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Missing Voices in Broadcast Coverage of Afghan Withdrawal
Just as they did when the war began (Extra!, 11–12/01), corporate journalists overwhelmingly leaned on government and military sources, while offering no clear antiwar voices and vanishingly few perspectives from civil society leaders in e…
The China Initiative, a Flawed and dysfunctional Policy
PEACE VOICE - President Biden is continuing the disengagement policy toward China that began under Donald Trump, with strong bipartisan sup…
Women’s Rights: Afghanistan and Beyond
PEACE VOICE - Suddenly there’s major concern across the country — from the mainstream media to every last rock-ribbed Republican — for the…
Taliban Cops vs American Cops, Who’s Worse?
HUMAN RIGHTS - Journalism needs a new rule. Are you reporting about a human rights violation in another country? If the United States commi…
Texas sues Biden admin for the First Amendment right to misgender trans people while they work
LGBTQ NATION - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) has filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (…
Ain’t Gonna Study War No More
COMMENTARY-I’m going to lay down my sword and shield. . . So why can’t today’s politicians take that to heart?
Did the Media Lose Their Minds Attacking Biden Over Ending the Afghanistan War?
EASTSIDER - Almost everyone witnessed the news media attacks on Joe Biden as he sought to end the 20-year war in Afghanistan.
How Corporations Won the War on Terror
COMMENTARY - The costs and consequences of America’s twenty-first-century wars have by now been well-documented — a staggering $8 trillion…
Like FDR, Biden Should Welcome Special Interests Hatred
COMMENTARY - FDR understood that we must fight for what we believe in and not worry about angering powerful special interests.
And Then There Were Guys On Horseback: We Have Not Yet Forgiven Haiti For Being Black
IMMIGRATION WATCH - For up to 15,000 heartsick Haitians languishing in fear, thirst, hunger and 100-degree temperatures under a bridge in D…
What the Expanded Child Tax Credit Means to Me
COMMENTARY - I remember finding out I was about to become a mother. I felt the fear taking hold of me. My brain stopped. I remember crying…
A national rite of passage: Beyond war
WORDS ON WAR - A recent New York Times op-ed was perhaps the strangest, most awkward and tentative defense of the military-industrial compl…
Protestors at 'Justice for J6' Rally in Washington Were Outnumbered by Police and Members of the Media
DC RALLY - You know what they say: “Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice ... well, you can’t get fooled again.”
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Finally Said Something, and I Wish He’d STFU
SUPREME VIEW - When Clarence Thomas wasn’t working as a mute-ass puppet for former Justice Antonin Scalia, he literally was a real-life mut…
Don’t Breathe on Me, LAPD
COMMENTARY-If the leading cause of death among police is COVID and 20% of the LAPD workforce is requesting exemptions (so they can be more…
Climate Change Is the Symptom, Capitalism Is the Problem
COMMON DREAMS - Too often climate change is reduced to quantification of greenhouse glasses or melting ice caps.
Why University Professors Turn into Raging Developer Stooges (and Sophists) Over Housing
GUEST COMMENTARY-In an op-ed entitled “Why California liberals turn into raging conservatives over housing,”
Lack of Trusted Authority Is Why Covid-19 Is Kicking Our Butts
MEDIA MONOPOLIES-We have faced tough times before. World wars, famines, pandemics, economic ruin.
Judith Butler calls out transphobia as “one of the dominant strains of fascism in our times”
LGBTQ POLITICS - Noted queer academic Judith Butler accused transphobic feminists of allying with fascists in a new interview with The Guar…
This Anti-Democratic, Unconstitutional Filibuster Must Be Destroyed
THE SENATE RULES - You’ve probably been hearing a lot about the filibuster these days. But here’s one thing about this old Senate rule you…
