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Trumpists Have Made Alarming Advances in Their Quest to Control Elections
GOP lawmakers at every level have used Trump's illusions about voter fraud to rig future elections in their favor.
Terrifying UN Draft Climate Report Urges Total Transformation of Our Way of Life
Beyond the dire warnings in the report, the assessment of current efforts to curtail climate disruption is damning.
Biden Administration Plans to Spend $109.8 Billion on Nuclear Submarines
A Columbia-class submarine is essentially an over $100 billion initiative to deliver 16,128 Hiroshimas.
State Lawmakers Are Using a Powerful Tool to Mandate Renewable Energy Use
Almost half the growth of U.S. renewable energy from 2000 to 2019 can be linked to state Renewable Portfolio Standards.
Israel Sends Weapons to Duterte. Filipinx and Palestinian Struggle Are Linked.
Filipinx activists opposing settler colonialism at home have many reasons to organize in solidarity with Palestine.
McConnell Is Stacking the Courts and Using Voter Suppression to Maintain Power
Mitch McConnell has established himself as the U.S.’s most dangerous practitioner of might-is-right politics.
Supreme Court Ruled Against Enslaved Children Even as US Celebrated Juneteenth
Child laborers on West African cocoa plantations are beaten, locked up and forced to toil for U.S. corporate profits.
California Rent Forgiveness Shows It’s Possible to Shift Our National Priorities
Government -- local, state and federal -- can actually help us if we invest in people's lives instead of wars.
Trump Complained COVID Testing Would Lose Him the Election, New Book Says
If COVID comes roaring back in unvaccinated pro-Trump communities this fall, nobody should be surprised.
Jan. 6 Wasn’t the End — the Right Is Trying a Hostile Takeover State by State
It's clear that the Republican assault on democracy is actually just beginning.