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Stop the Cuts! Tax the Rich! Block the Bombs!

July 9, 2025 Maryellen Kurkulos

Join the Arise & Resist Budget and Tax Justice Coalition, the LOFTE Network and MAPA to rally at State GOP Headquarters in Boston! We must demand they repudiate these draconian Big Ugly Bill cuts to housing, healthcare, food assistance and more in order to pay […]

Mass Media and the Spectacle of the Imperial Presidency

May 27, 2025 Tom Valovic

by Tom Valovic This article was originally published in Common Dreams. The revolution won’t be televised, but our national decline will be highly pixelated. I’ve been thinking a lot about how the Trump administration has been using television, social media, and AI-generated digital graphics to […]

Ukraine: Why President Trump Is Leaving the Biden Policy Behind

March 26, 2025 Benjamin S. Dunham

by Benjamin S. Dunham This article was originally published in ACURA. In a moment of candor shortly after the Russian invasion, Ukraine’s President Zelensky told The Economist, “There are those in the West who don’t mind a long war because it would mean exhausting Russia, even if […]

How to Fight Trumpism

March 4, 2025 Brian Garvey and Cole Harrison

by Brian Garvey and Cole Harrison Donald Trump has launched his second term with a blizzard of executive orders and policy changes that have bamboozled the Democratic opposition and portrayed himself as a man of action to his supporters. Firing watchdogs, putting the world’s richest […]

Opinion: 3 Important Questions You Won’t Hear Asked in the Presidential Debates

September 17, 2024 Tom Valovic

By Tom Valovic This article was originally published in Common Dreams, prior to the 2024 Trump-Harris Presidential Debate. We should not underestimate the power of debate questions to shape the political landscape. In November 2020, Common Dreams published my op-ed “Three Questions That Didn’t Get Asked During the Presidential […]

Fight the fears! Don’t assume a Biden-Trump rematch is inevitable!

February 21, 2024 Kathie Malley-Morrison

The Peace Advocate is running a series of opinion pieces about the 2024 presidential election and candidates. We encourage our members and supporters to submit their analyses. We welcome different points of view. – The Editors This article was edited on Monday, March 4th to […]

Nuclear Priorities in the Pandemic Era

May 28, 2020 Steve Gallant

by Steve Gallant Where should we focus our activist energies as the COVID-19 pandemic kills hundreds of thousands, and the Trump administration threatens to tear up nuclear treaties and to restart nuclear testing? First, let’s assess the dangers and their timelines. COVID-19 has killed 300,000 […]