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Elizabeth Bruenig It's Time to Reclaim 'Socialism' From the Dirty-Word Category At the heart of the democratic socialist vision flowering on the American left is the recognition that more than policy tweaks will be needed to empower everyday people to participate meaningfully in society and democracy Read more |
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Will Bunch Toxic Masculinity Is Killing Us The crisis of toxic masculinity needs to be on the front burner of the American conversation—not only because it’s so bad, but because it’s getting worse Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati The Market Made Them Do It Corporate boards are asking us to blame sky-high CEO pay on the laws of supply and demand Read more |
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Andy Rowell BP and Big Oil Drive Society Over the 'Climate Cliff' "What is a 'world class' reserve of oil to BP, is 'world destroying' to everyone else." Read more |
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Richard Wolff How US Politics Sustains US Capitalism And why a true transition to socialism requires a wholly different politics Read more |
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Julie Matthaei Feminism and Revolution: Looking Back, Looking Ahead Why we must reach beyond a politics that views feminism as a struggle of women against oppression by men for a solidarity politics that seeks to end all forms of oppression Read more |
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Eric Margolis Afghanistan: The War That Shames America Lessons so painfully learned by America in the Vietnam War have been completely forgotten and the same mistakes repeated Read more |
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Richard Silverstein It Is Netanyahu, Not Corbyn, Who Deserves 'Unequivocal Condemnation' Jeremy Corbyn has never ordered anyone's assassination. He's never ordered an invasion of a foreign country. Benjamin Netanyahu has. Read more |
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Robert Borosage How to Win Elections from the Ground Up Focusing on the top line—gubernatorial, Senate and House races—misses the critical story of the 2018 primaries: progressive populists are beginning to build for real power, starting from the ground up. Read more |
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Billy Corriher Making Sense of the Chaotic West Virginia Supreme Court Impeachment The impeachment of West Virginia's entire state Supreme Court is playing out against a broader trend of conservative politicians targeting judges who rule against them Read more |
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Samira Abrar The Human Cost of War for Afghan Children Youth growing up in Afghanistan today have never known peace, and after almost two decades of U.S. development efforts, living conditions in the country may be worse than when the so-called "peacemaking" started in 2001 Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Trumping Immigrants The First Lady's parents became United States citizens thanks to a program that President Donald Trump wants to end Read more |
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Simone Chun Sea of Tears: The Tragedy of Families Split by the Korean War 'How can there be a half-century of separation between brothers and sisters, between parents and children?' Read more |
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Jeffrey D. Sachs Billionaires Reach for the Stars While World Suffers With all due respect to Jeff Bezos and other billionaires who plan to spend billions of dollars of their personal wealth on space travel, hundreds of millions of children who lack access to basic... Read more |
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Peter Certo Trump Snubbed McCain. The Media Snubbed the Rest of Us. The media treated Trump's petty snub of John McCain as a bigger controversy than the $717 billion Pentagon bill named for the Arizona senator. Read more |
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Juan Cole If You Put an Old W. Bush Crony in Charge of Iran Policy, Doesn’t It Signal a War-Like Intention? Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has appointed Brian H. Hook , the State Department director of policy planning, to head a coordinated “Iran Action Group.” Hook served in several important posts in the... Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Women of Color Are Making History Ahead of Midterms While the more important battles will come in November’s general elections, the primary races have already indicated that we are witnessing a game-changing moment in the nation’s political landscape. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Democrats Should Finally Put Superdelegates Behind Them The superdelegate system remains a burr in the donkey’s saddle, threatening to further undermine party unity. Read more |
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Will Bunch Can Elizabeth Warren's Big New Idea Save Capitalism (and America) From Itself? This isn’t socialism, but it's an attempt to make the brutal "free market" a little more responsive to the needs and demands of the workers who toil within this flawed economic system Read more |
