# abortion rights (news sources) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover abortion rights. Page: Feed: --- ## [Overflowing Bins in Bethlehem Tell a Bigger Story](https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/garbage-problem-bethlehem) _2026-08-23 · Mahmoud Ibrahim · Common Dreams_ The world knows Bethlehem as the city of the Nativity. It is a city of churches, olive groves, ancient stone streets, and a history that attracts pilgrims and visitors from across the globe. For many, Bethlehem symbolizes peace, hope, and human resilience. Yet in recent weeks, another image has emerged. Overflowing garbage containers. Piles of waste left uncollected for days. Unpleasant odors… ## [New York’s Childcare Expansion Could Redefine Early Education](https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/new-york-childcare-education) _2026-08-22 · Reem Khamis · Common Dreams_ Imagine 2-year-old Malek, growing up in an Arabic-speaking home, entering childcare for the first time. At home, language carries feeling, memory, and family connection. In care, it may be the first time he learns that only one language is recognized and that the other must stay behind. As New York City expands care for 2-year-olds, the public conversation has largely centered on key logistics:… ## [Forget 'No Kings' Placards, Given What Trump Is Plotting Impeach Him This Minute](https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/forget-no-kings-placards-given-what-trump-is-plotting-impeach-him-this-minute) _2026-08-22 · Ralph Nader · Common Dreams_ You’d never know it by the title “Dancing in the Dark,” but the Washingto n Spectator’s recent investigation is about the various steps (mostly illegal) Trump is taking, including the use of enforcement tools and violence, to prepare to reverse any overall Democratic victory in the November Congressional races. The authors, Mark Medish and Joel McCleary, believe Trump needs such a coup to save… ## [Defeating the Donroe Doctrine: Latin America Can Resist Trump’s Gunboat Racketeering](https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/what-is-trump-s-donroe-doctrine) _2026-08-22 · Nancy Okail · Common Dreams_ “American dominance in the Western Hemisphere will never be questioned again,” declared the State Department in a new video tying, somewhat improbably, the Monroe Doctrine of 1823 to killing people on boats in the Caribbean and Pacific 200 years later. Blowing up speedboats supposedly to stop fentanyl smuggling—which notably does not come to the US on speedboats—appears senseless. As a… ## [A Top Law Firm Is Suing Animal Activists So That a Restaurant Can Keep Serving Foie Gras](https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/animal-rights-foie-gras-protests) _2026-08-22 · Samuel Mosley · Common Dreams_ Since last fall, I and a group of fellow animal rights activists have been holding protests at the upscale Lincoln Park restaurant Galit, urging it to stop serving foie gras. Each weekend, activists hold signs, chant, shout through a megaphone, write on the sidewalk with chalk, and pressure Galit to remove foie gras from its menu. We are a grassroots group of people from all walks of life who care… ## [The Lie at the Heart of Modern Motherhood](https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/lie-modern-motherhood) _2026-08-22 · Sabrina Habib · Common Dreams_ Mothers are seemingly given endless choices: to work or be a stay-at-home mom. Sleep train or not, breastfeed or bottle-feed. The list is endless. But true choice only exists when the options are genuinely possible. For millions of mothers around the world, they aren't. Reshma Saujani’s recent documentary, No Country for Mothers , has reignited a conversation about what it means to be a mother in… ## [Thank Idiot, Greedy Republicans If You're Upset With $40 Trillion in US Debt](https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/why-does-us-have-40-trillion-in-debt) _2026-08-21 · Dean Baker · Common Dreams_ I have never been a deficit hawk, and I’m not about to change my religious affiliation now. But whatever we think of debt and deficits, there is one point that should be very clear: it has been run up almost entirely due to Republican tax cuts and their inept management of the economy. Every Democratic president of the last half century has left with a deficit that was lower, measured as a share… ## [Time to Raise Hell: Trump Taking GOP Voter Suppression Efforts to Heights Never Seen](https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/donald-trump-election-stealing-plot) _2026-08-21 · Thom Hartmann · Common Dreams_ Trump and his Republican partners in the destruction of American democracy really don’t want us to vote