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      FDR signs the Social Security Act.

      We Need an Economic Bill of Rights to Save American Democracy

      The time has come for our many progressive organizations and resurgent labor unions to create a grand progressive and social-democratic coalition that will press the Democratic Party to redeem FDR’s 1944 call.

      Harvey J. Kaye
      Alan Minsky
      Sep 30, 2023

      We can save the rights we have inherited from our fathers only by winning new ones to bequeath our children. – Henry Demarest Lloyd

      After nearly 50 years of corporate, conservative, and neoliberal assaults on the progressive achievements of the long “Age of Roosevelt” from the 1930s to the early 1970s—assaults that have stripped workers, women, and people of color of their hard-won rights, engendered unprecedented concentrations of wealth and power, and devastated the lives of millions—the American political system, indeed, American democratic life is in jeopardy. The time has come to do what our parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents did. The time has come to make America progressive, indeed, radical again. The time has come to renew the fight for an Economic Bill of Rights for All Americans.

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      The No-Good Nihilistic Destructiveness of the Coming GOP Shutdown

      The Republican Party now controlled by Donald Trump is nothing but a wrecking ball aimed at democracy and good governance.

      Robert Reich
      Sep 30, 2023

      The U.S. is on the cusp of a government shutdown for no reason except that some two dozen House Republicans—under the bonkers influence of Donald Trump—want to create chaos.

      All past shutdowns have pitted the party in control of the House against the president. But the one we’re now facing pits two parts of the House Republican caucus against each other—House Republicans who are merely conservative against this small group of House Republicans who want to take a wrecking ball to government.

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      Contemplating the Unimaginable Costs of a Nuclear War

      If you are on the road to annihilation—get off.

      Andrea Mazzarino
      Sep 30, 2023

      Despite Russian hints about the use of nuclear weapons in the war in Ukraine, consider it strange — amid other world-endangering possibilities — how little attention nuclear destruction gets anymore. And that’s despite the fact that there are now nine (yes, nine!) nuclear powers on this planet, ranging from the United States, Russia, and China to Israel and North Korea.

      Still, at some point in your life, you’ve probably heard about the theory of “nuclear deterrence” embraced by so many in our military and those of other major powers globally. The idea is that nuclear weapons actually keep us all “safe” by their mere presence in the hands of those powers. According to such thinking, their existence restrains the leaders of such countries from directly making war on each other for fear of setting off a world-ending nuclear conflict. And in that context, yes, the U.S. military spends tens of billions of dollars annually on the upkeep of some 5,428 nuclear weapons of every sort and their delivery systems to keep us safe. Worse yet, it plans to “invest” upwards of two trillion dollars more “modernizing” that arsenal in the coming decades.

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