https://www.commondreams.org/views/2010/10/22/no-learning-curve-washington
Opinion | No Learning Curve in Washington | Common Dreams
Feb 26, 2025 - As we know from a single April 19, 2003 New York Times piece, the Pentagon arrived in Saddam Hussein's Iraq preparing for a long stay. They already had at...
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https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/noam-chomsky-climate-collapse
Opinion | A Note on Noam Chomsky and Climate Collapse | Common Dreams
Sep 26, 2024 - As Noam once said, “if you assume there is no hope, you guarantee there will be no hope.”
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Progressives See Midterm Hopes Rise on Kansas Voters' Defense of Abortion Rights | Common Dreams
Jul 17, 2024 - "Voters in Kansas just struck a blow to the Republican anti-choice movement," says Rep. Mondaire Jones. "Now millions of people are counting on us to keep this...
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https://www.commondreams.org/views/2008/01/17/no-movie-endings-pregnant-teenagers
Opinion | No Movie Endings for Pregnant Teenagers | Common Dreams
Mar 20, 2026 - Nicole Richie's new baby daughter is not Paris Hilton's latest purse, or even her chihuahua. Neither is Christina Aguilera's new son, Courtney Thorne-Smith's...
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https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/groundwork-reveals-the-hidden-cost-of-ai
Groundwork Reveals the Hidden Cost of AI | Common Dreams
Sep 23, 2026 - While tech companies profit, working families pay
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https://www.commondreams.org/tag/ned-lamont
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https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/11/28/limerick-nuclear-plants-re-licensing-application-circumvents-safety-analysis
Limerick Nuclear Plant Avoids Safety Analysis | Common Dreams
Dec 22, 2022 - NRDC Files Petitions to Intervene in the Limerick Nuclear Plant Operating License Renewal Application, Citing Obsolete Accident Mitigation Study
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https://www.commondreams.org/views/2012/08/24/argentina-maintain-use-agrochemicals
Opinion | Argentina to Maintain Use of Agrochemicals | Common Dreams
Mar 19, 2026 - Susana Marquez couldn't stop crying when she heard the sentence in the courtroom in Cordoba. She was hoping that the men accused of spraying the town of...
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https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/08/08/african-faith-leaders-gates-foundation-drop-african-green-revolution
Opinion | African Faith Leaders to Gates Foundation: Drop African 'Green Revolution' | Common Dreams
Jul 17, 2024 - "When it comes to the climate, African faith communities are urging the world to think twice before pushing a technical and corporate farming approach."
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2012/04/12/report-treasury-snubs-struggling-homeowners
Report: Treasury Snubs Struggling Homeowners | Common Dreams
Feb 26, 2025 - Important TARP funds targeted for homeowners have not been released
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https://www.commondreams.org/author/saurav-sarkar
Saurav Sarkar | Author | Common Dreams
Saurav Sarkar is a freelance writer based in the New York area who frequently covers Starbucks Workers United. He can be reached at sauravsarkar.com or on...
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Noam Sandweiss-Back, who was born in Jerusalem and raised in New Jersey, is an organizer and writer. He has spent a decade organizing among the poor and...
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/21/unions-say-amazon-should-return-new-york-taxpayer-money-over-anti-worker-conduct
Unions Say Amazon Should Return New York Taxpayer Money Over Anti-Worker Conduct | Common Dreams
Jul 17, 2024 - "If we do not stop subsidizing Amazon's warehouses," argues Democratic state lawmaker Ron T. Kim, "New York state becomes complicit in subsidizing...
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FCC Announces Disclosure Rulemaking on AI Political Ads | Common Dreams
May 22, 2024 - Today, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that it will begin a rulemaking to require disclosure for Artificial Intelligence (AI)-generated...
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https://www.commondreams.org/views/2008/05/31/corporate-state-and-subversion-democracy
Opinion | The Corporate State and the Subversion of Democracy | Common Dreams
Mar 20, 2026 - Note: Chris Hedges gave this keynote address on Wednesday, May 28 at 7 p.m. in Furman University's Younts Conference Center. The address was part of the...
