By Brett Wilkins / Common Dreams Reports that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer plans to retire prompted progressives Wednesday to urge President Joe Biden to fulfill a campaign promise…
Two months after a Marin County judge ruled that prison officials inflicted cruel and unusual punishment on prisoners at San Quentin State Prison during a COVID-19 outbreak that infected more…
Last Wednesday, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema voted against voting rights. Why?
By rehabilitating neocons and elevating them as thought leaders, liberals live in their framework. Thus are opponents of U.S. involvement in Ukraine deemed treasonous.
By Jessica Corbett / Common Dreams As United Nations officials projected Tuesday that the civilian death toll from the Saudi-led coalition’s strikes on Yemen will break records this month, Oxfam…
The American foreign policy establishment, chasing decades of failures, appears to be seriously considering the unthinkable in Ukraine.
Why did the United States fail so ignominiously in Vietnam? Why did it fail again in Afghanistan? The answers to these two questions turn out to be similar.
The GOP-backed bill comes amid a national upsurge in gun violence.
By Jake Johnson / Common Dreams U.S. President Joe Biden is reportedly weighing a Pentagon proposal to deploy thousands of American troops to the Baltics and Eastern Europe as progressive…
January 22 marked the one year since nuclear weapons were made illegal. Nine nations continue to reject this.
Aside from a 2021 moratorium on federal executions, the Biden administration hasn’t taken any steps to end the practice.
The High Court in London has allowed Julian Assange leave to appeal its own ruling to the U.K. Supreme Court. The High Court ruled in December that Assange can be…
Trusting science should not mean trusting in the benevolence of the ruling class.
The head of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons was forced to step down last week as scandals swept through the vast U.S. prison system.
The Committee plotted with JPMorgan and its lawyer, former Obama AG Loretta Lynch, to obtain a citizen's financial records with no possibility of judicial review.
