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Why Voting Alone Doesn’t Build Democracy — and What Actually Does
Why Voting Alone Doesn’t Build Democracy — and What Actually Does
Elections matter, but history shows they are not enough. Real democracy is built through organized civic power between elections.
Sharon Kyle
Six Points to Navigate the Turmoil in Iran
Six Points to Navigate the Turmoil in Iran
Israel and the United States are exploiting Iran's economic protests as a pretext for intervention, with reports of Israeli influence operations aiming to install Reza Pahlavi as Shah. The geopolitical orchestration behind the chaos became undeniable as the US State...
Vijay Prashad
Where Will We Stand? What World Do We Want To Live In?
Where Will We Stand? What World Do We Want To Live In?
Now is a good time to choose what you believe. Are we here to tend the webs of connection, to care for one another and our beautiful earth, as the core of not only indigenous but every major religion would tell us? Or are we here to maximize our material gain and destroy all...
Starhawk
“We Are Facing a Tsunami of Hate”: Amid ICE Crackdown, Unions and Community Groups Call for Minnesota Shutdown in 10 Days
“We Are Facing a Tsunami of Hate”: Amid ICE Crackdown, Unions and Community Groups Call for Minnesota Shutdown in 10 Days
Following the ICE murder of Renee Good and an assault on the state by federal immigration forces, a labor-community coalition is calling for residents to refuse to work, shop or go to school on January 23.
Amie Stager & Sarah Lazare
Only the Iranian People Should Determine Their Nation's Future
Only the Iranian People Should Determine Their Nation's Future
It’s virtually impossible to predict what lies ahead for Iran and its people. But if President Donald Trump decides to take military action against Iran’s current regime, nothing good will come out of it.
C.J. Polychroniou
Organize! Yes, but How?
Organize! Yes, but How?
When the wild times we’re living through demand strong social movements, Sweden’s multitude of movements are in a lousy shape. The same goes for the Swedish union movement. The problem isn’t “all talk and no action.” There’s barely even any talk about organizing, and very few...
Rasmus Hästbacka
Zohran Needs to Create Popular Assemblies
Zohran Needs to Create Popular Assemblies
If Zohran Mamdani is serious about delivering on his promises, he needs more than policies — he needs institutions that empower working people. Popular assemblies offer a way to build a new, bottom-up political culture in New York City.
Gabriel Hetland, Bhaskar Sunkara
Mayor Mamdani Proves Progress Does Not Need to Be Slow
Mayor Mamdani Proves Progress Does Not Need to Be Slow
Pundits and politicians mocked universal childcare as a socialist fantasy—now many of them are silent as it becomes a practical reality.
Qasim Rashid
The Loneliness of Being an Iranian in the Diaspora
The Loneliness of Being an Iranian in the Diaspora
I sit with the reality that I have no idea what Iranians really want. I don’t know what they go through day to day. I haven’t been on the ground. I haven’t spoken to them.
Elaheh Farmand
Imperialism and Christian Nationalism Are Among History's Deadliest Forms of Collectivism
Imperialism and Christian Nationalism Are Among History's Deadliest Forms of Collectivism
We've been trained to recognize collectivism only when it wears a hammer and sickle, but by branding American empire and Christian nationalism as defenders of liberty rather than as collective projects, the propaganda renders today's most powerful authoritarian structures...
Tim Hjersted
Trump Declares War on Everyone
Trump Declares War on Everyone
Trump has unleashed violence on America’s streets for much the same reason he has unleashed violence on Latin America and is planning to unleash it elsewhere: to display his own strength.
Robert Reich
Beyond the Border Wars: A Working-Class Approach to Immigration Reform
Beyond the Border Wars: A Working-Class Approach to Immigration Reform
What would a genuinely humane immigration system actually look like? The answer is simpler than most politicians want to admit.
Tim Hjersted
Renee Good's Murder: a Rorschach Test About Defiance, Vulnerability, and Community
Renee Good's Murder: a Rorschach Test About Defiance, Vulnerability, and Community
At the heart of this test lie two irreconcilable viewpoints: those who align themselves with armed agents and the task of protecting America from the “enemy within,” and those who embrace compassion for others. Between those with the guns, and those with the whistles.
Jordan Liz
How to Start a Revolution in 2026
How to Start a Revolution in 2026
Ordinary people can run society — but only if we build the structures to let them.
Roger Hallam
The Machinery of Terror
The Machinery of Terror
The Trump administration is consolidating the familiar machinery of terror of all authoritarian states. We must resist now. If we wait, it will be too late.
