By Jessica Corbett for Common Dreams The US House of Representatives is set to vote on extending Affordable Care Act subsidies next week, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warned Friday that…
By: Jessica Corbett For Common Dreams Press freedom advocates on Thursday welcomed the New York Times’ lawsuit over the US Department of Defense’s “flatly unconstitutional” press policy, filed on the…
By: Jessica Corbett Published on Common Dreams While continuing to deny that the Pentagon chief ordered those carrying out the first known US military strike on an alleged drug-running boat…
By: Jessica Corbett Original to Common Dreams The 27th annual Landmine Monitor report revealed on Monday that antipersonnel landmines and other explosive remnants of war killed at least 1,945 people…
By Jessica Corbett Common Dreams The libertarian Cato Institute this week further undermined the Trump administration’s claims that it is targeting “the worst of the worst” with its violent immigration…
“We cannot out-organize a fascist administration while simultaneously bankrolling the companies profiting from its cruelty,” said the head of Beyond the Ballot.
By Jessica Corbett Common Dreams “There are a number of much-needed reforms to the healthcare system that we could offer now that would substantially improve the lives of the American…
By Jessica Corbett Common Dreams “Congress and regulators must finally step in and crack down on anticompetitive behavior, opening markets, requiring interoperability, and ensuring smaller tech firms can compete,” said…
“The US government has not been linked to acts of systematic torture on this scale since Abu Ghraib.”
The Trump administration “just illegally reversed course,” said Democrats on the House Agriculture Committee. “They’re choosing to cut food assistance for 42 million Americans.”
“This is not stretching the envelope,” said a retired judge advocate general lawyer. “This is shredding it. This is tearing it apart.”
A member of his legal team noted that “the immigration prosecutor, judge, and jailer all answer to Donald Trump, and that one man is eager to weaponize the system in…
“The US government seeking to punish those who make light of the incident is a complete betrayal of the First Amendment and spits in the face of the principle of…
By Jessica Corbett / Common Dreams In an effort reminiscent of US President Donald Trump using the Alien Enemies Act to send hundreds of migrants to a Salvadoran prison, his…
"They're grandstanding. There literally is no federal law applicable to this situation—none," said the governor of Illinois, which is hosting some of the lawmakers trying to prevent GOP gerrymandering.