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Ralph Nader Going Fundamental Eludes Congressional Progressives In short, Democrats — even the most progressive of the bunch — must do better to communicate with, inspire, and serve the American people Read more |
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Kate Aronoff, Miles Kampf-Lassin Democratic Socialism Derangement Syndrome? Why Hysteria about the Rise of the Progressive Left Misses the Mark Election pearl-clutching is often related to fears that socialism endangers the wealth and power of America's elites. Read more |
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Elizabeth Bruenig Evil Walked the Earth in Pennsylvania "Catholic lay people, such as myself, must demand that church authorities cooperate fully with law enforcement, having proved themselves utterly incompetent to address this crisis themselves." Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler The Right To Be Afraid There’s something wrong here that our legal system is, apparently, incapable of addressing. Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt The War Piece to End All War Pieces (Or How to Fight a War of Ultimate Repetitiousness) Read more |
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Bernie Sanders Medicare for All's Time Has Come If every major country on earth can guarantee healthcare to all and achieve better health outcomes, while spending substantially less per capita than we do, it is absurd for anyone to suggest that the United States of America cannot do the same. Read more |
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Sam Husseini The Trump-Media Logrolling While the need for genuinely free sources of information is greater than ever, it is unclear to me if traditional newspapers can be part of the equation Read more |
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Miles Mogulescu The Constitution’s Case for Impeachment of Donald J. Trump 'Impeachment is not a constitutional crisis. Impeachment is the cure for a constitutional crisis.' Read more |
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Alycee Lane The Workers Left Behind by the DNC's Fossil Fuel Resolution Why only a just transition framework will do. Read more |
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Mary Bottari Wisconsin GOP Just Nominated ALEC’s “Iron Lady” to Take on Tammy Baldwin Leah Vukmir will have the full support of the Kochs’ Americans for Prosperity group and their many resources in the state Read more |
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Vijay Prashad The Hour When Children Die—What Is Going On in Yemen? Nearly every child in Yemen needs humanitarian assistance Read more |
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Jack Healey Yemen: Saudi Arabia’s Vietnam American media outlets largely ignore this war Read more |
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Robert Kraig Progressives Win Big in Wisconsin Primary Like an iceberg, they’re getting ready to crash into the GOP’s “unsinkable” ship of gerrymandering and dark money and send it straight to the bottom of Lake Superior Read more |
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Brian Stull 'Do We Deserve to Kill?' The Answer Is 'No' After Nebraska's Latest Execution People who love justice hate nothing more than a justice system where only one side is able to fight Read more |
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Celia Bottger If Ireland Can Get Out of Fossil Fuels, Your Town Can Too Almost 900 cities, universities, and governments have divested over $6 trillion from the fossil fuel industry. Why not yours? Read more |
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Stacy Bannerman A Foreign Policy That Can Change Everything for Everyone Women talk about gender, racial and economic justice. But anti-war messaging is still missing from the resistance movement—and there can be no justice without peace Read more |
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Bill McKibben Seeing Red? Think Blue Election day is just one day in the political calendar: if you care about climate change or medical care or mass incarceration, all the other days are just as important, because it’s then that you build the movements that really shift the Z eitgeist Read more |
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Juan Cole Trump Wouldn’t Have Let Her in the Country, But Ilhan Omar Is Likely Joining Congress Ilhan Omar is humane where Trump is selfish. Ilhan Omar is high-minded where Trump is in the gutter. Let's hope hers is the future — his the past. Read more |
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Jeff Cohen Democrats Gather in Chicago: Elite Party or Party of the People? This country needs a serious opposition party that can defeat both corporate power and the GOP. Nothing else will do. Read more |
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John Atcheson With 3 Months To Go, Pundits and Democrats Still Clueless In an era of minority parties, primary victories don’t become election victories Read more |
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Maya Goodfellow How Worried Should We Be About Steve Bannon's 'Movement'? The widespread normalisation of the far-right is far more worrying than one man's efforts to keep himself relevant Read more |