Chris Hedges
From Palestine to Minneapolis, ICE and Israel Use the Same Violent Playbook
From Palestine to Minneapolis, ICE and Israel Use the Same Violent Playbook
Renee Good, like many Palestinians before her, died because authoritarian forces decided she did not deserve to live, and because the entire legal and political structure exists to ensure those agents never face meaningful consequences for murder.
Ahmad Ibsais
Want to Stop ICE? Go After Its Corporate Collaborators
Want to Stop ICE? Go After Its Corporate Collaborators
ICE can’t function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop helping.
Eric Blanc, Claire Sandberg, and Wes McEnany
More and More Americans Want to Abolish ICE
More and More Americans Want to Abolish ICE
​Even before the Minneapolis shooting, polls showed public support for dropping Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Martin Burns
The Pathology of Power: How America Learned to Love State Violence
The Pathology of Power: How America Learned to Love State Violence
The comments celebrating Renee Good's death reveal a psychological pattern familiar to anyone who has studied authoritarian movements: the sadistic pleasure derived from watching power crush the powerless. It's the same impulse that filled Roman coliseums and medieval...
Tim Hjersted
Footage From Phone of ICE Agent Who Shot and Killed Renee Good Released
Footage From Phone of ICE Agent Who Shot and Killed Renee Good Released
New footage of ICE shooting in Minneapolis released, raising questions about officer's actions. Graphic content warning.
Brad Reed
'Reign of Terror': ICE Builds Appalling Record of Killings, Beatings, Kidnappings, and More
'Reign of Terror': ICE Builds Appalling Record of Killings, Beatings, Kidnappings, and More
"We just saw them murder an American citizen in cold blood, in the street," said US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. "This is an agency that must be reined in."
Jake Johnson
Funded by Our Own Tax Dollars, American Fascism Is Here
Funded by Our Own Tax Dollars, American Fascism Is Here
In the face of fascistic terror, there are always people who crumble and people who refuse. Renee refused. She refused to look away. She refused to let the vulnerable face terror alone. And for that refusal, she was murdered.
Emese Ilyés
The Grand Illusion of Dying Empires
The Grand Illusion of Dying Empires
All empires, when they are dying, worship the idol of war. War will save the empire. War will resurrect past glory. War will teach an unruly world to obey. But those who bow down before the idol of war, blinded by hypermasculinity and hubris, are unaware that while idols...
Chris Hedges
ICE Is a Domestic Terror Threat
ICE Is a Domestic Terror Threat
The agents who shot Renee Nicole Good shot her because they knew they could; they shot her because the Trump administration has specifically and purposely empowered law enforcement to act without impunity or care.
Jordan Liz
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Moral Stance Against the Vietnam War Offers Lessons on How to Fight for Peace
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Moral Stance Against the Vietnam War Offers Lessons on How to Fight for Peace
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. knew the political consequences of speaking out against the Vietnam War − and he did it anyway.
Hajar Yazdiha
The Renewable Energy Revolution Is Unstoppable
The Renewable Energy Revolution Is Unstoppable
​By every measure, shifting from fossil fuels to electrification, renewables, and energy efficiency and conservation is far more beneficial to most people than following the same fossil-fueled road.
David Suzuki
Why the Solar Panel Is the 21st-Century Peace Sign
Why the Solar Panel Is the 21st-Century Peace Sign
​Every one that goes up incrementally reduces the attractiveness of the oil that underlies so much conflict and tyranny, including Trump's latest attack on Venezuela.
Bill Mckibben
Trumpian Colonialism Is Not Freedom
Trumpian Colonialism Is Not Freedom
​Venezuela was not liberated. Overnight, it became a US-occupied colony whose lands and resources will be stolen and exploited; whose people will be subjugated to a hostile foreign power; and whose future will remain uncertain.
Jordan Liz
In 'Unhinged' Rant, Miller Says US Has Right to Take Over Any Country for Its Resources
In 'Unhinged' Rant, Miller Says US Has Right to Take Over Any Country for Its Resources
Democratic lawmaker slams Stephen Miller's diatribe on US imperialism in Venezuela and Greenland. Miller claims US will secure resources unapologetically. Sanders calls out administration's priorities.
Julia Conley
After Claiming Maduro Was Its Kingpin, DOJ Now Admits in Court That 'Cartel De Los Soles' Isn't a Real Group
After Claiming Maduro Was Its Kingpin, DOJ Now Admits in Court That 'Cartel De Los Soles' Isn't a Real Group
“They’ve been pretending that this made-up thing was real for a year. But now that they’d have to actually demonstrate its existence in court, they’re going to cram it down the memory hole.”