this fall or in 2028. And there’s a good reason for it, at least in their minds. Joyce Vance just pointed out that Howard Lutnick, Trump’s morbidly rich crony Commerce Secretary, claimed this week that they’d found over 24,000 noncitizens who’d illegally voted in the 2020 election. It’s a lie,… ## [John Roberts Proves Alexander Hamilton Wrong: You Cannot Trust the Judges](https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/alexander-hamilton-judicial-review) _2026-08-21 · Bill Blum · Common Dreams_ If you want to understand how the Supreme Court became the sinkhole of ideological extremism and corruption it is today under the leadership of Chief Justice John Roberts, you have to go back to the beginning and examine the institution’s own origin story. A good place to start is with the debates on ratification of the Constitution that played out in 1787 and 1788 in what are now known as the… ## [Almost Overnight, the Data Centers Were Everywhere in My Community—Don't Let This Happen to You](https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/virginia-maryland-data-centers) _2026-08-21 · Danielle Johnson · Common Dreams_ I’ve lived in Northern Virginia my whole life, but no one told us we would soon be living alongside one of the largest concentrations of data centers in the world. No one asked our community whether we wanted them. No one explained what they would mean for our neighborhoods, our landscape, or our monthly bills. Then, almost overnight, they were everywhere. Massive industrial buildings rose where… ## [Open directory of blogs for agents (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/xwTOZZwEUA9L) _2026-08-21 · **Sponsored**_ Submit URLs or OPML; receive feed pages with summaries, plus JSON/OPML/plain text ## [Corporate Democrats to Young People: Run for Office! Corporate Press: No, Not Like That...](https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/media-freakout-dsa) _2026-08-21 · Raina Lipsitz · Common Dreams_ As he was leaving office in 2017, President Barack Obama urged Americans concerned about where their country was headed to act. “If something needs fixing, then lace up your shoes and do some organizing,” he said (Time, 1/11/17 ). “If you’re disappointed by your elected officials, grab a clip board, get some signatures, and run for office yourself.” Ten months earlier, then-presidential candidate… ## [The 'Most Impossible Job in the World': Will a Woman Become the UN’s Next Chief?](https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/woman-lead-un) _2026-08-21 · Connie Peck · Common Dreams_ With the second term of the current United Nations Secretary-General, Antònio Guterres, expiring on December 31, 2026, the organization is in the process of selecting its 10th secretary-general. The UN’s first-ever Secretary-General, Trygve Lie, famously described it as “the most impossible job in the world .” That was at a time when there were 60 UN member states and the world’s population was… ## [$40 Trillion in US Debt and the Rich and Powerful Are Laughing](https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/40-trillion-in-us-debt-and-the-rich-and-powerful-are-laughing) _2026-08-20 · Robert Reich · Common Dreams_ The U.S. national debt has officially surpassed $40 trillion, months earlier than forecasters had expected — because of billions of dollars in lost revenue from Trump’s invalidated tariffs, Trump’s tax cuts (mostly to big corporations and the very wealthy), and the soaring costs of Trump’s war. Trump’s hair-brained treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, says there’s nothing to worry about because the… ## [Don't Coddle For-Profit Insurers—Take Them On! (or Why Paul Krugman Is Wrong About Medicare for All)](https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/medicare-for-all-2677735164) _2026-08-20 · Dr. Rob Stone · Common Dreams_ Paul Krugman won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2008 and must be a smart fellow. He wrote on Substack August 11, “The U.S. Healthcare System is Already Mostly Socialized, and there’s nothing radical about wanting to end insurance company parasitism .” Krugman explained that taxpayers currently pay two-thirds of US healthcare costs. It’s not just the costs of Medicare, Medicaid, the Indian Health… ## [Serious Question: Would Hakeem Jeffries Prefer Republicans Retain Congress?](https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/can-hakeem-jeffries-unite-party) _2026-08-20 · Miles Mogulescu · Common Dreams_ In the almost-over primary season, Democratic voters chose a mix of progressive nominees like Abdul El Sayed, Peggy Flanagan and Angie Nixon and moderates like David Crowley and Jared Moscowitz, often by slim margins. These