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Kate Pickett, Richard Wilkinson The Enemy Between Us: How Inequality Erodes our Mental Health Inequality creates the social and political divisions that isolate us from each other Read more |
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Reese Erlich Afghanistan Has Become Trump’s ‘Failed Narco State’ President Donald Trump is back on the stump, trumpeting his alleged triumphs since the 2016 election. Somehow, he never mentions Afghanistan Read more |
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Nancy Altman The Truth About Social Security: Setting the Record Straight Eighty-three years later, Social Security addresses universal economic risks that have always been with us and always will be Read more |
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William Hartung Donald Trump, Gunrunner for Hire The NRA and the gun industry in the global stratosphere Read more |
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Eric Holthaus Terrified By ‘Hothouse Earth’? Don’t Despair — Do Something This is our actual planet we’re talking about, the only place in the entire universe capable of supporting life as we know it Read more |
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Elizabeth Bruenig Cruelty Without Consequence Is Trump’s Way President Trump’s Interior Department has announced that it will no longer enforce prohibitions on “incidental takes” — the unintended, though still perhaps foreseen, killing of birds, as in open waste pits, uncovered oil spills, lit communication towers and low-visibility power lines Read more |
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Hannah Leibson, Rebecca Hare Cokley Kavanaugh Thinks It’s Okay to Perform Elective Surgery on People Without Their Consent As both Democrats and Republicans in the Senate gear up for what is likely to be a long hearing process, the 57 million Americans with disabilities are bracing themselves for the negative consequences of Judge Kavanaugh’s appointment Read more |
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Andy Rowell As America Burns From Climate Change, Trump Officials Attend Denial Conference to Discuss Why Climate Change is Fake Trump represents the last chance for the fossil fuel industry to wreck this planet Read more |
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Johannes Epke Where do your Representatives Stand on the Influence of Big Money in Politics? This is the first step to restore a government that works for people, not money Read more |
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Robert Reich 10 Steps to Finding Common Ground What can we do–all of us–to begin talking across the great divide? Read more |
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Mary Bottari ALEC Is Pushing a New Slate of Viciously Anti-Worker, Pro-Corporate Laws A veritable banquet of union-busting, gerrymandering, pro-fossil fuel, and school privatization proposals Read more |
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Valerie Strauss Arne Duncan Never Learns Duncan still thinks, apparently, his biggest mistake involved poor communication rather than the substance of the policies Read more |
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Will Bunch I Don't Remember Voting For U.S. Bombs to Murder Little Kids in Yemen, Do You? The news media needs to do a much better job keeping American citizens informed about what’s happening in Yemen — and all the other outposts of “the forever war” — and how U.S. dollars and U.S. bombs are making these conflicts happen Read more |
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David Greene Alex Jones Is Far From the Only Person Tech Companies Are Silencing Facebook, Twitter, Apple and other companies routinely silence voices in marginalized communities around the world that struggle to be heard in the first place, replicating their offline repression Read more |
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Jamie Henn This Sort of Spineless Corporate Pandering Is Why Democrats Keep Losing The DNC's vote to reverse a ban on fossil fuel industry giving is a deplorable step backward for the party Read more |
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Juan Cole Trump's "Space Force": More "Whitey on the Moon" How little progress we have made since the 1960s! Read more |
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Heidi Shierholz Missourians See 'Right-to-Work' for What It Is: An Assault on Workers Such measures jeopardize unions' ability to give workers a meaningful voice in the workplace Read more |
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Nathaniel Matthews-Trigg Climate Change Is the Inevitable Consequence of Capitalist Privatization Just as diverse as we humans are, so too are the creative ways we can organize ourselves to create a more sustainable future Read more |
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Kristine Mattis Dying of Consumption While Guzzling Snake Oil: The Environment Crisis Requires Overhauling Our Corporate Industrial Civilization We cannot take for granted, as economists and industrialists do, that we will continue to produce and consume more Read more |
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Pierre Tristam It Should Be Criminal to Let Health Insurers Deny Coverage Based on Pre-Existing Conditions Instead, the Trump administration, Florida, and 19 other states are fighting in court to make it permissible business again Read more |
