Jacobin
- Trump’s SEC May Tee Up a Repeat of the 2008 Financial Crisis
Amid aggressive bank lobbying and President Donald Trump’s deregulatory efforts, one of the core financial products that led to millions of foreclosures during the Great Recession is being quietly readied for a comeback — even as economic and climate conditions make its return all the more destabilizing. In September, the US Securities and Exchange Commission
- Fifty Years Ago, the Supreme Court Said Money Is Speech
Last week marked the fifty-year anniversary of the US Supreme Court decision enshrining the absurd idea that money in politics is not corruption, but constitutionally protected speech. As the Lever unearthed in our recent audio series and book Master Plan, that once radical concept was pioneered by soon-to-be federal judge Ralph Winter and a young
- Minneapolis City Councilor Robin Wonsley on Fighting ICE
Robin Wonsley is the Minneapolis City Council member for Ward Two, the council’s minority leader, and leader of Minneapolis’s Democratic Socialist Caucus. Her reelection made her the first city council leader to represent a bloc of democratic socialists in the city’s history, just days before the full onset of the Trump administration’s occupation. Jacobin recently
- What New York Tenants Are Building Beyond the Courtroom
For months, tenants in dozens of rent-stabilized buildings owned by Pinnacle Group tried to do something New York housing law almost never permits: stop their landlord from selling their homes to another speculative owner. They organized across buildings, formed what became a tenants’ union across Pinnacle’s real estate portfolio, staged protests, and went to court.
- Single-Payer Champion Abdul El-Sayed Is Running for Senate
Apart from Bernie Sanders, few public figures stump more often and more energetically for single-payer health care than physician-turned-public-servant Dr Abdul El-Sayed. El-Sayed is now campaigning to become Michigan’s next US senator. In his recent endorsement, Sanders cited El-Sayed’s experience as a physician and epidemiologist as to why he is uniquely suited to address the
Dissident Voice
- A Man’s Worth
Author’s note: This piece is dedicated to the memory of Angie Tibbs, who was a dear friend and also my editor at DV for many years. Her light still shines in the souls of the justice seekers and the peace makers to light our way through these dark times. It is easier for a camel The post A Man’s Worth appeared first on Dissident Voice.
- Practicing Vulnerability: A Black Man’s Struggle toward Understanding and Belonging
From an early age, most boys absorb the message—whether stated directly or modeled by the men and women in their lives—that to be a man is to be tough. I learned that early. In my household, crying got me grounded or spanked, or both. And, of course, I was expected not to cry about the The post Practicing Vulnerability: A Black Man’s Struggle toward Understanding and Belonging appeared first on Dissident Voice.
- For All of Us to Live Free, Capitalism–Not Just ICE–Must Die
“The Dirty Business of MAGA” “The Dirty Business of Tech Fascism” The Dirty Business of Billionaires” “The Dirty Business of Axis of Evil: Israel/USA” “The Dirty Business of ICE’s Slave Patrol Roots” “The Dirty Business of Israelization of the World” The phrase “our American Israel” comes from a Puritan expression of colonial American exceptionalism. In The post For All of Us to Live Free, Capitalism–Not Just ICE–Must Die appeared first on Dissident Voice.
Mother Jones
- Federal Judge Calls Out the Racism of Trump Admin’s Plan to End TPS for Haitians
A federal judge issued a last-minute temporary stay on Monday to block the Trump administration’s attempt to remove temporary legal protections for up to 350,000 Haitian immigrants across the United States. In a brutal 83-page takedown, Judge Ana C. Reyes of the US District Court for DC specifically laid into a December X post from
- Snowstorms Are Hell for Wheelchair Users—But They Don’t Have to Be
It took over a week for Mia Ives-Rublee, a wheelchair user and senior director of the Center for American Progress’s disability justice initiative, to be able to move more than a block past her home after one of the country’s most extensive winter storms in years hit her home of Washington, DC, at the end
- What a Former Undercover FBI Agent Sees in the Pretti Shooting Videos
Videos of the killing of Alex Pretti by federal agents last Saturday ricocheted around the world, allowing ordinary viewers to see for themselves, second by second, how the deadly skirmish unfolded. The video evidence from the scene immediately shredded the Trump administration’s claims, which smeared Pretti as a “domestic terrorist” and a “would-be assassin.” Senior
- Trump’s War on History
On a June afternoon in Washington, swarms of mosquitoes were feasting on thousands of Americans as they watched a military parade roll past the National Mall. It was the US Army’s 250th birthday, which also happened to be President Donald Trump’s 79th, and the MAGA-heavy crowd watched the procession trudge down Constitution Avenue, largely silent
- From Prison to a Preschool
This story was co-published with The 74, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on education in America. It was January 2022, and Rhian Allvin was in search of a space that could bring her vision to life. The early childhood leader had just finished up her nearly decade-long tenure as CEO of the National Association for
The Real News Network
- Poisoned, exploited, abandoned: East Palestine, OH, three years later
Opportunistic politicians, sensationalist media outlets, class action attorneys—residents affected by the 2023 Norfolk Southern train derailment and chemical disaster have been exploited by everyone and helped by hardly anyone.
