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Experts Say Even Average Venezuelans Critical of Maduro Won’t Back Regime Change
Scheer Post Dec 17, 2025

Experts Say Even Average Venezuelans Critical of Maduro Won’t Back Regime Change

By  Rodrigo Acuña for Truthout President Donald Trump has escalated threats against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in recent weeks, and reports now say the Trump administration is preparing for the days after a potential Maduro overthrow. What might happen in such a scenario? In November, Michael Crowley at The New York Times pursued this question by reminding readers that, during Trump’s […]

Healthcare Is Hard, Lying Republicans Make It Harder
Scheer Post Dec 17, 2025

Healthcare Is Hard, Lying Republicans Make It Harder

Dean Baker Beat The Press for The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) During his first term, after repeatedly promising the country a terrific health care plan, Donald Trump famously commented, “Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated.” In fact, everyone who spent even a few minutes looking at the issue knew that […]

Trump Economy Keeps Getting WAY Worse
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The Majority Report Dec 17, 2025

Trump Economy Keeps Getting WAY Worse

John Sanbonmatsu Thinks You’re Lying to Yourself About Food
Current Affairs Dec 16, 2025

John Sanbonmatsu Thinks You’re Lying to Yourself About Food

John sanbonmatsu is a professor of philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the author of The Omnivore’s Deception: What We Get Wrong about Meat, Animals, and Ourselves. The book is a response to Michael Pollan’s 2006 bestseller The Omnivore’s Dilemma, and as the title suggests, Sanbonmatsu thinks writers like Pollan are dead wrong about the ethics of food. He maintains that killing and eating animals is entirely indefensible, no matter how “humane” the process supposedly is. He joined Current Affairs editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson to explain why. 

Bret Weinstein Humiliates Himself With Rob Reiner Take
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The Majority Report Dec 16, 2025

Bret Weinstein Humiliates Himself With Rob Reiner Take

The Israeli army is creating a ‘new security reality’ in the northern West Bank to advance colonization
Scheer Post Dec 16, 2025

The Israeli army is creating a ‘new security reality’ in the northern West Bank to advance colonization

By Shatha Hanaysha  for Mondoweiss On December 3, Israeli forces raided a home in the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin, tearing down a map of Palestine hanging on the wall and confiscating another. The homeowners, a woman and her 11-year-old daughter, were detained for several hours and subjected to on-site field interrogations as Israeli troops vandalised […]