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Opinion | It's Time to Free Gazans From the World's Largest Open-Air Prison | Common Dreams
Apr 12, 2024 - Israel will keep Palestinians imprisoned on the Gaza Strip, and continue to slowly suffocate them for another 15 or even 150 years if the world does not wake...
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Women's Groups Outraged By Ruling On Morning-After Pill | Common Dreams
Feb 25, 2025 - WASHINGTON - National women's groups and pro-choice advocates were aghast yesterday as the Obama administration overturned an FDA opinion allowing better...
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Amnesty urges release of Ethiopian prisoners. | Common Dreams
May 17, 2023 - Three journalists, one opposition politician and one other individual, all found guilty of terrorism offenses by an Ethiopian court today, were convicted on...
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Rights Groups Slam House Passage of Privacy-Invading CISPA | Common Dreams
Feb 25, 2025 - Rights groups are slamming the House passage of the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) Thursday afternoon, a bill they say...
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Advocacy Groups Fear New Wave of Homeless | Common Dreams
Oct 1, 2025 - ATLANTA, Georgia - Homeless advocates in the United States say if the new Congress and the Barack Obama administration do nothing, many more low-income people...
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https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/06/07/ama-stops-us-getting-health-care?cd-origin=rss
Opinion | The AMA Stops Us From Getting Health Care | Common Dreams
Mar 14, 2026 - We demand you step out of the way of Medicare For All, which is the health care we want and need
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https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2021/05/06/biden-administrations-america-beautiful-plan-opens-door-arizonans-protect-lands
Bidens plan allows Arizonans to protect lands, waters. | Common Dreams
May 6, 2021 - Public lands to play key role in helping Arizona address climate, extinction crises.
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/09/18/military-refuses-whistleblower-chelsea-manning-gender-affirming-treatment
Military Refuses Whistleblower Chelsea Manning Gender-Affirming Treatment | Common Dreams
Jul 18, 2024 - "I'm gonna fight in court," Manning declared on her Twitter account.
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Opinion | Gender Savagery in Guatemala | Common Dreams
Mar 20, 2026 - On the outskirts of Guatemala City the body of an 18-year-old woman of indigenous ethnicity was recently discovered by her frantic parents who had been...
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https://www.commondreams.org/views/2010/10/10/how-save-american-capitalism-809-words
Opinion | How to Save American Capitalism, in 809 Words | Common Dreams
Mar 19, 2026 - American capitalism is broken. So is the Democratic-Republican duopoly that supports it. Neither can be fixed. The system is collapsing. A power vacuum is...
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https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2021/09/27/bend-arc-republicans-congress-once-again-promoting-antisemitic-replacement
GOP in Congress Reviving Antisemitic Replacement Theory | Common Dreams
Sep 27, 2021 - In October 2018, Rep. Gaetz posted a video promoting rhetoric which led to the deadliest massacre of Jewish Americans in history.
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https://www.commondreams.org/views/2010/06/30/senator-carl-levin-fiddling-war-while-detroit-burns
Opinion | Senator Carl Levin Fiddling With War While Detroit Burns | Common Dreams
Mar 19, 2026 - General Petreaus is being confirmed today as the new commander of the war in Afghanistan. His confirmation hearing in Senate Armed Services Committee on...
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Opinion | Letter to a Dead Man About the Occupation of Hope | Common Dreams
Feb 26, 2025 - Dear young man who died on the fourth day of this turbulent 2011, dear Mohammed Bouazizi, I want to write you about an astonishing year -- with three months...
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In UK, Corbyn Warns Against Cycle of War That Brings "More Mayhem... More Loss' | Common Dreams
Jul 17, 2024 - Labour leader says ISIS can only be defeated through 'political settlement' in Syria
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Alpine Lifelines on the Brink | Common Dreams
Dec 22, 2022 - Only one in ten Alpine rivers are healthy enough to maintain water supply and to cope with climate impacts according to a report by WWF. The publication is the...
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Pro-Democracy Alliance Says Supreme Court's Trump Immunity Ruling Must Not Stand | Common Dreams
Sep 24, 2024 - Dozens of civil society groups are urgently calling on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee to take action against the Supreme Court's ruling in Trump v. United...