Stephen Prager
'Terrorists in Imperial Uniform': US Forces Kill 32 Cubans During Venezuela Invasion
'Terrorists in Imperial Uniform': US Forces Kill 32 Cubans During Venezuela Invasion
What Trump administration officials called a "law enforcement operation" should, in fact, "be called a massacre," said one critic.
Brett Wilkins
America the Rogue State
America the Rogue State
The evisceration of the rule of law at home and abroad solidifies America as a rogue state.
Chris Hedges
My Briefing to the UN Security Council Regarding US Aggression Against Venezuela
My Briefing to the UN Security Council Regarding US Aggression Against Venezuela
The issue before the Council is whether any Member State—by force, coercion, or economic strangulation—has the right to determine Venezuela’s political future or to exercise control over its affairs.
Jeffrey D. Sachs
US Attack on Venezuela Highlights Our Oil Addiction
US Attack on Venezuela Highlights Our Oil Addiction
The first step in recovering from addiction is to tell the truth—admit the addiction, acknowledge its consequences. Yet this is something we still seem unwilling to do with our addiction to oil. Addicts would rather stay high than confront their addiction and commit to recovery.
Rick Steiner
The Time for an Anti-Imperialist Labor Movement Is Now
The Time for an Anti-Imperialist Labor Movement Is Now
Labor can’t claim to be on the side of workers while remaining neutral on the question of imperialism.
James Dennis Hoff
Life on the Ground in Venezuela After Maduro’s Abduction — Interview With a Venezuelan Socialist
Life on the Ground in Venezuela After Maduro’s Abduction — Interview With a Venezuelan Socialist
"Under Chávez, chavismo was an attempt to build a kind of socialism in an alliance with capitalists — so nothing came of it. Under Maduro, it degenerated into a very repressive system. The Right has no ideas besides even worse colonialism. Thus the only social force capable...
Nathaniel Flakin and Milton D'León
The Horror of Trump's Press Conference From a Venezuelan Perspective
The Horror of Trump's Press Conference From a Venezuelan Perspective
This moment demands political maturity. You can oppose Maduro and still oppose US aggression. You can want change and still reject foreign control. You can be angry, desperate, or hopeful, and still say no to being governed by another country.
Michelle Ellner
Emergency Declaration: We Condemn the Imperialist Attack by the U.S. Against Venezuela and the Kidnapping of Maduro
Emergency Declaration: We Condemn the Imperialist Attack by the U.S. Against Venezuela and the Kidnapping of Maduro
The CPR-FI categorically and vehemently condemns the military attack perpetrated by the United States against Venezuela. This is direct, deliberate, and criminal imperialist aggression against an oppressed country and constitutes a flagrant violation of Venezuelan...
Current for Permanent Revolution - Fourth International (CPR-FI)
Building “Mass Governance” in Zohran Mamdani’s New York City
Building “Mass Governance” in Zohran Mamdani’s New York City
Zohran Mamdani is now mayor of New York City, and the Left’s old ways of relating to elected officials won’t cut it. We need a “mass governance” approach.
Sumathy Kumar and Gianpaolo Baiocchi
A New Year of Empire
A New Year of Empire
With its violent military intervention into Venezuela – a country I used to live in – the U.S. has begun this year with entitled and undisguised imperialism.
Tamara Pearson
8 New Years Resolution Ideas for NPR
8 New Years Resolution Ideas for NPR
​There is so much that National Public Radio could do to make itself better and raise the expectations of its listening audience.
Ralph Nader
After Venezuela Assault, Trump and Rubio Warn Cuba, Mexico, and Colombia Could Be Next
After Venezuela Assault, Trump and Rubio Warn Cuba, Mexico, and Colombia Could Be Next
"The 'Trump corollary' to the Monroe Doctrine—applied in recent hours with violent force over the skies of Caracas—is the single greatest threat to peace and prosperity that the Americas confront today," said Progressive International.
Jake Johnson
This Is a Blatant Illegal Act of War Against Venezuela by Trump
This Is a Blatant Illegal Act of War Against Venezuela by Trump
This war also does not reflect the will of the people. Nearly 70% of Americans oppose another war and reject the endless cycle of military interventions carried out in their name.
Medea Benjamin
There Is Often No Clear Demarcation Between “Legal” and “Illegal” Immigration.
There Is Often No Clear Demarcation Between “Legal” and “Illegal” Immigration.
It’s far easier to end up on the wrong end of the spectrum than you might think.
Rachel Rutter
Breaking the Sound Barrier
Breaking the Sound Barrier
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan have written a weekly column for nearly two decades. This is their final dispatch, reflecting on the challenges and opportunities in people-centered journalism.
