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“Trump will go down in history as the worst and most dangerous president in history.” By Jon Queally, staff writer Amid urgent calls for President Donald Trump’s immediate arrest, removal from office under the 25th Amendment, and impeachment following Wednesday’s violent…

The critical Senate run-off race is too close to call. But a massive voter mobilization effort may just tip the balance. By Mary Fitzgerald My mother was 23 when she accidentally got pregnant with me. It was 1982 and she…

Now is a time to emphasize what we should always do anyway, namely: align across sectors for the common good.   The unbounded idea includes sharing surplus, moving resources from where they are not needed to where they are needed, following the ancient…

President Trump raised hackles in Congress last week with his veto of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The Pentagon’s bloated budget is a $740 billion, 4500-page monstrosity that siphons vast amounts of the public’s scarce resources into what former…

LIVE SHOW: Thursday, December 31 at 1 PM EST On this show we are speaking with Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink about 2021 and the possibilities with the new Biden administration.

By Medea Benjamin and Marcy Winograd Even before President-Elect Joe Biden sets foot in the White House, the Senate Intelligence Committee may start hearings on his nomination of Avril Haines as Director of National Intelligence. Barack Obama’s top lawyer on…

If I search on Google for the words “drones” and “morality” most of the results are from 2012 through 2016. If I search for “drones” and “ethics” I get a bunch of articles from 2017 to 2020. Reading the various…

COVID-19 continues to ravage the United States, with cases now topping 19.1 million and over 333,000 deaths. One in every 1,000 Americans has now died from the coronavirus. December has been the deadliest month in the U.S. since the start…

Many people feel confused by the word “neoliberal”. It’s understandable that they’re confused. The term “neoliberal” is an odd and confusing piece of language that is very often conflated with the term “liberal”. They are not the same thing. In…

The Winter Solstice, the darkest day of the year, has passed, but the darkest days of the coronavirus pandemic are likely still to come. COVID-19 has killed more than 320,000 people in the U.S., with almost 18 million cases. Deaths…