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Jeremy Brecher How Workers Can Help Defeat a Trump Coup Donald Trump, desperately behind in the polls, appears to be laying the groundwork for illegally attempting to remain in office if he loses the election. This commentary focuses in on the role of workers—union and nonunion—in resisting a Trump Coup. Read more |
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Lee van der Voo Remember This the Next Time Someone Says a Green Economy Would Be Too Expensive We spent $2 trillion to keep Americans afloat in the pandemic. Putting a similar amount toward the climate crisis could be even more pragmatic. Read more |
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Jamie Henn Joe Biden is Finally Talking About Fossil Fuels—That’s a Good Thing It is high time to break the spell the industry seems to have cast over Democratic politicians. This was a promising start. Read more |
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Margaret Poydock The Passage of California’s Proposition 22 Would Give Digital Platform Companies a Free Pass to Misclassify Their Workers Californians must require that companies follow the law and properly classify their workers. No company should be able to buy its way out of treating workers fairly. Read more |
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Richard Eskow The Sunset Gun: One Nation, Under the Influence of Hate Repairing the breach left by centrism and fueled by rage will require radical love, the kind of love that condemns a broken system and not its broken people. Read more |
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Michael Winship That Final Debate Was a Parade of Presidential Prevarication Notes from the ghost town that only exists in Trump’s impoverished imagination. Read more |
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Alan MacLeod Media Outlets Owned by Billionaires Very Quick to Tell Readers Taxing the Rich Is Bad Idea A wealth tax as modest as some Democrats are proposing would affect precious few Americans, but still generate trillions of dollars of revenue from people who have largely been increasing their fortunes throughout the pandemic. Read more |
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Kenneth Peres Why the Republican Party Wants to Destroy Labor Unions The GOP sees unions and their supporters as enemies to be politically and economically destroyed. Read more |
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Reese Erlich What Bolivia Can Teach the United States About Democracy The South American nation sets an example of how to undo an attempted coup. Read more |
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Matthew Duss Only a Reckoning With the Disastrous Legacy of the So-called 'War on Terror' Can Heal the United States U.S. foreign policy never recovered from the war on terror. Read more |
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Heidi Shierholz With Millions of People Out of Work, the Senate’s Inaction Is Not Only Cruel, It’s Bad Economics When these programs expire, millions of these workers and their families will be financially devastated. Read more |
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Navina Khanna, Axel Fuentes Here's How Meatpacking Corporations Could Protect Workers From COVID-19—and What They're Doing Instead It’s time for our elected officials to pass enforceable workplace protections like those in the HEROES Act to make sure workers are able to stay safe, maintain social distance, and access paid sick leave. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Wrecking America: How Trump’s Lawbreaking and Lies Betray All If you don’t want such a person as your neighbor, why would you want him as your President where he’d have exponentially more power to harm you and your family? Read more |
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Ariel Dorfman Sending Trump to Hell Dante Alighieri has words for Donald J. Trump from the other side of death. Read more |
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Mark Harris A Trump Defeat Will Not End the Far-Right Threat For decades now, the Democratic political establishment has overseen the betrayal of progressive and working-class hopes and interests. Read more |
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Mitchell Zimmerman Trump to Seniors: Drop Dead In lieu of a plan for the virus, the president keeps assuring audiences that "only" older people will die. Read more |
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Gleb Tsipursky Are You Prepared for an Election Disaster? Everyone should have a plan to vote this year, but people should also have a plan for what comes after that. Read more |
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Sandra Babcock Lisa Montgomery: A Victim of Incest, Child Prostitution and Rape Faces Execution The story of Lisa's life reads like the script of a horror movie. Read more |
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Juan Cole DNI John Ratcliffe, a Trumpie Wingnut, Hilariously Blames Iran for Pro-Trump Proud Boy Email Spoof Anyone with the slightest common sense can see that Iran would be much better off with Biden, who is likely to try to re-implement the 2015 nuclear deal. Read more |
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Bill Blum Confirmation Hearings Exposed Barrett as a Hardcore Rightwing Activist Her goal on the court will be to drive America back to the days before the New Deal and the civil rights movement. Read more |
