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After a Year of Biden, Why Do We Still Have Trump's Foreign Policy?

Medea Benjamin ·
In the coming year, we hope that the public will remind Biden of its deep-seated aversion to war and that he will respond—albeit reluctantly—by adopting more dovish and rational ways.
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America's Class War: Organized Labor Is the Best Tool to Push Back Against the Rich

Chris Hedges ·
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The Filibuster Is a Tool for Obstruction—Not Debate

Jim Goodman ·
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A column by Abby Zimet
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Slouching Towards Fascism With DeSantis' Election Police

Taking Orwell's "1984" and running with it into a despotic dystopia of his own feverish imagining, Florida's Himmler-wannabe Ron DeSantis wants to create an Office of Election Crimes and Security, with state agents posted at "field offices" to get "tips" from snitches on imaginary crimes even though Florida's last, supremely fair election - which he proudly touted as the "gold standard" for electoral integrity - uncovered only three older Village people who committed fraud by zealously if bafflingly voting twice for whatzizname. Election Gestapo: Yeah, this is totally normal.

Abby Zimet · Jan 18, 2022

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A migrant family from Central America waits to be processed by the U.S. Border Patrol after they crossed into the United States from Mexico on April 29, 2021 near Yuma, Arizona. (Photo: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

Faith Leaders, Rights Groups to Biden: End Immigration Detention

Kenny Stancil ·

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360+ Climate Groups to Biden: Phase Out Fossil Fuels on Public Lands

Jenna McGuire ·

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14-Year-Old Indigenous Land Defender Killed in Colombia

Jessica Corbett ·

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) speaks with reporters as he arrives to a luncheon with Senate Republicans at the U.S. Capitol Building on October 7, 2021 in Washington, D.C.

Ted Cruz's Pro-Corruption Case Gets Supreme Court Review

Andrea Germanos ·

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Lyft Makes Largest Donation in Massachusetts History to Keep Drivers Down

Brett Wilkins ·

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Catching Up With Progressives, Biden to Provide N95s Nationwide

Julia Conley ·

Climate change campaigners stage a naked demonstration at the offices of PR company Edelman, in Victoria, London, in protest against Edelman's PR work for energy company E.On on September 1, 2009.

450+ Climate Scientists Demand PR Industry Drop Fossil Fuel Clients

Andrea Germanos ·

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South Dakota Voters Sue Over Right-Wing Attack on Ballot Measures

Kenny Stancil ·

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President Biden’s Remarks on Build Back Better

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Veterans For Peace Releases Nuclear Posture Review

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Legal Petition Calls On Biden to Phase Out Federal Oil, Gas by 2035

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War & Peace

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Civilians Reportedly Among 20 Yemenis Killed in Saudi Airstrike

The people of Yemen "can't wait any longer for peace," says an Oxfam director. "The international community must urgently negotiate an immediate cessation in hostilities and a lasting end to the conflict."
Brett Wilkins ·
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20 Years and 4 Presidents Later and Gitmo Still Not Closed

Brett Wilkins ·

Amnesty International activists dressed in orange jumpsuits and hoods, representing the 39 men still held at Guantanamo

Ilhan Omar: Close the Prison at Guantánamo Now

Andrea Germanos ·

A Stop the War Coalition protester, wearing a mask depicting former Prime Minister Tony Blair, shows bloodied hands near Parliament on January 29, 2015 in London.

Anti-War Voices Denounce Knighting of Ex-PM Tony Blair

Andrea Germanos ·

A burqa-clad Afghan woman sits next to a boundary wall with her children as she seeks alms from people passing by along a road in Kabul on January 8, 2022

Progressives Demand Biden End Sanctions to Avert Mass Starvation in Afghanistan

Andrea Germanos ·

Climate Emergency

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360+ Climate Groups to Biden: Phase Out Fossil Fuels on Public Lands

"The natural place to start phasing out climate-destroying oil and gas production is on our public lands and oceans, and Biden has the authority to do so. If the U.S. leads, the world will follow."
Jenna McGuire ·
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Climate change campaigners stage a naked demonstration at the offices of PR company Edelman, in Victoria, London, in protest against Edelman's PR work for energy company E.On on September 1, 2009.

