Clarence Thomas Has No Shame. But You Knew That.
Not recusing in a case such as this is unprecedented. It’s wrong. And it’s an appalling testament to how corrupted, how political, and how morally bankrupt the Roberts Court really is.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/clarence-thomas-no-shame
Outrage over Bigotry, Islamophobia in Wall Street Journal & New York Times
'These outlets should apologize publicly & diversify their staff & perspectives to meet their ethical and moral obligations as journalists.'
https://www.commondreams.org/news/outrage-over-bigotry-islamophobia-in-wall-street-journal-new-york-times
The US Toppling of Imran Khan
Covert regime change strikes again. This time in Pakistan.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/us-ouster-of-imran-khan
'We Won't Be Silenced!' Protesters Decry DeJoy at USPS Meeting
Defenders of the U.S. Postal Service are warning about an austerity plan by the Trump-appointed postmaster general that "will slash jobs and shrink processing centers and post offices."
Many Jews and Jewish Organizations Recognized the Dangers of Zionism. They Were Right
The American Jewish Committee, going back to 1917 in the United States, expressed grave warnings that a Jewish state could oppress non-Jews in Palestine.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/jewish-organizations-against-zionism
'I Remember Hitler,' Says 91-Year-Old Republican Behind Trump Eligibility Case
"I remember my cousin was with Eisenhower when they opened up the concentration camps... I mean, I understand protecting democracy."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/colorado-14th-amendment
New Bill Would Prevent Billionaires From Donating to Dark Money Groups Tax-Free
"Billionaires attempting to influence politics from the shadows should not be rewarded with taxpayer subsidies," said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/billionaires-dark-money
The Republican Party and Their Billionaire Backers’ Plot Against America
The GOP’s bet is that if they can keep things broken and bad enough long enough, then people will demand a dictator “who can get things done.”
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/republican-plot-against-america
A Prescription for Peace in Gaza
We urge the Biden administration to utilize its leverage and present a clear framework to end the violence and suffering.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/prescription-for-peace-in-gaza
Worried About the Climate Crisis? Just Start Doing Something
No matter where you are on the political spectrum, there is a group for you.
We Still Have Far to Go to Put the Breaks on the Nuclear Arms Race
What passes for debate on Capitol Hill is routinely an exercise in green-eyeshade discourse, assessing the most cost-effective outlays to facilitate Armageddon.
The Biden-Schumer Plan to Kill More Ukrainians
The $61 billion will make no difference on the battlefield except to prolong the war, the tens of thousands of deaths, and the physical destruction of Ukraine.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/the-biden-schumer-plan-to-kill-more-ukrainians
Tucker Carlson May Be the Kremlin's Pawn, But He's No Idiot
The far-right pseudo-journalist knows exactly what he’s doing and dances to the Kremlin’s tune, not because he is a useful idiot, but because he's a useful ally.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/tucker-carlson-may-be-the-kremlin-s-pawn-but-he-s-no-idiot
Instead of Diplomacy and Peace, US Chooses to Back Genocide and War
The horror Americans feel at the plight of people in Gaza and the U.S. role in it is a shocking new low in this disconnect between the humanity of ordinary Americans and the insatiable ambitions of their undemocratic leaders.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/genocide-ceasefire-war-middle-east
US Workers Are Rising From Dartmouth to Chattanooga
The spectacular resurgence of unionization across America—with the support and encouragement of Biden’s National Labor Relations Board—is occurring under the national radar.
The Republican Party and Their Billionaire Backers’ Plot Against America
The GOP’s bet is that if they can keep things broken and bad enough long enough, then people will demand a dictator “who can get things done.”
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/republican-plot-against-america
What Does the US Farm Bill Debate Need? Rotten Eggs!
