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Capitalism Fuels Disease, Trauma and Addiction. How Can We Heal?
Physician Gabor Maté discusses his new book, “The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture.”
Mainstream Press’s Initial Coverage of Climate Bill Was a Lazy Distortion
If a news story catches your eye, read about it again a couple of weeks later -- and look beyond the main networks.
Announcing the Winners of the 2nd Annual Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize
The prize honors the work of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated writers who are struggling for a more just world.
Feel Like Everything Is Crumbling? This Oral History of the Future Offers Hope.
Where will we be in 30 years? M.E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi offer a hope-filled vision of interdependence and care.
New Podcast Spotlights Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers and Their Children’s Story
Weather Underground members Dohrn and Ayers discuss life underground, and why they resurfaced.
Media Mogul Murdoch Dumps Trump for DeSantis. How Will This Impact the Election?
Will the Fox News mogul’s decision to ditch Trump shift the Republican field in 2024?
US Accused of Whitewashing Israel’s Killing of Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh
Even mainstream news outlets acknowledge that the Israeli military killed the Palestinian American journalist.
UN Human Rights Office Confirms Israeli Forces Killed Shireen Abu Akleh
“Perpetrators must be held to account,” said a spokesperson for the UN high commissioner for human rights.
“Dark Day for Press Freedom”: Chomsky, Ellsberg, Others Slam Assange Extradition
The decision to extradite Assange “to the nation that plotted to assassinate him ... is an abomination,” advocates said.
CPAC Speakers in Hungary Embrace Plan for “Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy”
Europe's first Conservative Political Action Conference called for the left to be “exposed, demonized and crushed.”