This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on Aug. 06, 2025. It is shared here with permission. Eighty years ago, the U.S. dropped nuclear bombs on the civilian populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There are now nine nuclear-armed nations, many in

There is a place, tucked into the mountains and hills near the border between the Mexican states of Oaxaca and Puebla, where local campesinos continue to practice an ancestral tradition. They are salt farmers. And they are the last of their

(Photo: Pablo Unzueta for CalMatters) This story was originally published by CalMatters. Funding cuts. Raids near campuses. Exclusion from programs like Head Start and career training. For months, the Trump administration has been chipping away at the rights of students without

Well, finally. This is the year we take out the trash—in politics, in culture, and off our streets. And Donald Trump is the one driving the garbage truck. In fact, he called this one before it happened—remember this? https://www.stevegruber.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/8.12.25-Bite-5.mp4 The latest?

While most politicians spend their days talking about peace, President Donald J. Trump seems determined to actually make it happen – whether it’s in war-torn corners of the world or the crime- plagued streets of the nation’s capital. If you look

When Washington said it was sending “relief” for the COVID-19 pandemic, most of us pictured masks, vaccines, and maybe a check to help keep the lights on – not a government-funded shopping spree for grifters, wannabe moguls, and outright crooks. And

Coming up this Friday, President Donald Trump is set to meet with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin to continue their talks on ending the war in Ukraine—a war claiming 5,000 lives every week, more than 20,000 each month. Despite multiple attempts, Trump

It appears that ICE, under President Donald J. Trump, is putting the “enforcement” back in Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In the first half of the Trump administration, it arrested 356 gang members in Houston, TX. These weren’t your garden-variety troublemakers either.