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Making Another World Possible with the Nuclear Ban Treaty

November 8, 2021 Sofia Rose Wolman

As planetary dynamics interact with the COVID-19 pandemic, social, political, economic, internal, and relational dynamics have been laid bare and found wanting. We have collectively witnessed and experienced glaring inequities and precarities in the institutions and structures that govern, shape, and claim authority over our […]

The Pentagon and too many of our national leaders have yet to learn the lessons of Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq. (Photo: CodePink/CC)

Alternatives to the Pentagon’s China Nightmares

November 6, 2021 Joseph Gerson

by Joseph Gerson Originally published in Common Dreams I’m embarrassed for my friends when they make mistakes, not that I haven’t made a few myself. Recently when the Pentagon issued its terrorizing annual report on China warning that by 2030 China’s People’s Liberation Army could […]

Stand with the 6 Palestinian Human Rights NGOs

November 4, 2021 Cole Harrison

Build Back Better? Or Double Down on Disaster?

November 2, 2021 Nick Rabb

by Nick Rabb We have entered a new era of climate catastrophe. Whereas the major problems of the past were denial and delay, the current political terrain is one where it is no longer tenable to deny the crisis itself. Now, the emerging battle is […]

Eco-Fear: Mental Health in the Age of the Climate Crisis

November 2, 2021 Zoe Stevenson

by Zoe Stevenson Human beings today face climate challenges on an incomprehensibly enormous scale. Given the gravity of the situation we’re in, the guilt we carry about our part in creating it, and infuriating, long-standing government inaction, it’s no surprise that feelings of hopelessness and […]

Illegal and Inhumane: Biden-Harris and Immigration

November 1, 2021 Sunny Robinson

By Sunny Robinson The Biden Administration promised reformed and humane immigration policies. That is not what we are getting. “Illegal and Inhumane,” is how Harold Koh, a State Dept. Legal Adviser, described the Biden Administration’s escalation of Title 42 as its major immigration control tool. […]

Critical Race Theory: The Right’s New Bogeyman

October 31, 2021 Rosemary Kean

by Rosemary Kean Gather round, children, to hear about the new bogeyman. In the current cycle of reactionary demonization, the bogeyman is no longer anyone ever associated in any way with the Communist Party. The new bogeyman, supplanting communism, socialism, and Sharia law, is ‘critical […]