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Here and There, Organic Farming Still Thrives in Heart of U.S. Corn Country

WEST BEND, Iowa — People searching for ways to limit the toll industrialized American agriculture takes on communities, land and water may want to visit Clear Creek Acres in...

How Texas Jails Paved the Way for Migrant Incarceration

This article was originally published by the Texas Observer, a nonprofit investigative news outlet and magazine. Sign up for...

The Rise of Trump and the Fall of American Empire

Some 15 years ago, on December 5, 2010, a historian writing for TomDispatch made a prediction that may yet prove...

‘War on Cartels’ and Harm Reduction in Peril

President-elect Donald Trump wants drug traffickers to be executed and could soon have the authority to make that...

Arab and Muslim States Prep for Trump’s Return

Donald Trump’s electoral victory means that other states, particularly in the Middle East, have to prepare for a...

The Billion-Dollar Tumble

Kamala Harris’ devastating loss to Donald Trump was a catastrophic failure for the Democratic Party and the consultant class that has long steered its...

Threats to the First Amendment in the Age of Trump

I thought I was done with free speech. For nearly two decades, I reported on it for the international magazine Index on Censorship. I wrote a...

A Moment for Determination, Not Fatalism

When some leading thinkers at the London School of Economics saw fascism take hold in the 1930s, Oxford history professor Ben Jackson said in a recent...

Trump’s Army of Social Vigilantes Are Ready To Exact Their Revenge

It was a little after 1 a.m. when I left the Real News Network studio in downtown Baltimore. Our team spent the whole night there, anxiously watching election results roll...

A Foreign Policy Bucket List for Biden

Freed of the constraints of the presidential campaign, President Joe Biden and his administration can use the next two months to recalibrate U.S. policy...

The Billion-Dollar Belly Flop

Kamala Harris’s devastating loss to Donald Trump last week was a catastrophic failure for the Democratic Party and the consultant class that has long...