Published originally at Common Dreams on March 23, 2023 under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by another quarter point yesterday, despite recent bank failures that undermined public faith in the financial system. The…

Published originally at Common Dreams on March 23, 2023 under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license This week marked the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. The war left at least 800,000 to 1.1 million Iraqis dead, and…

Published originally at Common Dreams on March 23, 2023 under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license I read the news—invasion of Iraq! twentieth anniversary!—and struggle to transcend the abstraction of my remorse. A million killed? Half a million? The mortality…

Published originally at Common Dreams on March 23, 2023 under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license President Vladimir Putin’s recent announcement that Russia was suspending its participation in the New START Treaty—the last remaining nuclear arms control agreement between the…

Published originally at Common Dreams on March 23, 2023 under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license Two days after President Joe Biden’s administration rejected a petition asking federal regulators to use their authority to lower the astronomical price of a lifesaving prostate…

Published originally at Common Dreams on March 23, 2023 under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license In the wake of numerous studies and investigations detailing the staggering level of fraud in the privately run Medicare Advantage program, the Biden administration proposed a new rule…

Published originally at Common Dreams on March 23, 2023 under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who established the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in 2010, was among the consumer advocates celebrating on Thursday as a federal court…

Published originally at Common Dreams on March 23, 2023 under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license As congressional Democrats launch new clean energy and environmental justice efforts, House Republicans outraged climate campaigners and frontline communities on Thursday with a move…

Published originally at Common Dreams on March 21, 2023 under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license A Swedish court on Tuesday ruled that hundreds of youth climate activists including Greta Thunberg can collectively sue Sweden for the government’s “insufficient climate policy.”  More than 600…

Published originally at Common Dreams on March 16, 2023 under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday kept in place a preliminary injunction against Florida GOP policymakers’ school censorship law in what…