Independent since 2002 Issue No. 1102 Week of November 7, 2026 Get the free email dispatch →

Issue: 921

July 28, 2022

Color of Law

Republican Candidates Who Believe Trump’s Big Lie Are Winning Primaries

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

These candidates hope to win so they can rig elections and hand the White House back to Trump in 2024. And we can’t let that happen.

More specifically, these GOP foot soldiers for Trump are running for office, especially statewide-level offices such as secretary of state and attorney general that control the…

Continue reading 6 min

Politicians

Cartoon

Politicians

By Mark Hurwitt

Continue reading 1 min

Guest Commentary

UN Nuclear Review: A Prime Time To Stop the New Arms Race

By Marcy Winograd and Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK Guest Commentators

U.S. nuclear “modernization” means the development of new weapon systems with new nuclear warheads and a new arms race.

In the run-up to August’s United Nation’s 10th Annual Review of the landmark Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), a review undertaken every five years, Secretary of State…

Continue reading 6 min

Guest Commentary

Why Trader Joe’s Workers Are Joining the Fight To Unionize

By Sonali Kolhatkar, Independent Media Institute Guest Commentator

Trader Joe’s, like many grocery companies, has thrived during the COVID pandemic, earning $16.5 billion in revenue in 2020. But instead of sharing some of that wealth with workers, the corporate chain continued slashing benefits.

As the giant cuts back benefits after COVID, workers are exposing the big lie that corporations care for 'crew' over profits. There was a big lie…

Continue reading 6 min

Guest Commentary

Goldman Sachs Kept the Lid On Sensitive Sex Bias Filings For Years. Until Now

By Susan Antilla Guest Commentator

From the earliest days of gender discrimination complaints against Wall Street firms in the 1990s, defendant companies have shared a priority focus: Do whatever is necessary to keep complaints — and complainants — quiet.

Over 17 long years — starting long before the #MeToo movement galvanized the nation — one of the most powerful banks in the country has been…

Continue reading 11 min

Sharp n’ Blunt

Right Wing White America and Our Fragile Example of Democracy

By Desi Cortez Columnist

I’m gonna’ try to reignite my fire and rekindle my passion, but I just don’t have much faith in people.

My pops died years ago. I have a micro circle of friends, a pretty good list of acquaintances who I honestly don’t regard as friends -…

Continue reading 5 min

Guest Commentary

White Supremacists Want ‘Their’ Country Back

By Robert C. Koehler, Peace Voice Guest Commentator

America in the early 20th century was the leading racist jurisdiction in the world,”

Is an insurrection percolating in the MAGA universe? A civil war? One thing I notice as I read the growing warnings that this is the case…

Continue reading 5 min

$ $ Contribute $ $