Sign up for our newsletter.

Quality journalism. Progressive values. Direct to your inbox.

Follow us:

THIS ISN’T A PAYWALL

Common Dreams will never be locked behind a paywall because we believe our journalism should remain freely available to everyone ― not just those who can afford to pay. By becoming a sustaining monthly donor today, you can help make sure our work remains free for those who aren't able to chip in.

To donate by check, phone, or other method, see our More Ways to Give page.

Opinion

Jamie Sheldon holds a Medicare for All sign as she listens to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) address an audience during a town hall meeting on gun violence at Lincoln High School in San Francisco on August 27, 2019

Commission's Report Shows Medicare for All Is Logical Next Step for California

Michael Lighty ·
A universal healthcare system utilizing a single-payer model in the state will save California families and businesses over $100 billion per year. The door to quality, universal, and affordable care is open and so now we must walk through.
death penalty

The Death Penalty Returns to the Supreme Court

Christopher Brauchli ·
Climate activists holding a bullhorn

Declare Your Climate Emergency Today

Rebecca Solnit ·
powell-fed
biden-mask
gas-prices
texas_abortion
Why are banks no longer lending to each other? Are they afraid that collapse is imminent somewhere in the system, as with the Lehman collapse in 2008? (Photo: Phillipp/cc/flickr)

Time to Investigate Corporate Insurrection

"The corporate insurrection of democracy is not limited to one day, but is year round and more than a century long."

Greg Coleridge ·

whole_foods_1

Debunking Four Myths About Inflation

Higher prices are not being driven by wage increases. They were not driven by federal assistance to people during the pandemic. And Democrats aren't to blame.

Robert Reich ·

marc_short

Republicans Who Testified Had No Business Acting Surprised by Trump's Incitements to Violence on Jan 6

Trump's entire political persona has centered on violent posturing and on incitements to violence.

Jeffrey C. Isaac ·

hand_shakes

The Cynics' Monkey Wrench

We're all in this together.

Robert C. Koehler ·

federal_reserve

The Fed Will Be to Blame if the Economy Crashes Into a Recession

We don't need a recession—which would be devastating—to solve our inflation problem.

Mark Weisbrot ·

jerome_powell

Interest Rate Hikes Will Not Fix Inflation

Rather than making money harder to get, the U.S. government needs to focus on the other side of the demand vs. supply equation.

Ellen Brown ·

army_gettyimages

The Paranoid Nature of American Foreign and Domestic Policy

Where fear is omnipresent and violence becomes routinized and normalized, what you end up with is dystopia, not democracy.

William Astore ·

drought

The Corporate Oligarchs Have Put Humanity on a Path Toward Self-Annihilation

We are stumbling—seemingly oblivious—into the bared teeth of the Anthropocene, a new geological epoch driven by humanity itself. We are walking straight into it and pretending it's not here.

Thom Hartmann ·

tapping-into-people-power

Four Ways to Improve Anxiety and Despair Amid Never-Ending Bad News

A Personal Perspective: Build agency and purpose for yourself and the future.

Zoe Weil ·

NYC_people

The Dual Population Problem: People and Things

Rapid climate destabilization is an existential threat, but it's a derivative of overshoot, of too many people consuming too much stuff in the aggregate.

Wes Jackson ·

Sign up for our newsletter.

Quality journalism. Progressive values. Direct to your inbox.

Common Dreams Logo

To donate by check, phone, or other method, see our More Ways to Give page.