Christopher D. Cook
Christopher D. Cook is an award-winning journalist and author of "Diet for a Dead Planet: Big Business and the Coming Food Crisis" (2006). Cook has written for Harper's, The Economist, Mother Jones, The Christian Science Monitor, Common Dreams and elsewhere. See more of his work at www.christopherdcook.com.
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Views Wednesday, November 18, 2020 Biden’s Agriculture Secretary: Heitkamp Is the Wrong Choice As president-elect Joe Biden weighs agriculture secretary candidates to steer America’s food and farming policies, an important question looms: will his pick reflect his ambitious goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and make agriculture more sustainable and socially just? Or, will he bow to... Read more |
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Views Monday, November 02, 2020 Trump Is the Anti-Worker President Despite his relentless claims of being a “pro-worker” president, Donald Trump has in fact gutted worker safety and health protections and refused to enforce rules to keep workers safe amid a deadly pandemic that has killed more than 230,000 Americans and infected thousands of supposedly “essential... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, October 14, 2020 Why the Left Must Choose Biden America is gravely ill and entering the ER, and this election is triage. That’s the inescapable reality we all must confront as we prepare for the Nov. 3 election. This election is not a battle of ideals, it is a fight for our lives and our very existence as a people, a nation, and a planet. Facing... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, September 01, 2020 New People’s Party Rises Amid Grim Election Options In a surreal year that has spiraled from surging hopes for a Bernie Sanders presidency to today’s pandemic-hemmed fear and a tight election between centrist Democrats and fascistic Republicans, now may be just the right time for a new political party. As voters face a dismal “lesser of two evils”... Read more |
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Views Friday, May 01, 2020 Get Ready for Mass Strikes Across the U.S. This May Day Toiling amid a pandemic and a callous response from corporate America and the federal government that is exposing millions to deadly hazards and deepening poverty, workers across the country are rising up, planning hundreds of strikes and sickouts for International Workers’ Day on May 1. May Day... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, April 15, 2020 Beyond Bernie: The Next Challenge for Progressives With a deep sigh opening his “Thank you” video to supporters on April 8, following a brutally bizarre Wisconsin primary clouded by voter suppression and endangerment amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Senator Bernie Sanders ended his once mightily promising bid for the presidency. It’s another sad, tough... Read more |
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Views Thursday, April 02, 2020 Where’s the Money for Health Care and Saving the Planet? Well, We Clearly Have It. With an unprecedented $2 trillion economic stabilization package at last finalized , and a flood of cash and credit emanating from the government to stem the dual crises of pandemic and economic meltdown—now more than $3.5 trillion and counting—America’s priorities and vast resources are being... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, March 03, 2020 On Super Tuesday and Beyond, 10 Reasons to Vote for Bernie Sanders In the fiercely heated run-up to Super Tuesday, as corporate Democratic centrists began to coalesce around Joe Biden, many progressives remained split and undecided between senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. The divide threatens to force a brokered convention at which the Democratic... Read more |
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Views Friday, February 28, 2020 Bernie Sanders Is the Unity Candidate As a Bernie Sanders nomination and presidency become increasingly viable (if not downright likely), his widening popularity signifies something bigger—a palpable yearning and movement across America for a unifying politics based on universal needs that can bring Americans together around common... Read more |
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Views Thursday, January 30, 2020 2020 Election Must Focus on Voter Needs and Future One of the few things most voters agree on is that political campaigns too commonly devolve into personality feuds rather than substantive, issue-driven debates. That’s unfortunate, because most voters have concrete needs and issues propelling their votes in 2020. Perhaps they are among the 28... Read more |