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Silicon Valley’s Next Target: America’s Farmers

by Jim Hightower

They’re building robots to siphon farm profits out of local communities and into the pockets of rich investors.

by Jill Richardson

Two-thirds of Americans — and nearly all Democratic presidential candidates — now agree that pot prohibition is more harmful than pot itself.

by Khalil Bendib

Also known as “the right side of history.”

by Michael Brune and John Sarbanes

We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to protect our democracy — and our planet.

by Warren Alan Tidwell

Big relief groups often leave poor and rural areas on their own. That gives us an opportunity to come together.

by Chuck Collins

Conservatives want you to believe that not having to choose between paying for rent or medicine is Soviet-style tyranny.

by Tracey L. Rogers

Women are socialized from a young age to say “sorry” for simply occupying space. This Women’s History Month, I say no more.

by Jim Hightower

If you don’t keep on them once they’re elected, you can be sure special interests will.

by Khalil Bendib

Is it the president’s fault he surrounds himself with liars?

by Karla Molinar-Arvizo

The agencies that separate families, abuse children, and deport innocent people should be just as toxic as Trump’s wall.