Dems Detail 'Catastrophic' Costs If GOP Hostage-Takers Force US Default: "House Republicans' approach is dangerous and destabilizing ...
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'Never Seen Anything Like This': US Librarians Report Book Bans Reached Record High in 2022
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Sanders Introduces Bill to Ban Bank Execs From Fed Boards: "The CEOs of the largest banks in America should not be allowed to serve as directors of the main ...
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As Ramadan Begins, Ilhan Omar Introduces House Resolution to Condemn Islamophobia
commondreams.org/news/ilhan-omar-islamophobia-bill
Consumer Advocates Applaud as Federal Court 'Yet Again' Finds CFPB's Funding Constitutional
commondreams.org/news/cfpb-funding-constitutional
Calls to 'Fight Back' Grow as Medicaid Cliff and GOP Attacks Threaten Coverage for Millions
commondreams.org/news/medicaid-cliff-gop-attacks
NLRB Says Amazon Illegally Union-Busted by Limiting Worker Access to Warehouses: "People should be outraged that Amazon feels that the law doesn't apply ...
commondreams.org/news/amazon-off-duty-access-policy
Cancer Patients Challenge Biden Admin's Refusal to Lower Price of Lifesaving Drug
commondreams.org/news/appeal-biden-becerra-hhs-nih-march-in-rights-xtandi
Climate Advocates Call Out House GOP Push to Fast-Track Mountain Valley Pipeline: "Time and time again the people have risen up against the backroom deals ...
commondreams.org/news/mountain-valley-pipeline-house-republicans
Activists, Progressive US Lawmakers Oppose 'Xenophobic' TikTok Ban: "If you think the U.S. needs a TikTok ban and not a comprehensive privacy law ...
commondreams.org/news/ban-tiktok
Manhattan DA Accuses House GOP of 'Unlawful Incursion' Into Trump Probe: The office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Thursday accused House ...
commondreams.org/news/manhattan-da-gop-unlawful-incursion
Biden, Congress, and Nuclear Disarmament Leadership: It's time to chart a new path before disaster strikes. Congress and the Biden administration need to ...
commondreams.org/opinion/congress-and-nuclear-disarmament-leadership
Tlaib Revives Bill to Remove Medically Necessary Debt From Credit Reports: Americans owe nearly $200 billion in collective medical debt, around $88 billion of ...
commondreams.org/news/medical-debt-credit-report
Blowing Out the Candles in Iraq: We're talking about murdering children, for God's sake, annihilating a social structure, driving millions of people out ...
commondreams.org/opinion/pain-suffering-iraq-war
Critics Say DeSantis Move to Expand 'Don't Say Gay' Exposes Law's True Intentions
commondreams.org/news/desantis-moves-to-expand-dont-say-gay-law
Why We (Still) Need a Federal Reserve for the People—Not Wall Street: The Fed is a public institution, created by an act of Congress. But the people who are ...
commondreams.org/opinion/federal-reserve-that-serves-people
Medicare Advantage Industry 'Scare Tactics' and Lobbying Intensify Over Efforts to Curb Fraud
commondreams.org/news/medicare-advantage-lobbying-fraud
Democrats Introduce $300B Investment to Treat Housing as Human Right: "In the richest country in the world, it is a moral imperative that we take this issue ...
commondreams.org/news/housing-is-a-human-right
Idaho Hospital Ends All Labor and Delivery Care, Citing Abortion Ban: "Consequences for Idaho physicians providing the standard of care may include civil ...
commondreams.org/news/idaho-hospital-labor-delivery
New Watchdog Project Targets Neoliberal 'Hacks' Posing as Economic Prophets
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UN Urges Global Cooperation as Quarter of Humanity Lacks Safe Drinking Water: "Water is our common future and we need to act together to share it equitably ...
commondreams.org/news/un-report-drinking-water
Our Nation Must Enlist Youth on Mass Scale to Battle Climate Emergency: The point ought not to be the creation of another new non-profit program ...
commondreams.org/opinion/youth-climate-corps-canada
Bernie Sanders Targets Moderna Greed in Covid-19 Vaccine Hearing: "Should people in America and around the world be allowed to get sicker and sometimes die ...
commondreams.org/news/bernie-sanders-moderna-greed
Fears of Monarch Butterfly Extinction as Numbers Plummet 22% in Annual Count: "Despite heroic efforts... we could still lose these extraordinary butterflies ...
commondreams.org/news/monarch-butterflies
Seymour Hersh Accuses US of 'Cover Up' Over Nord Stream Sabotage: The veteran investigative journalist alleged that Biden administration officials have ...
commondreams.org/news/hersh-nord-stream-cover-up
Restarting Michigan Nuclear Power Plant Risks 'Chernobyl-Scale Catastrophe,' Coalition Warns
commondreams.org/news/palisades-nuclear-power-plant
'Shocking and Immoral': Report Details Private Equity's Stranglehold on US Healthcare
commondreams.org/news/private-equity-healthcare
Beware This Libertarian Oligarch's Ecological Utopia in Texas: Even as one arm of Elon Musk's empire was extolling his vision of a Garden of Eden ...
