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Amira Odeh Puerto Rico One Year Later: We’re Fighting for Justice and Prosperity It has been a year since the impact of Maria. Here in Puerto Rico, there are still families living in the dark, homes without a roof, people who haven’t been able to find a new job after their businesses were destroyed, and people mourning their lost loved ones. This is climate injustice in action. Read more |
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William Hartung Trump’s Space Force Smoke and mirrors or a step towards war in space? Read more |
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Michelle Goldberg Pigs All the Way Down Kavanaugh and our rotten ruling class Read more |
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Patti Solis Doyle Burn Down the 'Boys Will Be Boys' Club Women across America will be watching on Thursday, and, in just a few weeks, they'll be voting Read more |
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Olivia Alperstein It’s Time to Ban Nukes for Good “Use of any nuclear weapon, regardless of its killing power, could be catastrophically destabilizing." Read more |
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Maya Finoh Five Ways the Trump Administration Has Attacked the U.N. and International Human Rights Bodies By pushing xenophobic policies that defy international law, the Trump administration is pitting the United States against the very system of multilateralism that our country worked so hard to create in the years after World War II Read more |
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Rachel Licker Understanding 1.5°C: The IPCC’s Forthcoming Special Report The latest scientific literature has only underscored the urgent need for action to limit the heat-trapping emissions that are fueling climate change Read more |
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John Feffer Trump’s New Normal: Say Goodbye to the Guardrails of Governance What happens when the adults in the room are as scary as the crying baby? Read more |
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Ryan Cooper Brett Kavanaugh and the Corruption of the American Aristocracy Aristocracy means corruption, deception, and moral rot. It is nowhere worse than in America's most elite universities Read more |
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Robert Reich Why I’m Betting on Millennials, This November 6th In my thirty-five years of teaching college students, I’ve not encountered a generation as dedicated to making the nation better as this one Read more |
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Eileen M. Ahlin Memo to Kavanaugh’s Defenders: Passage of Time Doesn’t Erase Youthful Mistakes in the Criminal Justice System, Especially for People of Color Juvenile crimes can haunt people for the rest of their lives Read more |
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Bill C. Davis On Catholic Boys, Kavanaugh, Women, and Belief It seems to me now, the way men perceive women is how they perceive life itself. Read more |
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Steven Greenhouse SeaWorld and Kavanaugh’s Missing Empathy Gene The Supreme Court nominee showed more concern for overregulation than worker safety in a U.S Court of Appeals case involving the death of a whale trainer. Read more |
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Trita Parsi The Ahvaz Terror Attack in Iran May Drag the US Into a Larger War If the Ahvaz attack has Saudi and UAE fingerprints, then their goal is likely for Iran to respond aggressively, which may force the US to act militarily Read more |
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Laura Carlsen Central American Women Are Fighting Extractive Industries on their Land—and Winning The battle to stop the spread of extractive industries pits indigenous and peasant communities against powerful business interests, backed up by politicians who encourage the foreign investments that convert millennial ways of life into cash—for them Read more |
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Kevin Gosztola Death Of Jon Burge: Commander Set Standard For Police Terror In Chicago What happened with Burge is a microcosm of how society and government can allow authorities to torture their own citizens, especially if thuggish elements can convince officials the ends justify the means Read more |
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Debbie Weingarten Arizona Had A Plan To Make the Wealthy Pay For Education. The Supreme Court Shut It Down. "The Arizona Supreme Court decision is not just a blow to the thousands of supporters who spent months protesting, organizing, and petitioning. It is a rejection of a literal phenomenon." Read more |
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Juan Cole How Rosenstein’s Firing Could Lead to Trumpian Martial Law and Blood in the Streets Trump has wanted to fire Rosenstein for some time, and the Times report could well push the volatile hotelier over the edge Read more |
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Marshall Auerback Does the U.S. Have the Ingredients to Win a Trade War? In winning the trade battle with China, Trump may lose the war against inflation. Read more |
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Sami Awad, Michael Beer Gaza As the Palestinian State Is Not an Acceptable Two-State Solution "On the 25th anniversary of the Oslo Accords, Israel is implementing an unjust 'two-state' solution by making Gaza the Palestinian rump state on 1.76 percent of historical Palestine. Israel is moving toward permanent annexation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem." Read more |
