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Back to the future: Governors outflank Trump with a new Articles of Confederation
Heather Digby Parton
Governors are doing their best to escape our performance-art president. But there's a reason we have a constitution
How Trump’s war against the WHO will hurt war-torn Yemen
Julia Conley
After U.S. suspension of funding, WHO expected to cut 80% of humanitarian aid to war-torn Yemen
Harmful tweets from high places: Why Is Twitter acting now?
Raphael Tsavkko Garcia
Twitter has been deleting dubious COVID-19 messages from some world leaders. Why now, and will it matter?
Wayne LaPierre reveals that NRA cut budget to “survive” after losing $100 million: leaked audio
Igor Derysh
"We kind of reframed this entire association," LaPierre said in a leaked recording. "We took it down to the studs"
The ultimate stress test: The American world that COVID-19 reveals
Rajan Menon
What does COVID-19 reveal about the American political sphere?
Trump wants to know “what the hell is happening” at Fox News: “It’s a whole new ballgame over there”
Matthew Rozsa
The president's attacks on Fox News drew a rare public rebuke from a host at the right-leaning network
Could COVID-19 bring down the U.S. empire?
Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies
The United States is failing miserably to provide any model of how to successfully combat COVID-19
Three questions investigators must ask about Trump’s response to COVID-19
Jefferson Morley
Investigators of the government's response to COVID-19 can start by asking three questions
Media struggles to justify cruelty to Iran and Venezuela amid spreading pandemic
Joe Emersberger
As the world faces a pandemic, mainstream media is still eager to punish nations perceived as U.S. enemies
Trump won’t require firms to help fight coronavirus — after corporations lobbied Jared Kushner
Igor Derysh
Kushner has "thrown out the established government plan" on pandemics, and has been swarmed by corporate execs
U.S. continues sanctions against Iran and Venezuela during coronavirus pandemic
Vijay Prashad, Paola Estrada
Why sanctions against Iran and Venezuela during a pandemic are cruel
As the global war on drugs fades away, the only people who benefited were drug traffickers
Phillip Smith
We here in the drug war homeland remain largely oblivious to the consequences of our drug policies overseas
The paradox of America’s endless wars
William J. Astore
They persist because they don’t exist (for Americans)
As Airbnb grows in Cuba, locals suffer the emotional burden of entitled tourists
David Nemer
Unused to the fake smiles innate to the gig economy, Cubans bear the brunt of Airbnb's emotional labor
Can the world’s second superpower rise from the ashes of 20 years of war?
Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies
A stronger, more committed and more determined global peace movement could tame the U.S. war machine.
Press Watch: Finally, political journalists are sounding the alarm. They must not stop
Dan Froomkin
A lawless president is undermining our justice system. Reporters at major papers are finally telling it like it is
Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman is here to fight the undead
Keith A. Spencer
In an exclusive interview, the economist and NYT pundit explains why conservatives' "zombie" ideas just won't die
The people of Colombia are cracking up the walls of war and authoritarianism
Justin Podur
The sustained protests are part of a larger trend against austerity and endless war.
Senator Duckworth slams Trump: “My diaper-wearing 20-month old daughter has better impulse control”
Cody Fenwick
“Like a pawn in a game of chess he didn’t even seem to know he was playing," the senator from Illinois added
Rudy Giuliani engaged in back-channel talks with Venezuela: report
Shira Tarlo
Giuliani was allegedly involved in effort to convince Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to leave office
Countries to watch in 2020, from Chile to Afghanistan
Catesby Holmes
Here are five momentous global stories to track in 2020.
The real lesson of Afghanistan is that regime change does not work
Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies
The debacle in Afghanistan is only one case in a fundamentally flawed U.S. policy with worldwide consequences
Impeachment in an alternate universe: Will Ralph Nader’s “missing” charges haunt America’s future?
Paul Rosenberg
Ralph Nader proposes a sweeping 12-count impeachment that covers Trump's many crimes — and those that preceded him
Trump administration opposes Graham’s Russia sanctions bill after meeting with Kremlin official
Igor Derysh
The news arrives exactly one week after Trump met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in the Oval Office
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