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Mano Dura Comes to Costa Rica

Costa Rica’s surge in violent crime should have been a liability for President Rodrigo Chaves’s right-wing party. Instead, his handpicked successor, Laura Fernández, won resoundingly by promising law-...

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Trump’s Immigration Police Keep Abducting Children

ICE’s arrest and detention of five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos in Minnesota last month sparked national outrage. The episode was just one among many instances of federal immigration agents abducting yo...

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Mothers Are on the Front Lines of the Nordic Care Crisis

In Sweden today, maternal activism is uniting around a politics of collective care, turning private burdens into claims about public obligation and democratic rights. Sweden’s motherhood movements co...

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QAnon is Dead. Long Live QAnon!

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Does Israel Really Think It Can Make Cattle of the Palestinians?

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At NYC’s Richest Hospital, 4,200 Nurses Are Still on Strike

New York City nurses reached deals and ended their strikes at two hospitals last week. But at NewYork-Presbyterian, New York’s richest hospital, 4,200 nurses are still striking after overwhelmingly re...

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Ending the Surge in Minnesota Isn’t Enough

It’s good that the federal occupation of Minnesota is ending. But the Trump administration shouldn’t be allowed to pretend it never happened. Justice would require a wave of impeachments, criminal cha...

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Trump Is Using Mexico’s Oil to Put the Squeeze on Cuba

Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, wants to send Cuba some desperately needed oil. Donald Trump sent the US Navy into the Caribbean to make sure that doesn’t happen. The invasion of Venezuela has...

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The Class War on White-Collar Workers Is Just More Capitalism

Thanks to AI, white-collar workers are discovering what blue-collar workers learned a half-century ago: they’re disposable. Andy Jassy, chief executive officer of Amazon, speaks during an unveiling ev...

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House Republicans Unveil a Revamped Farm Bill

February 13, 2025 – Republicans on the House Agriculture Committee released a draft farm bill package today, as farmers across the country continue to call for overdue investments. The text of the bil...

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“I Love You, So Will You Fix This for Me?”

The first time I noticed it was last month, when he asked for a hug. And not just any hug. “I could use a HUGE MAGA hug!” he wrote. “I love you. Do you STILL love me?” The love note was adorned with l...

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There Is Still No Ceasefire in Sight for the People of Gaza

Since Donald Trump announced a ceasefire deal with great fanfare, Israel has killed hundreds of Palestinians while continuing to occupy Gaza and block aid. Now Trump and his entourage want to convert...

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Reclaiming Socialism in Canada’s NDP Leadership Race

NDP leadership candidate Avi Lewis says socialism, defined by bold public solutions, not managerial caution, can rebuild the party after historic losses. He’s betting it can unite a majority across di...

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Washington’s War on Cuba Is Collective Punishment

The new oil blockade makes explicit what US policy has long denied — that economic warfare against Cuba targets civilians in the name of “regime change.” After decades of euphemisms, Washington is ope...

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45 Degrees North: Voting While Female

It’s been very, very cold here at 45 degrees north. Cold enough to freeze water pipes, and then some. Once those pipes are frozen, people don’t always make the best choices about how to thaw them. Som...

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Q&A: Journalist and Filmmaker Jon Bonfiglio

In September 2025, my colleague Ilana Newman and I canoed 50 nautical miles down the Hudson River to spend time in and report on the environmental issues faced by the rural communities between Albany,...

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Keir Starmer’s Weakened Position Opens the Door for the Left

Britain’s Labour prime minister is severely wounded by his disastrous appointment of a Jeffrey Epstein–associated US ambassador and could soon be ousted. But the party needs more than a makeover. Keir...

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For Migrant Workers in Spain, Gender-Based Violence Is Rife

Domestic work in Spain is often a low-paid job done by migrant women. A new study shows that half of them are subject to gender-based violence, harassed by their employers. Data and testimonies collec...

