JEREMY HSU – Like financial crises of the past, an abrupt end to the AI bubble could inflict considerable economic pain on millions of people worldwide. But the alternative is the prolonging of an AI bubble that is increasingly unsustainable in both the financial and environmental senses, with the winners mainly being some of the wealthiest companies on the planet and their investors.
We Need To Know How Corporate Democrats Made President Trump Possible
NORMAN SOLOMON – Saving the country from autocracy requires recognizing and overcoming the chokehold that Democratic leaders have on the party.
US Presence in Iraq is Still Destabilizing. Follow the Money to Oil.
SOPHIA GONZALEZ – Iraq has the right to shape its own future without foreign soldiers in the background and foreign governments pulling economic strings. As long as U.S. power in Iraq is only resized and rebranded instead of reduced and held accountable, the chapter that began with invasion remains open – not for policymakers in Washington, but for the people who still live with its consequences every day.
The awkward canonization of Dick Cheney
JARED O. BELL – The carefully curated remembrance of Dick Cheney, respectful as it may be, was incomplete. It was sanitized. It skipped the chapters that defined millions of other people’s lives far more than his virtues ever did.
Wyden Wants to Follow Epstein’s Money
RON WYDEN – We need to force the Treasury to release the Epstein bank records. I have a bill to make that happen. I’m going to keep following the money until the American people know the full truth.
Why America Is Removing Thousands of Dams and Letting Rivers Run Free
TARA LOHAN – After centuries of dam building, a nationwide movement to dismantle these aging barriers is showing how free-flowing rivers can restore ecosystems, improve safety, and reconnect people with nature.