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by Alex Skopic Sports
For the Super Bowl, New Orleans forced unhoused people into a grim warehouse—and paid a private contractor $17.5 million for it—while billionaires’ superyachts floated on the Mississippi. How much longer will we tolerate this obscene inequality? Read the article ›
by Etienne C. Toussaint Israel/Palestine
On “The Message,” a trip to Jerusalem and the West Bank, and the moral duty to break the silence. Read the article ›
by Ralph Nader Politics
Ralph Nader makes the case for a national impeachment movement—and explains why Democratic leaders have so little interest in leading one. Read the article ›
The political commentator explains why Democrats keep losing to the far right, how she lost faith in the establishment, and what a genuinely progressive alternative might look like.
In both countries, the debate is about how—not whether—to conduct imperial violence.
Robots should look and sound like robots. There is no benefit to allowing AI to appear human, and companies will exploit the confusion to demand “AI rights,” further cementing their oligarchical control.
Police body cameras were meant to hold officers accountable. On YouTube and beyond, they’ve become a wildly profitable form of human misery as entertainment.
Trump has abused the Justice Department, but he isn’t the first one. The rot was there all along.
There’s plastic in the sausage, and the clams have hepatitis. A greedy power circle runs our food system, and their push for deregulation is calamitous.
The poet, essayist, and anti-war activist breaks down his new book, “Getting Shot At: Essays on War, Conflict, and Culture Clash.”
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