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Janine Jackson interviewed Dave Zirin about the Supreme Courtās football prayer ruling for theĀ July 1, 2022, episodeĀ ofĀ CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited…
The Prime Minister ofĀ Sri Lanka said he would resign on Saturday and the nation’s president was called on to do the same…
Last Saturday the āFirst Meeting of Mapuche Women of the Zonal Council of the Mapuche Confederation of NeuquĆ©nā took place in the…
When Joe Biden ran for president in 2020, he marketed himself as a pragmatist, eager to collaborate with Republicans and capable of…
Before the onslaught of massacres, weekend local news in most urban areas used to be nicknamed āthe knife and gun club.ā That…
Rousseau wrote: āWe have physicists, geometricians, chemists, astronomers, poets, musicians and painters in plenty; but no longer have a citizen among us.ā…
The undersigned civil society organisations, trade unions, human rights, animal welfare and environmental defenders, address this statement to policy makers in Mexico…
(Photo: Felipe Dana) [Prefatory NoteĀ The following letter appeared in the prominent German weekly, ZEIT, last week. It is written from a…
When a government becomes destructive of rights When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for a people to dissolve…
In the twenty-first century, the religious right has something close to a stranglehold on public-facing Christianity. From Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump,…
Governments tend to define democracy as narrowly as possible. The story they tell goes as follows. You vote. The majority party takes…
The astronomer, science communicator, thinker, writer, and teacher Carl Sagan (1934ā1996) had an influence as a scientist that is almost unimaginable today.…
Today these words can finally come out on paper, because the fear and the lump in the throat ā for now ā…
In a last-ditch effort to avoid extradition to the United States, lawyers for jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Friday appealed to…
The Supreme Courtās ruling overturning the right to an abortion is an act of White supremacy. But not in the way you…
In a blow to climate activism, the Supreme Court on Thursday severely limited the Environmental Protection Agencyās ability to place emission caps…
As SCOTUS-watchers scrambled to stay abreast of a rush of rulings affecting climate, immigration, Indigenous rights, and other policy areas, the nation’s…
THIS IS IT. The moment for President Joe Biden and Congress to challenge the underlying legitimacy of the U.S. Supreme Court and advance an aggressive climate action agenda. There will be no better moment to take this stand.
AnĀ NPR/Ipsos poll released in January revealed that the overwhelming majority of Americans believe that U.S. democracy is āin crisis and at risk…
Posted in In These Times. I have met so many people through this fight,ā says Nancy Bouldin of Monroe County, West…
