Published originally at Common Dreams on April 7, 2023 under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license Under fire after reporting offered a detailed look at his decades of billionaire-funded luxury vacations, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas claimed Friday that…

Published originally at Common Dreams on April 7, 2023 under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license The Tennessee Republican Party waited less than 24 hours to start fundraising off the expulsion of two progressive lawmakers from the state House—openly bragging Friday about…

Published originally at Common Dreams on April 7, 2023 under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license Progressives in the U.S. Congress reacted with outrage Thursday after the Republican-dominated Tennessee House voted to expel two lawmakers who joined protesters in demanding gun control…

Published originally at Common Dreams on March 25, 2023 under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license “Your people can’t take it anymore, LordIn exchange for oil and gas they sell our country.” These lines, translated from Portuguese, are from the…

Published originally at Common Dreams on March 25, 2023 under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license The United States is in the middle of a long-overdue resurgence in labor organizing, antipathy to corporate power, and class analysis. This is terrifying…

Published originally at Common Dreams on March 25, 2023 under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license Do you have a friend, maybe an ex-girlfriend or an ex-boyfriend, who won’t stop texting you? Then you know how annoying it is, and…

Published originally at Common Dreams on March 25, 2023 under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license The sun was beating down and my ears were ringing. My hands gripped the megaphone as we chanted, “No more drilling, no more drilling,…

Published originally at Common Dreams on March 25, 2023 under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license It is a pattern we see again and again: New political hopefuls are elected to office espousing progressive values and vowing to challenge the…

Published originally at Common Dreams on March 25, 2023 under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license Union negotiators for about 30,000 school support staffers in California’s Los Angeles County struck a historic deal with the second-largest district in the United…

Published originally at Common Dreams on March 25, 2023 under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on state television Saturday plans to station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus—an escalation anti-war campaigners had been warning about…