Now What will Washington Do?

China and the U.S. must work together to solve the climate crisis, but the power of the militaries and national security states on both sides is making that impossible

Beset by wars and dysfunctional social and economic systems, the Middle East is too fragile to cope with the coming earthquake

Arizona public school district forced to abandon plans after more than 100 teachers and staff members called in sick

More than 4,300 shipbuilders at the Bath Iron Works shipyard in Maine struck for seven weeks from June to August in the largest private sector strike in the U.S. this year

The World Bank and IMF continue squeezing poor countries on behalf of commercial lenders, failing to provide the debt cancellations desperately needed.

Across the UK, our rivers are being turned into filthy, dead gutters, at astonishing, heartbreaking speed.

What is freedom? We all speak of it. We all want it. We all celebrate it. But what, really, is it? Not some deep hieroglyphic, academic definition, but what is freedom as we do or don’t live it in our daily lives?

The normalization of relations between the UAE and Israel, facilitated by the U.S., serves to prop up three repressive leaders — Trump, Netanyahu, and bin Zayed — and will cause further harm to Palestinians. It is both a shame and a sham

The entire racial capitalist system that extracts labor and blood from Black lives must go

“Looking at the geologic record, we don’t think we’ve ever seen CO2 levels this high in about 5 million years… We are in uncharted territory”

Lessons from the New Deal point the way forward in the era of Covid-19

The Truth Can Disappear Fast

Men like White House adviser Stephen Miller are rolling out their most vivid fascist fantasies as the body count rises, and they are playing Trump like a badly tuned cello to do it

We seek radical social transformation. But short of that, our actions should not only force elites to respond to our demands they should also expand democracy and plant the seeds of a new future in the present

Trump is waging a war on truth, decency, our planet, and on working people. If Biden wins, we’ll be at his door on day one, demanding the kinds of structural reforms that advance racial, economic, and environmental justice. But before that, we have to #VoteTrumpOut in swing states

To make a progressive future possible, beating Trump is absolutely necessary while very far from sufficient. To organize against a government headed by Trump is to push against a thick stone wall. To organize against a government headed by Biden holds out the real potential of progressive breakthroughs.

It will take an across-the-board combination of militant protest, get out the vote, and doing whatever is necessary to protect the results to best position partisans of justice, peace and saving the planet for the bitter battles that lie beyond November

To rebuild our public services and protect our communities, we must break the unholy alliance of finance and the far right

America is not based on hard work. Get it out of your head that this society is set up to be fair. Fair would be everyone with a roof over their head