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Robert Reich How to Stop Trump from Stealing the Election Make this a blowout victory for Joe Biden and Democrats down the ballot, and stop Trump from stealing this election. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson Denying Pre-Trial Detainees the Right to Vote Must Stop This form of voter suppression is a social injustice and a civic indignity. Read more |
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Joshua Cho Press Worries About a Fracking Ban’s 'Risk' to Democrats—Not Fracking's Threat to Planet There is no reason for a fracking ban to be "political suicide" unless corporate journalists are determined to equate that with the death of the fossil fuel industry. Read more |
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Laura Flanders The US Spends More Than $80 Billion a Year Incarcerating 2.3 Million People There’s never been a better time to reconsider the entire system. Read more |
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Mike Lofgren Damnatio Memoriae: The First Step to Recovery in a Post-Trump America To get beyond the present crisis, we must undo his crimes and follies. Read more |
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Michael Winship Scott Atlas Is Trump’s Doctor Death He’s a reminder of an infamous Russian who "probably killed more human beings than any individual scientist in history." Read more |
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Mike Males Young Activists Aren’t Waiting For Anyone Older generations have generally favored "nowism," which privileges short-term well-being at the expense of long-term environmental and societal sustainability. And today’s youth are done with it. Read more |
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Marc Edelman Fascism in America Words matter. We must call what is happening in the US by its true name. Read more |
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Stacie Murphy Global Reproductive Health on the Ballot this November If Democrats are elected, we can have a new president and a congress that will fight to repeal the Helms Amendment and safeguard accessible and affordable healthcare everywhere. Read more |
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Amy Reed-Sandoval Voting in Exile The forces that have kept us in exile want us to lose touch with our sense of democratic agency—they want us to feel that we have forever lost our worlds. Read more |
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Shiney Varghese World Food Day Drives Home Need for Change in the US The pandemic has exposed the fragility of the current industrialized food supply system, which is nested in an unequal, racialized and gendered socio-economic system experiencing the increasing prevalence of unemployment and food insecurity. Read more |
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Rebecca Gordon Guns, Germs, and Smoke UNITE-HERE! Canvassers take on Trump in Nevada. Read more |
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James Zogby Policies Targeting Arabs and Muslims Didn’t Just Start With Donald Trump Regardless which party is in the White House, these onerous policies must finally be challenged and defeated. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies How Biden Flubbed Town Hall Foreign Policy Question Most of our leaders are still hell-bent on preserving America's imperial power at any cost: endless wars, climate catastrophe, mass extinctions, and the terrifying risk of a final, apocalyptic mass-casualty war—most likely a nuclear war. Read more |
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Ruwan Subasinghe, Makbule Sahan Ending Corporate Impunity Is at the Heart of a Sustainable Post-Pandemic Global Recovery Upcoming negotiations for a UN Binding Treaty on Business and Human Rights provide a critical opportunity for governments and business to demonstrate their commitment to responsible corporate conduct. Read more |
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Robert Reich The Public, the Personal, and the Utter Hypocrisy of the GOP It is nonsensical to argue, as do Trump and his allies, that government cannot mandate masks or close businesses during a pandemic but can prevent women from having abortions and same-sex couples from marrying. Read more |
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Thom Hartmann How Does a Nation Best Deal With a Leader Who Intentionally Kills Its Citizens? Regardless of his motivations, Trump is engaging in and encouraging behavior that is killing and disabling Americans by the millions. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Why a Former Green Party Candidate Is on a Very Long Fast—Urging Progressives to Vote for Biden to Defeat Trump "A very large number of people on the left who supported Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren have come around to an understanding that Trump and his accomplices are such a dire threat to any hope of forward progress in this country." Read more |
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Bud McClure Donald Trump's Hatred of Women The extent to which he denigrates women and the anger and even hatred he projects onto them reflects, in equal measure, his own self-hatred of his dependency, weakness, and passivity that he associates with the feminine in him. Read more |
