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Matt Duss: Democrats have become the party of war. Americans are tired of it

In defending the militarist status quo, Democrats ceded the anti-war lane to Republicans. As they enter the political wilderness, it’s time to reckon with what they got so wrong.

January 13, 2025 · 10 Comments

Jessica Corbett: Post-Dobbs Infant Mortality Spike Shows ‘We Must Restore Abortion Rights’

“In the seven to 14 months after Roe v. Wade was overturned, we saw a 7% increase in infant mortality, and a 10% increase in those babies born with congenital anomalies.”

November 5, 2024 · Leave a comment

Video: Michelle Obama Rallies for Harris in Kalamazoo

Former first lady Michelle Obama spoke at a rally for Vice President Kamala Harris in Kalamazoo, Michigan on October 26, 2024.

November 1, 2024 · 7 Comments

Rachel Hadas: ‘Each bears his own ghosts’

How the classics speak to these days of fear, anger and presidential candidates stalking the land

October 31, 2024 · 2 Comments

Charles Davidson: Donald Trump and an Insider’s View of Nazi Germany

IT WAS THE LATE 1930s IN GERMANY. Adolf Hitler had ascended to the chancellorship of the Third Reich in 1933.

September 15, 2024 · 19 Comments

Rebecca Gordon: A Personal Meditation on Growing Old In a Catastrophic Age

Passing the Torch while Broke

September 13, 2024 · 6 Comments

Julia Conley: Biden’s Own Policy Requires US to Stop Arming Israel

Amnesty International was one of 25 human rights groups telling the administration to follow its own guidelines.

September 5, 2024 · 4 Comments

Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan: Beware the Republican Plot to Steal the 2024 Election

Republicans are mounting an all-out assault on the election process that journalist Ari Berman refers to as a “five-alarm fire for democracy.”

September 3, 2024 · 11 Comments

Abby Zimet: Ceasefire Delegates Insist Palestinian Children Can’t Eat Words

‘Never again’ means ‘never again, for anyone, anywhere, ever.’

August 22, 2024 · 8 Comments

Tom Engelhardt: The Candidate from Hell

As president, he would undoubtedly prove to be a first-class global heat machine and voting for him would be the slow-motion equivalent of putting an atomic weapon in the Oval Office.

August 16, 2024 · 6 Comments

Abby Zimet: MAGA’s Hell On Earth | Women’s Rights, Child Care, Free School Lunch and Cat Hair

From one glad patriot, “The blue wave is coming, and it is covered in cat hair.”

August 13, 2024 · 10 Comments

Michael Simms: How to Canvass Door-to-Door

Speaking with voters face-to-face is one of the best ways to educate, persuade, and mobilize them to vote for a candidate or cause, making door-to-door canvassing an essential part of any political campaign.

August 10, 2024 · 11 Comments

Brett Wilkins: US Voter Registrations Surge as Republicans Try to Limit Ballot Access

One group said it has registered over 100,000 new voters since U.S. President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race. 

July 29, 2024 · 7 Comments

Abby Zimet: Taking On Bigots, Yahoos and Perpetrators Of All Kinds

Talk about flipping the script. Within days, in an historic act of grace, old Joe did the “right and honorable thing” and handed the reins to Kamala, “in every possible way (the) anti-Trump,” who ran with them.

July 26, 2024 · 6 Comments

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