Common Dreams

Trump and Republicans don’t want mail-in voting this November because it blows up a couple of their most effective voter suppression schemes. In presidential elections dating back to 2000, there’s been noticeable media coverage of long lines in majority-black precincts; commentators sometimes wonder out loud why people would have to wait in line 8 hours to vote in, for example, inner city Ohio in 2004 or Milwaukee in the 2020 primaries.

People being killed by wildfires in California and people dying because they can’t afford their insulin are the same thing.

The destruction of the middle class is destroying democracies and paving the way for authoritarian rule.

It’s looking more and more like the endgame here for Trump—and the right-wing billionaires who support him and the GOP—is not just to get reelected, but to actually rewrite our Constitution and end the American experiment

And no, the nation will not just "bounce back" once Trump is gone

The Republican Party's attack on women's reproductive rights has put the nation on a terrifying path

We should talk about and prepare against any drastic measures from war to martial law Trump may undertake to escape his crises.

Occam’s Razor

Now might be a really good time to examine the origins and nature of the whole right-wing collusion between business and government

We already knew that the Trans Pacific Partnership is a threat to our jobs, our civil rights, and our national sovereignty, and now we know it's also a danger to our environment. On Wednesday, Wikileaks published a leaked version of the environmental chapter of the TPP, and it's just another example of putting corporate power ahead of public interest.