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In 'Severe Blow' to Voting Rights, Supreme Court Preserves GOP Gerrymanders in Texas and NC

Detained Children Forced to Recite Pledge of Allegiance 'Out of Respect' for Country That Tore Them Away From Parents

Julia Conley, staff writer

"This is calculated sadism."

'Unconscionable' and 'Shocking': Trump's Head of NOAA Proposes Axing 'Climate' and Conservation From Agency's Mission

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

"Redefining NOAA's mission is a serious threat to the breadth of science,...

'Sickening': With So-Called 'Voluntary' Deportation, Trump's DHS Using Children as Bait to Expel Immigrants

Julia Conley, staff writer

Parents are told that if they sign a "voluntary departure order," they'll see...

Warren After Visiting Child Detention Facility: 'What I've Witnessed Here Is Truly Disturbing'

Mueller Has Reportedly Obtained Phones and Computer of War Profiteer Erik Prince

Heeding Immigrant Rights Activists' Demands, Democratic Lawmaker Joins Growing Call to Abolish ICE

'Both Illegal and Unconstitutional': Trump Brazenly Suggests Immediate Deportations, Zero Due Process

With Human Rights Crisis Still Underway, Fast to End 'Zero Tolerance' Takes Aim at Trump's Cruelty

'Take Away Our Poverty, Not Our Children!': Poor People's Campaign Caps Off 40 Days of Action

On 30th Anniversary of Famous Climate Testimony, James Hansen Called 'The Paul Revere We Desperately Needed'

'F*ck Decorum': On House Floor, Ted Lieu Plays Audio of Detained Children Crying

Ralph Nader Asks Former First Ladies: Why No "Heartfelt Concern for Tens of Thousands of Children Killed or Seriously Maimed" by Their Husbands' Wars?

'We Don't Know... How Bad It Is': 31-Car Oil Train Derails Into Iowa Floodwaters

Watchdog Demands Criminal Probe into Possible Insider Trading by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross

'We Need to Talk About the Future of the Democratic Party': Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Twitter Thread That Every Democrat and Independent Voter Should Read

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Juan Cole

Warning to US: Erdogan Has Used Same Techniques as Trump to De-Democratize Turkey

Jeff Bryant

Supreme Court’s Janus Ruling Will Hurt Children

Tom Palaima

Sniper’s War and Anti-Terrorist Terrorism

John Atcheson

Lessons From the Healthcare Wars: or Why Democrats Will Be Disappointed in 2018

Rebecca Gordon

Nicaragua at the Barricades... And a Crossroads

Chris Hedges

The Soldier's Tale: A Man Who Went to War and Realized His Side Was the Enemy

Ryan Cooper

In Defense of Incivility

Sarah Bilston

Breaking Up Families? America Looks Like a Dickens Novel

Kristine Mattis

Dispatches from the War on Cancer: Detection as Prevention, Chronic Disease as Cure

Robin Carver

Why We Still Need Pride Parades

Steven Singer

Antwon Rose’s Life Matters

Melissa Boteach

New Jersey’s Governor Just Proposed a Millionaires’ Tax. So Why Is the Legislature Opposing It?

Sirine Shebaya, Johnathan Smith

President Trump, Your Words Do Matter (And Should Doom Your Muslim Ban)

Juan Cole

The American March to Inequality: Why the UN Alston Report Alarms the Trump Plutocrats

Lara Merling

The Pain of Puerto Ricans: A Profit Source for Creditors

Mary Green Swig, Steven Swig

A Movement Emerges to Free Former Students from Crushing Loan Debts

Janine Jackson

WaPo Can’t Believe White Supremacist Senate Candidate Really Means It

Laura Flanders

National Suicide Point?

Michael Winship

Trump’s Mean Boy Nation

Wenonah Hauter

Recognizing the Neoliberal Roots at the Heart of Trump's Cruel and Inhumane Border Policies

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If Attacked By A Mob of Clowns, Go For the Juggler: More From Indecline

The plaintive immigrant kids in cages have moved the activist artists of Indecline, who do not fool around, to transform a California billboard for junk removal into a blast at the evils of ICE. Other brilliant Indecline actions: Naked Trump statues, hanging Ku Klux Klowns, murals in Flint and Tijuana, and a people's prison cell for Donnie inside a Trump Hotel room, complete with live rats and the warning, "Rats will eat anything, even their Rat King." We can hope.