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Argentinian President-Elect Milei Moves to Privatize Energy… and Everything Else

California poet Esther Kamkar speaks about Immigrants, refugees, their perilous conditions In a world of displacement.

Benjamin Netanyahu was given updates from the IDF concerning the possibility of a Hamas attack. He is responsible and also to blame for what happened on that Black Saturday. He failed in his most important duty, to ensure the security of Israelis.

How do we balance our desire to stop the fighting with the need to address the roots of the conflict? For 75 years, diplomats, well-intentioned Israelis and Palestinians and government leaders around the world have struggled to bring peace...

This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of a historic event in Native America, the action at Wounded Knee. What was its significance, and why it still resonate with Native peoples. How it connects with the resistance at the Dakota Access Pipeline.

A new U.N. report sets the stage for high-stakes negotiations at COP28 this month. This is the first-ever “global stocktake” since the Paris Agreement was ratified in 2016. When countries signed on to the international treaty...

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Thanksgiving serves as a reminder of the interconnectedness of our lives with the land and those who cultivate it. As we express gratitude for the abundance before us, it is incumbent upon us to advocate for policies that sustain our food system.

The fight over OpenAI was at least partly about dueling visions of artificial intelligence. One side clearly won out.

“These days Israeli citizens who are showing the slightest sentiment for the people of Gaza, opposing killing of innocent civilians, they are being politically persecuted, they go through public shaming, they lose their jobs, they are put in jail."