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“What really dampens turnout is when Democrats make promises that they don’t keep.”

If you have survived the pandemic without going inside a Covid ward, you will likely be stunned by the grim intimacy of Matthew Heineman’s new documentary

Raids, Arrests and Death Threats

Remember how once we thumbed their nose, And dubbed them a “sack of potatoes?”

A new poll shows far-right candidate José Antonio Kast and left-wing reformer Gabriel Boric tied at 39% ahead of next month’s runoff

The voice within had some nice words but little substance. In the streets, tens of thousands of protesters, mostly young, were desperately calling for real steps to save the world from looming catastrophe

“Wealthy nations need to understand that unless everyone everywhere is vaccinated, the situation is not going to change.”

From Bush to Obama, and Trump to Biden, U.S. Militarism Is the Great Unifier

Worldwide crises have also exposed the limitations of the nation state system, in which nearly 200 nations jealously guard their own “national interest,” and suggest the need for enhanced global governance

Now is the worst phase of all: We’ve started to extol the killers of children. That’s how far we’ve gone

The frontrunners in Chile’s upcoming election pit the far-right against the nominally left

To expand personal freedom, recover from the Covid pandemic and curb the climate crisis—let’s embrace a shorter working week

Complete remarks by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez during U.S. House Debate on Resolution to Censure Rep. Paul Gosar

Ending the extraction of fossil fuels from the Earth while achieving material sufficiency, equity, and justice would move us a long way toward the more livable future

Change must happen before 2030 to avoid disaster. Despite the disappointment around Glasgow, climate science and activism offer hope of progress

There is this great opportunity for the left to assert a bold and visionary policy about not just mitigating the effects of climate change but effectively using climate change as a lever for economic transformation

Our last, best hope of averting systemic environmental collapse is to use the peculiarities of complex systems to trigger cascading political regime shifts

Where So Much of Our Money Really Went

Jurors are asked to uphold the law as it stands. We don’t ask jurors to make the law. That’s on us

‘He told our stories,’ actor Edward James Olmos says of the Chicago writer of corridos some called the ‘Chicano Woody Guthrie.’

“Give Republicans this: they’re not dismantling democracy in secret. They’re doing it right out in the open.”

Review of Mothers of the Revolution, a new documentary that tells the story of the women who helped to end the Cold War

Milwaukee’s Get the Lead Out Coalition has launched its Clean Water for Pregnant People program. For 12 months they will deliver eight cases of water per month free of charge to pregnant women

In response to COP26, C. J. Polychroniou argues that we cannot rely on summits to solve climate change. Instead, radical and legal activism are the best hopes for our future

The infrastructure bill contains billions in fossil fuel subsidies, even as it was stripped of all meaningful climate policy

We greeted old and new friends, sang, prayed, shared food and distributed pink shovels and conspired to dig our way into the base, onto the runway and disrupt the practice

Throughout the 2022 primary season, I want you to explore with me the absolutely bonkers idea of running a progressive, dare I say radical, Lefty McLefterson candidate in a Republican primary in a GOP stronghold district

‘Where does one go in a situation in which the Executive continues to be opaque and obdurate but to the Judiciary?

“It definitely matches what the climate models show for the future around here—hotter, dryer summers and wetter winters… Our infrastructure isn’t designed for that.”

War dehumanizes everyone it touches

“Ohio leaders have disrespected voters, trampled the Ohio Constitution, and rigged the Congressional map to serve partisan, political operatives rather than fairly represent Ohioans.”

Jane McAlevey has trained thousands of activists in building more militant unions and winning electoral organizing; she sees the fight for effective unions as critical to winning transformative climate policy

The supply disruptions plaguing the US economy are the result of a logistics ecosystem that was developed to feed the beast of American consumption was not designed for a pandemic

The verdict, said the Huber family, sends the “unacceptable message” that armed vigilantes can “use the danger they have created to justify shooting people in the street.”

Demonstrators in the US must fear not only police brutality but also rightwing vigilantes

Beginning in 1704, slave patrols empowered every white person to control the movements and activities of every Black person

Confronted by a stark choice between the dreadful past and a still-to-be-charted future — and grappling with the discontents and challenges facing so many countries, including the United States — what will Chile decide?

This is a big, very bold question because it would, in fact, challenge the Eurocentric, imperially-based Westphalian system and embrace the broader idea of Indigenous systems that recognise “interdependencies between political actors and relations to the land”

Only the ignorant or deliberately obtuse would not see how the system is set up to discriminate along racial boundaries, as well as class

There are serious questions to ask, but Aditya Chakrabortty’s critique fails to convince

Striking John Deere Workers Win Bigger Wage Hike

“It is immoral for the rich to talk about the future of their children and grandchildren when the children of the Global South are dying now.”

There are two views of the world opposing one another, and the anti-vaxxers belong to a shrinking minority

“We are here today to send a message that President Biden must take action now to ensure the promise of our democracy and protect our freedom to vote.”

U.S. school bus drivers in nationwide strikes over poor pay and Covid risk Drivers are left ‘begging for better pay’ even as the school bus driver shortage is worsening in the new school year

“It’s time our federal government finally aligns its actions on climate change with its rhetoric, and takes the bold action necessary to avert climate catastrophe.”

The country has fallen into an economic crisis after the U.S. and other Western countries cut off direct financial assistance to the government following the Taliban takeover in August

In the years after the U.S. pledged to invest in human rights and rule of law, the Pentagon spent millions training elite Mexican units how to fight

Interview on why there is hope in being brutally honest about the climate crisis

At some point, governments will start using more sticks than carrots to break our deadly dependence on fossil fuels. How will humanity respond?