Jeff Biggers
Jeff Biggers is the author of numerous books, including his latest: Resistance: Reclaiming an American Tradition? His previous works include: State Out of the Union: Arizona and the Final Showdown Over the American Dream; The United States of Appalachia; Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland; and the forthcoming Resistance: Reclaiming an American Tradition. Follow him on twitter: @JeffRBiggers
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Views Wednesday, July 04, 2018 The American Resistance Should Also Salute This Corsican Revolutionary on July 4th The following is excerpted from the author's new book, Resistance: Reclaiming an American Tradition? "The greatest in the United States Constitution is its first three beautiful words,” President Donald Trump declared in his first address to the United Nations General Assembly on September 19, 2017... Read more |
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Views Sunday, July 01, 2018 Trump Is Following Arizona’s Playbook On Immigration. We Know How To Fight Back The “ total chaos ” of the Trump administration’s handling of immigration on the U.S.-Mexico border is deja vu all over again for Arizonans. The same goes for this week’s Supreme Court ruling to uphold President Donald Trump’s travel ban, a proclamation “motivated by anti-Muslim animus,” as Justice... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, June 19, 2018 Trump's Immigration Debacle Repeats History's Mistakes When lawmakers meet with President Trump on Tuesday to discuss immigration policy, the trauma of thousands of incarcerated immigrant children separated at the border from their asylum-seeking parents should pinpoint the failure of the Trump administration's new " zero tolerance " policy. "To undo a... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, May 01, 2018 May Day: Arizona Teachers Have Resistance History on Their Side Now in their fourth day on the picket line, the striking Arizona teachers are following a century-old labor tradition that galvanized the founding of the state in 1912 and constitutionally required the legislature to adequately fund education. Arizona's first governor George W. P. Hunt oversaw a... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, February 27, 2018 My Kid Doesn’t Need Permission To Walk Out My 15-year-old son texted me from the streets of Iowa City last week, as he joined other kids in a walkout to support survivors of the shooting that took place earlier this month at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. By the time they reached the historic Old Capitol of Iowa... Read more |
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Views Friday, October 27, 2017 Coal Kills And Coal Is Not Dead Amid all the “war on coal” and climate denial banter, you never hear one basic fact from either side: Coal kills. And far from the “coal is dead” trope that well-meaning environmental observers stress now, another fact is that our nation is on track to mine 785 million tons of coal this year. That... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, August 15, 2017 Trump’s Arpaio Pardon? Instead, Arizona’s Confederate Monuments Must Come Down Any pardon of disgraced and criminally convicted former Sheriff Joe Arpaio by Donald Trump would be a de facto monument to “the most egregious racial profiling in the United States” and “chronic culture of disregard for basic legal and constitutional obligations,” at least according to a federal... Read more |
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Views Friday, August 04, 2017 Dear Media: Trump’s “Beautiful, Clean Coal” Is Another Lie. Please Hold Him Accountable. Joined on stage by billionaire coal baron and Gov. Jim Justice, Donald Trump returned to West Virginia last night with another barnstorming lie that should make a Boy Scout cringe: His administration has “ended the war on beautiful, clean coal.” The August 3rd rally actually marked the 40th... Read more |
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Views Sunday, March 26, 2017 Let Us Now Praise A Coal Miner: Chuck Nelson Is An American Hero Among the hundreds of coal miners I have interviewed over the years, retired coal miner Chuck Nelson has always been among the most fearless truth-tellers in the coal country of West Virginia. An indefatigable presence at hearings, meetings, media briefings, and in his beloved mountains, Nelson’s... Read more |
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Views Thursday, March 09, 2017 Call It What It Is: Climate Cover-Up, Not Climate Denial Today’s remarks by EPA administrator Scott Pruitt that human activity is not “a primary contributor to the global warming that we see” should effectively bring an end to the term formerly known as “climate denial.” Dear media: Call it what it is—a climate cover-up. As our nation’s top official... Read more |