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Andrew Bacevich Reframing America’s Role in the World The specter of isolationism. Read more |
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Steven Singer An Originalist Reading of Public Schools and the Absurdity of Amy Coney Barrett GOP is now the the party of plutocrat neofascist Christian fundamentalism. Read more |
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Robert Freeman Judge Trump’s Worthiness by Either Past or Future If the next four years besiege the country as did the last four, our problems will be immeasurably worse, for they will only fester, mutate, magnify, and multiply. Read more |
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Juan Cole Dear Sen. Perdue: Kamala Is the Name of Great Americans Since Perdue is implicitly playing the American card by othering Kamala Harris, let us look at some very American Kamalas who are much more admirable people than David Perdue and who have achieved much more of lasting value for Americans than he has. Read more |
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Anna Bianca Roach This Crisis Makes Clear: We Need a Four-Day Work Week, Now A shorter work week could help create a more thriving society. But to work it must be equitable. Read more |
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Sara Reardon Leading Scientists Urge Voters to Dump Trump Journals and Nobelists, usually cautious, cite unprecedented damage and incompetence in calls for a U.S. leadership change. Read more |
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William Cohn Amy Coney Barrett: Just Another Pro-Corporate Villain on the Court As the judiciary heads further to the right it is evident it no longer serves the values of the majority of the people. Read more |
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Juan Cole America Is Complicit, as Yemen Spirals Toward Mass Starvation This is an American war, and Americans have Yemeni blood on their hands. Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli The Monster and the Trump The Executive Order was signed by Trump who has repeatedly shown his disrespect for people with whom he disagrees by the language he uses when addressing them. It is mostly directed towards women and people of color. Read more |
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Mariah Kreutter Dianne Feinstein Was Harder on Preteen Climate Activists Than She Was on Amy Coney Barrett The contrast makes it clear that Feinstein prioritizes an outdated model of bipartisanship over engaging a passionate, young, left-leaning voter base. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Corporatist Judge Barrett–Two More Senate Abstentions Needed to Stop Trump It's time for the rising movement of elected and grassroots progressive to take over. Read more |
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Zoe Weil Four Ways to Find Equanimity When the News Is Overwhelming Staying healthy and effective in the maelstrom. Read more |
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David Suzuki Humility, Caring and Wisdom Make a Better Future Possible For many, the pandemic has renewed our innate appreciation for and connection to nature. People have taken to growing food on windowsills and in backyard and community gardens. We’re cultivating yeasts to bake bread and getting outside more to walk, run, swim and cycle. Read more |
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Natalie Dowzicky Beware of Presidents Promising 'No More War' at Election Time The public sees right through the facade of large lofty claims. Read more |
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Robert Reich Vote NO On CA Prop 22: Reject This Corporate Power Grab Make no mistake: Prop 22 is a lousy deal for Uber and Lyft drivers, and for millions of other workers. Read more |
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Miles Mogulescu Biden Can’t Let Republican Court Packers Intimidate Him Into Pledging Not to Unpack the Courts Mitch McConnell subscribes to the premise that "the easiest way to change the law is to change the judges." Read more |
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Tom Weis History Will Damn Trump & Co. for Betraying the Vision of Our Founders A societal reckoning is required to fulfill our founding promise of liberty and justice for all. Read more |
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Natalie Shure The Squad Is Growing: A New Crew of Left Challengers Is Bringing Movement Politics to Congress It’s not just AOC, Omar, Pressley and Tlaib. This crop of organizers-turned-politicians—alongside the Squad—plans to usher in a progressive revival in the House of Representatives. Read more |
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Julie Hollar Democracy Dies in the Light The problem is that the media continue to operate as if a normal democratic election is being held in this country, when it clearly is not. Read more |
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Alex Kotch Koch-Funded Legal Group Pushes to Allow Mass Evictions During Pandemic The CDC's eviction moratorium update "is symptomatic of a system that has always and continues to work to benefit the profiteers." Read more |
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Silky Shah Why America Still Needs to Abolish ICE The nation’s attention may have moved on, but the crisis remains. Read more |
