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Bill Blum The Biggest Obstacle to Gun Control May Be the Supreme Court With the addition of Trump appointees Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, today’s Supreme Court may be even more pro-gun than it was when Scalia penned Heller. Read more |
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Rebecca U. Thorpe One Budget Line Congress Can Agree On: Spending Billions on the US Military Americans are increasingly insulated and isolated from the political, economic and human costs of warfare. Read more |
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Dean Baker CEOs Say They Will Stop Maximizing Shareholder Value. Would Be Better If They Stopped Maximizing CEO Compensation Rather than maximizing shareholder returns, it seems more plausible that CEOs have been maximizing CEO pay, which has risen 940 percent since 1978. Read more |
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Rebekah Barber Public Charge Rule Is Trump's Latest Attack on Immigrants The rule could have a particularly devastating effect on immigrant communities in the South, the nation's poorest region. Read more |
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Marjorie Cohn The Foreign Policy Litmus Test for Democrats in 2020 As the carnage continues with no end in sight, all of the Democratic candidates should be making immediate and complete U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and indeed, all countries in which the United States is fighting, a central pillar of their platforms. Read more |
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Brent Patterson Remembering Colombian Land Defender Hernán Bedoya "A year before he died, Hernán warned the palm oil companies planned to plant another 1,000 hectares (2,470 acres), which would be impossible unless he and more than a dozen other campesinos were dispossessed." Read more |
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Likhita Banerji A Dangerous Alliance: Governments Collaborate with Surveillance Companies to Shrink the Space for Human Rights Work Despite the existence of these international laws and standards, states and private companies have been able to buy and use spyware freely and without any provision for accountability. Read more |
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Diana Donlon Got Climate Anxiety? Watch "The Biggest Little Farm"—a Template for Regeneration The real takeaway from this movie is that the miracle of self-renewal can happen anywhere, once soil-health restoration becomes the priority and the processes that allow nature to regenerate are set into motion. Read more |
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Philip Weiss Political Upheaval Over Tlaib and Omar Shows the Power of BDS The 56 percent majority of Democrats who believe in punishing Israel in aid for its unending gobbling of Palestinian land is gaining numbers as we speak. Read more |
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Paul Waldman There Will Be No Justice For Trump's Enablers The moral and professional accounting some Republicans feared will never take place. Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt 2084: Is Donald Trump Big Brother? Orwell revisited in the age of Trump Read more |
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Zubeida Mustafa Trump's Ignorance Touches Off a New Crisis in Kashmir Observers believe that Donald Trump's ham-handedness has provoked Modi—or rather, provided him the opening he was looking for Read more |
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Larry Beinhart Donald and Ronald Just how different is Trump's presidency from Reagan's? Read more |
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Juan Cole America as a Company Town: Royal Dutch Shell Workers in Pennsylvania Coerced to Show Up for Trump This campaign rally was a way for Royal Dutch Shell to force its workers to show up for Trump and to put them under his political influence Read more |
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Tim Wilkins The AMA Gets Out of the Way of #MedicareForAll "The AMA has made the right—if overdue—call by leaving the Partnership for America's Health Care Future, and to stop giving their credibility to this effort by big corporations to put profits before people's health." Read more |
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Sarah Jaffe Bad Boss Trump, the Great Organizer Working people at all levels are beginning to understand how their interests are not that different, whether they pack chickens in Mississippi, sell Walmart products in California, or program for IBM in Atlanta Read more |
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Patrick O'Malley Meet Tom Gallagher, the Democratic Socialist Challenging Nancy Pelosi in 2020 Gallagher's record provides a bold contrast to the rightward drift of the Democratic Party: he was resisting neoliberalism before we called it neoliberalism Read more |
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Brian Mier Media Blackout on Brazil's Anti-Bolsonaro Protests Why are the New York Times and Guardian downplaying resistance to Brazil's far-right president? Read more |
