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Author Carl Gibson, is a spokesman and organizer for US Uncut, a nonviolent, creative direct-action movement to stop budget cuts by getting corporations to pay their fair share of taxes. Contact Carl on the Commons.
This is Part 2 of an exclusively Occupy.com series analyzing the 2022 midterm elections.
Credit for what House Republicans do between 2023 and 2024 should go partially to New York’s disgraced former governor, who appointed conservative judges that helped flip New York’s congressional seats red.
Politically driven violence is not only spreading unchecked across the United States, but is being enabled by national institutions – namely, the courts and the media.
The reason the Republican Party’s embrace of anti-transgender politics reeks of fascism is because it follows the Nazi playbook almost to the letter.
The announcement could end pandemic-related federal safety net programs that millions of struggling Americans are still counting on to meet basic needs like food and shelter.
An explosive report by the Anti-Defamation League reveals that more than 300 current or former elected officials and law enforcement professionals are members of the Oath Keepers, a militant white supremacist and anti-Semitic group seeking to instigate a new civil war.
The student debt system serves the dual purpose of making higher education available only for those who come from wealthy families or those willing to take on a lifetime of debt, along with crushing younger generations’ will to rebel.
It isn’t hyperbole to say that 2022 will be the year where Americans decide whether we want democracy or authoritarianism.
If the budding fascist movement that’s taken over the Republican Party takes over Congress in 2022, it’s likely that an emboldened Donald Trump could win back the presidency in 2024 and kill democracy for good.
If the poem on the Statue of Liberty that urges the world to send “your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” is to be more than empty words, President Biden owes it to refugees
While the U.S., EU and their allies are enabling Rojava—the strongest force against Islamic State— to fall, it is vital for internationalists to continue to support this beacon of democracy and liberation.
June 23, 2026 may be remembered as the beginning of the end of the Democratic Party establishment.
Their tactics to force construction of data centers even against significant opposition from local communities have become increasingly forceful and hostile.
Whether Republicans want to be the party of Christianity or the party of worshipping false idols is a question they’ll have to seriously reckon with very soon, unless they want the American electorate to speak for them.
“Storytelling teaches not through instruction, but through imagination and example,” says the Sami artist Máret Ánne Sara. “These stories don’t provide direct answers, but rather the ethical tools to navigate and sustain the world.”
While the U.S., EU and their allies are enabling Rojava—the strongest force against Islamic State— to fall, it is vital for internationalists to continue to support this beacon of democracy and liberation.
June 23, 2026 may be remembered as the beginning of the end of the Democratic Party establishment.
Their tactics to force construction of data centers even against significant opposition from local communities have become increasingly forceful and hostile.
Whether Republicans want to be the party of Christianity or the party of worshipping false idols is a question they’ll have to seriously reckon with very soon, unless they want the American electorate to speak for them.
“Storytelling teaches not through instruction, but through imagination and example,” says the Sami artist Máret Ánne Sara. “These stories don’t provide direct answers, but rather the ethical tools to navigate and sustain the world.”
Their tactics to force construction of data centers even against significant opposition from local communities have become increasingly forceful and hostile.
June 23, 2026 may be remembered as the beginning of the end of the Democratic Party establishment.
While the U.S., EU and their allies are enabling Rojava—the strongest force against Islamic State— to fall, it is vital for internationalists to continue to support this beacon of democracy and liberation.
While the U.S., EU and their allies are enabling Rojava—the strongest force against Islamic State— to fall, it is vital for internationalists to continue to support this beacon of democracy and liberation.
The star-studded summer blockbuster has been lauded as a feminist film. But Barbie is not just pro-women—it’s also very pro-men.
"POTUS" is an acronym political journalists frequently use when talking about the President of the United States. However, "POTUS" seems a woefully soft and inadequate word to describe the current occupant of the Oval Office.
Washington Post reporter Drew Harwell talks about how Americans are welcoming surveillance devices like Ring and Nest into their homes, and — as they can now watch their front doors, babysitters, children and pets all day long — how surveillance has become normalized.