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Two weeks ago, the United States and Germany brought the world closer to the brink of all-out world war when they announced they were nearing completion of plans for Air Defender 2023, an air war simulation unprecedented in scale.

Germany has invited the U.S. and its other NATO allies to start the biggest war provocation in history in its airspace next week. The simulated air war will start there and, like nightmares of the past, spread over much of Europe.

Germany has invited the U.S. and its other NATO allies to start the biggest war provocation in history in its airspace next week. The simulated air war will start there and, like nightmares of the past, spread over much of Europe.

WASHINGTON—By an 8-1 vote, the right-wing-dominated U.S. Supreme Court has curbed the right of the nation’s workers to strike by allowing companies to sue unions in state courts whenever they wish for alleged “damage” strikers cause, overruling the National Labor Relations Board even if it i...

WASHINGTON—If the budget deal had not been negotiated at the same time as the bill to lift the debt ceiling the budget would have to have been negotiated this fall and would probably have ended up looking much like the one sealed in the House vote last night. Rep.

Rep. Ro Khanna, Democrat of California, said this morning on national television that Republicans had held President Biden hostage over the requirement that the United States not be allowed to default on its national debt but that, considering his options, “the president did the best he could.

WASHINGTON – The deal that President Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy hammered out to raise the debt ceiling avoids default for two years but inflicts pain and suffering on millions of the most vulnerable Americans.

WASHINGTON—Congressional progressive Democrats are increasingly angry about Democratic President Joe Biden’s apparent willingness to give in to Republican budget cuts in safety net programs as part of a deal to raise the nation’s debt ceiling.

CHICAGO—Bags of clothing, rolled up and unrolled thin mattresses, pillows just purchased at a Family Dollar store, and blankets were all over the floors with children, women, and men crowded together under and on top of those blankets. The lucky ones had their heads on an available pillow.

I worked with a guy named Irving Taffler in Brooklyn politics in the early 1970s. After a long day of door-to-door campaigning together for a progressive challenging a right-wing New York State assemblyman, we sat down for some cool drinks at the campaign headquarters in the Park Slope section of Br...