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Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community | Common Dreams -- ") //-- Skip to main content -- Home Subscribe Donate World War & Peace Economy Climate Rights Solutions U.S. Canada About Us Key Staff Testimonials Sections SUBSCRIBE DONATE Search form Search -- -- Amid Iowa Results Debacle, Sanders Campaign Signals Victory by Releasing Portion of Its Internal Caucus Data 'We Found Inconsistencies... This Is Not a Hack': Final Iowa Caucus Results Are... Not Yet Available Jon Queally, staff writer Prolonged wait for the officials results due to "quality checks" that turned up discrepancies in the result totals. Read More 'My Word Stands': Sanders Co-Chair Nina Turner Offends MSNBC Pundits by Calling Billionaire Bloomberg an 'Oligarch' Eoin Higgins, staff writer "Not sure why this is even a discussion but by any reasonable historical or... 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Read More 'Not an Exoneration—A Cover-Up': Nationwide Protests Planned to Denounce GOP Acquittal of Trump Bloc of Muslim Nations Warns Trump Israel-Palestine Plan 'Destroys the Foundations of Peace' 'Let Iowa Be the Beginning of a New America': Last Poll Before Caucus Shows Sanders With 7-Point Lead Divestment Fever Spreads as 'Eco Radicals at Goldman Sachs' Downgrade Exxon Stock to 'Sell' Status "It's Okay, Chris": MSNBC's Matthews Mocked for Fearing Sanders Nomination 'An Appalling Act of Industrial Vandalism': Japanese Officials Do PR for Plan to Dump Fukushima Water Into Ocean 'Saudi Arabia Must Be Held Accountable': Jamal Khashoggi's Fiancée to Attend State of the Union as Congressman's Guest Joe Biden Still Believes He Can Work With Republicans 'Bridge to Climate Chaos': New Report Details Urgent Need for Total US Fracking Ban "Don't Look Away": Cages Across Des Moines Remind Iowa Caucus-Goers of Trump's Mass Detention of Migrant Kids 'Horrific': Human Rights Advocates Call for Investigation Into Death of Second Monarch Butterfly Defender in Mexico House Oversight Committee to DeVos: Skip Stumping for Trump and Show Up for Testimomy—or Face Subpoena More News Views Cari Hernandez The Candidate Who Best Represents Me Is Only One Saying It's About Us Mary Hladky The Afghanistan Papers and a Mother's Question Robert Dodge In the Name of Medicare for All, This Family Doctor Will Vote for Bernie Sanders Michael Winship At a Church and on Capitol Hill, The Battle for Democracy Norman Solomon The Creation Myth of the Buttigieg Campaign Jeffrey C. Isaac Impeachment Has Always Been More Than Impeachment. And It Still Is. Rob Richie We’re Stuck With a Flawed Primary Process in 2020, But We Can Make 2024 Better Chris Hedges America: Land of Make-Believe Rajan Menon The Shame of Child Poverty in the Age of Trump Juan Cole On the Big Issues, Bernie Sanders Is the Only One Who Can Save America Evelyn Red Lodge The Art of Criminalization Danny Haiphong Remember the Influence of Socialism on Martin Luther King Jr's Legacy Ahmed Abu Artema Trapped and Voiceless: The Palestinians Depicted in Trump's Plan Christopher Brauchli Two Nadirs: The Trump Impeachment is a Low Point in the History of the United States Bob Burnett This Is the Way It Ends, Not With a Bang But a Whimper Neil deMause Media on Climate Crisis: Don’t Organize, Mourn Paul Rockwell A Look Back at Seven Centrist Defeats Tom Weis DNC Showing Its True Colors (Again) Randall Amster Trump and Subservient GOP Expose Failure of American Exceptionalism Ralph Nader It Should Be Easy to Defeat Trump, But Corporate Democrats Look Ready and Willing to Blow It More Views Further... We're Not In Kansas Anymore: Stable Genius Strikes Again Sigh. So there was a Super Bowl. The Kansas City Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers. With his usual linguistic and geographic acumen, Dear Leader tweeted his congrats to the Chiefs: "You represented the Great State of Kansas and, in fact, the entire USA, so very well." Alas, Kansas City is in Missouri. At some point he (or his lackeys) deleted it. Because he is, as one social media analyst put it, "a stonecold fucking moron," he hasn't learned the Internet is forever. Let us pray he won't be. Read More... 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Rob Richie We’re Stuck With a Flawed Primary Process in 2020, But We Can Make 2024 Better Chris Hedges America: Land of Make-Believe Rajan Menon The Shame of Child Poverty in the Age of Trump Juan Cole On the Big Issues, Bernie Sanders Is the Only One Who Can Save America Evelyn Red Lodge The Art of Criminalization Danny Haiphong Remember the Influence of Socialism on Martin Luther King Jr's Legacy Ahmed Abu Artema Trapped and Voiceless: The Palestinians Depicted in Trump's Plan Christopher Brauchli Two Nadirs: The Trump Impeachment is a Low Point in the History of the United States Bob Burnett This Is the Way It Ends, Not With a Bang But a Whimper Neil deMause Media on Climate Crisis: Don’t Organize, Mourn Paul Rockwell A Look Back at Seven Centrist Defeats Tom Weis DNC Showing Its True Colors (Again) Randall Amster Trump and Subservient GOP Expose Failure of American Exceptionalism Ralph Nader It Should Be Easy to Defeat Trump, But Corporate Democrats Look Ready and Willing to Blow It More Views Connect With Us About Common Dreams Our Mission: To inform. 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