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Steven Rosenfeld America's Political Pollsters Could Be Missing the X Factor in the 2018 Elections—'Hidden Voters' Pollsters like to look for reliable voters, but that overlook this year's key blocs of new and infrequent voters. Read more |
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Glenn Greenwald Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 11/9" Aims Not at Trump But at Those Who Created the Conditions That Led to His Rise Trump himself is a secondary figure in Moore's film, which is far more focused on the far more relevant and interesting questions of what—and, critically, who—created the climate in which someone like Trump could occupy the Oval Office. Read more |
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Jack Goldsmith Quick Notes on the Rosenstein Revelations The Times story is "another piece of evidence—on top of large-scale senior-level insubordination, the anonymous Times op-ed writer, and many episodes in Woodward’s new book—that senior Trump officials are significantly disenchanted with the president’s basic competence and have undertaken very... Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli The Pot Addresses the Kettle As President Donald Trump mulls sanctions for China over its treatment of ethnic Uighurs, more than 13,000 young immigrants are in U.S. government custody Read more |
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Ruth Conniff Kavanaugh Accusations Test a ‘Boys Will Be Boys’ Culture Power, privilege, white male prerogative—that’s the backdrop of the Kavanaugh hearings Read more |
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Michael Winship The Grumpy Old Men of the Senate: Time for This Movie to Fade to Black Senate Republicans are in the clutches of misogyny, money and male pattern blindness Read more |
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Kevin Martin For This Year’s International Day of Peace, Korea Takes the Lead This rare, historic outbreak of peace should be celebrated and supported by all the peoples of the world, including and especially Americans and our government Read more |
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Isaiah J. Poole Why We Have To Break Up Amazon A European Union inquiry into Amazon’s business practices raises the same questions we should be asking in the United States about Amazon’s size and power Read more |
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Ryan Cooper The $11 Trillion Question Chris Cillizza Can't Answer The key thing to remember is that Americans already pay enough in taxes to fund a decent Medicare-for-all system — we just have a colossal amount of wasteful spending Read more |
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Brett Max Kaufman Trump Is Unshackling America's Drones Thanks to Obama's Weakness CIA’s operation of drones to hunt and kill terrorism suspects — a campaign that has killed thousands of people, including hundreds of children, in places like Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia — remains an official secret Read more |
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Margaret Hartmann Kavanaugh Backer Presents Bonkers Theory: Christine Ford Was Assaulted by Judge’s Doppelgänger All Whelan did was vividly illustrate why Republicans are wrong to reject Ford’s call for an FBI investigation prior to her testimony Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Trump Is Strangling the U.S. Refugee Program to Death Because national security is not an issue, according to the government’s own internal review, the only other reason to suppress the number of refugees being resettled in the U.S.—and to do so disproportionately against Muslim refugees—is to pander to the racist elements of Trump’s political base... Read more |
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Robert Reich Another Tax Scam for the Rich It’s another big handout to the wealthy, another huge increase in the federal deficit, and it’s illegal Read more |
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Miles Mogulescu Stop the "Kavanaugh Coup" By Any Means Necessary His confirmation would complete the slow-moving coup by Republicans that began under the Reagan administration and culminates with the Trump administration’s effort to tilt American law towards pro-corporate, oligarchic dominance Read more |
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Jim Naureckas Climate Change Made Florence a Monster—But Media Failed to Tell That Story News outlets continue to fail their audiences on this crucial issue Read more |
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Arnold R. Isaacs Learning the Power of Lies: Facts vs. Falsehoods in the Age of Trump In this war on truth, Trump has several important allies Read more |
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Mike Zubrensky Judicial Nominee Background Investigations — Fact vs. Fiction We’re clarifying the FBI background process and addressing the misinformation being spread by Judge Kavanaugh’s defenders Read more |
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Lara Merling Puerto Rico’s Colonial Legacy and Its Continuing Economic Troubles Given that the people of Puerto Rico have no democratic representation or say in this process, it is not surprising that their colonial rulers are ignoring their needs Read more |
