As Trump’s Outlaw Presidency Worsens, Why Have Democrats Given Up on Impeachment?
Ralph Nader makes the case for a national impeachment movement—and explains why Democratic leaders have so little interest in leading one.
Animals & Nature Coverage
How the Right Is Taking Over Animal Rights
Astra Taylor and Aaron Regunberg explain how MAGA is weaponizing compassion for animals, and why the left needs to take the issue seriously.
Meme-ing Our Way Through the Era of Ultra-Violence
Dark jokes about 9/11 distract us from a real reckoning with U.S. foreign policy and the horrors of the Global War on Terror.
- by Elise Swain
9/11 Began 25 Years of Nonstop War and Abuses of Power
Never forget: the attacks brought us into an era of torture, the erosion of civil liberties, and the destruction of multiple Middle East countries.
- by Pam Bailey
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Dave Ramsey Says Capitalism’s Failings Are Actually Your Fault by Rob Larson
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“Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma” as Meta-Meta-Slasher by RS Benedict
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Mohammed El-Kurd on the Politics of the “Perfect Victim” by Current Affairs
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You Wanted a More Brutal World by Nathan J. Robinson
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The Voice of an Ordinary Iranian by Alex Skopic
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It’s Time to Ban Prescription Drug Ads by Emily Topping
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The Wall Street Journal’s Propaganda On Rent Control by Nathan J. Robinson
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We Love David Attenborough, So Why Don’t We Listen to Him? by Nathan J. Robinson
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Eugene Debs Knew the Power Labor Holds by Hamilton Nolan