Wednesday, January 8, 2025

■ Today's Top News 


Amid LA Inferno, Home Insurers Under Fire for Policy Cancellations

One observer said it "really feels like the climate crisis is putting the home insurance industry on a fast track to being almost as reviled as the health insurance industry."

By Brett Wilkins



Seeking 'Better Future,' Kentucky EV Battery Workers File for Election to Join UAW

"We're forming our union so we can have a say in our safety and our working conditions," said one worker.

By Jake Johnson



'Outrageous': NYT Rejects Paid Ad From Quakers That Calls Israeli Attack on Gaza 'Genocide'

"Palestinians and allies have been silenced and marginalized in the media for decades as these institutions choose silence over accountability," said the secretary-general of the American Friends Service Committee.

By Eloise Goldsmith



New Tracker Spotlights Corporate Criminals Trump Could Let Off the Hook

Out of nearly 200 companies currently facing federal investigations and cases, a third of them have connections to President-elect Donald Trump, according to a Public Citizen analysis.

By Jake Johnson



DOJ Plans to Release Jack Smith's Report on Trump Election Case

The attorney general intends to withhold the classified documents report while a related legal battle plays out but make it available to certain members of Congress, according to a court filing.

By Jessica Corbett



'This Is Unprecedented': Several Horrific Wildfires Ravage Los Angeles

"There is no 'firefighting' in these kinds of conditions," said one meteorologist. "There is only saving as many lives as possible and getting the heck out of the fire's way."

By Jake Johnson


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■ Opinion


Beware the Faux Populism of Corporate Democrats​

For the Democrats to become a truly populist party, an entirely new wave of working-class candidates must come to the fore. But that won't just happen. A movement must be built and harnessed.

By Les Leopold


Harris, Trudeau, and the Fall of Our Noeliberal Saviors

What is that lesson that corporate-friendly so-called "centrists" refuse to learn? That you cannot save democracy while preserving the very economic and political arrangements that have hollowed it out.

By Peter Bloom


What the Palestinian Rights Movement Must Do as Trump Returns

The U.S. movement must be as resolute as the Palestinians themselves, who have demonstrated that, no matter what Israel does to destroy them, they remain determined to resist.

By Medea Benjamin