450+ Climate Scientists Demand PR Industry Drop Fossil Fuel Clients

Andrea Germanos ·

A worker performs maintenance at the BlueWave Community Solar Farm in Grafton, Massachusetts on December 4, 2017. (Photo: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)

Rising US Renewables Expected to Spur Decline in Fracked Gas

Kenny Stancil ·

A man paddles on a boat as plastic bags float on the surface of the Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh on January 21, 2020.

Global Plastic Pollution Is a 'Deadly Ticking Clock': Report

Kenny Stancil ·

Biologists assessed the overall biological habitat by counting and categorizing biodiversity of the Little Corona del Mar tide pools, part of the Crystal Cove State Marine Conservation Area Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021 in Newport Beach, California.

Scientists Decry Human Indifference to 'Probable Sixth Mass Extinction'

Andrea Germanos ·

Covid-19

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Catching Up With Progressives, Biden to Provide N95s Nationwide

Sen. Bernie Sanders, who introduced the Masks for All Act in July 2020, called the move "a good first step."
Julia Conley ·
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Vaccine Apartheid Means Pandemic 'Nowhere Near Over': WHO Chief

Jake Johnson ·

Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch stands during a group photo of the Justices at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. on April 23, 2021.

Gorsuch Chooses to Go Maskless While Backing Forced Pregnancy for Women in Texas

Andrea Germanos ·

Jeff Zients briefs the media on the Covid-19 pandemic response

Biden Urged to Fire Covid Response Chief Over 'Damning' Failures

Jake Johnson ·

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Americans Can Order Free Rapid Covid Tests Starting Jan. 19

Jessica Corbett ·

Economics

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UN Chief Urges Global Solidarity on Covid, Climate, and Debt Relief

"The last two years have demonstrated a simple but brutal truth, if we leave anyone behind, in the end, we leave everyone behind," said the secretary-general at the opening of the virtual Davos summit.
Jessica Corbett ·
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Protesters hold signs denouncing the Republican Party's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act outside the New York Stock Exchange on December 19, 2017.

Lawmakers Seek to Weaken Ban on Surprise Medical Bills

Kenny Stancil ·

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Billionaires 'Had a Terrific Pandemic' While Inequality Killed Millions: Oxfam

Jon Queally ·

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Democrats, Struggling Parents Blast Lapsed Child Tax Credit

Jessica Corbett ·

Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) questions Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell during a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on September 28, 2021 in Washington, D.C.

Ossoff Unveils Bill to Ban Stock Trading by Lawmakers, Immediate Family

Kenny Stancil ·

Politics

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Ted Cruz's Pro-Corruption Case Gets Supreme Court Review

According to one legal expert, "The statute challenged in Cruz is a matter of common sense: the corruption risk inherent in post-election payments effectively made to candidates themselves is obvious and acute."
Andrea Germanos ·
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) speaks with reporters as he arrives to a luncheon with Senate Republicans at the U.S. Capitol Building on October 7, 2021 in Washington, D.C.
Beverly Bailey canvasses in San Francisco on January 31, 2012, to get two health initiatives on the November state ballot.

South Dakota Voters Sue Over Right-Wing Attack on Ballot Measures

Kenny Stancil ·

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Senate Dems Propose Talking Filibuster for Voting Rights

Jessica Corbett ·

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94% of AZ Progressives Support Primary Challenge if Sinema Kills Voting Rights

Brett Wilkins ·

Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema walk after a vote

On Eve of Key Fight, Sanders Asks: 'Will Manchin and Sinema Vote With GOP?'

Jake Johnson ·

Rights & Justice

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Faith Leaders, Rights Groups to Biden: End Immigration Detention

"People are losing their lives to a detention system that simply does not need to exist," said one immigrant rights advocate.
Kenny Stancil ·
A migrant family from Central America waits to be processed by the U.S. Border Patrol after they crossed into the United States from Mexico on April 29, 2021 near Yuma, Arizona. (Photo: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)
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14-Year-Old Indigenous Land Defender Killed in Colombia

Jessica Corbett ·

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Lyft Makes Largest Donation in Massachusetts History to Keep Drivers Down

Brett Wilkins ·

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Dems Urged to Hold Senate Floor for 'As Long As It Takes'

Jessica Corbett ·

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Israeli Police Used Pegasus Spyware Against Own Citizens: Report

Brett Wilkins ·

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