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Honoring Ellsberg requires not just recalling him as a historic figure, but carrying on his work and legacy to dismantle the machinery of war that has claimed far too many lives and end its accompanying regime of secrecy.

Dilbert's race problem, how COVID affected the labor market, and more cultural crackups

Reader Comments: GOP War on Women, starting in Texas, Going nationwide; Costs of Post 9/11; Afghan War fallout; Climate Crisis; Jobless Crisis; Nina Turner; Teenage Israeli Conscientious Objectors; Ed Asner; Domestic Workers are Workers; more....

The House passed a bill that sounds good, but doesn’t end Washington's failed, militarized approach or get to root problems.

“In this society, safety and security will not be premised on violence or the threat of violence; it will be based on a collective commitment to guaranteeing the survival and care of all peoples.”

Despite its pledges to aid Central America, the Biden administration continues to deny the United States’ role in destabilizing the region.

We are ANGRY that there is a holiday that glorifies nationalism and patriotism and ignores the trauma that U.S. militarism enacts all over the globe.

Who's getting canceled? The disabled, critical race theory, and more reports from the cultural front

A military is, of course, innately hierarchical, authoritarian, and adversarial, and war, by definition, is terror. There is an inheritance of violence in our increasingly militarized land that ought to concern us all, too.

Why are desperate refugees turning up on the U.S. border? Because we have offloaded the costs of the drug war on Latin America.