commondreams.org/opinion/elon-musk-texas-ecological-utopia
'We Are Starbucks': Workers Strike Nationwide Ahead of Shareholder Meeting
commondreams.org/news/starbucks-workers-strike-shareholder-meeting
Bankers Applaud as GOP Senator Dismisses Calls for Regulations After SVB Collapse
commondreams.org/news/bankers-applaud-republican-regulations
Water's Moment: Advancing the Human Right to Water in the United States: Water isn't a commodity to be sold to only those that can pay ...
commondreams.org/opinion/drinking-water-as-a-human-right
Enlisting Students in the Fight for Healthier Online Public Spaces: What might it look like if students could learn about their digital spaces while at the same ...
commondreams.org/opinion/safe-spaces-online-for-kids
Why We Can't Just Do It: The Truth About Our Failure to Curb Carbon Emissions
commondreams.org/opinion/failure-to-curb-emissions
'Beautiful': Minnesota Becomes 4th State to Provide Free School Meals to All Kids
commondreams.org/news/minnesota-universal-free-school-meals
'Climate Homicide': Experts Say Big Oil Should Be Held Criminally Liable for Disaster Deaths
commondreams.org/news/climate-homicide-big-oil-disaster-deaths
Senior Climate Activists Rally Across US to 'Stop Dirty Banks': "We will not go to our graves quietly knowing that the financial institutions in our ...
commondreams.org/news/senior-climate-activists-stop-dirty-banks
Curbing Bad Behavior of Bank CEOs Isn't as Hard as They Make It Seem: Dodd-Frank includes Wall Street pay restrictions that could've held executives like ...
commondreams.org/opinion/curbing-big-bank-ceo-greed
New Biden Monument Designations Don't Make Up for Disastrous Willow Approval: Critics
commondreams.org/news/national-monuments-willow
Investigation Belies UK Claim That No Civilians Were Killed in Iraq-Syria Bombings
commondreams.org/news/british-airstrikes-islamic-state
The Fed Now Has Another Reason to Halt Anti-Worker Rate Hikes: The debate over the Federal Reserve’s proper course of action for the rest of 2023 was getting a ...
commondreams.org/opinion/banking-crisis-federal-reserve-rates
Demanding Respect for All School Workers, LA Teachers Shut Down 2nd-Largest School District in US
commondreams.org/news/los-angeles-schools-shut-down
UK Stokes Health, Nuclear Fears With Decision to Send Ukraine Depleted Uranium Shells
commondreams.org/news/depleted-uranium-ukraine
British Head of Deep Sea Authority Accused of Pushing for 'Reckless' Mining
commondreams.org/news/seabed-authority-deep-sea-mining
Critics Warn Another Fed Rate Hike Would Be the 'Straw That Breaks the Camel's Back'
commondreams.org/news/fed-rate-hike-economic-crisis
Court Rules Greta Thunberg, Others Can Sue Sweden for 'Insufficient Climate Policy'
commondreams.org/news/sweden-greta-thunberg-climate-case
'Appalling': Biden Administration Declines to Force Big Pharma to Cut Price of Prostate Cancer Drug
commondreams.org/news/march-in-rights-xtandi
Senate Dems Urge Treasury Chief to Crack Down on Rich Tax Dodgers: "The Treasury Department can and should exercise the full extent of its regulatory ...
commondreams.org/news/yellen-treasury-rich-tax-dodgers
In America's Creed, Blessed Are the Warmakers: The real needs of humanity haven’t changed since Ike's time. Whether in 1953 or 2023 ...
commondreams.org/opinion/pentagon-budget-blessed-are-the-warmakers
Biden DOL Praised for Historic Suit Over Using Debt Threat to Stop Workers From Quitting
commondreams.org/news/biden-labor-advanced-care-staffing
Making Sense of the Latest Global Banking Crisis: The latest debacle in the financial system will likely worsen stagflation and possibly tip the U.S ...
commondreams.org/opinion/latest-global-banking-crisis-explained
From Mass Evictions to Education Cuts, Dem Warns GOP Austerity Would Cause 'Irreparable Damage'
commondreams.org/news/gop-austerity-irreparable-damage
Reckless Capitalist Banks Rescued by Government Socialism – Again!: The financial system gets another bailout.
commondreams.org/opinion/socialism-for-wall-street
'An Act of Climate Denial': Biden Faces Anti-Willow Protests After IPCC Report
commondreams.org/news/biden-willow-protests-ipcc
Smotrich Condemned for Genocidal 'No Such Thing as Palestinians' Comment: The "only difference between Smotrich and 'liberals' is that ...