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On Fascists, Mean Girls and Screechy Pedophile Allies

In what one sage deemed "amateur-hour, clown-fucker, reality-show dictatorship shit," this week's House hearings on ICE abuses, Epstein cover-ups and other GOP atrocities showcased a parade of rancid,...

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Bipartisan Bill Seeks to Advance Offshore U.S. Aquaculture

Small in comparison to coastal Norwegian salmon farms, with annual combined exports of 1.2 million tons, Blue Ocean Mariculture produces about 1,100 tons of fish annually in net pens submerged 30 to 1...

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A Bloodstained Anniversary of the Revolution in Iran

The Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, left the country on a journey to exile on January 16, 1979. Less than a month later, on February 11, the popular revolution triumphed and closed the book of mo...

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Epstein and the Professors

When Jeffrey Epstein began harvesting professors for his dinners masked as seminars, he was drawing from a bountiful crop. It’s the rare professor who can’t be compromised by money. Add celebrity, fin...

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MAGA Aesthetics and Fascist Power: Spectacles of White Supremacy

The United States is not merely awash in brutalizing and murderous acts of state-sanctioned violence. It is being restructured by them. The killings of Rachel Good and Alex Pretti are not aberrations...

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Nobody Starts With a Blank Slate: an Interview with John Sayles

The novels of John Sayles encompass a wide swath of American history. Since the wide swath of American history is replete with one injustice after another, those are front and center in Sayles’s ficti...

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Spain’s Streets Are Named After Immigrants

I live my life surrounded by dead Middle Eastern men. They loom over my mornings from enamel street signs, glower from building façades and squat in the middle of traffic circles with stone hands rais...

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Super Bowl Simulcast

Up to kick-off and even after it, I was expecting the Executive Order. Or the Black Shirts. Or both. If Commander-in-Chief Trump can, while flipping through his own large-print rulebook, change the na...

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The Amazon Imperative: Unions Must Join Forces

The tentacles of the global logistics juggernaut Amazon reach into every corner of the economy, gripping the planet and workers. Amazon dominates retail e-commerce with a 40 percent market share. It i...

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Lawsuit Seeks to Protect Monarchs Under Endangered Species Act

Two conservation groups, the Center for Biological Diversity and Center for Food Safety, today sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to force officials to set a binding date to finalize federal prot...

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USDA Debuts Plan to End ‘Agricultural Lawfare’

February 12, 2026 – Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Wednesday announced a plan to address an issue the Trump administration is calling “agricultural lawfare.” Rollins made the announcement at...

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Remembering Kent Wong (1956-2025)

Wong was an educator, organizer and visionary who saw immigrants as the heart of the labor movement—long before the idea had reached the mainstream.

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Mark Zuckerberg Wanted to Keep in Touch With Jeffrey Epstein

Despite his later denial, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg wanted to keep a line open to Jeffrey Epstein. Emails between the two suggest that the world of the Big Tech elite is less a back room of evi...

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House Member Crafting Legislation to Stop Climate Lawsuits

Following widespread reports that the oil and gas industry has been lobbying Congress for a liability waiver that could give fossil fuel companies complete legal immunity, a U.S. House Representative...

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The Legacy of the International Socialists, 50 Years Later

Like many left-wing groups in the 1970s, the International Socialists hoped to build the class struggle by making a “turn to industry.” The IS’s efforts generated an important legacy in the form of La...

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Union Coordination Is Essential to Organizing Amazon

Unions have the resources to organize Amazon and are already working to do so. Building Amazon “labor tables” in key metro areas — regular meetings where unions agree to coordinate their efforts — wil...

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Maybe America Needs Some New Cities

It sounds a bit kooky to promise a whole city from scratch. But it has been done before — and might just help solve the housing crisis.

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Trump’s ICE Won’t Stop Abducting Kids

Here are just some of the ways Trump’s ICE has terrorized thousands of children, like five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, since the administration took office.

