Commentary

Pharma has two lobbyists for every member of Congress. It spends more on lobbying than tobacco, oil and defense contractors combined

On February 6, 1919, Seattle’s workers struck—all of them. In doing so they took control of the city

The Year of the Door of Return to Africa

When the Trump administration unilaterally pulled out of the Iran nuclear agreement in May 2018 and announced it would reimpose...
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ICE agents may also make “collateral arrests,” detaining anyone in the area who is not capable of providing official documentation to prove their citizenship or legal status at their discretion

It is incumbent upon all of us to resist the inexorable march toward nuclear winter

Since the mid-1980s, Mexico has been a poster child for globalization. Through free trade treaties and structural adjustment policies imposed...
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I admire the APV blend of idealism and practicality, doing “the things that make for peace,” even as they face daily anxieties in the chaos and upheaval that mark life in a war zone

Some people are attached to the idea that the Democratic National Committee will “rig” the presidential nomination against Bernie Sanders....
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Features

Fear that the “rascal multitude” will threaten the property of the self-designated “men of best quality” traces back to the first modern democratic revolution in 17th century England

A war has been declared on Venezuela, of which the truth is “too difficult” to report

U.S. neocons are once again back in charge of U.S. foreign policy, driving the U.S. toward yet another war and attempt at regime change of a foreign government

American capitalism has a hate-love relationship with the nation’s schools