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Tax the Rich? California Dems Can’t Decide

A proposed California ballot measure would impose a onetime 5 percent tax on roughly 200 billionaires to fund health care. The rich are threatening to leave, and Governor Gavin Newsom is taking their side. Rep. Ro Khanna is not.

The Shady Contractors Training ICE Agents

A variety of shadowy private security and weapons firms have been tapped to provide firearms and combat training to ICE agents. They are among the many private entities lining up for their cut of the Trump administration’s deportation spending blitz.

ICE Has Become a Rogue Paramilitary

It’s time we see ICE as it already sees itself: a domestic army dispatched by the Trump administration to terrorize vulnerable people and violently intimidate political enemies into submission.

From the Ashes of the Arab Spring

Today marks 15 years since the overthrow of Tunisian dictator Ben Ali, one of the high points of the Arab Spring. The events of 2011 gave rise to an impressive wave of revolutions. Almost all were bloodily suppressed.

ICE Is on a Violent, Illegal, Immoral Rampage

ICE appears to be reveling in the hypocrisy and double standards that the Trump administration’s unqualified defense of their sickeningly violent and occasionally murderous behavior, against Renee Good and innumerable others, has given them license to indulge in.

Israel, From Genocide to Self-Destruction

The genocide in Gaza radicalizes Zionism’s long-standing colonial project. But Israeli leaders’ open rejection of any future possibility of a Palestinian state have undercut their own international legitimacy.