To take on the harmful free trade policies that govern much of agriculture, U.S. farmers and their allies could find inspiration from what is taking place in Europe, perhaps going to D.C. to make their voices heard.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/farm-bill-debate
No Trump, the President Is Not Above the Law
In a unanimous opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said it could not endorse Trump’s “contention that the Executive has carte blanche to violate the rights of individual citizens to vote and to have their votes count.”
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/president-not-above-law
Bringing the Nuclear Threat Out of the Basement
Am I the only person who noticed that, just recently, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists decided to keep its Doomsday Clock at 90 seconds (yes, 90 seconds!) to midnight?
Why Friends of the Earth Marched with EU Farmers
The next European Commission needs to steer the transition of our agricultural and food systems in a fair, just, and climate-friendly way.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/friends-of-the-earth-eu-farmers
The Real Harvard Scandal: A Henry A. Kissinger Professorship of Statecraft and World Order
Beyond the war crimes that impacted untold millions, perhaps Kissinger’s most abiding legacy was this: the failure of accountability.
On Turning 80 in the Age of Biden and Trump
Who would believe me decades ago if I tried to explain to them where the United States now finds itself. On the precipice of American fascism, it's as hard to look back as it is to look forward.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/turning-80-trump-and-biden
Less Than 100,000 Swing-State Voters Could Decide the 2024 Election
Hang on, folks. It's going to be a bumpy and unpleasant ride.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/electoral-college-2024-biden-trump
NIKKI HALEY IS A DIRTY ENERGY KOCH SHILL BOUGHT & PAID FOR
NO ONE HAS QUESTIONED NIKKI HALEY!
NO ONE HAS ASKED ABOUT HER TAX RETURNS.
NO ONE HAS ASKED ABOUT HER WEALTH.
NO ONE HAS ASKED ABOUT THE $9 BILLION WASTED...
SOUTH CAROLINA SPENT $9 BILLION TO DIG A HOLE IN THE GROUND AND THEN FILL IT BACK IN
https://theintercept.com/2019/02/06/south-caroline-green-new-deal-south-carolina-nuclear-energy/
Social Security Threatened by Nikki Haley and Her GOP Friends
Fewer than 10% of anybody polled in the last four decades agreed with Nikki Haley that we spend too much on Social Security.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/nikki-haley-social-security
It’s Time To Take A Bite Out Of Apple’s Monopoly
By launching a strong antitrust suit that tackles Apple’s offenses on all fronts, the DOJ will take a meaningful step towards ensuring real corporate accountability.
Who Fill Fight to Make the Rich Pay Their Fair Share Into Social Security?
Since the majority of Americans want more revenue to strengthen it, why shouldn’t the small fraction of the highest-income Americans, especially the top 200 or so, pay more instead of raising the retirement age for young people?
This Armageddon Election Won't Be Like the Others
No matter who wins in the end, divisions across the electorate are only likely to deepen during the course of this presidential campaign season.
Why I Brought My Toddler to Protest at Citi CEO Jane Fraser’s House
While we go about our day-to-day lives, fossil fuel and Wall Street CEOs like Fraser are knowingly evicting millions of children from their homes from the comfort of their boardrooms and mansions.
What If We Treated People Who Use Drugs as Full Human Beings?
Punishing people for substance use worsens the pain and isolation that make drugs so appealing.
ALEC's Billionaire-Backed Ploy to Recruit the Next Generation of Right-Wingers
A new “strategic partnership” with ALEC Action is aimed not just at expanding ALEC’s bench of state legislators, but also at grooming young conservatives to win local elections nationwide.
Why We Must Reject the Pinkwashing of Genocide in Gaza
For a gay high schooler living in the U.S., it is with extreme difficulty that I watch the American and Israeli governments exploit my sexual identity to excuse ongoing ethnic cleansing.
Neck-Deep Again in the Big Muddy, But Any Reason for Hope?
Perhaps staring into the abyss created by the horrors and suffering of war will help us turn away from our violent path.
A Very Welcome LNG Pause and the Battle to Come
The climate and global equity impacts of the mass expansion of U.S. LNG exports cannot be understated.
