Jacobin
- Claire Valdez’s Bold Program for Labor in Congress
Labor law reform. Ending at-will employment. A federal jobs guarantee. A four-day workweek. Guaranteed paid family, medical, and sick leave and vacation. Medicare for All. This list reflects the ambitious, long-standing policy goals of the labor left — goals that many have given up on after decades of demoralizing neoliberalism. It also happens to be
- The Jewish Labor Bund Stood Against Zionism
Jewish Labor Bund groups are springing up throughout the United States and Europe. Until recently, this was a phrase you could only have found in a primary historical document, perhaps a newspaper in 1905. The Jewish Labor Bund, once a collection of anti-Zionist, democratic socialist organizations largely concentrated in Eastern Europe, was all but destroyed
- Trump Officials Built an AI Tool to Turbocharge Deregulation
Trump officials planned to let artificial intelligence software developed by one of Elon Musk’s deregulatory foot soldiers undertake “regulation extermination” and even write new federal statutes, according to newly released government documents reviewed exclusively by the Lever. The documents reveal for the first time how the AI program was pitched to government employees and trained to target certain regulations
- Jean-Paul Marat Was the Prophet of the French Revolution
Until this book by Keith Michael Baker appeared in late 2025, there had been only two English-language biographies of Jean-Paul Marat published in the previous ninety-nine years. As it happens, I am the author of the other two. I find Baker’s work to be an invaluable contribution to the anglophone literature on the history of
- The War in Iran Has Triggered a Helium Crisis
A crucial resource is being choked off from the world amid the ongoing conflict between the United States and Iran — and it’s not oil. It’s helium. The rare, nonrenewable gas is a key ingredient for more than just party balloons. It’s needed for lifesaving medical procedures, groundbreaking research, and the current tech boom underpinning much
The Real News Network
- Virginia voters deal major blow to Trump-GOP ploy to ‘steal the 2026 midterms’
“Virginia voters have spoken, and tonight they pushed back against a president who claims he is ‘entitled’ to more Republican seats in Congress,” said Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger.
- Zionist doxxing campaigns upended their lives. Now they’re suing for damages.
Canary Mission faces a class-action lawsuit under a new Illinois anti-doxxing law.
- Israel is racing to expand West Bank settlements before new political realities end its era of impunity
Israel is approving the construction of new West Bank settlements at an unprecedented rate because it knows its window of impunity is closing — especially if Iran emerges intact from the war and the Republicans lose the U.S. midterms.
The Progressive
- No Place Like Home
‘There Is No Place for Us’ and ‘Placeless’ paired together provide a clear picture of homelessness in the modern age.
- Trump’s High Gas Prices Are No Accident
This administration is doing everything it can to keep Americans hooked on fossil fuels—no matter how dearly it costs working people.
- Community Solar Puts People in Charge
While Team Trump is committed to making the problem of climate change worse, local groups are stepping up to reduce impacts.
Z Network
- How the International Community Obtained a Nuclear Weapons-free Agreement with Iran―And Lost it Thanks to Donald Trump
If the objective of the U.S. war upon Iran is to ensure that that country does not develop nuclear weapons, that goal was attained more than a decade ago through a far different approach than the one now being followed by the Trump administration. Iran, as a signer of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty of 1970,
- Open a Community Center: Reject Digital Culture
In 2016, my best friend, Sergio, and I opened P.A.R.C. (Politics, Art, Roots, Culture), a community and cultural center located in the deindustrialized landscape of Michigan City, Indiana. Like so many towns and cities throughout the Rust Belt, Michigan City was once a vibrant manufacturing hub, where people worked for the railroad companies, steel mills,
- Iran’s 10-Point Plan Is Still a Workable Basis for Negotiations
The US government under Donald Trump has twice used disingenuous negotiations with Iran to provide cover for attacking it, in June 2025 and again before launching the current war in February. Now it is trying to do so for a third time. On April 8, the US and Iran began a two week ceasefire, after
Occupy.com
- Fighting the Corporations that are Killing Our Planet, Part II
In November, Indigenous protests in London included the launch of “Bringing It All Back Home,” confronting corporate power head-on.
FAIR
- ‘The Wayback Machine Has Been the Best Archive for Preserving Our Digital Lives’: CounterSpin interview with Lia Holland on the Internet Archive
"DOGE set a goal of eliminating 20% of government websites, whereas everything that's been deleted now is living in the Wayback Machine."
- ‘It’s All About Keeping Wages at Poverty Levels to Overpay Their CEOs’: CounterSpin interview with Sarah Anderson on poverty wages
"It's our taxpayer money that is going into those public assistance programs that these companies are using to make this model workable."
- Paramount’s Purchase of CNN Heralds a New Trump-Friendly Media Empire
If the Paramount/WBD deal moves forward, Larry and David Ellison would gain control of a vast portfolio spanning legacy media and Big Tech.
Counterpunch
- “Their Chaos is Our Peace”: Fighting Zionist Repression in Texas and Beyond
Last month, on March 24, Idris Robinson, a philosophy professor at Texas State University, filed a lawsuit against the university for wrongful termination and for violating his right to free speech. The University had decided not to renew Robinson’s tenure-track contract – despite his stellar academic reviews – after Zionists pressured the school. The Zionists were playing the same broken record: Robinson was “antisemitic,” and a glorifier of “terrorism,” for supporting the Palestinian liberation struggle. More The post “Their Chaos is Our Peace”: Fighting Zionist Repression in Texas and Beyond appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
- The Constitutional Origins of the War in Iran
Much of the criticism aimed at Trump for taking the United States into the ruinous Iran war concerns his alleged authoritarian departure from constitutional norms. A loud chorus online and in the press denounces him for flouting the Constitution’s separation of powers principle with regard to the provision granting Congress the role of declaring war. That Congress has surrendered this role since World War II suggests that something other than Trumpism bears the responsibility for the imperial presidency under which we now live. This is not to take away from the Trump administration’s unprecedented levels of incompetence and malfeasance. The fundamental problem, however, lies in the Article II qualifications and powers of the presidency in the U.S. Constitution itself. More The post The Constitutional Origins of the War in Iran appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
- A Single Field of Grief: American and Iranian Anti-War Voices
I have sought out the following to show that peace can be mutual across warring sides. The key is not to drift into maudlinness or sentimentality. Across both American and Iranian poetic traditions, anti-war poetry leans towards a few core themes. The dehumanisation of conflict. The grief of survivors. The illusion of glory. And the More The post A Single Field of Grief: American and Iranian Anti-War Voices appeared first on CounterPunch.org.