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USDA Opens ‘Sterile Fly’ Facility to Prevent Cattle Disease

February 11, 2026 – Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins joined Governor Greg Abbott in Texas Monday to announce the opening of a new U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) facility that will be abl...

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Revised Data Paints a Grim Picture of 2025 Jobs Market

Today’s delayed report shows the United States added even fewer jobs in 2025 than previously reported. Total job creation in 2025 was revised down from 584,000 to 181,000, or just 15,000 jobs per mont...

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Cuts to Childcare Grants Leave Rural Students in Limbo

Major changes to a federal childcare grant program have forced student parents across the country to scramble for care in the middle of the academic year.  The disruption has been felt by rural studen...

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FDA to Reevaluate Safety of Common Food Preservative

February 10, 2026 – The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is reassessing the safety of a common chemical preservative used in foods like frozen meals, deli meats, and breakfast cereals. Under the rea...

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“Carte Blanche for Ruthlessness”

Author Laura Field on how Trump and the furious minds of the New Right are in a mutually reinforcing cycle of radicalization.

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Portland Labor Rally against ICE Attacked with Tear Gas

On January 31 my husband and I stood shoulder to shoulder with thousands of union members and community allies in Portland’s South Waterfront. We gathered for a peaceful, permitted rally and march: “L...

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Community Builds Keep the Cold Air Out

Neighbors helping neighbors. In a nutshell, that’s one way to describe the WindowDressers build. It happens in school gyms, American Legion Halls, churches – any place where a few tables can be groupe...

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Tracking Habeas Cases

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Anti-Them: A Joyful Colonial At the Heart of Empire

Good Bunny Bad Trump Dept: Super Bowl LX sucked, but Bad Bunny's exuberant "cultural landmine" of a half-time show was fire, a heartfelt, sanguine, unifying "love letter to the American Dream," or wha...

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Trump Signs Executive Order Boosting Argentine Beef Imports

February 9, 2025 – The United States has finalized a deal with Argentina that is expected to more than quadruple beef imports from the South American country, acting on plans floated in October that r...

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Native Families Were Promised Free Solar. Trump Took It Away

This story is published in partnership with Reveal and Mother Jones. It was sunny and warm for the end of November on the Rocky Boy’s Reservation in Northern Montana. Joseph Eagleman was standing on a...

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The Children of Dilley

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More Unions Are Saying ‘ICE Out’

More unions across the country are taking a stand against Immigration and Customs Enforcement since the January 23 mass strike in Minneapolis and the January 24 killing of Alex Pretti, an intensive ca...

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45 Degrees North: What A Mess

Last year, an ice storm in late March knocked down many trees in my area, including around the edges of two fields behind my house. A few weeks later, a work crew showed up to clear downed trees befor...

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Q&A: Ryan Dennis on the History of Agriculture

Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Like what you se...

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EPA Affirms Farmers’ Right to Repair

February 5, 2025 – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued new guidance this week that makes it clear that manufacturers cannot use the Clean Air Act to prevent farmers from fixing their own...

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Are “Hamnet” and its Rural Representation Fated for an Oscar?

Editor’s Note: A version of this story also appeared in The Good, the Bad, and the Elegy, a newsletter from the Daily Yonder focused on the best, and worst, in rural media, entertainment, and culture....

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Striking New York Nurses Brave Subzero Cold

Fifteen thousand New York nurses are more than three weeks into their strike for a fairer contract. Yesterday members of the New York State Nurses Association braved below-freezing temperatures to mar...

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USDA Takes Over Food for Peace

February 4, 2026 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced Tuesday that it is now operating the foreign food aid program Food for Peace and that it is moving quickly to get the program bac...

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Malaysian Workers Protest Union-Busting at Apple Supplier

Workers in Malaysia who make screens like the one you are reading this article on are protesting after union leaders were fired following an organizing victory. The workers make LED screens for compan...