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Ruth Conniff Amy Coney Barrett Is Not Pro-Life Trump's Supreme Court nominee has no regard for Americans protected by the Affordable Care Act. Read more |
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Juan Cole Pro-Life, Judge Barrett? Climate Denialism Is Mass Murder Human-induced climate change through burning gasoline, coal and natural gas is not "politically controversial." It is established science. Read more |
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Steve Fraser The United States of Paranoia From the Salem witch hunt to conspirator-in-chief Donald Trump Read more |
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Timi Iwayemi, Miranda Litwak Biden’s Treasury Could Fight Climate Change, But Would Lael Brainard’s? Biden’s choice for Treasury Secretary is arguably among his most important climate policy decisions. Read more |
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Michael Galant 5 Foreign Policy Issues to Look Out For in Tonight’s Town Halls We must work to end the United States’ role in existing conflicts, repeal the AUMFs, return the powers of warmaking to Congress, and slash the Pentagon budget. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Columbus Day in Pretend America Slave trade? Genocide? Armageddon? Never heard of it! Read more |
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Mark Hertsgaard Journalists Must Demystify The Green New Deal Rather than contributing to an environment in which the words "Green New Deal" are treated as a political liability, good journalism should assess both candidates' plans on their merits and inform the public accordingly. Read more |
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Rabyaah Althaibani How a Future Biden White House Can End the War in Yemen Biden has recently stated that under his leadership he would end U.S. support for Saudi military intervention in Yemen, a move supported by Congress, and reassess the current close U.S.-Saudi relationship. Read more |
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LaShawn Warren Amy Coney Barrett Hearing Reveals Senate's Misplaced Priorities Senate Republicans are grasping any last chance to hold onto power well after public support has lapsed and their terms are over. Read more |
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Sarah Anderson Farmers and Meatpackers Are Teaming Up During the pandemic and recession, farmers are realizing they have more in common with immigrant meatpackers than agribusiness CEOs. Read more |
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Jill Richardson Voter Suppression in a Pandemic Election Voting is more difficult than it should be in the best of times. In the pandemic, many states are adding barriers, not removing them. Read more |
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Ann Wright Dangers of Military Confrontation Between the United States and China Around Taiwan and in the South China Sea In 2020, The Trump administration has dramatically increased the number of Freedom of Navigation missions. Read more |
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Tony Norman Even Villains Are Heroes in Their Own Minds The plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer reveals the depths of militia lunacy in Trump’s America. Read more |
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Steven Hill Here's One Good Way to Reform a Battered US Supreme Court Defenders of the status quo undoubtedly will view any tampering as an assault on judicial independence. But the bitter partisanship of the current process has deeply undercut all notions of justice and fairness. Read more |
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Christopher D. Cook Why the Left Must Choose Biden It's not about fundamental change—it’s about saving lives and the planet. Read more |
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Les Leopold Race, Class, and Covid-19 in the United States How do we build a coalition of common interest powerful enough to create a healthier society that dramatically reduces poverty? A look at the data suggests that one focus should be on building solidarity among the vast majority of us who must struggle to make ends meet. Read more |
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Robert Reich How to Save Democracy From GOP Sabotage There is no reason to accept the structure of our democracy when it repeatedly empowers a ruthless minority to impose its will over the majority. Read more |
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Eric Levitz 3 Reasons Pelosi Should Take Trump’s $1.8 Trillion Stimulus Deal Pelosi has little to lose from passing the White House’s $1.8 trillion offer, and putting it in McConnell’s lap. Read more |
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Charles P. Pierce Sheldon Whitehouse Made the Case That Amy Coney Barrett's Nomination Is a Bag Job It was planned and executed by a vast and single-minded network of which no parallel exists on the other side. Read more |
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Jim Hightower Sabotaging Democracy Nationwide, states have removed 17 million Americans from voter rolls since the 2016 election, an unusually high number, with no accounting of how many were living, legitimate voters. Read more |
