National Lawyers Guild former President Marjorie Cohn: Supreme Court Kills Voting Rights Act, Green-Lights Return of New ‘Jim Crow’ Era

Institute for Policy Studies' Phyllis Bennis: Is the U.S.-Israel War on Iran About to Reignite?

Coal River Mountain Watch Executive Director Vernon Haltom: As Trump Pushes to Extract More Coal, Mountaintop Removal Mining Linked to Severe Health Impacts

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary

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