How did right-wing forces win a majority of seats in Chile’s Constitutional Council?
Center-left President Gabriel Boric has called on the opposition “to prevent history from repeating itself,” and “draft a constitution that interprets the vast majority of the country”
Biden’s student loan forgiveness program in jeopardy
Conservative lawmakers in the US have presented new legal challenges to the program, which will potentially impact 43 million people
The US is evading its responsibility on climate change
Eugene Puryear of BreakThrough News explains the failure of the United States to fulfill its responsibilities in combating climate change. He also talks about how its positions are hurting countries in the Global South
The midterms prove it: Conservative or not, the people of the US are ready for transformative change
The people of the US, including in traditionally conservative states, welcomed left-wing policies and rejected extreme-right candidates at the midterm ballots
They denied the results of the US presidential elections. Now, they want to run them.
In the upcoming US midterms, several candidates who denied the validity of the 2020 presidential elections are now running for the highest elections overseeing office
Why Democrats could lose in the midterms
Inflation and the economy are top concerns for the people of the US in the upcoming midterm elections. The Democrats address neither.
Is the US Inflation Reduction Act a case of too little too late?
Eugene Puryear of BreakThrough News analyzes the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act which seeks to address inflation, climate change, and healthcare
Massacre in Buffalo exposes rotten core of white supremacy in US
After a white supremacist shooter murdered 10 Black people in Buffalo, many have pointed to the institutionalized racism behind the attack
A year later, what are the lessons from the Trump-backed insurrection of January 6?
Brian Becker, National Director of the ANSWER Coalition, talks about the insurrection of January 6, 2021, why Donald Trump has only grown more popular, and why the Democrats have failed to bring any of the true perpetrators to justice
To find out if ExxonMobil really supports a carbon tax, just follow the money
Despite claiming to endorse a carbon tax, ExxonMobil has funneled millions of dollars to lawmakers who oppose the idea. The company’s PAC also funded 16 of the climate science deniers in the Senate and 81 in the House
Four political parties announce bloc to resist president Saied’s power grab in Tunisia
20 Tunisian and international human rights groups also denounced the president’s actions in a joint statement, calling them unilateral, authoritarian and in violation of the Tunisian constitution
US conservatives block voting rights bill
Progressive lawmakers and civil rights movements working to expand voter access have responded with outrage against the vote results.
- Slovakia breaks from Western consensus
- Biggest health worker strike in US history to begin tomorrow
- “Tories Out!”: Thousands protest Conservative Party conference in Manchester
- Argentina’s presidential frontrunner Milei denies number of disappeared from dictatorship
- Activists harshly criticize Sunak government’s approval for Rosebank oil and gas field project
