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[ad_1] Kate Yoder, People’s World. Amid the many political casualties of 2025 — mass federal layoffs, shuttered agencies, and clean energy spending cuts — the passing of one of the last decade’s defining political projects went almost entirely unnoticed. On December 31, 2025, the Green New Deal Network, a coalition of climate, labor, and social justice organizations, officially died. The coalition wasn’t intended to last forever, but its demise was sped up by the political mood that got President Donald Trump reelected in 2024, when the momentum that the movement had enjoyed under Joe Biden’s administration seemingly evaporated overnight. As…

[ad_1] House, Knappa, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. People’s negative assessments of the economy continue to be somewhat of a mystery. The recent run-up in gas prices and inflation more generally is unambiguously bad news, but is this the worst economy ever, as some of the consumer confidence measures have been showing recently? Real income for those at the middle and bottom has generally been rising by standard measures, so it seems that we’re missing something, and I’m not sure any of us have figured out what. My friend, Jared Bernstein, argues that a big part of the story is…

[ad_1] This is part of 1776 All-Stars, a series about Reason’s favorite American Founders. Read more here. Joanna Andreasson The proposed U.S. Constitution “squints toward monarchy,” Patrick Henry complained at the Virginia Ratifying Convention in 1788. “Does not this raise indignation in the breast of every true American? Your president may easily become king.” Henry’s warning about presidential powers, which looks especially prescient today, was part of his broader case against James Madison’s replacement for the Articles of Confederation. Although Henry lost that battle, his heroic reputation as an early and eloquent advocate of independence earned him a respectful hearing, and his critique helped…

[ad_1] Maria Paez Victor, Popular Resistance. Venezuela experienced a devastating natural catastrophe that was unpredictable as it was unusual. The nation also became a beacon of national unity and international solidarity. Four days ago, on the 24th of June, a national holiday jointly celebrating St. John the Baptist Day and the key Battle of Carabobo that secured the nation’s Independence, Venezuela was struck by twin earthquakes, 39 seconds from each other, one of 7.2 on the Richter scale and the second of greater intensity, of 7.5. The fault lines run through the northwestern valley of the capital Caracas and all…

[ad_1] Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire What was supposed to be a landmark diplomatic breakthrough collapsed before it even began. The Bürgenstock meeting, scheduled for June 19–21 at the exclusive resort overlooking Lake Lucerne, was designed as the first in-person implementation session following the electronic signing of the 14-point Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding. President Donald Trump signed a hard copy of the agreement at the Palace of Versailles in France during the G7 summit, while Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed in Tehran. Pakistan and Qatar had co-mediated the deal and jointly proposed the Swiss venue. Switzerland had already approved full army security and a temporary…

[ad_1] Ginsberg with his partner, poet Peter Orlovsky, in 1978. Photo: Herbert Rusche. CC BY-SA 3.0 Here we are at the end of a month-long celebration of the life and work of the poet Allen Ginsberg (1926-2026) and I haven’t said a word about his sexual politics, which I described to a friend—who helped launch the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) in New York—as “complex.” I know I can’t make up for what I didn’t say and this will definitely not be the last word on the subject. Far from it. No one recently has written extensively about Ginsberg’s sexual politics,…

[ad_1] Many hundreds of Jewish rural communities, by contrast, operate effectively as exclusive membership clubs. They have the power to exclude Palestinian citizens — a right they take full advantage of. Separate planning structures ensure massively overcrowded Palestinian communities inside Israel are unable to build new homes and expand. Palestinian children are schooled in a separate and much inferior education system. For those who wish to dig deeper, I have written a lengthy essay setting out the details of Israel’s apartheid system here. The ban on civil marriage inside Israel’s borders is not usually cited, even by critics, as an…

[ad_1] Isaac Jefferson, an enslaved blacksmith at Monticello, photographed in 1845. Tracy W. McGregor Library of American History, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library. Public Domain. The hoopla surrounding the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence seemingly reflects another unfortunate instance of historical amnesia. Whether immersed in the white supremacist narrative promoted by Trump and his enablers or some liberal version of the high mindedness of the Founders, we are being asked to forget the foundational and ongoing tragedies of the United States of America. As Isabel Wilkerson wrote in the “Afterword” to her brilliant book, Caste: The Origins…

[ad_1] Ottawa Police Chief Eric Stubbs warned officers to “change your behaviour or quit” after a series of sexual misconduct cases within the police service. In a leaked internal video, Stubbs said some officers had used police databases to look up women they saw in public so they could contact them, while others sent inappropriate messages to crime victims or made sexual comments to female coworkers. He said these actions betray the public’s trust and damage the reputation of the entire police force. The post Brickbat: Knock It Off appeared first on Reason.com. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Britain continues on its authoritarian road by targeting pro-Palestine journalists, activists, academics, doctors, musicians, former MPs and lawyers, seizing property and using “the process as punishment.”  Human Rights lawyer and journalist, Dan Kovalik being interviewed on Venezuela, December 2025. (Screenshot, Connecting the Dots podcast) By Naila KauserNaila’s Substack U.S. human rights lawyer, professor and journalist Daniel Kovalik was detained by three counter-terror police officers at Liverpool’s John Lennon Airport on Saturday morning under paragraph 4 of Schedule 3 of the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019, which allows border police to detain and question people they believe to be involved…