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The International Olympics Committee Is Urged to Drop Oil Company Sponsors
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (298+ words) Global warming means the future of Winter Games "is literally melting away." From Minneapolis to Venezuela, from Gaza to Washington, DC, this is a time of staggering chaos, cruelty, and violence." Unlike other publications that parrot the views of authoritarians,…...
The End of Arms Control?
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (714+ words) For the first time, we will live in a world without constraints on the US-Russian nuclear arsenal. "If it expires, it expires" is a reasonable way to manage a week-old gallon of milk'not a treaty designed to stave off a…...
Trump's Denunciations of the Iranian Killings Are Pure Hypocrisy
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (367+ words) The arbitrary arrests and killings committed by agents of Trump's authoritarian-style rule differ only in number, not in kind, from those in Iran. Donald Trump gestures while speaking during an executive order signing event in the Oval Office of the…...
A Grieving Planet
2+ day, 20+ min ago (186+ words) From Minneapolis to Venezuela, from Gaza to Washington, DC, this is a time of staggering chaos, cruelty, and violence." Unlike other publications that parrot the views of authoritarians, billionaires, and corporations, The Nation publishes stories that hold the powerful to…...
Trump’s Oily Attack on Venezuela
2+ day, 21+ min ago (158+ words) From Minneapolis to Venezuela, from Gaza to Washington, DC, this is a time of staggering chaos, cruelty, and violence." Unlike other publications that parrot the views of authoritarians, billionaires, and corporations, The Nation publishes stories that hold the powerful to…...
Why We’re Still Fighting Over Elgin’s Marbles
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (338+ words) In A.E. Stallings's Frieze Frame, the poet retells the many conflicts, political and cultural, the ransacked portion of the Parthenon has inspired. Sir William Gell (British, 17741836), The Removal of the Sculptures from the Pediments of the Parthenon by Lord Elgin, 1801, watercolor…...
Get Ready for This Year’s Undemocratic, Debt-Ridden, and Mobster-Infused Winter Olympics
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (452+ words) ICE thugs in the streets, Mafia meddling, and billions in waste'seems like the Games are off to a great start. People take part in a demonstration against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement ahead of the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Games in…...
Democrats Need to Get Serious About Stopping Trump From Rigging the Midterms
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (542+ words) Here's one idea for a coordinated response to Trump's coordinated attacks. A voter receives a ballot. And that's not all the SAVE Act does. The act requires regular "purges" of voting rolls, so people who don't vote every election cycle'who,…...
Childcare Providers Around the Country Are Being Targeted by Vigilante Surveillance
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (635+ words) In response to bogus allegations of fraud in Minnesota, strangers are filming them, knocking on their doors, demanding to be let in. It's scaring parents and costing providers. Children read at ABC Learning Center Inc. in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Tuesday,…...
Mamdani Touts a Stunning View of the City, but Struggles to Clear the Sidewalks
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (489+ words) The New York mayor is opening the roof of the David N. Dinkins Municipal Building to the public, but has plenty of work ahead to make the city below more affordable and accessible. The view of south Manhattan from the roof…...