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As Public Shouts Approval for Ocasio-Cortez's 70% Tax Rate for Ultra-Rich, Elites at Davos Admit: "It's Scary"

Progressives Warn Against Democrats Pushing 'Diluted' Half-Measures as Alternative to Medicare for All

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"Improved Medicare for All has support from an overwhelming majority of Democratic voters, so why the sudden proliferation of public option proposals? We should be very skeptical of these sorts of bills."

As Americans Increasingly Bear 'Real Costs of Climate Crisis,' Polls Show Soaring Realization of Global Warming's Threat

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Extreme weather events and suffering they cause beginning to put dents in "...

Chase Iron Eyes: Trump’s Mocking of Native Americans Gives License to Others to Denigrate My People

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Chase Iron Eyes, an activist and lead attorney for the Lakota People’s Law Project. (Photo: Screenshot)

"We have a president who is flippantly dehumanizing and offensive about our...

'Poor King Snowflake': Trump Admits Ordering Huckabee Sanders to Halt WH Briefings Because Reporters Behave 'Rudely'

'Shameful, Bigoted, Cruel': Supreme Court Gives Green Light to Trump's Ban on Transgender Service Members

Putting Tax Rates and Billionaire 'Excess' in Moral Terms, Ocasio-Cortez Asks 'What Kind of Society Do We Want to Live In?'

Not Yet a Strike But a 'Work Stoppage Nonetheless': Unpaid TSA Agents Calling Out at Unsustainable Rates

'Preaching Is More Than Words': Rev. Barber II Delivers Soaring Sermon in Honor of Martin Luther King Jr.

To Fulfill MLK's 'Revolutionary' Vision, Sanders Says Corrupt, Divisive, and 'Racist' Trump Must Be Defeated

Critics to Mike Pence, US Marine Corps, and the CIA: Sorry, Martin Luther King Jr. Does Not Belong to You

Nine Years After Citizens United, Calls to Overturn 'Horrendous' Decision and Pass Pro-Democracy HR1

'Medicare for All and Equal Rights Aren't Trends': Ocasio-Cortez Fires Back After Aaron Sorkin Lectures Young Progressives

'Run Bernie Run': Grassroots Coalition Holding Weekend of Action to Make Case for Sanders 2020

'For the People': California Sen. Kamala Harris Announces 2020 Run

'Literally What Jesus Told People to Do': In Arizona, Possible Prison Time for Leaving Food and Water for Migrants

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Israel Before Everything, Including Fundamental Humanity

In a shameless nod to depravity, Benny Gantz, former Israeli army chief and political rival to Netanyahu in April elections, has released campaign ads in which he brags of raining death and destruction on innocents. Complete with swelling music, aerial shots and a ticking body count, he proudly celebrates bombing Gaza "back to the Stone Age" and killing 2,200 Palestinians, mostly civilians - because in a country where the choice is between a fascist and a fascist, "Only the strong win."