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Zohran Mamdaniās tenure as New York City mayor has raised hopes of a more invigorated, deeper form of democracy and posed a question facing…
Wisconsinites have a high-stakes decision to make in the Democratic gubernatorial primary on August 11: whether or not to elect the first…
The words ‘killed’, ‘injured’, ‘maimed’, and the like often lose a great part of their meaning when they are repeated so relentlessly.…
Climate-focused progressive author Phil Wilson (ZNet, July 24, 2026) writes that āout of our current predicament there are two (and only two)…
Horse race coverage is the dominant mode of political coverage in America. It sucks. It treats politics like sports, parties like favored…
A widening war After nearly three weeks of resumed warfare, it is safe to say not only that the cease-fire is over…
On July 14, at a summit in Orlando, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Director Terrance Cole declared that Mexican cartels and the Mexican government…
Across the United States, and increasingly in other democracies under siege, higher education faces a coordinated assault unlike anything witnessed in generations.…
How Big Oil Seduced American Farming and Left Taxpayers With the Bill Earlier last week in Washington, administration officials appeared before the…
This was certainly an occasion when the mouse roared. At least the threatened lion thought so, if the latest hysteria-streaked US State…
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