Economy

Property insurance rates have spiked since 2021 due to the increasing frequency of climate-related natural disasters

Plutocracy

Why is the United States Drawn to War?

Foreign Policy in Focus

It’s the Oligarchy, Stupid: The financial kings, the bankers and billionaires

Dissent

Inequality alone doesn’t cause civil Unrest – but Internet Access adds the crucial Spark

The Conversation

The poorest half of humanity, meanwhile, receive just 8% of income and own 2% of wealth

Donald Trump

How Trump is Savaging the Poor: the New Victory Gardens

Frida Berrigan

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Do you have a silver card? I do. I live in New London, Connecticut, and while I don’t get EBT (Electronic Benefit Transfers) anymore, I still carry the card as a talisman. It’s nestled in my wallet right behind my driver’s license. It reminds me that there was a time when […]

Agriculture

Tariffs trickle into Cost of Thanksgiving Dinner, jilting Consumers and Farmers

Michigan Advance

by Anna Kaminski, Michigan Advance TOPEKA — Collin Tuthill, president of one of the country’s largest canned and frozen food importers and distributors, said the current state of the U.S. food industry is “like we live in some kind of alternate universe.” The most efficient industry is being hit the hardest by tariff policies and […]

Democratic Socialists of America

Zohran Mamdani’s Proposals to Help New Yorkers Are Surprisingly Affordable

Common Dreams

Richard Eskow Nov 04, 2025Common Dreams ( Commondreams.org ) – Here’s something for New York City residents to consider as they vote for Mayor, and for observers outside New York to consider as they watch the vote count: For the most part, Zohran Mamdani’s plans for the city are surprisingly affordable. Despite the frantic […]

Democratic Party

Victims Without Victimizers: How Corporate Democrats Led to the Trump Era

Norman Solomon

( Tomdispatch.com ) – The human condition includes a vast array of unavoidable misfortunes. But what about the preventable ones? Shouldn’t the United States provide for the basic needs of its people? Such questions get distinctly short shrift in the dominant political narratives. When someone can’t make ends meet and suffers dire consequences, the mainstream […]

Israel/ Palestine

Microsoft cuts Israeli Military off from its Azure Cloud over Mass Surveillance of Civilians

Binoy Kampmark

By Binoy Kampmark ( Middle East Monitor) – On 6 August, The Guardian reported that “multiple individuals have asserted that the IDF [Israeli Defence Forces] is using Azure for the storage of files of phone calls obtained through broad or mass surveillance of civilians in Gaza and the West Bank.” The tale began in 2021, when […]

Authoritarianism

Unhoused and Policed in the Age of Trump

Tomdispatch

By Mattea Kramer and Sean Fogler ( Tomdispatch.com ) – The federal takeover of Washington, D.C., rightfully attracted extensive media coverage, but an executive order called “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets,” quietly issued on July 24th, received remarkably little attention. Perhaps it didn’t make a splash because it wasn’t specifically about policing (or, […]