We Ignore the Ongoing Collapse of American Democracy at Our Peril
Fascism can happen here and we know this because it is happening here. And unless more people wake up and fight back, it will be too late.
What We Can Learn From Trees
They are our ancestral model for cooperative, non-violent, and sustainable communities.
The UN Climate Talks Have Been Disastrous—Yet We Need Them!
The COPs are easily dismissed as “blah blah blah.” But they are, in a word, necessary.
Pro-Israel Perspectives Dominate Gaza Debate at Major US Papers
The opinion pages of The New York Times and Washington Post leaned heavily toward a conversation led by Israeli interests and concerns.
Why the Market—Not to Mention the Billionaires—Cannot Save Journalism
This isn’t just a journalism crisis: it’s a democracy crisis. And it’s a problem that we must collectively confront as a society.
Down With the Corporate Price-Gougers Ripping Us Off!
It's just inflation, folks, this greed is all around us each and every day from these profit-seeking monsters.
What If Lawless GOP Lawmakers in the House Refuse to Certify the 2024 Election?
This is what it looks like if Trump loses at the ballot box, but Republicans do next time what enough of them refused to do last time.
Americans, Dead Inside, Can Still Feel Trump
What have we done to deserve having the world's ugliest infection decomposing inside of us? You can't kill it with antibiotics, can't severe its grip with the rusty blade of politics, or scrape it off with a chunk of coarse sand paper.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/the-secret-of-trumps-appeal
Why We Also Need a Ceasefire in Ukraine
It's 2024. It's time for less empty cheerleading and more compassionate realism. It's time to call for a ceasefire, end the bloodshed, and work for a negotiated end to the war.
US Attacks on the ICJ Are a Declaration of Empire
They should not be seen simply as “pro-Israel” sentiment, but instead as part of a broader effort to undermine international law in order to give the United States free rein in pursuing its policy objectives.
How to Solve Food Insecurity? Treat Healthy Food as a Human Right
There’s more than enough food to feed everyone in the U.S., but the food distribution system is built for profit, not people.
How the US Can Be a Good Neighbor to Latin America
Instead of continuing down the current imperial path of endless confrontation, U.S. policymakers need to stop, recalibrate, and design an entirely new approach to inter-American relations.
Why Are Major News Outlets Sidelining Abbott’s Border Defiance?
As the right celebrates the Texas governor’s actions and legal scholars worry about a constitutional crisis, two big papers and a major wire service have clearly underplayed the standoff’s significance.
Mitch McConnell’s Plan to Sabotage Social Security From Within
Andrew Biggs, the senator’s pick to serve on the Social Security Advisory Board, is an enemy of the popular program.
From Argentina to the United States, Libertarians Come to Destroy the Common Good
Please name one country, anywhere in the world, any time in the last 7000 years, where libertarianism has succeeded and produced general peace and prosperity? There literally is none. Nowhere. Not a single one. It has never happened. Ever.
California Needs More, Not Less, Rooftop Solar
Rooftop solar installations in the state have plummeted by more than 80% just during the time between regulators’ approval of a plan slashing energy credits and the court’s ruling upholding it.
Biden’s 30X30 Conservation Plan Falls Far Short of What Is Needed
To the delight of oil drillers, miners, trophy hunters, ranchers, farmers, loggers, and factory trawlers, the Biden plan calls for not initiating any conservation action at the federal level.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/biden-s-conservation-plan-falls-short
Turning War Rhetoric on Its Head From Ukraine to Gaza
These are different wars under different circumstances, but they share a similar fate: each is caught in a recurring cycle of violence, a continuous loop without a terminating condition and with the potential of escalation.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/ukraine-gaza-war-rhetoric
Our Housing Crisis Is Literally Killing People
Amid unimaginable tragedy, we must recognize the failure of a society that refuses to provide safe and secure housing for every single person.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/housing-crisis-kills