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Lisa Gilbert Deregulation of Wall Street Is Plain and Simple Corruption Tens year after the financial crash, and in the two years since Trump took power, here's how Wall Street banks cashed in on their political spending and lobbying efforts Read more |
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Lorraine Chow 3.4 Million Chickens, 5,500 Hogs Killed in Florence's Flooding "This was an unprecedented storm with flooding expected to exceed that from any other storms in recent memory." And millions of animals have already paid the price. Read more |
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Mark Weisbrot How Congress Can End the War in Yemen “The missiles that kill us, American-made. The planes that kill us, American-made. The tanks, Abrams, American-made. You are saying to me, where is America? America is the whole thing.” Read more |
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Rex Huppke If Kavanaugh's Accuser Is Lying, Why Is She the One Asking For a Thorough Investigation? Why on Earth would a judge—a person who has devoted his life to the practice of law—not want a thorough investigation at least as badly as his accuser? Read more |
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Thom Hartmann Alexander Hamilton Was Preoccupied with the Threat That a Presidency Like Trump’s Posed for America This isn’t the first time our democracy has faced the founder’s nightmare—but it is the most dangerous Read more |
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Jim Warren Duke Energy Leaders Carry Blame for Hurricane Florence Devastation Making climate change controversial, thus stifling media attention, was a greedy corporate strategy that has threatened literally all life on Earth Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler The Accusation That Wouldn't Go Away A culture of sexual abuse and male domination has always been the American norm, creating conditions in which a female would know that she has one sensible option: Keep the incident to herself or risk further humiliation Read more |
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Leo Gerard Plutocrats Are Planning a Stealth Coup How will American democracy resist their twisted goal of one-dollar, one-vote plutocracy? Read more |
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Meagan Hatcher-Mays Kavanaugh Doesn’t Need Any Special Treatment—but Christine Blasey Ford Needs Our Support Already, GOP senators are aligning themselves with Kavanaugh and attempting to undermine Christine Blasey Ford's credibility Read more |
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Olivia Alperstein Future Generations Will Mourn What the EPA Did on 9/11 The White House wants to clear the way for frackers to release more methane, which poisons communities and torches the climate Read more |
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Jill Richardson Why Women Don’t Report Sexual Assault Delays should never be used to discredit accusers like Christine Blasey Ford Read more |
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Richard Wolff “Stealing Intellectual Property” is Fake News The claim that the Chinese are stealing our intellectual property—chiefly production technologies—is largely bogus Read more |
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William Hartung Congress Can Help End the Suffering in Yemen “Either the Pentagon should be 100 percent certain that U.S. weapons and funding aren’t being used to commit war crimes in Yemen, or we should cut off U.S. support right now.” Read more |
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Ralph Nader Questions, Questions Where are the Answers? Have you had a serious personal or critical inquiry put to your U.S. Senator or Representative that has gone unanswered? Read more |
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John Buell Men’s Bodies and the Politics of Abortion Men do not become pregnant, and in our society they are not asked to sacrifice their bodies Read more |
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Eleanor McManus Christine Blasey Ford Is Risking it All to Speak Out It comes at the cost of being victimized all over again—but this time with a nation watching her every word and move, and then peeling it apart over and over again Read more |
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Ed Rampell Michael Moore Turns Up the Heat in Fahrenheit 11/9 The cinematic son of America’s industrial proletariat launches a blistering broadside Read more |
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Mimi Rocah, Barbara McQuade, Jill Wine-Banks, Joyce White Vance and Maya Wiley The Allegations Against Brett Kavanaugh Are Not Simply a 'He Said, She Said' Situation Prosecutors look for corroborating evidence — and there are strong indications already that Christine Blasey Ford is telling the truth about her attack Read more |
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Lawrence Mishel Further Evidence That the Tax Cuts Have Not Led to Widespread Bonuses, Wage or Compensation Growth The bottom line is that there has been very little increase in private sector compensation or W-2 wages since the end of 2017 Read more |
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Rajan Menon Yemen’s Descent into Hell A Saudi-American war of terror Read more |
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Russ Feingold We Know Brett Kavanaugh Has Lied Already So as an illegitimate administration goes to work attacking the credibility of a brave woman recounting her assault, let’s recognize the enormously cynical hypocrisy: The nominee they’re desperate to protect is a calculated liar who uses dishonesty to advance his own career Read more |