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Over 50 Dead in Haiti from Hurricane; Nearly 400,000 in Tents -- Why? | Common Dreams
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Patrick Rafail | Author | Common Dreams
Patrick Rafail recently completed his PhD in sociology at the Pennsylvania State University. He will be an assistant professor of sociology at Tulane...
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'Haunting' Footage Shows Apparent Cluster Bombing of Kharkiv | Common Dreams
Mar 13, 2026 - Allegations Russian forces used the widely banned weapons Monday came after human rights groups said they'd confirmed their use in separate strikes last week.
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Opinion | WTO Shutdown: I Was Jane Doe #520 | Common Dreams
Feb 16, 2024 - The baptism by tear gas for my generation of activists has made us warriors—and, judging from my experience, loving warriors.
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https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/05/no-you-assholes-obama-did-not-do-it-too
Opinion | No You Assholes, Obama Did Not Do It Too | Common Dreams
Jun 5, 2018 - Nobody has done what Trump did last week. To suggest otherwise is simply dishonest.
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/10/09/corker-trump-recklessness-threatens-world-war-iii-and-most-gop-know-it
Corker: Trump Recklessness Threatens World War III (And Most GOP Know It) | Common Dreams
Jul 17, 2024 - "If Corker is right that most Republicans believe Trump is unhinged, they should impeach him and save us."
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US Destroys Its Own Weapons in Enemy Hands | Common Dreams
Sep 30, 2025 - 'Until and unless the US understands that the answer to the world’s problems is not war and that arming the world will lead to continuous wars and kill...
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https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/plot-to-rig-midterms
Opinion | Understanding MAGA's Plot to Rig the Midterms and Destroy Democracy | Common Dreams
Mar 12, 2026 - Here is a list of the plot’s main elements to help you stay informed, connected, and, above all, engaged.
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/04/10/comcast-pushes-mega-merger-critics-call-it-unthinkable
Comcast Pushes Mega-Merger, But Critics Call It 'Unthinkable' | Common Dreams
Feb 27, 2025 - 'These two firms have abysmal records of customer service and unseemly influence peddling.'
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ICE Head Ducks Meeting With Hispanic Dems for 'Political Cover' on Raids | Common Dreams
Jul 17, 2024 - "ICE is too busy to meet with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus or key Democratic leaders? That just doesn't fly."
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Opinion | Myths About Industrial Agriculture | Common Dreams
Feb 26, 2025 - Organic farming is the "only way to produce food" without harming the planet and people's health
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https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/04/12/year-after-gulf-oil-spill-new-report-tallies-full-cost-wildlife-disaster
Gulf oil spill report reveals wildlife devastation | Common Dreams
Dec 22, 2022 - Government Counts Underestimate Toll on Birds, Sea Turtles, Marine Mammals
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2011/08/09/tottenham-riots-do-you-expect-people-not-see-opportunity
Tottenham Riots: 'Do You Expect People Not to See an Opportunity?' | Common Dreams
Oct 1, 2025 - Youths in Tottenham complain of few jobs and disrespect from the police after peaceful protest leads to disorder across London
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Swedish Paper: WikiLeaks to Reveal Swedish Foreign Minister Bildt as US 'Spy' | Common Dreams
Jul 18, 2024 - WikiLeaks aims to release documents exposing Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt as a US spy, as part of a campaign to stop Sweden from extraditing founder...
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Joseph Torres | Author | Common Dreams
Joseph Torres is senior external affairs director at Free Press, and co-author, with Juan Gonzalez, of News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the...
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https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2020/09/14/aclu-launches-campaign-encourage-voting-and-educate-vote-mail
ACLU Launches Campaign To Encourage Voting and Educate on Vote by Mail | Common Dreams
Sep 14, 2020 - With 50 days until Election Day, the American Civil Liberties Union today launched "Let People Vote," a campaign encouraging voters to make a plan to vote and...