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Ashoka Mukpo Corrections Officer Who Struck Rhode Island ICE Protesters With Pickup Truck Resigns "From the perspective of the Never Again movement, looking to shut down ICE and stop the deportation machine, the place where that intersects in Rhode Island is at Wyatt." Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli A Dangerous and Filthy Place Trump's descriptions of Baltimore were actually descriptions of the Kushner properties Read more |
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Randi Spivak How to Counter Trump's Disastrous Attack on Our Public Lands Fossil fuel leasing on public lands is worsening the climate crisis. But there's hope. Read more |
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Juan Cole After Tlaib and Omar Are Barred by Netanyahu, Why Would Any Self-Respecting Democrats in Congress Do the AIPAC Tour Again? Dem leaders Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and Steny Hoyer condemned the move, but it is unlikely that they will do more than that. Read more |
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Jeff Cohen Memo to Mainstream Journalists: Can the Phony Outrage; Bernie Is Right About Bias Mainstream media is shocked at Sanders' suggestion that ownership influences coverage. I can tell you it's true. Read more |
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Negin Owliaei Red States Cut Worker Pay by $1.5 Billion If you’re a minimum wage worker in a conservative state, your state lawmakers may have cut your paycheck by over $4,000. Read more |
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Scott Zimmerman ALEC Fails to Denounce Dangerous and Racist Views of Its Leaders and Members ALEC has remained conspicuously silent about the dangerous and racist statements and ties of its legislative leaders and members Shea, King, Nearman, Stringer, and Keller. Read more |
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John Atcheson It Looks Like We're Heading For a Recession: Which Would Make Republicans' Favorite Economic Policies 0 FOR 4 Trump—despite populist rhetoric—did the usual Republican scam, cutting taxes for the rich and corporations, exacerbating both the deficit and income inequality, and assuring that a recession is increasingly likely. Read more |
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Angela Godfrey-Goldstein From Jerusalem, A Letter to Jared Kushner As a peace activist, I see the denial of Palestinian freedom by Israel and the United States following a tragic trajectory Read more |
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Robert Shetterly George W. Bush's Infuriating Innocence Project The former president is a war criminal guilty of crimes against humanity—a serial killer. Will the American people ever come to grips with this fact? Read more |
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Richard Rodriguez DCCC Is Out of Step With Democratic Values We need a political system that works for the people, not the deep-pocketed special interests. Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar The Right Gives Corporations the Help It Denies Poor Immigrants of Color In Trump’s version of America, the Statue of Liberty might say, "only white wealthy immigrants are welcome here." Read more |
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Julie Hollar If You're Looking for Evidence of WaPo Media Bias Against Bernie Sanders, Here It Is Fairness & Accuracy In Media (FAIR) has been following this issue for quite some time, so we're happy to offer the evidence CNN and the Post claim is lacking Read more |
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Shawn Fremstad Trump’s Contempt for Working-Class Expressed in New Expanded Public Charge Rule It is unimaginable that Congress would classify so many working-class and middle-class Americans as undesirable public charges. Read more |
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Jorge Majfud Why the Government’s Hunt for the Migrant Poor Is a Perfect Distraction From the Real Problems of Our Time The powerful old men who rule the world have an existential advantage, which is that they won’t live to see the fruits of their hate and greed. Read more |
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Kayla Blado The Answer To Burn Out At Work Isn’t "Self-Care"—It’s Unionizing Being in a union means that you and your coworkers work together to fix the problems at your workplace, and then negotiate for solutions with management. Read more |
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Michael Winship Fifty Years After Woodstock, We Are Caught in the Devil’s Bargain The anniversary reminds us of the best and worst of 1969—and today. Read more |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan The Ghastly Return of the Federal Death Penalty The most significant factors in determining whether or not a person is given the death penalty are the location where they are tried, whether they are poor, and the race of the victim. Read more |
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Matt Taibbi Bernie Sanders’ Chances Depend on Taking Support from Biden, and Soon "Scranton Joe" has proved a more difficult foil for Bernie Sanders than Hillary Clinton, particularly with working-class voters. Read more |
