

Robert D. Putnam, Shaylyn Romney Garrett

America's Past Has Shown the Power of 'We.' Here's How We Can Revive It

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My Cousin Vinny Gets Out-Bonkered by The Ultimate Karen and It's...Something to Behold

In Trump's latest masterful move to overturn the election, his star witness at a Michigan hearing raved, maybe drunkenly, that poll workers ran ballots through machines "thousands of times," dead people and "illegals" voted, ballots got hauled off in a food truck she wished had sandwiches, poll books showed "zero" voters because "you guys (did) something crazy to it" and Democrats "ruin your life." The day's big question: Should SNL's Kate McKinnon or Cecile Strong play her?