commondreams.org/news/smotrich-palestinians-comments
Climate Groups Reject 'Risky, Untested' Technofixes in IPCC Report: "Solving the climate crisis is not about what works on paper but what delivers in ...
commondreams.org/news/ipcc-carbon-capture-removal
Learning the Climate Lesson of Pine 58: Why this senior climate scientist finds hope in the trees.
commondreams.org/opinion/climate-lesson-of-giant-trees
War Is the Ultimate Failure: War is immoral, illegal, and just downright impractical. War doesn't work.
commondreams.org/opinion/war-is-the-ultimate-failure-of-diplomacy
It Is Time for a National Reckoning About the Iraq War: Twenty years ago, the U.S. destroyed Iraq with an invasion that also constituted an attack on the very ...
commondreams.org/opinion/it-is-time-for-a-national-reckoning-about-the-iraq-war
Analysis Warns 'Punitive' Republican Attacks on SNAP Could Take Food Aid From 10 Million+
commondreams.org/news/republican-attacks-snap-10-million
It Wasn't Just "For Oil." The Iraq War Was Something Even Worse: Out of all the "troublemakers" to make an example of, Iraq in 2003 had the ...
commondreams.org/opinion/iraq-invasion-not-just-for-oil
20 Years Later, the Stain of Corporate Media's Role in Promoting Iraq War Remains
commondreams.org/news/media-coverage-iraq-war
Bailing Out the Undeserving Rich—Again: Wealth creates power; power creates more wealth. Unattended, this can become a vicious cycle.
commondreams.org/opinion/bailing-out-the-rich
Seniors to Bolster Youth-Led Climate Strikes With Day of Action Against Dirty Banks
commondreams.org/news/third-act-day-of-action
Calls Mount for US to Provide Free School Meals to All Children: "Hiving off a tiny part of the public school bundle and charging a means-tested fee for it ...
commondreams.org/news/universal-free-school-meals-congress
Demanding Swift Action, UN Chief Calls IPCC Report a 'Survival Guide for Humanity'
commondreams.org/news/guterres-ipcc-survival-guide-humanity
'The Fight Continues' in France as Macron Government Survives No-Confidence Vote
commondreams.org/news/france-protests-2659625188
How Americans Learned to Stop Worrying and Forgot the Bomb: Where in the world is Dr. Strangelove when you need him.
commondreams.org/opinion/dr-strangelove-nuclear-ukraine
Tens of Thousands of LA Teachers to Strike in Solidarity With Support Workers: "How do we properly service our students when we are being overworked and ...
commondreams.org/news/los-angeles-teachers-strike
'We Have a Choice Here to Act': IPCC Report to Sound Dire Warning on Climate
commondreams.org/news/ipcc-report-dire-warning
Change is Coming to the United Auto Workers: Reformer Shawn Fain is poised to upset incumbent Ray Curry in the runoff election for the UAW presidency.
commondreams.org/opinion/united-auto-workers-election-shawn-fain
The World Needs Just Green Trade, Not 'Free Trade': Corporations are using trade and investment treaties to handcuff global and national efforts to save ...
commondreams.org/opinion/just-green-trade-not-free-trade
Warren Demands Probe Into Bank Failures, Urges Biden to Fire Powell: Jerome Powell "has failed," said Sen. Elizabeth Warren. "I don't think he ...
commondreams.org/news/warren-wants-biden-to-fire-powell-fed
Cutting Medicare Benefits Will Further Strain Overworked Caregivers: Cuts will only make a hard job infinitely harder by limiting resources and expanding the ...
commondreams.org/opinion/medicare-caregivers-for-seniors
Manhattan DA: Trump's Intimidation Efforts Won't Be Tolerated: Alvin Bragg's comments came after Trump urged his supporters to "protest" and ...
commondreams.org/news/manhattan-da-trump-intimidation
Climate Policy's on Shaky Ground in the Farm Bill: As the struggle against fossil fuels carries on in our states and communities, the quest for serious ...
commondreams.org/opinion/farm-bill-climate-ecological-renewal
We Need a National Strategy on Whale Ship Strikes: International law recognizes the interest of nations in protection of its living marine resources ...
commondreams.org/opinion/preventing-whale-ship-strikes
It's Clear the GOP Is a Party of Death, Not Life: Here's a very long list that proves it.
commondreams.org/opinion/gop-is-the-party-of-death
Trumpism Still Rules the GOP, With or Without Trump: As this year's CPAC conference made clear, there are no moderate Republican presidential candidates.
commondreams.org/opinion/trumpism-dominates-gop
The Illegal Invasion of Iraq: Never Forget: None of us can afford to remain silent or apathetic about the devastation we continue to cause to innocent civilians ...
commondreams.org/opinion/illegal-invasion-of-iraq-never-forget
Uproar in Italy as Fascist Government Attacks Right of Same-Sex Parents to Adopt: "It is an obvious step backwards from a political and social point of view ...
commondreams.org/news/protests-italy-adoption-same-sex-couples
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