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John Feffer 'Slowbalization': Is the Slowing Global Economy a Boon or Bane? Some economists worry the world has passed “peak globalization.” But that could be good for the planet. Read more |
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Tom Conway A Tire That Should Inspire Fear in the Heart of Workers This sad story is as old as NAFTA. Read more |
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Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz What an American Terrorist Looks Like Despite racist and anti-immigrant scapegoating, data shows that most American terrorists are resentful White men inspired by White supremacist and misogynist rhetoric. Read more |
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Jim Hightower Government for the Rich, the Poor Be Damned What we have here is government by plutocratic authoritarians who'll gleefully dole out millions to a wealthy family and then just as gleefully go out of their way to deny food to millions of poor families. Read more |
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Rebecca Gordon How the U.S. Created the Central American Immigration Crisis What happens in El Norte, doesn’t stay in El Norte Read more |
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Juan Cole "World-Wide Welcome": No, Cuccinelli, the Statue of Liberty and Lazarus Poem Are Not About European Whiteness CNN quotes the interchange between Erin Burnett and Ken Cuccinelli, acting director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services, over a new policy that might prevent immigrants who accepted public... Read more |
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David Armiak ALEC Doubles Down on Trump, Corporate Agenda at Annual Meeting in Texas The corporate lobby group and right-wing 'model legislation' factory is back Read more |
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Nancy Altman Social Security Isn’t in Crisis. It Just Needs a Tune-Up Democrats appear increasingly ready to take the necessary action, but the Republican Party would just as soon let one of the nation's most popular programs die Read more |
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W. Ralph Eubanks Mississippi ICE Raids a Call to Action for the Civil Rights Generation What happened in the ICE raids in Mississippi is just as un-American as our old race-based immigration quota system, as un-American as the way African Americans had to live in this country before the civil rights movement Read more |
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Ralph Nader It Is Time to Haul Boeing Executives Before Congress to Testify Under Oath With the Boeing 737 MAX still grounded, there may not be a better opportunity to get answers to the most crucial questions Read more |
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Vijay Prashad Why Kashmir Is Suddenly a Potential Global Point of Conflict The Indian government’s move on Jammu and Kashmir should not merely be seen as an internal matter. It is inextricably linked to the geopolitical atmosphere around the region. Read more |
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Ramzy Baroud Manifestos of Hate: What White Terrorists Have in Common Writing under the title of “If the El Paso shooter had been Muslim”, Moustafa Bayoumi stated the obvious. “If the El Paso shooter had been a Muslim,” Bayoumi wrote in the British Guardian newspaper... Read more |
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Ryan Cooper It's Very Clear: Bernie Sanders Can Beat Donald Trump America very badly needs a president who is not just another establishment stooge in thrall to plutocrats to undo the damage of Trump and 30 years of neoliberal corrosion Read more |
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Sabrina Hersi Issa Trump's Public Charge Plan Punishes Legal Immigrants for America's Existing Income Inequality The administration explicitly disavowed the language chiseled on the Statue of Liberty to defend their new immigration strategy Read more |
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Norman Solomon Why Bernie Sanders Is Absolutely Correct About the Washington Post—and Corporate Media Overall The fact that cable news pundits, anchors, and reporters rushed to vehemently defend corporate media against Sanders' comments is illustrative of the dynamic. It makes you wonder where career self-interest ends and sincere delusion begins. Read more |
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Julie Hollar Media Defend Biden by Attacking Dems for ‘Attacking’ Obama Note that the "Dems" who are seething in these stories are almost exclusively Biden strategists, former Obama administration officials or strategists, and other party centrists Read more |
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Andrew Cohen The Completely Predictable Death of Jeffrey Epstein If you are shocked by a jail suicide you aren’t paying attention to the grim conditions of incarceration in America. Read more |