- ‘My home is making me sick’: East Palestine residents abandoned after train derailment
“You can never describe in words the feeling of what Norfolk Southern has taken away from not only me, but the residents and the community members that have been affected by this train derailment.”
- Class action granted: Angola prisoners head to trial over slave labor
A US District Court has certified a class action for incarcerated men at Angola Prison who are forced to perform punitive farm labor under extreme, unconstitutional conditions.
The Progressive
- How Street-Level Direct Action Is Challenging Trump’s Authoritarianism
Community-based rapid response networks and irreverent performers are disrupting ICE at the source.
- Teaching Students About Environmental Injustice and Solidarity
Lessons regarding climate change need a labor lens.
- Save Social Security? Don’t Bet on It
Addressing the program’s funding shortfall would require either making the rich pay more or having others get less.
Z Network
- IDF Accepts Gaza Ministry of Health’s Death Toll: Why Now, and What Do the Numbers Mean?
Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on January 29 that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), Israel’s military, have for the first time accepted the Gaza Ministry of Health’s (GMoH) estimate of 71,622 deaths of Palestinians (as of January 27, 2026) since the genocide began on October 7, 2023. In addition, 171,428 people have been reported as injured. Israel has
- Trump Needs to Say “Da” to Putin on New START, Or Risk a New Arms Race
Among the critical issues facing our country today, nuclear arms control is seldom top of mind for most people, understandably, given our myriad political, social and economic crises. Recent books and films such as Annie Jacobsen’s 2004 non-fiction tome Nuclear War: A Scenario and last fall’s A House of Dynamite, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, garnered needed attention for
- Thailand General Election 2026
As Thailand goes to the polls, three visions compete: one which experiments in strange new populist economics, one which critiques from the seminar room, and one paying to keep the countryside quiet. In the Thai election, scheduled for 8 February, we can see the Global South’s political laboratory in microcosm. Today’s landscape is a three-way
Occupy.com
- Can the UK Green Party Surge Match Mamdani’s NYC Earthquake?
To truly challenge Reform, Labour and the British establishment, the Greens will need to harness their increasing membership and work alongside social movements.
Counterpunch
- King of the World – Trump and the Art of Exploitation
In 2024, the Senate passed a bipartisan immigration and security bill negotiated by Republican Senator James Langford of Oklahoma. The $118 billion package allocated $60 billion to Ukraine defense, and over $20 billion to DHS for border security enforcement, including detention facilities, personnel, technology, and asylum processing. Pressured by Donald Trump, the bill was voted More The post King of the World – Trump and the Art of Exploitation appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
- Church Disruptions are Justified
Don Lemon, a high-profile personality, was arrested on orders from US Attorney Pam Bondi, accusing him of violating the Federal Civil Rights of worshippers. Don Lemon, an independent journalist, followed protesters into [ . . . ] The post Church Disruptions are Justified appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
- The Government’s Long War on Free Speech
Americans suffer in large part because we don’t know our government‘s history, because we don’t care about that history. We root for our teams and we don’t notice or care until it’s too late. What we are watching play out today is an upshot of the fathomless ignorance and apathy of Americans who treat politics More The post The Government’s Long War on Free Speech appeared first on CounterPunch.org.