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John Nichols Brett Kavanaugh Should Be Impeached for Lying to Senate Lying to the Senate should be a concern for conservatives as well as liberals, for Republicans as well as Democrats Read more |
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Lenora Lapidus A Full Investigation Is Needed Into the Sexual Assault Allegations Against Brett Kavanaugh We should understand more now, 27 years later, about the ways sexual assault and harassment cause lifelong harm — personally and professionally Read more |
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Bill Blum After the Flip, What’s Next for Manafort, Mueller and Trump? Although there are numerous Rumsfeldian “unknowns” in the mix, this much appears clear for each member of the trio Read more |
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Paul Buchheit The Capitalist Manifesto: Let Poor People Die The root of the problem is the condemnation of anything 'social' as un-American, which has helped modern-day capitalists to justify their belief in individual gain by any means Read more |
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Andy Rowell “Only A Matter of Time” Before Category 6 Hurricane Hits U.S. “Some headlines have reported that Florence is a warning of what is to come. But in reality, it is a warning of what has already arrived." Read more |
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Michael Winship The "No IDC NY" State of Mind A coalition of young, committed activists has turned New York Democratic politics on its head. Read more |
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Trevor Timm Revealed: The Justice Dept's Secret Rules for Targeting Journalists With FISA Court Orders This is critically important information at a time when press freedom has been under threat from the government, and its role in our democracy has never been more important Read more |
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Frances Moore Lappé Amid Our Nation’s Mounting Democracy Crisis, Hope Is Power Hope ignites our brains toward solutions Read more |
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Kristine Lucius, Jeff Berman, Lisa Graves, Bob Schiff Brett Kavanaugh Can’t Be Trusted. We Know Because We Worked as Counsel to Senators When He Was in the Bush White House It would be unprecedented and unwise for the Senate to act on the nomination without reviewing the full record Read more |
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Nomi Prins Cooking the Books in the Trump Universe Could Donald Trump be a one-man version of either Enron or Lehman Brothers, someone who cooked “the books” until, well, he imploded? Read more |
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Reed Richardson As Trump Commits to Endless War, Corporate Media Obsess Over Anonymous Op-Ed Seventeen years after 9/11, the corporate media still finds itself overwhelmingly making the same mistakes when it comes to its war coverage: obsessing over shiny, ephemeral Beltway distractions while the most important, consequential stories get either ignored or buried Read more |
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Will Bunch Trumpism Is Fueled by One Thing: Fear. 12,800 Kids Are Paying a Terrible Price This is going to get a lot worse before it gets better Read more |
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Juan Cole Kavanaugh: Dr. Christine Blasey Seeks to Forestall a Trauma to the Nation That Was Inflicted on Her I just wanted to share my horror at the ordeal that the teenaged Professor Blasey was put through and at the further gauntlet she must now run through the berating bully boys of the latently fascist, patriarchal Right Read more |
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Gordon Clark 2100, and the Fundamental Fallacy of Climate Change Predictions The only moment we have to act is now. Read more |
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Max Richtman Social Security: An Economic Engine That Benefits Everyone There is no better way to help Main Street than to elect members of Congress who appreciate Social Security’s immensely positive impact on our economy – and will work hard to expand on the program’s promise. Read more |
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Elizabeth Murray Freedom Flotilla Missions Will Continue ‘Until Palestine Is Free’ The bold journey of the 2018 Freedom Flotilla Coalition dared Palestinians and the world to dream of peace, dignity and freedom for all. Now, we must keep working to build a culture of nonviolence Read more |
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Wim Laven Hurricane Trump, Season 2 If we don’t take responsibility things will only get worse, and Trump has completely shoved his head in the sand, so it is up to everyone else now. Read more |
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Elliot Mincberg Kavanaugh Misrepresented His Own Opinions to Senate Judiciary Committee If a nominee cannot even honestly describe his own opinions in sworn testimony, and instead misrepresents or distorts them to help win confirmation, how can he be trusted with a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land? Read more |
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Eric Margolis Trump's Restless Hostility Unites China and Russia The message from eastern Siberia was clear: Washington’s reckless hostility and bellicosity is causing its foes to band together. Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Stormy's Secrets Stormy Daniel’s new book, “ Full Disclosure ” will be released October 2, 2018. In it she says she’ll share details of the night she spent with Donald. Read more |
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Howard Friel The New York Times Should Hire Climate Scientist Michael Mann as Op-Ed Columnist on Global Warming It would help the Times make amends to its readers and everyone else for its short coverage of global warming over the years. Read more |
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Ellen Brown Central Banks Have Gone Rogue, Putting Us All at Risk Central bankers are now aggressively playing the stock market. To say they are buying up the planet may be an exaggeration, but they could. They can create money at will, and they have declared their “independence” from government. They have become rogue players in a game of their own. Read more |
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Peter Bloom Ending the Democratic Blame Game After progressive victories, it is getting hard for Democrats to blame others for failing to take on the status quo. Read more |
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D-L Nelson Abortion Can't Be Stopped If abortion is illegal, women will still get abortions as they have throughout time. Read more |
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Andrew Rosenberg The EPA Can’t Stop Polluters When the Trump Administration Cuts Enforcement Staff These staff reductions fly in the face of Congressional action that appropriated funds for the EPA to maintain these programs Read more |
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Christopher D. Cook Brown, Bloomberg (and Their Agenda) Face Protests at Climate Action Summit Diverse groups say the crisis is upon us — and market-based solutions don't work and damage vulnerable communities Read more |
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Morris Pearl Remember the Lehman Brothers Crisis. We Need Wall Street Rules, Not Trump's Deregulation Wall Street firms reward people for risky behavior. I know because I was there. We need rules, not the deregulation pushed by Trump and Republicans Read more |
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Matt Taibbi Ten Years After the Crash, We’ve Learned Nothing The great financial catastrophe of our times is still badly misunderstood, and led to grotesque consequences, including the election of Donald Trump Read more |
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Mairead Maguire Demonization of Russia in a New Cold War Era Inventing a foe to sell military ambitions is still the most dangerous of games Read more |
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Ryan Cooper Politicize the Weather It's time to realize one simple truth: Republicans are very largely to blame Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Our Planet Is Angry We are a species in deep, deep trouble Read more |
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Bernie Sanders A New Authoritarian Axis Demands an International Progressive Front We must take the opportunity to reconceptualize a genuinely progressive global order based on human solidarity, an order that recognizes that every person on this planet shares a common humanity, that we all want our children to grow up healthy, to have a good education, have decent jobs, drink... Read more |
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Ralph Nader Where is the Democrats’ Contract with America 2018? If the Democrats wish finally to prevail over the worst, cruelest, most corrupt, war-mongering, Wall Street toady Republican Party in history, they need to be clear in their convictions Read more |
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Mike Lofgren Nazis May Be Bad, But Tax Cuts Are Awesome! How the "unsung" Republican resistance in the Trump administration really thinks Read more |
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Ramzy Baroud The Veiled Danger of the ‘Dead’ Oslo Accords The fate of the Palestinian people is left to inept leaders, incapable of thinking outside the permissible space allocated to them by the Israelis and the Americans Read more |
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Cory Doctorow Europe Just Voted to Wreck the Internet New EU law would allow spying on everything and censoring vast swathes of our communications Read more |
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Sandy Tolan From Peace to Armageddon: Were Oslo Accords Doomed From the Start? The Israel-Palestine nightmare Read more |
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Timothy Wise 'This Is Life or Death for Us': Mexico's Farm Movement Rejects New NAFTA Agreement Donald Trump and Enrique Peña Nieto, Mexico's lame-duck conservative president, are trying to push through new trade deal, but farmers are rising up in opposition Read more |
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Norman Solomon Tangled in the Garden of Good and Evil “Don’t put the Nazis in a place where you think it has nothing to do with yourself. That’s the biggest danger, historical danger, I think we can make.” Read more |
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Brett Wilkins Why John Bolton Really Hates the International Criminal Court When Bolton expresses his desire to “strangle the ICC in its cradle,” what he really means is he wants US troops to be able to murder babies in their cradles with impunity. Read more |
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K.H. Anderson A Lefty’s Guide to Liberty Real-life individual liberty — for everyone — is at the heart of everything progressives stand for. It’s time we own it Read more |