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Justin Vest ICE: You're Not Welcome in the South I'm sick of the government claiming it "protects" me by locking up my Latinx neighbors while their kids are at school Read more |
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Reese Erlich Trade War With China Is Not Going So Well For Trump Despite tremendous Trumpian pressure, China hasn't backed down Read more |
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William Astore In Wars and Weapons We Trust: Military Strength Is America's National Religion What happened to "blessed are the peacemakers"? Read more |
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Diane Archer Social Security 2100—A Path to Protecting America’s Elderly Communities Social Security’s one shortcoming is that its benefits are extremely modest by virtually any measure. We can do so much better. Read more |
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Thom Hartmann The Right-Wing American Love Affair With One of the Most Disturbing Serial Killers A monster who boasted of how he had hacked up a 12-year-old girl—had Ayn Rand's ear, as well as her heart. What happened next was the modern Republican Party. Read more |
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Kristin Ohlson Regenerative Agriculture Is Key for a Sustainable Climate and Food System The recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report shows that agriculture is responsible for 37 percent of greenhouse gas emissions Read more |
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Dean Baker Why Would the Democrats Want to be 'Tough' on Trade, as Opposed to Smart on Trade? Over the last three decades, the United States has negotiated trade deals to benefit U.S. corporations Read more |
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Renata Avila All or Nothing: A Green New Deal for Central America The Trump administration is already campaigning for the upcoming elections and its main target is an easy fragile one – migration and how to put the brakes on it. Turning Guatemala into a temporary prison has been its latest achievement. Read more |
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Pablo Pacheco The Need for a Climate Action Plan That Puts Forests Front and Center Is Clearer Than Ever Forest-related solutions are cost effective precisely because we can harness the power of nature to address climate change. Read more |
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David Suzuki Deniers Deflated as Climate Reality Hits Home It’s getting harder for anyone to deny the reality staring us in the face. Read more |
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Tom Andrews Will Congress Hold Those Who Commit and Profit From Genocide Accountable? The next phase of the genocide against the Rohingya ethnic minority of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, is underway. Congress can help stop it by passing a National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)... Read more |
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Gloria Oladipo Trump’s New Coal Rules Will Bury Rural America People of color and white rural populations are going to suffer the most from the EPA’s war on renewable power. Read more |
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Lindsey Kaley We Have Until Aug 13 to Oppose Trump’s Anti-Trans Healthcare Plan The proposal is yet another attempt by the Trump administration to undermine our nation’s antidiscrimination laws. Read more |
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David A. Love Mass Shootings: The Most American Way to Kill and Die Racism, corruption and arms proliferation are fuelling America's mass shooting epidemic Read more |
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Jeremy Toback A Fresh Case for the Political Revolution The neoliberal project has left us with but one choice. Read more |
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Eric Margolis Hair-Trigger Nuclear Alert Over Kashmir India and Pakistan, where people starve in the streets, waste billions on military spending because of the Kashmir dispute. Now some of India’s extreme Hindu nationalists warn they want to reabsorb Pakistan, Bangladesh, and even Sri Lanka into Mother India. Read more |
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Ann McFeatters The Name of the Only Republican Possibly Worse Than Donald Trump Is Mitch McConnell Perhaps even more than the morally bankrupt Trump, McConnell is the worst among us Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli The Perfect Trumpian Friendship In bragging about the letters Kim has written him, letters that he frequently shows White House visitors, Trump says he and Kim fell in love. This is all very interesting. Read more |
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Pierre Tristam Of Course Guns Have Nothing To Do With It. Nothing. The United States of American is really only exceptional in one undeniable regard: We have 300 million guns. Read more |
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Juan Cole After Terror Attack at Oslo Mosque, What if Trump Spoke About White Supremacists the Way He Does Islam? Valhalla Awaits! Read more |
