Wednesday, December 4, 2024

■ Today's Top News 


Supreme Court Signals It Will Uphold 'State-Sanctioned Discrimination' in Transgender Care Case

"We the people means all the people," said the ACLU. "There is no 'transgender' exception to the U.S. Constitution."

By Julia Conley



North Carolina Town Sues Utility Giant Over 'Decades of Deception' on Climate

"We have to speak truth to power as we continue to fight the existential threat that is climate change," said the mayor of Carrboro, North Carolina.

By Eloise Goldsmith



Groups Sound Alarm Over Trump Plot to Install Nominees Without Senate Approval

"If you're trying to ram through nominees without Senate and public scrutiny, it's a pretty good guess that you have something to hide."

By Jake Johnson



Humanitarian Groups Dread 2025 Aid Shortfall as Trump Term Looms

"At a time when the richest people on Earth can go to space as a tourist," said one advocate, "it is incomprehensible that we as an international community are unable to find the necessary funding to provide displaced families with shelter."

By Julia Conley



CEO of UnitedHealthcare—Largest Private Insurer in US—Killed in Apparent Targeted Attack

"This does not appear to be a random act of violence," according to the police commissioner.

By Eloise Goldsmith



'Unsettling New Milestone': Top 12 US Billionaires Now Control $2 Trillion in Wealth

"The oligarchic dozen is richer than ever, and they are endowed with extreme material power that can be used to pursue narrow political interests at the expense of democratic majorities," according to the author of a new analysis.

By Eloise Goldsmith


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■ Opinion


Trump Is Likely Plotting to Succeed Where South Korea’s Yoon Failed

Trump’s goal will be to avoid Yoon’s outcome and instead—like Putin and Orbán did in Russia and Hungary—ensure there won’t be any meaningful opposition within the GOP to his most extreme measures when they come.

By Thom Hartmann


What the Biden Admin Can Still Do to Defuse the LNG Bomb Before Trump Grabs the Trigger

At the very least what the administration can and must do is tell the truth: More LNG exports are not in the public interest.

By Bill Mckibben


Why We Need Labor to Go on Offense Under Trump

The best way to expose Trump’s faux populism is by waging large-scale workplace battles that force all politicians to show which side they’re on.

By Chris Bohner,Eric Blanc


Can a Truce in Lebanon Hold and Pave the Way for a Wider Peace?

While hope remains that the agreement in Lebanon might set the stage for a cease-fire in Gaza, Israel’s actions on the ground tell a different story.

By Medea Benjamin,Nicolas J.S. Davies