candidates often disagreed on issues like Medicare For All and military aide for Israel. But in the 11 weeks between now and the general election, Democrats progressives and… ## [What the Corporate Media Never Says In Its Coverage of Cuba](https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/corporate-media-cuba-coverage) _2026-08-20 · Lea Aschkenas · Common Dreams_ Recently, while listening to an NPR interview with Cuban-American musician Arturo Sandoval, I was reminded of the late political scientist Michael Parenti’s classic text, "Inventing Reality: The Politics of the Mass Media." In his 1986 book, Parenti described a situation that is still relevant 40 years later—when the US fears that another country’s non-capitalistic political model (and its… ## [A Grand Prix to the Bottom: Trump’s $183 Billion Attack on American Culture and Heritage](https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-attack-us-heriitage) _2026-08-20 · Alex Lawson · Common Dreams_ This weekend, President Donald Trump is turning the heart of our democracy into a taxpayer-funded racetrack. Through an executive order, the administration mandated the "Freedom 250 Grand Prix"—an IndyCar street circuit winding directly through the National Mall. We are being told this is a celebration of America. But earlier this year, IndyCar quietly launched and then hastily deleted a new piece… ## [Hey, Republicans: Farmers Can't Build a Future on Constant Uncertainty](https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/republicans-make-farming-unstable) _2026-08-20 · Terry Brown · Common Dreams_ America’s farmers understand that some degree of uncertainty comes with the job. They can’t control the weather, after all. But for most of them, the biggest source of uncertainty is not nature, but politics. As US foreign and domestic policy becomes less predictable, it becomes more difficult for families who work the land to make informed long-term decisions. The partisan wrangling over the most… ## [Independents Rise for Working People Where Democrats Once Upon a Time Stood](https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/independents-rise-for-working-people-where-democrats-once-upon-a-time-stood) _2026-08-19 · Les Leopold · Common Dreams_ Independent candidates are popping up all over. We see them running for the U.S. Senate in South Dakota, Idaho, Montana, and Nebraska. In most of these races, Democratic candidates have stepped aside to avoid splitting the anti-Republican vote. But what does this mean for the Democratic Party? My friend Bob Kuttner, co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect , takes up this question.… ## [The Reign of Corporate Democrats Is Coming to an End](https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/what-is-the-democratic-party-establishment) _2026-08-19 · Robert Reich · Common Dreams_ Most discussions about the Democratic Party in this election cycle focus on the remarkable rise of progressive Democrats (such as Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon, a democratic socialist who yesterday scored an upset win in the Democratic contest for the Florida Senate). An equally big story is the remarkable decline of corporate Democrats. Some Democrats worry about this. My old friend Democratic… ## [Sync bookmarks across every browser (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/u9lSYTjYBytS) _2026-08-19 · **Sponsored**_ Two-way sync across Chrome, Firefox and Safari; built-in ad and tracker blocker. ## [An AI Smarter Than the Humans Running Things Now? We Should Be So Lucky!](https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/ai-smarter-than-humans) _2026-08-19 · R. D. Crano · Common Dreams_ In early August Meta joined OpenAI and Anthropic in confessing that one of its AI models, having slipped its sandbox during a security test after a contractor's misconfiguration handed it the open internet, hacked into another company's systems—the third such disclosure in a matter of weeks, each delivered in the grave corporate idiom of the incident report, and each landing, conveniently, just as… ## [It's Simple: Progressives Are Winning Because What They Support Is Extremely Popular](https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/what-do-progressives-believe-in) _2026-08-19 · Bernie Sanders · Common Dreams_ The media pundits have written article after article desperately trying to understand why progressive candidates, despite being heavily outspent, keep defeating establishment Democrats in primaries around the country. Well, the answer is not complicated. Whether it is a corrupt campaign finance system, unprecedented income and wealth inequality, a broken and wildly expensive healthcare system, the…