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The spending priorities Biden listed in his State of the Union speech don’t match reality. It’s time to invest in the people of this country.
Billionaire donations mostly ignore global pandemic, ecological crisis, spiraling wage and wealth inequality, and racial inequity.
Vladimir Putin is the Franco of today, and Ukraine must become the graveyard of Putinism.
An attempted assassination, criminalization, and violent eviction in 2014 didn’t stop the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya in Guatemala.
The president’s SOTU address tasked Congress with an ambitious agenda, but Biden needs to do much more on his own.
Every war eventually ends with diplomacy. The question is how long the killing goes on before the diplomats stop it.
India’s economic and energy production model is not a threat to the world, but it is a threat to India itself, particularly its most marginalized people.
Another reminder that plutocracies can indeed solve problems — for plutocrats.
There’s no “national interest” worth risking nuclear conflict. But urgent diplomacy and humanitarian aid — and Russia’s own antiwar movement — could stop the suffering.
Strong jobs numbers are not enough. The president should keep pushing a bold legislative agenda while deploying every executive tool at his disposal to achieve a more equitable economy.