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Tuesday, August 27, 2024

■ Today's Top News 


After Immunity Ruling, Trump Indicted Again for Trying to Reverse 2020 Election

"Congratulations to Donald Trump on being the historic first-ever major party presidential nominee to be indicted after the convention," quipped one observer.

By Brett Wilkins



To Defeat Trump, Sunrise Mobilizes to Reach 1.5M Young Voters in Swing States

"Young climate voters could decide this election," a leader of Sunrise said.

By Edward Carver



JEC Report Details 'Radical' Project 2025 Plan to Crush Climate, Education, and Healthcare

"If Republicans get their way, low-income children will go hungry, seniors will be forced to choose between lifesaving medication and putting food on the table, and the planet our kids inherit will be in jeopardy."

By Jessica Corbett



Blasting US 'Recklessness,' Mexico Pauses Embassy Relations Over Judicial Reform Meddling

"They have to learn to respect Mexico's sovereignty," Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said of the U.S. and Canada after their ambassadors weighed in on his controversial proposal.

By Brett Wilkins



Bernie Sanders: 'No, Kamala Harris Is Not More Progressive Than I Am'

In a note to supporters, the Vermont senator rebutted former President Donald Trump's claim that the Democratic nominee was the country's "most liberal senator."

By Jake Johnson



'Devastating Blow': Trump-Appointed Judge Halts Protections for Undocumented Spouses

One advocate called the ruling "a direct assault on the integrity of immigrant families and the principles of fairness and compassion that our nation should uphold."

By Julia Conley


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■ Opinion


Discovering Intelligence in Unexpected Places

If our human intelligence has discerned over thousands of years which plants are edible and nutritious and healing, wouldn’t the evolutional ingenuity of plants which feed and sustain us and all life also constitute intelligence?

By H. Patricia Hynes


On the Distortions and Distractions of the Democratic National Circus

In the crazy, refracted light of bent and broken images, Kamala Harris can simultaneously be part of the administration sending billions of dollars of weaponry to the IDF, and also grieve for those innocents crushed under Gazan rubble.

By Phil Wilson


Why Are Liberal Zionists Cheering as Harris Echoes Biden on Gaza?

J Street is eager to define the limits of acceptable criticism of Israeli government policies from the Democratic Party establishment—setting aside human rights as secondary to the mantra of Israel’s “right to exist.”

By Abba Solomon