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Education Majors in Rural Counties

Editor’s Note: This post is from our data newsletter, the Rural Index, headed by Sarah Melotte, the Daily Yonder’s data reporter. Subscribe to get a weekly map or graph straight to your inbox. When I...

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Mid-Atlantic Farmers Share Challenges

Most farmers in the Future Harvest network operate small, diversified farms that sell directly to nearby communities. The organization also runs a well-known Beginner Farming Training Program, and man...

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Delete the Starbucks App Now, Say Striking Workers

Starbucks barista Christi Gomoljak has been on strike for 80 days. Managers at her Disney store in Anaheim, California had taken away the workers’ restroom without consultation. “There was a note on o...

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The Fake Clinics Taking Over Reproductive Healthcare

As abortion clinics disappear nationwide, “crisis pregnancy centers” are transforming reproductive healthcare into a far-right fantasy—quietly collecting hundreds of millions in public funds as Medica...

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How to Debunk Anti-Immigrant Myths at Work

Anti-immigrant myths flood our airwaves. They dominate news cycles and our online feeds. And now they’re amplified from the highest halls of power. President Donald Trump has asserted, for example, t...

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The US Farmers Saving Palestinian Seeds

The plants’ true treasure, though, is its seeds—and in 2024, the City Green plants produced more than 9,000. At a time when conflict in the Middle East has destroyed Palestinian farmland and foodways,...

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Minneapolis Fights Back: An Episode of The Dig

Host Dan Denvir speaks with Minneapolis organizers about the impact of the Jan. 23, 2026, work stoppage amidst the continued ICE occupation of Minnesota.

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In Northern Idaho, a Wealth of Silver Begets a Legacy of Lead

When Barbara Miller was in elementary school, she covered her face while walking to class. “It hurt so bad to breathe. Your neck, your throat, your eyes,” Miller said. Doors that led to a breezeway go...

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A Small Town Under ICE Occupation

On a sub-zero day in Willmar, Minnesota, fifteen residents gathered around a table at a restaurant in town. It was the middle of the usual lunch rush on a Saturday, but the group sat alone. The restau...

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Farmers Now Owe a Lot More for Health Insurance

This story was originally published by KFF Health News. Last year was a tough one for farmers. Amid falling prices for commodity crops such as corn and soybeans, rising input costs for supplies like f...

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Paying kidney donors won’t solve the problem | Letters

We need to tackle the causes of renal failure and unequal access to care, writes Sandra Currie. Plus letters from Dominique E Martin on why markets in kidneys don’t work and a disgruntled altruistic l...

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Rural Minnesotans Stand Up to ICE

As federal agents descend on small towns in Minnesota, residents are uniting to protect their immigrant neighbors.

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Scams All the Way Down

The post Scams All the Way Down appeared first on Inequality.org.

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What Did Workers Have to Say in 2025?

Despite experiencing the harm of corporate greed and our collapsing social safety net firsthand, workers remain underrepresented in mainstream media. Here at Inequality.org we do our best to counterac...

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Wall Street Is Your Landlord Now

Private equity firms and corporate investors have bought up hundreds of thousands of homes, driving up rents and prices while turning the American Dream into a subscription service that benefits Wall Street.

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How Corporate Agriculture Is Crushing Family Farms

Family farms across America are being squeezed out by corporate mega-farms, predatory contracts, and a system designed to benefit agribusiness giants at the expense of the people who actually grow our food.

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Pandora Papers: The Biggest Offshore Data Leak in History

A massive leak of nearly 12 million documents exposed how world leaders, billionaires, and celebrities use offshore accounts and shell companies to hide their wealth and avoid taxes.

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The Secret IRS Files: How Billionaires Avoid Income Tax

ProPublica obtained a vast trove of IRS data on the tax returns of the wealthiest Americans, revealing that billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Warren Buffett pay a tiny fraction of their wealth in taxes compared to ordinary workers.

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