Music Videos
Thread By Thread – Gloria Travers & The North Street Band
When love begins to unravel, do you walk away or pick up the thread? “Thread By...
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- Written by: Julia Conley
The future of Social Security and Medicare is on the ballot this November. Republicans, led by Kevin McCarthy, are united in a plot to reach into our pockets and steal our money.
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- Written by: Brett Wilkins
In the richest country on Earth, the time is long overdue for us to create a government and an economy that works for all of us, not just the 1%.
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- Written by: Catherine E. Russell
Rivers around the world have been drying up recently. The Loire in France broke records in mid-August for its low water levels, while photos circulating online show the mighty Danube, Rhine, Yangtze and Colorado rivers all but reduced to trickles.
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- Written by: Julia Conley
Teacher's unions have been warning for years that chronic disinvestment in schools has placed untenable pressure on educators as they face low pay and overcrowded classrooms.
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- Written by: Emily Rosenthal, New York University
Only the first domino to fall among rights that Americans enjoy, legal experts say.
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- Written by: Joanne Bentley, University of Cape Town, et al
Now most grapple with the reality of trying to slow down catastrophic warming, and the difference between solutions and false hope.
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- Written by: Treva B. Lindsey, The Ohio State University
State-by-state battles are heating up in the wake of news that the U.S. Supreme Court appears poised to overrule landmark rulings - Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey - and remove constitutional protection for the right to get an abortion.
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- Written by: Kenny Stancil
Fossil fuels did this, said one climate justice campaigner. Unless we ditch fossil fuels immediately in favor of a just, renewable-energy based system, heatwaves like this one will continue to become more intense and more frequent.
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- Written by: Ralph Nader
There is something about entrenched bureaucracies that transcend nations and cultures. When bureaucracies are confronted with unanticipated or new challenges, they freeze – like a deer facing headlights.
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- Written by: Sumit Ganguly, Indiana University
As global democracies lined up to condemn the actions of Russia in Ukraine, one country was less forthcoming in its criticism – and it was the largest democracy of them all: India.
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- Written by: Iain Boyd, University of Colorado Boulder
The next-generation hypersonic missiles that Russia, China and the U.S. are developing do pose a significant threat to national and global security.
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- Written by: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams
"While other high-income countries saw their life expectancy increase in 2021, recovering about half of their losses, U.S. life expectancy continued to fall," said Dr. Steven Woolf, co-author of the new study.
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- Written by: Julia Conley, Common Dreams
Organizers of the "Coal Baron Blockade" protest which targeted right-wing Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin's coal empire Saturday afternoon reported that state police almost immediately began arresting campaigners who assembled in Grant Town, West Virginia.
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- Written by: Dean Baker
I rarely disagree with Paul Krugman’s columns, but every now and then he does say something that I have to issue with. In a column last month, Krugman complained about the enormous costs associated with China’s zero Covid policy.
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- Written by: Phil Galewitz
The United States is nearing 1 million deaths from covid — an almost incomprehensible number of lives lost that few thought possible when the pandemic began. Pennsylvania’s Mifflin County offers a snapshot into how one hard-hit community, with over 300 dead, is coping.
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- Written by: Joseph Wright, Penn State and Abel Escribà-Folch, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Our research has found that once these type of leaders start repressing their own citizens at home or initiating conflicts abroad, there are few good ways to stop them.
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- Written by: Yuko Sato, Iowa State University
Yuko Sato, an associate professor of veterinary medicine who works with poultry producers, explains why so many birds are getting sick and whether the outbreak threatens human health.
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- Written by: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams
As progressives in Congress cast attention on Medicare for All legislation this week, research published Thursday highlighted that Americans are frustrated and struggling due to the for-profit U.S. healthcare system.
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- Written by: Andrea Germanos, Creative Commons
Among the events sparking concern was "freakish warming at Earth's South Pole" including "a mind-blowing" above-average reading at a research station.
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- Written by: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams
CEOs can't stop bragging on corporate earnings calls about jacking up prices on consumers to keep their profits soaring
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- Written by: Simon Willcock, Bangor University et al
Sprawling 5.5 million square kilometres, the Amazon rainforest is the largest of its kind and home to about one in ten of all known species.