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/04/03/trump-who-wants-cut-interior-billions-gifts-78000-park-service
Trump, Who Wants to Cut Interior by Billions, 'Gifts' $78,000 to Park Service | Common Dreams
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Ethics Policy | Common Dreams
Dec 17, 2025 - Our VisionCommon Dreams is an independent, nonprofit news organization providing unbiased, well-researched, and thought-provoking content. Our mission: To...
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Kucinich Wins $8 Million Dollars for Gulf War Illnesses Research | Common Dreams
Dec 21, 2022 - Efforts by Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) to continue to help ailing veterans of the first Gulf War paid off yesterday when he won the inclusion of...
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Opinion | FDA & GE: Extra Radiation? Who Cares? | Common Dreams
Mar 19, 2026 - Controversy generated by recent reporting by Eric Lichtblau and Scott Shane of the New York Times about Food and Drug Administration spying on its doctors and...
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Senate asked about Kagans Church-State views | Common Dreams
Dec 22, 2022 - Americans United for Separation of Church and State today urged the Senate Judiciary Committee to question Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan about her views on...
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Michael Keating | Author | Common Dreams
Michael Keating is a lecturer in international relations at the McCormack School of Policy and Global Studies, University of Massachusetts-Boston. He is also a...
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https://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/10/21/we-never-voted-corporate-rule
Opinion | We Never Voted for Corporate Rule | Common Dreams
Sep 30, 2025 - The $66 billion sale of Monsanto is yet another reminder of how corporations have colonized the world and subverted democracy. To regain our future, we must...
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2008/05/30/act-climate-change-top-scientists-warn-us
Act On Climate Change, Top Scientists Warn US | Common Dreams
Feb 25, 2025 - A group of 1,700 leading scientists called on the US government yesterday to take the lead in fighting global warming. Citing the "unprecedented and...
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Lee Saunders | Author | Common Dreams
Lee A. Saunders is the Secretary-Treasurer of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO, which represents 1.6 million workers.
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Paul Gordon | Author | Common Dreams
Paul Gordon is People For the American Way's senior legislative counsel, where he focuses particularly on matters relating to the federal courts, including the...
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Nick Buffie | Author | Common Dreams
Nick Buffie is a research assistant with the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
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https://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/08/05/inside-our-profoundly-unequal-new-normal
Opinion | Inside Our Profoundly Unequal 'New Normal' | Common Dreams
Feb 27, 2025 - Wealth’s current tilt to the top sometimes seems almost eternal. But can our economy ‘self-correct’? A provocative new paper out of the developed world’s...
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Trump Commerce Secretary Admits He Did, In Fact, Go to Epstein’s Island | Common Dreams
Sep 20, 2026 - Sen. Chris Van Hollen told Howard Lutnick he "misled the country and the Congress" when he claimed to have cut off ties with the billionaire sex offender.
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Ashana Bigard | Author | Common Dreams
Ashana Bigard is a parent advocate in New Orleans.
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https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/02/22/naacp-medical-public-health-and-environmental-groups-urge-court-uphold-clean-air
Groups urge court to uphold clean air safeguards. | Common Dreams
Dec 22, 2022 - Allied groups support cleaning up toxic emissions from power plants
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/08/27/aclu-demands-immediate-resignation-kenosha-police-chief-sheriff-and-mayor
ACLU Demands Immediate Resignation of Kenosha Police Chief, Sheriff, and Mayor | Common Dreams
Jul 17, 2024 - The actions of the city's top law enforcement officials, said the group, "uphold and defend white supremacy, while demonizing people who were murdered for...
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https://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/25/odds-are-you-are-suspicious
Opinion | Odds Are, You Are Suspicious | Common Dreams
Feb 27, 2025 - When you get off a train, do you get off ahead of passengers? Or do you get off behind passengers? When you're going on a trip, do you come off as nervous? Or...
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Pope Francis Urges Genocide Probe of Israel's War on Gaza | Common Dreams
Nov 18, 2024 - The pontiff's call comes as the International Court of Justice is reviewing evidence in a South Africa-led genocide case against Israel.
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Sanders Proposes 'Moonshot' Bill to Combat Long Covid Crisis | Common Dreams
Aug 5, 2024 - As millions suffer from long Covid, Sen. Bernie Sanders introduces a bill to tackle the crisis head-on.
