Thursday, December 11, 2025
New Unemployment Claims Jump to Highest Level in Months as Trump Economy Teeters
“While President Trump calls affordability a ‘hoax,’ countless families are being forced into impossible tradeoffs every day.” more
Lessons from the Montgomery Bus Boycott Seventy Years On
The current movement against the fascist regime in the United States can learn from Black resistance, including the famed bus boycott during the Civil Rights Movement. more
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Princeton Experts Speak Out Against Trump Boat Strikes as ‘Illegal’ and Destabilizing ‘Murders’
“Deploying an aircraft carrier and US Southern Command assets to destroy small yolas and wooden boats is not only unlawful, it is an absurd escalation,” said one scholar. more
A New New Orleans
Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, the city is still taking shape as a home of climate migrants. more
Stop Trump’s Murder Spree and We Could Also Stop a War With Venezuela
Under international law, executing people outside a genuine armed conflict is an extrajudicial killing. Nothing about these strikes meets the legal threshold for war. But if we don’t hold the president to account, a war is exactly what we may get. more
Richest 0.001% Now Own Three Times More Wealth Than Poorest Half of Humanity Combined
“The choices we make in the coming years will determine whether the global economy continues down a path of extreme concentration or moves toward shared prosperity.” more
The Year of the Whistle
I didn’t recognize my own agency to help keep my neighbors safe and protected from ICE. Operation Midway Blitz changed that. more
Tuesday, December 9, 2025
‘Victory for Everyone Who Pays an Electricity Bill’: Judge Tosses Trump Ban on New Wind Energy Projects
“Get out of the way of the expansion of renewable energy,” one clean power advocate told the Trump administration. more
Sunday, December 7, 2025
Making the World More Imperiled Again
Last month, President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he had ordered the Department of Defense—or, as he has renamed it, “the Department of War”—to resume nuclear testing for the first time since 1992. His plan to test U.S. nuclear weapons by exploding them will likely cost millions of dollars, risk radioactive leaks, and inflame an international arms race, according to atomic scientists and nuclear policy experts. Worse, they say, it will benefit our adversaries while failing to fundamentally improve weapon safety or reliability. more
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