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Issue: 1054

September 11, 2025

Commentary

Marriage Equality on the Rocks – Inclusion

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

The irony here is that many of the civil rights gains that ascended Thomas to the highest court in the land, he now wants to dismantle.

Overturning marriage equality is now a present threat. Many of the issues both POC and LGBTQI+ Americans confronted in Trump’s first term - health care, unemployment,…

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The War Room

Cartoon

The War Room

By Mark Hurwitt

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Commentary

The Labor Movement Is in a Fight for Its Existence Against a Neofascist Threat

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

For unions to survive, they must embrace antifascism.

In countries across the capitalist world, trade union movements are being challenged to their very core by the growth of right-wing populist and neofascist mass movements.…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

MAGA at the NFL Roundtable: The Scariest Huddle in America

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Together, they turn the NFL into a cultural superweapon: the ultimate crossover event between politics and sports.

The Giants have sold a piece of their pigskin soul to the soulless Koch family. It allowed them to buy into America’s #1 Sunday religion. One…

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Guest Commentary

Europe Does Opposite of Restoring Names to Departments of War

By David Swanson Guest Commentator

If you’re going to claim that war is defensive and necessary, you have to have accepted that some people are inferior creatures with whom one cannot negotiate, who “only understand violence.” You have to pretend that wars happening in people’s cities and villages are on an ancient “battlefield” free of civilians.

The European Commission, far from eager to restore the non-Orwellian name to departments of war - long since rebranded as departments of “defense” - is pushing…

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