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'Utterly Devastating': UK Exit Polls Suggest Defeat for Labour, Strong Majority for Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson

Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party had a good showing in exit polls from Thursday's general election.

As NLRB Delivers 'Victory' to McDonald's, Docs Reveal Fast Food Giant's Dirty Anti-Union Tactics

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Workers and allies demanding a $15 an hour wage stage a protest outside a McDonald's restaurant.

"The owner class will buy up every lever of power they can... But in the end we will win because together we are unstoppable."

#RefundPete Trends as Early Backers Request Donations Back After Learning Buttigieg Not So Progressive After All

Julia Conley, staff writer

"The honeymoon is over."

Is Democrats' USMCA Trade Deal With Trump a Big Win or 'Major Strategic Misstep?'

Jake Johnson, staff writer

While some labor unions and economists said the trade pact represents a...

Move Over, Peak Oil. Scientists Say 'Peak Livestock' Must Arrive This Decade to Limit Global Heating

'Endangering Endangered Species Seems to Be the Family Hobby': Trump Jr. Denounced for Killing Rare Sheep in Mongolia

Interpreted by Young Progressives as 'Abject Contempt,' Buttigieg Says He Was Also 'Big Fan of Bernie Sanders' at 18

'Atrocious': 188 Democrats Join GOP to Hand Trump $738 Billion Military Budget That Includes 'Space Force'

"It's Happening," Declares Jeremy Corbyn as Early UK Election Reports Suggest "Longest Queues Ever"

Decrying EU Proposal to Address Climate Crisis by 2050 as 'Too Little Too Late,' Greenpeace Activists Stage #HouseOnFire Demonstration

After For-Profit College Agrees to Forgive $141 Million in Student Debt, Sanders Says: 'Good. Now $1,685,456,413,335 More to Go'

Ocasio-Cortez Makes Connection Between 20% Jump in Healthcare Costs and Industry-Sponsored Spa Days for Congressional Staffers

After TIME Selects Greta Thunberg as Person of the Year Over Him, Trump Lashes Out in Tantrum Against 16-Year-Old Activist

Experts Warn Chevron's $11 Billion Write-Down Portends 'Greater Troubles to Come' for Fossil Fuel Industry

New California and National Polls Show Sanders Crushing 2020 Rivals Among Voters Under 45

Guess What Happened After ICE, Which Has Torn Thousands of Families Apart, Tried to Honor Human Rights Day on Twitter

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Brenda Roberts, Sarah Prestoza

Why U.S. and Filipino Call Center Workers Are Working Together

Robert C. Koehler

Letting Our Values Out Of Their Cage

Manuel Pérez Rocha

We Need a Progressive Alternative on Trade—and NAFTA 2.0 Isn’t It

Joshua Cho

Papers Owned By Oligarchs Unsurprisingly Oppose a Wealth Tax

Andy Rowell

Outrage as UN Climate Talks Kick Out Civil Society, Not the Polluters

Astra Taylor

British Voters Are Terrified of US Companies Privatizing the NHS. They Should Be.

John Feffer

Whose Coups?

Bill Blum

Unequal Justice: Democrats Go Surgical and Small on Impeachment

Chris Kromm

Southern States Take Up Fight For Bold Democracy Reforms

Christopher D. Cook

Centrists Don’t Want "Party Unity"—They Want to Defend the Wealthy

Ellen Brown

Paul Volcker’s Long Shadow

Jesse Jackson

President Trump’s War on the Poor

Thomas S. Harrington

Americans Misled About Their Wars: Lather, Rinse, and Repeat

Gordon Clark

Barack Obama and the Politics of Not Yet

Norman Solomon

Will the Democratic Presidential Nomination Be Bought by the Oligarchs?

Ira Allen

On Detrumpification: An Urgently Necessary Process After Trumpism

Rev. Susan K. Williams Smith

What Trump and the GOP Learned from Obama

Ted Rall

The U.S. Government Lied About the Afghanistan War. They Couldn’t Have Done It Without Lapdogs Like the Washington Post

Juan Cole

Sizzling Arctic: Top 5 Climate Horror Stories in NOAA’s Report Card

Arshad M Khan, Meena Miriam Yust

Earth In Extremis While Trump Plays Ostrich

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Now Trump Is A Genocidal Despot Thanos Wannabe and America Is, Like, Ummm

In the spirit of our weird-ass end times, consider that Trump's "War Room" - yes, Private Five-Time Bone-Spurs has a "War Room" - just released a campaign ad portraying our most presidential "president" as murderous comic book warlord Thanos, intent on obliterating half the universe's population, in Marvel's Avengers. Questions inevitably arise: Do they realize he's the bad guy? Do they care? Do they know the movie ends with Thanos expunged like this? Is it all almost over?