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The billionaire oligarchy
The richest 1% own nearly a third of the country’s wealth. Between early 2025 and early 2026, their wealth grew by more than the bottom half of the country owns altogether. Corporate profits hit a […]
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In Canada, First Nation leaders announce they won’t comply with Alberta trans care ban
Sept. 11, 2026 The Saddle Lake Cree Nation in Alberta, Canada, has embarked on a mission to do something unprecedented. Its leaders announced they will assert tribal sovereignty to defy a regional ban on providing […]
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Rubio would sanction the Malecon sea wall
Havana, Sept. 10, 2026 Although the title of this commentary seems straight out of a tabloid, the reality is that the head of the U.S. State Department, the mythomaniac Marco Rubio, has developed a diabolical […]
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They are children, not numbers
Sept. 10, 2026 In 2003, before the United States unleashed the war in Iraq, a webcam maintained a fixed shot of Baghdad for hours. The page’s tagline was more important than the technology: “They […]
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El Niño is being supersized before our eyes
(World Meteorological Organization, September 3, 2026). El Niño is firmly established and will intensify into a very strong event in the coming months, with big impacts on rainfall and temperature patterns and associated risks of […]
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Trump is building a military command loyal to him
Donald Trump is remaking the U.S. military command. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has blocked the promotions of seven U.S. Army officers selected for major general. Two are Black. Two are women. The New York […]
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They tag us like cattle: ICE’s electronic shackles
Spider-Man villain inspires New Mexico judge In the mid-1960s, Harvard researchers experimented with wearable radio tracking devices for people caught in the criminal “justice” system. These were very early prototypes of what would become the […]
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Cassandra Wilson took the blues back to the Delta
Jazz musician Cassandra Wilson died at her home in Jackson, Mississippi, on Sept. 1. She was 70. She was born in Jackson on Dec. 4, 1955, 10 weeks after an all-white jury 115 miles north […]
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Sheinbaum to Trump: “Mexico is not a colony of any country”
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum stated on Sept. 7 that Mexican territory “is not and will never be a colony or protectorate of any foreign country,” after U.S. President Donald Trump posted an image featuring a […]
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Fifty years after Mao’s death: the Cultural Revolution and the communes
Fifty years ago, on Sept. 9, 1976, Mao Zedong died in Beijing at the age of 82. Mao had led the Chinese Communist Party through decades of revolutionary struggle and headed the 1949 revolution that […]