Beyond his blustering suggestions and jokes that he should run Venezuela, Trump and US sanctions have actually played a ...

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Postmaster General David Steiner drew the ire of Democratic senators and voting rights advocates on Wednesday when he said that the US Postal Service would not deliver mail-in ballots in states that ...

Rep. Summer Lee says the oligarchy's ability to pour unlimited funding into elections has already eroded democracy to the ...

The U.S. and Iran have reportedly signed a deal to open the Strait of Hormuz and to begin negotiations to end the war. It is ...

“For decades, he preached that the self-interest of the predator was the invisible hand of the common good,” Yanis Varoufakis said after the man who led the US central bank under four presidents died ...

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This story originally appeared in Professor Glenn Diesen’s Substack on May 31, 2026. This transcript of his conversation has been lightly edited for clarity and is shared here with permission. Glenn ...

“This idea that you’re trying to gain popular consent, you’re trying to win elections, you’re trying to create coalitions by promising a certain degree of force exercised against a target population,” ...

This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on June 15, 2026. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. A few days after US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ...