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Yanis Varoufakis The Redistribution Games Life is not the Olympics, where talent and training determine an athlete’s performance. It’s more like a Roman arena in which well-armed gladiators vanquish unarmed victims who lose not because they did not try hard enough, but because of the asymmetrical initial distribution of armor. Read more |
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Jonathan Cook The Guardian's Deceit-Riddled New Statement Betrays Both Julian Assange and Journalism This is the real story, the one the Guardian dare not tell. Read more |
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Sarah Anderson, Brian Wakamo Inequality and Covid-19 in 13 Charts A new data visualization series illustrates how the pandemic and flawed policy responses have widened long-standing economic, racial, and gender divides. Read more |
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Robert Reich The Coming Civil War Over Trump's Ego He has turned America into a gargantuan projection of his own pathological narcissism. Read more |
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Henry Coleman What to Do When the World Is on Fire Let’s open our eyes to the majority of human cultures—including and especially indigenous Australian ones—that have consistently enriched the biosphere. Read more |
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Rev Dr Liz Theoharis How Christian Nationalism in the US Legislates Evil and Punishes the Poor The dangers posed by today’s Christian nationalists are all too real. Read more |
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Glen Ford The US Dictatorship of (White) Capital and Its Tools of Bamboozlement Like three card monte scammers everywhere, the oligarchs that rule the United States strive constantly to keep the populace guessing where the “money card”—in this case, the real power in society—is located. Read more |
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Mark Green, Ralph Nader Debate Detector: Trump's Top 10 Tricks Here's a useful guide to have on hand as the presidential debates get underway. Read more |
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David Vine The U.S. ‘War on Terror’ Has Displaced 37 Million People Here’s why we used the numbers we did — and what they can and can’t tell us. Read more |
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Frida Berrigan After 4 Decades of Plowshares Actions, It’s Nuclear Warfare that Should Be on Trial — Not Activists Forty years ago, the Plowshares Eight sparked a movement of nuclear disarmers that continues to take responsibility for weapons of mass destruction. Read more |
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Robert Freeman Debunking the Myth of “The Greatest Economy Ever” Trump’s claim to economic wizardry easily falls apart. Read more |
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Rebecca Wolf This Is How We Pry The Corporate Stranglehold Off Of Our Farm System The corporations behind Big Ag are deeply invested in keeping our farm system as it is. It’s our responsibility to get farms and our food production back in the hands of the people. Read more |
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Joan Pedro-Carañana Yes, There Is Hope There are increasing numbers of experiences putting collaborative methods for hope and dialogue into practice. Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Ignorance Is Bliss For the trump, are at most minor inconveniences that can always be overcome by rhetoric. Read more |
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Ralph Nader To Democratic Voters – Up Your Demands; To Trump Voters – See How He Didn’t Deliver for You Some practical advice for casting informed votes. Read more |
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Ben Lilliston Don’t Grant Global Meat Corporations Immunity, Hold Them Accountable for Covid-19 Failures Given the industry’s track record, corporate immunity would likely open the door for more abuses that directly put workers lives and those that live in meatpacking plant communities at risk. Read more |
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Mitch Stoltz The Government’s Antitrust Suit Against Google: Go Big and Do It Right This suit has the potential to be the most significant antitrust case against a technology company in over 20 years, since the DOJ’s 1998 suit against Microsoft. Read more |
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Penny M. Venetis Ginsburg’s Legal Victories for Women Led to Landmark Anti-Discrimination Rulings for the LGBTQ Community, Too Advances were only possible because Ruth Bader Ginsburg paved the way for applying the equal protection clause beyond its original purpose, to promote equality for women. Read more |
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Olivia Alperstein Time to Put an End to the Nuclear Age 2020 has been hard enough. The last thing the world needs this year is nuclear weapons. Read more |
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Derrick Z. Jackson Why Environmental Justice Needs to Be on the Docket in the Presidential Debates Earlier this week, when Fox News announced the lineup of topics for the upcoming presidential debate, climate change and environmental justice were nowhere to be seen. Among the many lamentable... Read more |
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Alan MacLeod Julian Assange: Press Shows Little Interest in Media ‘Trial of Century’ A successful Assange prosecution could be the legal spark for future anti-journalistic actions. Read more |
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Heather Cox Richardson Trump: "We're Going to Have to See What Happens" An Atlantic article rings the fire bell. Read more |
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Vanita Gupta Trump and McConnell Refuse to Help Millions Amid Pandemic, But Stop at Nothing for Supreme Court Power Grab Let's fight Trump's nominee like our lives depend on it—because they do. Read more |
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Heidi Shierholz At Least 33 Million Workers Are Being Hurt by the Coronavirus Recession The top policy priorities for boosting the economy are fiscal aid to state and local governments and extending the unemployment insurance provisions of the CARES Act. Read more |
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Mike Lofgren Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the Peril of America's Aging Elite We all should know when to pass the baton to a younger generation. Read more |
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Sarah Lahm Why We Should All Be Reading Howard Zinn Right Now As the historian aptly predicted, who is on the Supreme Court is not as important as what the American people demand. Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati Let’s Start Debating What Dooms Democracy: Concentrated Wealth Why we need to shove inequality onto America’s political center stage. Read more |
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Will Bunch Will Dems' Embrace of Mail, Masks, and Social Distance Help Trump Win the Election? Democrats have embraced voting-by-mail with a quasi-religious zeal that almost defies reason. Read more |
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Robert Reich 6 Crucial Races That Will Flip the Senate Winning the White House is absolutely crucial, but it’s just one piece of the fight to save our democracy and push a people’s agenda. Read more |
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Margaret Sullivan Rewrite That List of Debate Topics, Chris Wallace. And Put the Climate Crisis at No. 1. Our planet is in serious, irrevocable trouble. There’s no bigger issue. Read more |
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Nick Turse This Vanishing Moment and Our Vanishing Future John Hersey, Hiroshima, and the end of world. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Election 2020: The Coming Chaos Nonviolent resistance to Trump means more than just defeating him and jettisoning him from the presidency; somehow it also means reaching his supporters and transcending the civil war they’re ready to wage. Read more |
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Norman Solomon We’ve Got Our Own Reasons to Elect Biden—and He Isn’t One of Them With so much at stake—including social justice, human rights and this planet’s climate—Autumn 2020 is a time when people have the decisive opportunity to prevent the consolidation of illegitimate power by an authoritarian regime. Read more |
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Samantha Waxman States Should Tax Wealth to Respond to COVID-19 Wealthy families and profitable corporations can afford it, and states can’t afford not to. Read more |
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Neve Gordon Redefining Anti-Semitism on Facebook The objective is to force Facebook to alter its hate speech definition so that its own "detection algorithm" will characterize any criticism of Israel as hate speech and automatically remove the pertinent content from the platform. Read more |
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Susan Casey-Lefkowitz New OCI Analysis Gives Big Oil Much Needed Reality Check The new OCI report makes it clear that Big Oil is hiding behind claims that they are changing while continuing to push fossil fuels despite the harm to our health and climate. Read more |
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Chuckie Denison Trump Lied to Heartland Workers Trump is bragging about his jobs record in the Midwest. So why didn’t he lift a finger when 14,000 GM workers were laid off? Read more |
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Mitchell Zimmerman If Trump Fills RBG’s Seat, the Court’s Legitimacy Will Be in Crisis We cannot afford a Supreme Court that has abandoned its constitutional duties to cement right-wing minority rule. Read more |
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Hannah Murphy Will We Be Able to Reverse Trump’s Climate Damage? What Joe Biden would need to do starting from Day One to correct the course of US climate policy. Read more |
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Million Belay, Timothy A. Wise Africa at the Crossroads: Time to Abandon Failing Green Revolution It is time for African governments to step back from the failing Green Revolution and chart a new food system that respects local cultures and communities by promoting low-cost, low-input ecological agriculture. Read more |
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Richard Heinberg What If Preventing Collapse Isn't Profitable? The real downside of the green-profit narrative has been that it created the assumption in many people's minds that the solution to climate change and other environmental dilemmas is technical, and that policy makers and industrialists will implement it for us, so that the way we live doesn't need... Read more |
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Thom Hartmann Trump Keeps Telling Us How He and Republicans Plan to Steal This Election Can we stop him and save our republic before it's too late? Read more |
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Laura Flanders Mourn Justice Ginsburg and Fight to Close Irwin Detention Center Now is the time to mourn Ruth Bader Ginsburg and fight like hell for living breathing, actionable, racial, reproductive and gender justice. Read more |
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Peter Andre Globensky So What If He Loses? Donald Trump and the Aftermath Knowing the character of the man, his rejection at the polls will unleash a torrent of vindictive actions very much at his command. Read more |
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Guillaume Long Political Trials and Electoral Bans: The Battle for Democracy in Ecuador Amidst political trials and electoral bans, Moreno's assault on democracy is past the point of no return. Read more |
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Jim Hightower How the Right Rigs Elections Today, in a coordinated, methodical, richly funded scheme, corporate-minded and right-wing candidates are being "elected" not by winning votes but by preventing votes. Read more |
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Peter Dreier The Right’s Long War On Howard Zinn Reaches The White House Conservatives have been upset about kids reading 'A People’s History of the United States' for years, worrying that it stirs up trouble. Now Trump has taken up the cause. Read more |
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Julie Hollar With Planet at Stake, Moderators Must Make Climate a Focus of Debates The climate crisis has been and continues to be a top issue for voters and one that can’t be ignored by journalists for another four years. Read more |
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Tim Whitehouse The Final Frontier: When Nature is a Nuisance to Development "In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches." Read more |
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Steven Hill Forget 'Vote By Mail'—To Safeguard the Election, Put on Your Mask and Vote Early In-Person The U.S. under Trump has reached such a perilous state that this simple act has become heroic. Read more |
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Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich, Sonali Kolhatkar, Juliet Schor, et al. Open Letter: Dump Trump, Then Battle Biden Fifty-five progressive writers and activists with a message for 2020 voters. Read more |
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Derrick Z. Jackson Election Day Is Nearing, But There's No End in Sight to Trump's Attacks on Science Will the ghosts of the hundreds of thousands of people who are dying from this playbook rise up to spirit Trump out of the White House? Read more |
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Robert Reich For RBG It Was All Principle, for Mitch McConnell It’s All Power Those who fight for power will bend or break rules to give themselves every advantage. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson Death of a Supreme Court Justice Famed for Consensus-Building Is Used to Sow Divisions Republican leaders show once more that they care only about power, not about the law or legitimacy. Read more |
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Bill McKibben Vote as if the Climate and the Future of Humanity Depend on It—Because They Do Captain Trump wants to steer us straight onto the rocks. This election is humanity’s last shot to prevent utter climate catastrophe. Read more |
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Thom Hartmann Trump "Never Noticed" a Modern-Day American Genocide It appears Trump is trying to spread the virus as far and wide as possible. Read more |
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Miles Mogulescu Warning: GOP Can Appoint a Supreme Court Justice in Time to Confirm Trump's Second Term This is truly an existential reckoning. Read more |
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Andrea Mazzarino War Zone America? Perspectives on a riven nation from a worried military spouse. Read more |
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Stefan Simanowitz Why Are Amnesty International Monitors Not Able to Observe the Assange Hearing? It is ironic that no one responsible for possible war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan has been prosecuted, let alone punished. And yet the publisher who exposed their crimes is the one in the dock facing a lifetime in jail. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies Will Michele Flournoy Be the Angel of Death for the American Empire? Purported to be among Joe Biden's top picks for Defense Secretary, the longtime supporter of endless war and limitless Pentagon budgets is exactly the wrong choice. Read more |
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Anne Schechinger New USDA Records Show Trade Bailout and Coronavirus Payments Went to the Largest Farms USDA must make changes to ensure the money goes to small struggling farms and to farmers who actually do the work. Read more |
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Gleb Tsipursky The Deadly Threat of Misinformation About COVID on Fox News, According to Science Consuming the wrong news can kill you. Read more |
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Ifoma Modibo Kambon I Survived Covid-19 at Folsom State Prison A story of unaccountable action, negligence, deliberate indifference, and deception Read more |
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Marie Follayttar With RBG Gone and Fascism at the Gates, Mainers Know Susan Collins Cannot Be Trusted It is our duty to fight like hell to ensure that Susan Collins does not cast another vote for a Supreme Court Justice. It is our duty to act every single day until election day to get out the vote and ensure that we stop the rise of fascism in this country. Read more |
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Ken Cook After Covid-19 Flip-Flops, CDC Director Must Resign Either science goes, or Redfield goes. Read more |
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Vandana Shiva Bill Gates' Global Agenda and How We Can Resist His War on Life Gates' 'funding' results in an erasure of democracy and biodiversity, of nature and culture. His 'philanthropy' is not just philanthrocapitalism. It is philanthroimperialism. Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt Fire and Fury Like the World Has Never Seen Think of him as the president from hell and here I mean a literal hell. Read more |
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Jamie Henn The Climate Emergency Isn't Just a Crisis, It's a Crime Whether you see a blood red sky in San Francisco, a wind ravaged landscape in Iowa, or a flooded street in Pensacola, you know what you're looking at: a world unraveling at the seams and—in a very real sense—a crime scene. Read more |
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Chuck Collins FinCen Files Shine Spotlight on Suspicious Bank Transfers The reporters behind the Panama Papers and the Paradise Papers have more to share. We should pay attention. Read more |
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Anand Giridharadas The Many Reasons the GOP Wants to Steal Ginsburg's Seat Remembering what's at stake in the fight to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Read more |
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Bernadette Demientieff, Siqiñiq Maupin Why Is Bank of America Still Open to Funding the Destruction of Our Homelands in the Arctic? We stand together, the Iñupiat and the Gwich’in, in calling on Bank of America to listen to Indigenous people, protect our homelands, and stay out of the Arctic Refuge. Read more |
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John Buell The Many Ugly Faces of Climate Science Denial The great danger of aggressive nihilism is that it will forestall remedial action until the crisis becomes so severe that some combination of authoritarian government and an even more harshly inegalitarian economy will prevail. Read more |
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Paul Buchheit How Hypocrites in High Places Have Contributed to the Riots in the Streets The four-decade losses in wealth and job income have contributed to the poverty numbers, and to violent reactions. Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli The Haves and the Have-Nots By not permitting the United States to participate in Covax, Trump is depriving the WHO effort of funding it desperately needs to develop the vaccine. Read more |
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Walden Bello The Death of Neoliberalism The coronavirus pandemic roared through an already destabilized global economic system suffering from a deep crisis of legitimacy. Read more |
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Frank Fischer The Risk of Progressive Reversal People worried about their basic safety are not particularly interested in new social experiments. Read more |
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Juan Cole Affirming Jim Crow, Israeli Parliament Votes Down Bill Guaranteeing Equality for Palestinian-Israelis During the past year, the Knesset has shot down numerous proposals to amend the National Law to forbid discrimination against non-Jews. Read more |
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Kumar Venkat Climate Science Is Vulnerable to Politics We as voters must ensure that climate science is immune from political meddling and elect leaders who will respect the scientific process. Read more |
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Chandra Thomas Whitfield All the Options for Schooling Are Bad—But We Have to Choose Safety On parents' impossible decision. Read more |
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Nakiya Wakes What the Flint Water Crisis Meant for My Family Take it from me: You don't want to go through what we did. Every community deserves water, life, and dignity. Read more |
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C. Kyle Rudick Republicans Aren't Hypocrites: A Lesson in Power in the Aftermath of RBG's Death Charges of hypocrisy are insufficient to change the course of the RBG's replacement or, in fact, in other Republican attempt to race-bait, disenfranchise voters, or increase the wealth of the affluent. Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac Democrats, It's Time for Constitutional Jiujitsu Trump and his party must be defeated. They must be out-maneuvered, brought down, and decisively vanquished. Read more |
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Michael Winship Do the Right Thing: Obey RBG's Last Wish Give Justice Ginsburg the proper send-off and let the election winner choose. Read more |
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Alicia Bannon Justice Ginsburg Should Not Be Replaced Until After the Election GOP senators invented a new standard in order to deny President Obama a Supreme Court appointment in 2016. Now they should abide by it. Read more |
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Edith Roberts Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A 'Precise Female' This slow talker, ruthless editor, and die-hard romantic wanted to make sure that every woman could find her best place. Read more |
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Bill Blum Unequal Justice: Trump's Supreme Takeover If the president gets to appoint another SCOTUS judge, we'll be paying the price for decades to come. Read more |
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Juan Cole If McConnell Packs the Court on Behalf of Minority Rule, Dems Must Expand and Reform It They ought to come in prepared to introduce serious reform so that our laws reflect the will of our 330 million people rather than that of a few corrupt billionaires allied with hypocritical religious fundamentalists. Read more |
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Ray Levy-Uyeda How Formerly Incarcerated Firefighters Are Getting the Jobs and Pay They Deserve In California's most catastrophic wildfire season yet, an organization is challenging the state to hire firefighters who were previously incarcerated to help meet public safety needs. Read more |
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Andy Rowell A Dying Industry is Leaving A Deadly Legacy An important new investigation examined the issue of the shocking state of over three million abandoned oil and gas wells in the United States. Read more |
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Joseph Daniel Will BP Finally Succeed at Moving Beyond Petroleum? To Survive, It Must. The founder of SunEdison discusses what the future holds for BP and other major oil and gas companies that are looking to transition. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Why Do Americans Give Away So Much Control to Corporations? The corporate "Borg" is sucking the ready availability of the good life, decent, secure livelihoods assured by our collective self-reliance, and the freedom to shape our future out of our political economy. Read more |
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Julie Hollar Voters Should be Wary of USA Today’s False Balance on Election 2020 The newspaper overstates Trump’s support and creates the impression of a balance that doesn’t exist. Read more |
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Mark Weisbrot Silence Reigns on the US-Backed Coup Against Evo Morales in Bolivia The Organization of American States had a key role in the destruction of the country’s democracy last November. Read more |
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Gwendolyn Hallsmith Confronting Collapse As we pick up the pieces of the shattered economy, the route to the Great Transition becomes clear: we need to recapture and democratize money as a lever for resource allocation and collective power. Read more |
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Robin Savannah Carver Let ‘Gender Reveal’ Parties Burn Even their creator says enough is enough. Let children discover themselves on their own terms. Read more |
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Nora Barrows-Friedman 84 Percent of Canadians Want War Crimes Probe Into Israel Poll after poll shows a stark conflict with the ruling Liberal Party’s close alliance with Israel and the general opinions of the Canadian population across the political spectrum. Read more |
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Andrea Woods Federal Judges Are Failing Incarcerated People During the Pandemic As a deadly pandemic rages on, the stakes could not be higher. We need judges who understand how lopsided and cruel our system of mass incarceration is. Read more |
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Juan Cole Trump Doesn’t Understand History Any More Than He Understands Epidemics Academic history is not about praise or blame or making people feel good about their national identity. It is about explanation. Why did something happen when it did? Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati Remembering Ike, Our Unexpected Egalitarian Former president Dwight Eisenhower deserves his new memorial. We deserve the greater economic equality he worked to help achieve. Read more |
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Margaret Poydock President Trump Has Attacked Workers’ Safety, Wages, and Rights Since Day One Here's a look at five of the worst actions the Trump administration has taken against workers. Read more |