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/supreme-court-climate-change
In Supreme Court Briefs, Biden DOJ Sides With Communities Suing Big Oil | Common Dreams
Dec 12, 2024 - The Biden administration backed state and local climate lawsuits against Big Oil in new Supreme Court briefs.
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Opinion | Why We Sued to Represent Muslim Cleric Aulaqi | Common Dreams
Mar 19, 2026 - Anwar Aulaqi is a US citizen and Muslim cleric living somewhere in Yemen. The US has put him on our terrorist list and is trying to assassinate him. The Center...
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Opinion | The Beginning of Hope or the End of It | Common Dreams
Mar 20, 2026 - I spent the last month in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), much of my time in Goma. There, I was privileged to be part of the first public testimonies...
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https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/30/necessity-and-importance-teachers
Opinion | The Necessity and Importance of Teachers | Common Dreams
Feb 27, 2025 - We’ve stopped focusing on how to make education better and instead equated it with how to make it more profitable for those who are already wealthy.
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https://www.commondreams.org/views/2011/04/13/anti-choice-movement-not-intended-be-factual
Opinion | The Anti-Choice Movement: "Not Intended to Be Factual" | Common Dreams
Feb 26, 2025 - Last week, during the high-drama of the budget crisis and impending shutdown of the federal government, Senator John Kyl took to the floor of the Senate to...
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Progressive coalition protesting ALEC meeting with events. | Common Dreams
Dec 22, 2022 - MEDIA AVAIL: Rashad Robinson, Executive Director of ColorOfChange.org, Available to Speak on ALEC During its 40th Annual Convention in Chicago
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WWF Statement On Climate Summit Speech By President Obama | Common Dreams
Dec 21, 2022 - As Talks Enter Critical Final Hour, WWF Stresses “Fierce Urgency of Now”
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"Rogues' Gallery" Report Profiles Far-Right Senate Candidates | Common Dreams
Dec 22, 2022 - People For the American Way today released "The Rogues' Gallery," profiling 15 far-right Republican nominees for Congress. From pledges to radically restrict...
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Trump Admin Announces $200 Million Contract for Musk's AI After Grok Hitler Incident | Common Dreams
Jul 15, 2025 - The federal government awarded a $200 million contract to Elon Musk's company, xAI, despite his falling out with President Donald Trump and his chatbot Grok's...
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Opinion | Two Top Republican Tax Writers Reveal Their Prejudice and Their Strategy | Common Dreams
Jul 17, 2024 - Because they have used the deficit to pay for a tax cut that blatantly favors the rich over the rest, Republicans have forfeited their ability to tell us what...
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Opinion | After 20 Years, NAFTA Leaves Mexico's Economy in Ruins | Common Dreams
Mar 18, 2026 - Twenty years ago, on Jan. 1, 1994, a trade deal championed by Democratic President Bill Clinton went into effect. The North American Free Trade Agreement was...
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Opinion | Bulls-Hit Ranch Labor Scandal Ensnared Florida Homeless | Common Dreams
Feb 26, 2025 - They called it "The Bullpen." Farm workers were roped in from the street by recruiters and herded into the enclosed camp, where they worked during the day and...
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Opinion | It Takes People Power to Make Clear That Corporations Are NOT People | Common Dreams
Feb 26, 2025 - In the Nov. 8 elections, the national media gave extensive coverage to a proposed "personhood amendment" to Mississippi's state constitution. This was an...
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Amid Backlash, Democrats Consider Banning Consultants From Anti-Union Activity | Common Dreams
Jul 17, 2024 - "This is happening because workers are taking hold of our power," said Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA.
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/electoral-college-democracy-raskin
Raskin Says Electoral College Is a 'Danger' to Democracy and Should Be Abandoned | Common Dreams
Jul 18, 2024 - "We should elect the president the way we elect governors, senators, mayors, representatives, everybody else: Whoever gets the most votes wins."
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https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/08/04/will-be-next-unthinkable-act-gun-violence
Opinion | Will This Be the Next Unthinkable Act of Gun Violence? | Common Dreams
Mar 31, 2025 - "It's little wonder that the annual number of firearm-related deaths in the U.S. has skyrocketed during the past decade."
