Politics

Young people in more than 60 countries were taught about preserving nature and how to work for environmental good in their communities

Democratic Party

Mamdani: “For too long in our city, freedom has belonged only to those who can afford to buy it.”

Common Dreams

Demanding that the wealthy and large corporations start paying their fair share of taxes is not radical. It is exactly the right thing to do

Donald Trump

Can the American Dream Survive Trump until 2029?

Alfred W. McCoy

Trump has already demolished the fundamental geopolitics that have undergirded U.S. global hegemony for the past 80 years

Donald Trump

The “President of Peace” Prepares for War: The Donroe Doctrine Hits Home

William D. Hartung

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Earlier this month, the Trump administration released its new National Security Strategy, or NSS. Normally, such documents are poor predictors of what’s likely to happen in the real world. They are more like branding tools that communicate the attitudes of a given administration while rarely offering a detailed or accurate picture […]

Corruption

At Trump’s Prompting, Israel’s Netanyahu seeks a Pardon, But Israeli Law may not Work that Way

The Conversation

By John Strawson, University of East London (The Conversation) – The interesting thing about Benjamin Netanyahu’s call on Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, to pardon him for charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust, is that he has not been found guilty on any of them. The trial is made up of three separate but […]

censorship

Labeling dissent as Terrorism: Trump’s NSPM-7 raises Constitutional Alarms

The Conversation

By Melinda Haas, University of Pittsburgh (The Conversation) – A largely overlooked directive issued by the Trump administration marks a major shift in U.S. counterterrorism policy, one that threatens bedrock free speech rights enshrined in the Bill of Rights. National Security Presidential Memorandum/NSPM-7, issued on Sept. 25, 2025, is a presidential directive that for the […]

Democratic Socialists of America

Mamdani was Right to Handle Trump, but the Left must Remember that the President is Still a Toxic Nationalist

Norman Solomon

San Francisco (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) | – Across the political spectrum – with alarm on the right and delight on the left – the display of warmth from President Trump toward Zohran Mamdani last Friday set off shock waves. Trump’s lavish praise of New York’s mayor-elect in the Oval Office was a 180-degree […]

Democratic Socialists of America

Socialism or Barbarism: Reviving the History of the American Left

Tomdispatch

By Eric Ross | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – More than a century ago, from a Berlin prison cell where she was confined for her uncompromising opposition to the slaughter of the First World War, Rosa Luxemburg warned, “Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.” Her diagnosis remains […]

Cartoon

Famed Cartoonist Jules Feiffer Taught Us to Fail Up and Never Surrender

Tomdispatch

By Robert Lipsyte ( Tomdispatch.com ) – It’s been more than nine months now since my friend, famed cartoonist Jules Feiffer, died, a week before his 96th birthday after continually warning me that the evil spirit that had descended on this country was leaving him frightened and dispirited. He was glad, he told me, that […]