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Alfred McCoy: America’s New Industrial Revolution

Ten years from now, Trump will be remembered ruefully for having used the full force of presidential power in a failed, futile effort to halt the tides of technological change that, by then, will have launched this country headlong into the world’s new industrial revolution.

July 9, 2025 · 7 Comments

Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg: Calls to GI Hotlines Rise as Service Members Consider Defying Trump’s Orders

“I can’t believe whoever fell for the lie that the military is apolitical, but with Trump, it feels dangerously political, like we’re being used as pawns. We’re the saber that he’s rattling.”

July 8, 2025 · 5 Comments

Miles O’Brien, et al: The scientific impact of Trump’s cuts to NOAA and the National Weather Service

Experts have been warning for months that drastic and sudden cuts at the National Weather Service by Trump could impair their forecasting ability and endanger lives during the storm season. Here is what the science reporter for PBS said in February.

July 7, 2025 · 8 Comments

Kim Stafford: Four Poems

Her text says the bombing is getting
closer. She dozes, there’s a blast, a rattle
of debris falling somewhere near. She says
every bomb makes an earthquake. Her heart
stops. She says the forces are getting closer.

June 26, 2025 · 8 Comments

Rebecca Gordon: How Will Your Data Be Deployed

In an Age of Dark Enlightenment?

June 26, 2025 · 7 Comments

Henry A. Giroux: From the Streets of LA to the National Stage, The Left Must Win the Cultural War

Trump’s war on dissent can only be defeated by a left that challenges the values sustaining authoritarianism.

June 25, 2025 · 3 Comments

Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove: Americans Don’t Want Trump’s Illegal War on Iran

Trump has dragged the United States into another unnecessary war because his “America First” agenda is failing at home. He is using big bombs like a little man.

June 24, 2025 · 3 Comments

Robert Cording: An Unasked for Inauguration Prayer, 2025

Lord of the light that reveals
how we have failed and failed again
the one requirement asked of us—
to love one another.

June 22, 2025 · 10 Comments

Patrice Taddonio: 10 Documentaries on the Science, Politics and Impact of Our Changing Climate

From early research into climate change by fossil fuel companies, to the organizations that fought the scientific establishment to shift the climate conversation in the U.S., to the role of climate change in deadly American wildfires.

June 20, 2025 · 6 Comments

Sasha Abramsky: After Massive Cuts to Forest Service, US Enters Fire Season Woefully Unprepared

The results could be catastrophic, especially in states that have experienced unprecedented fires in recent years.

June 16, 2025 · 5 Comments

Abby Zimet: Shame Shame Shame | What American Justice Looks Like

The mindless rupturing of families and communities soars. 

June 12, 2025 · 10 Comments

Jake Johnson: With Tanks Heading to DC, Call by ‘Dictator’ Trump to ‘Bring in the Troops’ Spurs Fear of Wider Repression

“This is not about protecting communities,” said one human rights campaigner, “this is about crushing dissent and instilling fear.”

June 11, 2025 · 4 Comments

Randy Minnich: Of Moths and Men

As oceans warm and creatures die,
the billionaires from glassed-in offices demand
Drill, Baby, Drill.
The world is upside down.

June 10, 2025 · 13 Comments

W. Carsten Andresen: Surge of ICE agreements with local police aim to increase deportations, but many police forces have found they undermine public safety

Studies show that undocumented people commit fewer crimes than U.S. citizens.

June 9, 2025 · 2 Comments

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