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MARCH 8. 2025

WNBA Athletes Are Done With Being Underpaid

The WNBA is more popular than ever. On the back of this success, and with rival leagues threatening to outbid it by offering athletes higher pay, the WNBA’s union has decided to use its strong position to renegotiate a contract for better pay and benefits.

Cuba Sends Doctors, the US Sends Sanctions

The United States calls Cuba’s medical internationalism

Israel Is Using Starvation as a Weapon to Break Gaza

By blocking aid and threatening to resume its war on Gaza, Israel has systematically undermined the cease-fire. It is now using starvation as a tool of coercion to force Palestinian capitulation and advance the ethnic cleansing of Gaza.

MARCH 7. 2025

Donald Trump Is Launching an Assault on Social Security

Despite his previous rhetoric to the contrary, it’s clear that Donald Trump is trying to finally be the one to successfully carry out the long-standing GOP goal: destroying Social Security.

Veterans Are Starting to Mobilize Against Trump’s Cuts

Military veterans are among those being hit hardest by Trump’s austerity push, which threatens many of their jobs as well as health care and other benefits. The cuts are starting to mobilize the conservative-leaning demographic against the administration.

I’m Still Here Is an Incredibly Deserving Oscar Winner

I’m Still Here is a stirring tribute to the Brazilian people’s resistance to military dictatorship — and their unwillingness to give up their hard-won democracy.

Black Workers Need Public Employment, Not Black Capitalism

Public unionized employment is the backbone of the black middle class. Racial justice advocates should direct resources to fighting Elon Musk’s attacks on good union jobs — not toward protecting DEI initiatives focused on black entrepreneurship.

François Bayrou Under Fire Over School Abuse Scandal

Dozens of statements to a French court tell of decades of sexual abuse at a Catholic school. The case has also created a political crisis, with media allegations that today’s prime minister François Bayrou knew what was going on but failed to act.

Why Donald Trump Has Turned on Europe

For decades, European leaders fostered a willing dependence on the United States that has made the continent acutely vulnerable to the superpower’s whims. Donald Trump has sensed this weakness and is using it to advance his own narrow interests.

MARCH 6. 2025

You’ve Already Paid for Overpriced Weight-Loss Drugs

The federal government has spent $6.2 billion on research and development for weight-loss drugs. Now, thanks to Big Pharma markups, Americans are paying up to 11 times more for these drugs than patients in other countries, despite already footing the bill.

The Democratic Opposition Should Look More Like Rep. Al Green

In interrupting Donald Trump’s speech to Congress, Rep. Al Green showed more vigor in opposing the president’s undemocratic, anti-worker agenda than any other act since Inauguration Day. Democrats should emulate Green, not censure him.

Democrats Should Constantly Talk About a Minimum Wage Hike

An obvious way to win the support of the working class is to support some actual pro-worker policies. An obvious starting point: raising the minimum wage, and well above $15 an hour.

Democrats Still Don’t Get Why Trump Won

Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, many Democrats are certain that what cost Kamala Harris the 2024 election was bigotry in the “flyover states. ” And that misunderstanding is only going to lock them out of power longer.

Europe’s Vain Hopes of Imperial Grandeur

As Washington scales down its US defense commitment to Europe, many of the continent’s leaders are talking of making the EU a military superpower. It’s an unrealistic prospect, but it risks becoming the key focus of EU spending.