Saturday, March 9, 2024
■ The Week in Review
"The work that UNWRA does cannot be overstated," said Canadian lawmaker Salma Zahid. "It will save lives as we have seen the visuals of children dying of hunger in Gaza. The need for immediate aid is non-negotiable."
By Jon Queally • Mar 9, 2024
"Their decision to move forward with a dark-money, Trump donor-funded third-party fantasy bid is shameful and puts millions of Americans at risk," said one opponent.
By Jessica Corbett • Mar 8, 2024
"We will see fatalities, because of what Florida Republicans chose to do this week," said one workers' rights advocate.
By Julia Conley • Mar 8, 2024
"As someone who covers the far-right and the Christian nationalist movement, Sen. Katie Britt's speech was the closest thing to porn they'll consume," wrote one journalist.
By Jake Johnson • Mar 8, 2024
"MAGA House Republicans are demonstrating their hostility to working Americans and retirees," said one critic.
By Jessica Corbett • Mar 7, 2024
"Of course we have the leverage," said Sen. Bernie Sanders. "We are funding the war."
By Jake Johnson • Mar 7, 2024
"When people ask, 'What do you want Joe Biden to do?' the answer is: Stop making these weapons deals," said one campaigner.
By Jake Johnson • Mar 6, 2024
A preliminary investigation by Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor affirmed that bullets that killed and wounded hundreds of Palestinians waiting for food aid are the same type fired by Israeli troops' guns.
By Brett Wilkins • Mar 6, 2024
One commentator argued that while President Joe Biden has "bent over backward to support Israel," Donald Trump would "be even worse."
By Jake Johnson • Mar 6, 2024
Sinema's exit sets up an election between Rep. Ruben Gallego and former television anchor Kari Lake.
By Thor Benson • Mar 5, 2024
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■ Opinion
I have gravitated toward projects for social justice and ecological sustainability because they have provided some meaning in my life, not because I imagined success.
By Robert Jensen • Mar 9, 2024
The Palestinians, facing down the most powerful countries in the world, left virtually alone even by their allies, have suffered immeasurably. But they have won this war.
By Arundhati Roy • Mar 8, 2024
The 9-0 ruling by the Court has empowered MAGA Republicans to continue the lie that their assaults on democracy are done in the name of “election integrity” when we know full well the opposite is true.
By Jeffrey C. Isaac • Mar 8, 2024
Using arcane laws and loopholes, Republican-affiliated groups are challenging the right to vote of thousands of mostly Democratic voters across the states most likely to determine the outcome of the 2024 election.
By Thom Hartmann • Mar 7, 2024
What the Nobel Prize-winning economist and prominent columnist fails to see again and again is that many, if not most, rural mass layoffs in the last four decades, are the result of out-and-out greed by corporate interests and the investor class.
By Les Leopold • Mar 6, 2024
We simply “waited too long,” said ExxonMobil's top executive last week. But never mind, the important thing is that we made “above-average returns.”
By Bill Mckibben • Mar 5, 2024
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