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Robert Wrigley: A Certain Man

For in the loop of this hell there’s a farcical rule,
that says when certain men find a certain man
of use—one that’s spiteful, vacant, and cruel —
he becomes for his purposes the perfect tool…

April 15, 2025 · 25 Comments

Olivia Rosane: Following Record-Breaking LA Rally, Sanders Tours Republican Districts

‘The American people…do not want huge tax breaks for the wealthiest people in the country paid for by massive cuts to Medicaid and other programs that working families rely on.’

April 15, 2025 · 6 Comments

Jeremy Brecher: What would a general strike in the US actually look like?

Calls for a general strike in the US are growing. It’s important to understand how to organize one, given their key role in overcoming tyrants around the world.

April 14, 2025 · 1 Comment

Molly Fisk: Early

Small towns at daybreak are so nostalgic:
the only thing missing’s a train whistle.
Good morning, America. Mercenaries
in Portland last night teargassed a wall
of mothers. How long will we remember?

April 14, 2025 · 17 Comments

Baron Wormser: The Fury

Politics requires suppleness, the ability to compromise, to fit means to ends, to temper principles for the sake of reaching agreement, to turn burning moral issues into administrative questions, to convert moral enemies into amiable opponents, the duel into a debate.

April 13, 2025 · 4 Comments

Video: GOP Jesus

Right-wing conservative Christians who see this video may think it’s an attack on Christianity. They’re wrong. It’s an attack on hypocrisy.

April 12, 2025 · 11 Comments

Alison Luterman: At First

as the days bled into each other and I bore helpless witness
to the plagues rained down in my name on those we called other,
when I saw that the soft bodies of children were the battleground,
the stone began to burn with rage and then shame

April 9, 2025 · 13 Comments

Arun Gupta: 10 Organizing Principles for Defeating Trumpism 2.0

Here are the organizing lessons I learned from movements for worker organizing, immigrant rights, Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, climate justice, Palestine solidarity, and abortion rights. These lessons may serve us well under Trump 2.0.

April 9, 2025 · 2 Comments

Clarence Lusane: Making America White Again

The Deafening Silence of Trump’s Black Supporters

April 8, 2025 · 5 Comments

Jon Queally: Khanna Sounds Alarm as Thousands of Factory Workers Laid Off Amid Trump Tariff Chaos

“Imagine if federal worker unions and Democratic Party officials showed up at the plant gate of a company that was about to close its doors,” said one labor advocate. “Why aren’t the Democrats doing this?”

April 7, 2025 · 6 Comments

Abby Zimet: A Disaster Of Idiocy | So This Penguin Came Up To Me

Several tariff targets are in fact remote outcroppings of ice and rock populated by no humans but many freeloading penguins and seals, who thank God won’t be “looting and pillaging” us any more.

April 6, 2025 · 10 Comments

John Feffer: Surviving a Political Dark Age

No longer being able to count on U.S. power or NATO security guarantees in the age of Trump, European Union leaders have decided to visit the gym and muscle up.

April 4, 2025 · 3 Comments

Patricia Jabbeh Wesley: Cleaning Lady

The war had already overrun the entire country of Liberia even as we awaited our evacuation in March of 1991. Charles Taylor was making his on and off comeback to kidnap residents in the city suburbs, And missiles were still landing in our backyard soon after the ceasefire agreement.

April 3, 2025 · 16 Comments

Eloise Goldsmith: Trump Blasted for Attack on Reproductive Care Across Numerous States

Nine Planned Parenthood state affiliates received notice on Monday that the administration is withholding Title X funding effective Tuesday.

April 2, 2025 · 4 Comments

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