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Steven Singer This Wall Street PAC Bankrolling Democrats Thinks Being Progressive Means Mirroring Betsy DeVos If Democratic candidates want to keep the support of grassroots voters, they need to reject money from Democrats for Education Reform Read more |
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Eric Margolis Trump's Sanctions on Iran and Violation of the Nuclear Deal Defy His Vows to Create US Jobs The $20 billion lost should be counted as part of annual U.S. aid to Israel Read more |
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Bob Burnett As California Burns, It's Time to Elect Climate Leaders to Deal With This 'New Normal' The catastrophic impacts of the climate crisis aren't confined to the West Coast wildfires—each community will have to develop their own particular response Read more |
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Ansje Miller , Zack Kaldveer Toxic Corruption: The Chemical Industry Keeps Pulling EPA's Strings Protecting public health was once an EPA priority—now it's being treated as just another obstacle to maximizing corporate profit Read more |
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Kevin Kumashiro A Back-to-School Lesson for 2018: As Elites Cut, the Masses Build Education can strengthen our democracy when it raises our consciousness, reframes the debate, and mobilizes the public Read more |
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Kathy Kelly U.S. Is Complicit in Child Slaughter in Yemen “If an airstrike was a drive-by and killed someone, the U.S. provided the car, the wheels, the servicing and repair, the gun, the bullets, help with maintenance of those—and the gas.” Read more |
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Rex Nutting Confused By Emoluments? The Founding Fathers Would Have Impeached Trump in a New York Minute The Founding Fathers had someone just like Donald Trump in mind when they banned any and all emoluments to the president from any foreign or state governments Read more |
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Peter Kalmus The Best Medicine for My Climate Grief A climate scientist talks to a psychologist about coping with the crushing stress related to climate change. Here’s what he learned Read more |
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Michelle Goldberg The Pragmatic Left Is Winning For once, Democrats are not in disarray Read more |
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Juan Cole US Editorials Called the Polish Immigrant Grandparents of Laura Ingraham ‘Undesirables’ Ingraham's typical Know-Nothing pronouncements on immigration to the US Read more |
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Charles P. Pierce Climate Change Destroys the Lives of the Poorest Human Beings First History will not look kindly on us for this, or for any other aspect of our environmental record Read more |
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Ryan Cooper The Left Is Just Getting Started If centrists think a couple of close losses spells the end of the left, they have another thing coming Read more |
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Jefferson Morley QAnon: Why We Have the CIA Partly to Thank for the Craziest Conspiracy Theory Yet The roots of the wackiest pro-Trump conspiracy can be traced back to the CIA Read more |
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Mike Lofgren A Buckeye’s Lament: What Has Happened to Ohio and the Midwest? Away from the large urban centers, the Midwest has transformed into a stronghold of derivative Southernism: country music and mores, religious fundamentalism, the cult of the good old boy, reactionary conservatism of a primitive type. Read more |
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John R. Wallach On the Ambiguity of "Democracy" in America What's in a (political) name? Read more |
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Dianne Monroe “What Harm Can There Be in One Little Question?”: How the Horrific Grows in Small Steps H ow the past can guide us through turbulent and dangerous times Read more |
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Frank Leon Roberts The Ferguson Effect: Why Wesley Bell’s Primary Victory in St. Louis Matters As we move toward the midterm elections of 2018, we would do well to pay attention to the continued influence of the movement for Black lives on local elections and on the changing face of criminal justice reform in America Read more |
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Vijay Prashad The Knife in Iran’s Back: Trump Reinstates Sanctions, Opening the Door to Chaos in Asia and Europe China, Russia and Turkey have already indicated that they will not buckle to U.S. pressure Read more |
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Basav Sen Want to Create Jobs? Reduce Fossil Fuel Use Energy efficiency creates more jobs than fossil fuels — and at a faster rate and lower cost Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Poverty, Violence, and Spiritual Wildfires We’ve chosen, over the last half century, to perpetuate violence rather than take a complex, value-transforming stand against, or beyond, it Read more |