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Andy Rowell Amy Coney Barrett's Confirmation to the Supreme Court "Would Be a Catastrophe for the Climate" Her "record demonstrates her willingness to interpret environmental laws like the Clean Water Act narrowly in favor of industry interests." Read more |
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William Hartung The U.S. of A(rms) The art of the weapons deal in the age of Trump. Read more |
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Daniel Ellsberg Leaker of Pentagon Papers: Trump Is an Enemy of the Constitution and Must Be Defeated Whatever reservations you might have about Joe Biden, the fact remains that his victory over Trump would mean that our country will have dodged a bullet—preventing the destruction of our Constitution as a functional document and averting irreversible damage to human civilization in the next four... Read more |
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Derrick Z. Jackson As the Virus Rampages Through Washington, Essential Workers Nationwide Are Paying the Price When OSHA and the government fail workers during the coronavirus crisis, that failure can leave workers and family members dead. Read more |
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Jessica J. González, Igor Volsky Five Things Mark Zuckerberg Must Do If He’s Serious About Preventing Election Violence Facebook has tools that gather ready audiences for voter disinformation and conspiracy theories, and it uses algorithms that seem designed intentionally to amplify and spread divisive messages, regardless of their accuracy. Read more |
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Jeff Schuhrke The Nightmare Facing the Poor and Working Class If There’s Not Another Stimulus With time running out and Republicans balking at more Covid relief, U.S. workers are facing a future of financial misery. Read more |
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Katherine Wilkinson We Should Listen to Scientists Sounding the Alarm on Trump Voting President Donald Trump out of office is only the first step. Read more |
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Bob Lord Inequality in America: Far Beyond Extreme The maldistribution of America’s income and wealth has reached levels that our conventional economic stats have trouble revealing. Read more |
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Nancy J. Altman Social Security's Cost of Living Adjustment Is Inadequate. Democrats Have a Plan to Fix That. After lifetimes of work, Americans have earned their Social Security. It is well past time they get a raise. Read more |
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Richard Falk Why Biden Must Win: It Is Not About Democracy, Its About Fascism If Biden wins, the bipartisan consensus is reaffirmed, while if Trump somehow prevails, the bipartisan will be further weakened, and even threatened by replacing the consensus with a right-wing policy agenda. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson Donald Trump Was Complicit in the Plot to Kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Right-wing domestic terrorism doesn’t fester in a vacuum. Read more |
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Luisa Deprez, John Dorrer Desideratum: Heading Off the Prospects of a Dark and Tumultuous Future We can no longer afford to wait as climate changes, economic systems malfunction, and enflamed social divisiveness bear down on humanity with unprecedented, irreversible consequences. Read more |
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Michael T. Klare The Nuclearization of American Diplomacy Talking tough and carrying a radioactive stick. Read more |
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Maya Evans Afghanistan: 19 Years of War Most ordinary Afghans hold out little hope for peace. Read more |
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Phyllis Bennis As Trump Aims Fresh US Aggression at Iran, How Many Surprises Can This October Hold? This latest not-so-shocking surprise is actually incredibly dangerous and reckless for the future as well as incredibly cruel, heartless, indeed sadistic right now. Read more |
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Robert Freeman Trump, Plato, and the Wizard of Oz Trump desperately needs to avoid another withering exposure that another debate would cement. That is why, true to the coward that he is, he’s hiding from it. Read more |
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Norman Solomon All Left Hands on Deck. Step 1: Defeat Trump. Step 2: Challenge Biden No one has described the current crossroads more astutely than Naomi Klein, who tweeted last month: "Vote for a more favorable terrain." Read more |
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Robert Reich Trump—Gun in His Hand and a Bloody Shirt—Standing on Fifth Avenue The most egregious test of Trump’s 5 th Avenue principle is still to come, when he tries to kill off American democracy. Read more |
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John Buell Ask Amy Coney Barrett If Bosses Should Be Free to Fire Workers at Will Amy Coney Barrett comes up for confirmation at a time when trust in our highly inegalitarian capitalism is low, especially among the young. Read more |
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Thom Hartmann It's Time to Unpack the Court Mitch McConnell has been packing the federal courts for six years now, and, as a result, the nation is calling out for rebalancing. Read more |