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
10 Crucial Things You Can Do to Take on Trump in 2026
10 Crucial Things You Can Do to Take on Trump in 2026
Trump, his sycophants, and the billionaires behind him know that with the coming midterm elections, 2026 could be their last unconstrained chance to suppress democracy and siphon off America’s wealth for themselves. So, what can you do?
Robert Reich
10 Good Things That Happened in 2025
10 Good Things That Happened in 2025
​I hope you can look back on 2025 as the year movements for peace and justice freed political prisoners, slowed the war machine, and helped turn the public against endless wars.
Medea Benjamin
WWNS? (What Would Noam Say?): I Lean Into Noam Chomsky's Words of Wisdom as the Storm Rages
WWNS? (What Would Noam Say?): I Lean Into Noam Chomsky's Words of Wisdom as the Storm Rages
May his 97th birthday bring him peace.
Bev Stohl
Anti-ICE Resistance Sprang Up Across Red States in 2025
Anti-ICE Resistance Sprang Up Across Red States in 2025
In Texas, North Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Florida, and beyond, grassroots resistance to ICE is growing.
Sonali Kolhatkar
A Moment of Hope in Gaza
A Moment of Hope in Gaza
On Thursday, December 25th, 2025, during Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians, 168 students graduated from medical school, in Gaza. Wearing their white coats, they stood in front of the ruined façade of what was formerly Gaza’s largest hospital, the Al-Shifa Medical...
Kathy Kelly
Chomsky Reassessed?
Chomsky Reassessed?
Knowing him for over half a century, I am confident that Noam’s hate for sexism, misogyny, racism, exploitation and fascism didn’t lose even a tiny fraction of its passion and clarity due to his “time spent with” Epstein and/or Bannon.
Michael Albert
From Powell to Venezuela: The High Cost of Evidence-Free Escalation
From Powell to Venezuela: The High Cost of Evidence-Free Escalation
​We are witnessing the reemergence of a dangerous repetition: one where the pattern of assertion becomes the prelude to action, and where action can lead to irreversible consequences.
Angel Gomez
If Jesus Were Born Today, Would He Survive the American Police State?
If Jesus Were Born Today, Would He Survive the American Police State?
If Jesus were born in modern America, under a government obsessed with surveillance, crackdowns on undocumented immigrants, religious nationalism, and absolute obedience to a head-of-state rather than the rule of law, would his message of peace, mercy, and resistance to...
John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead
Trump Isn’t Planning to Invade Venezuela. He’s Planning Something Worse
Trump Isn’t Planning to Invade Venezuela. He’s Planning Something Worse
Rather than launching a military invasion that would provoke public backlash and congressional scrutiny, Trump is doubling down on something more insidious.
Michelle Ellner
The Story of Christmas Is About the Poor Overcoming the Powerful
The Story of Christmas Is About the Poor Overcoming the Powerful
In Jesus’ own words, Christianity is a faith where the first shall be last and the last shall be first. It is meant not for the rich, the satisfied, and the powerful. Rather it is first intended for the poor, the hungry, the downtrodden, and the rejected.
James Zogby
Can We Cure Ourselves of the Deadly Viruses of Greed and Militarism?
Can We Cure Ourselves of the Deadly Viruses of Greed and Militarism?
​The sicknesses that caused the Iraq War and the Wall Street crash are alive and well in American society, mutating from administration to administration.
Jeff Vogel
'Beyond Dehumanizing': ICE Docs Expose Plan to Hold 80,000 People in Warehouses
'Beyond Dehumanizing': ICE Docs Expose Plan to Hold 80,000 People in Warehouses
The proposal does not treat detainees “as people but just things to be warehoused like Amazon packages,” said one critic.
Julia Conley
What Christmas Once Meant—and What It Could Mean Again for a Divided America
What Christmas Once Meant—and What It Could Mean Again for a Divided America
Christmas, once a time to gather, reflect, and renew our obligations to one another, and the social rituals that once cultivated empathy and reinforced civic responsibility, have been reduced to a spectacle of distraction, dead trees, credit card receipts, and gift wrapping.
Martina Moneke
LA Teachers Union: No Endorsements for Genocide Enablers
LA Teachers Union: No Endorsements for Genocide Enablers
“Politicians should not be rewarded for enabling a genocide nor in perpetuating Israel's periodic bombing attacks on Palestinians.”
Marcy Winograd
Can a New 'New Deal' Wipe Out Corporate Control of the Democratic Party?
Can a New 'New Deal' Wipe Out Corporate Control of the Democratic Party?
The exploding popularity of progressive politicians and the policies they embrace is not an anomaly. It's a signpost.
Thom Hartmann
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