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Edward Hunt Visions of War and Wealth in the Middle East U.S. involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan is part of a long-term strategy to gain regional influence and access to resources Read more |
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Amy Traub Social Exclusion and Black Women’s Pay Exclusion from “good” jobs shows up not only in lower pay for black women, but also in black workers’ reduced access to critical employment-based benefits like health care and retirement plans Read more |
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Matt Taibbi Beware the Slippery Slope of Facebook Censorship The social network is too big and broken to properly function, and these “fixes” will only create more problems Read more |
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Alex Randall Neoliberalism Drives Climate Breakdown, Not Human Nature Attempts by the New York Times to blame humanity as a whole for climate change let the real culprits off the hook Read more |
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Jim Warren Solar With Storage Surges as Gas Falls All the economics and technology are available to rapidly replace coal and “natural” gas, save billions and create thousands of jobs across rural and urban North Carolina Read more |
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John Feffer The Case for Imposing Sanctions on Donald Trump and His US-Based Business Empire It's time for Americans to get a taste of their own medicine. The world should blacklist Trump, his associates, and his businesses. Read more |
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Lucy Goodchild van Hilten Why We Need More Women Involved in Creating Environmental Policy A new study shows female economists are more likely to support environmental policies than their male counterparts Read more |
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Jim Hightower Monopoly or Democracy? Generation after generation of moneyed elites have persisted in trying to take wealth and power from the workaday majority and concentrate both of those things in their wealthy hands to establish a de facto American aristocracy Read more |
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Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap, Greg Coleridge Confirming Kavanaugh Is Not Affirming Democracy Based on Kavanaugh’s own past decisions, of affirming, and likely expanding, constitutional rights of corporations at the expense of human rights, and limiting our ability to protect our ecosystem from further plunder and outright collapse Read more |
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Ralph Nader Apple’s CEO Tim Cook— Serf Labor, Overpriced iPhones, and Wasted Burning Profits Apple’s business model rests on low wage-labor in China and gouging iPhone consumers in the U.S. The federal cops on the corporate antitrust beat have been asleep for years— a somnolence well recognized by Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Google. Read more |
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Andy Rowell Are We Descending Into Hothouse Earth? The new normal could become a whole lot worse Read more |
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Eugene Robinson Trump’s Rally Rhetoric Is Going to Get Somebody Killed The GOP has lost its mind Read more |
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Jeffrey D. Sachs Medicare for All Makes A Lot of Sense The current system is an outrage, and Americans express less satisfaction with the health care system than do their counterparts abroad. Read more |
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Madeline Peltz Watching Tucker Carlson Eats At My Soul. Here’s Why I Do It Anyway Fox News is still the highest-viewed news network in the country, which means the stories it focuses on and the language it uses to report them holds a tremendous amount of sway Read more |
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy Encouraging Progress in Prying Open Trump’s Finances A judge has defined the Constitution’s anti-corruption clauses for the first time. And it’s not good news for the president Read more |
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Emilie K. Clark What Do We Teach Our Students About Hiroshima and Nagasaki? I have worked in four different high schools in New York City, and have hardly heard these nuclear disasters mentioned Read more |
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Sajjad Hussain Drifting Away from Peace According to a new study, peaceful countries are getting more peaceful while the violent are getting more violent Read more |
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Charles P. Pierce This Was as Grave an Attack on Our Democracy as the Russian Meddling Except it was waged by the vice president and Kris Kobach Read more |
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Dr. Hakim Can Afghans Convince Us That the Method of War Isn’t Effective? For them, war not only doesn’t work, it results in more war, verifying a report that in the ongoing ‘global war against terrorism’ from 2001 to 2015, terrorism increased nine fold Read more |
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Rev. John Dear Breaking Through the Normalcy of Los Alamos on Hiroshima Day The normalcy of Los Alamos is so inhumanly, grotesquely, demonically abnormal as to seem perfectly reasonable Read more |