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/doj-rent-price-fixing
DOJ Files Rent-Fixing Lawsuit Against Corporate Landlords' Go-To Software Firm | Common Dreams
Aug 26, 2024 - "Today is a good day for renters and families and a bad day for predatory landlords," said one advocate.
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/01/01/merely-inconvenience-judge-oks-border-search-private-electronics
Merely an "Inconvenience": Judge OKs Border Search of Private Electronics | Common Dreams
Jul 18, 2024 - ACLU calls decision total defeat for personal privacy of innocent people crossing border
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https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/12/15/climate-change-undermining-human-rights-unprecedented-scale
Climate Change Undermining Human Rights on an Unprecedented Scale | Common Dreams
Dec 21, 2022 - Verdict Delivered At World’s First International Climate Hearing
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/11/11/no-evidence-support-trumps-election-fraud-claims-new-york-times-finds
No Evidence to Support Trump's Election Fraud Claims, New York Times Finds | Common Dreams
Jul 17, 2024 - "I don't know of a single case where someone argued that a vote counted when it shouldn't have or didn't count when it should," said one official. "There was...
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https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/04/16/national-low-income-housing-coalition-statement-support-trail-hope-demonstration
Statement backing Trail of Hope demo by NLIC. | Common Dreams
Dec 22, 2022 - On April 17, a house from the Oglala Sioux Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation will be placed on Union Square near the U.S. Capitol to draw attention to the lack of...
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https://www.commondreams.org/views/2013/08/22/bradley-manning-we-finally-have-scapegoat-iraq-war
Opinion | In Bradley Manning, We Finally Have a Scapegoat for the Iraq War | Common Dreams
Sep 30, 2025 - Manning serves as a fall guy for two failed wars against whom Republicans and the deeply compromised Democrats can unite in vindictive harmony.
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https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2008/12/16/friends-earth-launches-campaign-keep-new-roads-out-stimulus-package
FoEs campaign: No new roads in stimulus. | Common Dreams
Dec 21, 2022 - ‘New Roads = New Pollution’ campaign calls for economic stimulus that creates jobs by investing in clean transportation options and highway and bridge...
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https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/11/05/occupy-wall-street-outperforming-red-cross-hurricane-relief
Is Occupy Wall Street Helping More than Red Cross? | Common Dreams
Dec 22, 2022 - Slate just published the piece "Is Occupy Wall Street Outperforming the Red Cross in Hurricane Relief?" See #OccupySandy
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2011/12/17/how-maliki-and-iran-outsmarted-us-troop-withdrawal
How Maliki and Iran Outsmarted the U.S. on Troop Withdrawal | Common Dreams
Oct 1, 2025 - WASHINGTON - Defence Secretary Leon Panetta's suggestion that the end of the U.S. troop presence in Iraq is part of a U.S. military success story ignores the...
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https://www.commondreams.org/tag/corporate-crime
corporate crime | Common Dreams
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https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/12/02/new-joint-federal-guidance-will-lead-increased-diversity-schools-improve
Federal guidance boosts school diversity and improves education. | Common Dreams
Dec 22, 2022 - New guidance from the Department of Education and Department of Justice issued today to school districts across the country explains how schools, colleges, and...
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-refugee-camps
'This Is What the US Chose': Israel Targets Refugee Camps in Central Gaza | Common Dreams
Dec 28, 2023 - "So long as Netanyahu faces no consequences, even more innocent civilians will face death and starvation," said one U.S. lawmaker.
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https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-health-plan-fail
Opinion | Trump's Health Plan Is Doomed to Fail—We Need Medicare for All | Common Dreams
Jan 17, 2026 - Unsurprisingly, Trump’s concepts of a plan don't even begin to reverse the damage he caused when he made massive cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act...
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2008/10/21/israel-targets-palestinian-students
Israel Targets Palestinian Students | Common Dreams
Oct 1, 2025 - GAZA CITY - The letter of acceptance that 28-year-old Hazem Hussain got for a business graduate programme in a Californian university once brought joy. Now he...
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