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Adam Parsons: A Humble Advocate for Sharing the World’s Resources

Again and again, Pope Francis railed against our collective indifference to widespread suffering and urged humanity, especially world leaders, to do better. It’s not too late to heed his call.

April 24, 2025 · 9 Comments

Zeina Azzam: My love, how can I contact you? حبيبي، كيف بدي اتصل فيك؟

They handcuffed him, didn’t listen when he’d speak,
callously severing him from his home
as his wife cried, حبيبي، كيف بدي اتصل فيك؟

April 18, 2025 · 3 Comments

Dr. Noor Abdalla: Letter to My Husband, Mahmoud Khalil 

As she prepares to welcome her first child with husband Mahmoud Khalil, Dr. Noor Abdalla writes to her husband one month after he was unlawfully detained for exercising his free speech rights.

April 18, 2025 · 4 Comments

Aviva Chomsky: The Colonial View of the World Never Dies

Who are the barbarians?

April 17, 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

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

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

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

Clarence Lusane: Making America White Again

The Deafening Silence of Trump’s Black Supporters

April 8, 2025 · 5 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

Patricia A. Nugent: Scenes from a Tesla Takedown

When I first heard about it, I knew I’d go. I’ve been showing up for more than fifty years, starting with the Vietnam war.

April 1, 2025 · 13 Comments

Geoffrey Levin: Democrats, Call Them Names—But Do It Right

Democrats should be using labels like “Pro-Cancer,” “Job-Killers,” “Anti-Constitution,” and “Healthcare-Cutters” to tar congressional Republicans.

March 31, 2025 · 9 Comments

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