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What $1.7 Trillion in Student Debt Looks Like

January 1, 2021

More than other mind-blowing sums. More than $1 million per day since the birth of Jesus.

Do You Love Me?

January 1, 2021

They may not have soul, but they've definitely got moves. The Boston Dynamics menagerie lightens up the New Year.

January 1, 2021

Nuclear Weapons Are Out of Control. But Biden Can Make the World Safer.

Joseph Cirincione The American Prospect

Six ways that Biden can make the world safer in 2021.

January 1, 2021

The Worst Idea of 2020

Brian Resnick Vox

Let “natural herd immunity” as a pandemic relief strategy be extinguished with the end of 2020.

January 1, 2021

The Israeli Nation-State Law Had Its Day in Court

Orly Noy +972 Magazine

During the hearing, the High Court justices saw no problem with demoting the status of Arabic and claimed that 'equality' is something best left for the future.

January 1, 2021

Trump’s Vilest Legacy

Rober Robert Reich

The acceptance of Trump’s behavior by millions of his supporters will be his vilest legacy.

January 1, 2021

The Iranian Ode to Joy

Majid Naficy

The Persian American poet Majid Naficy warns of celebrating a change of regimes too soon.

November 4, 2019

Okinawan People Oppose U.S. Military Base Expansion

Kent Wong Portside

Seven leaders of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, AFL-CIO (APALA) traveled to Okinawa, October 20–24, 2019, to promote friendship between APALA and Okinawan labor and peace organizations.

November 4, 2019

Israel Destroyed Record Number of Palestinian Homes in Jerusalem in 2019

Yumna Patel Mondoweiss

Israel has demolished a record number of homes in occupied East Jerusalem in 2019, the most in the past 15 years, Israeli rights group B’Tselem reported on Thursday.

November 4, 2019

Army Recruitment Now Based on Student Debt

Courage to Resist Courage to Resist

high school students performing exercises

The head of Army Recruiting Command, stated that discussion of the endless wars and potential outcomes “was not really part of the discussion” recruiters are having with high schoolers. Recruiters' new niche: the national student debt crisis.