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Valerie Schloredt How Capitalism Exploits Our Fear of Old Age Getting older isn’t all loss and no gain. We may actually become happier and more emotionally resilient. Read more |
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Gregory Shupak The New York Times' Pro-War Arguments Against War With Iran Recent editorials make it sound as if the US and Iran have been brought to the edge of war by immutable physical laws, rather than by conscious decisions the US ruling class has made Read more |
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Andrew E. Miller A Trump-Bolsonaro Free Trade Deal Is an Apocalyptically Bad Idea Proponents of the U.S. Brazil free trade agreement seem to be operating in an alternative universe, oblivious to or willfully ignorant of the environmental and social realities playing themselves out in Brazil Read more |
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Charles P. Pierce Nobody Will Ever Believe the Official Story of This Epstein Suicide Epstein was found dead in his jail cell Saturday morning Read more |
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Lornet Turnbull Five Years After Ferguson Uprising, Still Seeking Justice and Healing On the fifth anniversary of Michael Brown's death, his family and the town of Ferguson look to the past—and future—to bring about meaningful change. Read more |
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Steven Rosenfeld Leading Civil Rights Lawyer Shows 20 Ways Trump Is Copying Hitler’s Early Rhetoric and Policies The author, Burt Neuborne, is one of America’s top civil liberties lawyers, and questions whether federal government can contain Trump and GOP power grabs. Read more |
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Shane Ryan If You Think Bernie Shouldn't Have Gone on Joe Rogan, or Fox News, You're Leaving Fellow Americans for Dead Ultimately, this is about reach. Electoral College Mindset has led us to believe that there are certain demographics who are lost to us totally, but this is ridiculous Read more |
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Juliette Majot Landmark UN Report Emphasizes Crucial Role of Regenerative Farming Practices to Address Climate and Food Emergencies Consumers will not understand how agricultural systems work (and what we must do to maintain them), without being taught and agribusiness will not cede power without the strong insistence of the public and political will. Read more |
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Ellen Brown Neoliberalism Has Met Its Match in China The Chinese have proven the effectiveness of their public banking system in supporting their industries and their workers. Rather than seeing it as an existential threat, we could thank them for test-driving the model and take a spin in it ourselves. Read more |
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Phil Rockstroh Bodies on the Ground and the Rise And Rise of the Economic Elite Trump is not an anomaly of a morally bankrupt nation, but rather an emblem Read more |
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Karen Kinney With Migrants Facing Unbeatable Odds, Privilege Blinds Us to What Is Just The danger of privilege is that it colors our interpretation of "right and wrong," and at the same time distorts our view of justice. Read more |
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Ed Kilgore Surging in Polls, Elizabeth Warren Now Has a Path to the Nomination Recent polls have clearly indicated that Warren is going places. Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar This Is How We Defend Immigrants From Trump We are going to require deep reserves of patience, persistence and militant, nonviolent resistance to Trump, Trumpism, racism, white supremacy and violence. Read more |
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Frances Moore Lappé, Zachary Field Climate Courage—Cities and States Matter, Too Across America, local governments are leading the way with some of the most progressive transitions in the nation. Read more |
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Mike Ferner "Culture of Violence?" You Betcha, Mr. Trump, But It's Not The Video Games It’s much more accurate to say that everybody in America is surrounded by a culture of violence, even if they’ve never played a video game. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Dead Canaries When we mix racism in with the easy availability of lethal weaponry, it turns into terrorism, which is to say, collective lunacy—a lunacy surpassed in its scope and human cost only by the lunacy of war itself. Read more |
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Robert Lipsyte When Comedian Dick Gregory Tried to Bust the Word and Stand Up to Racism Nigger, the Book, Never Overcame "Nigger," the Slur. Read more |
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Ernest A. Canning Step One of Closing the "Democracy Deficit": Stop Referring to Corporatists as "Centrists" or "Moderates" Once more, ostensibly objective moderators carefully script questions to ensure Democratic debates are conducted within an industry-preferred frame Read more |
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Ravi Mangla It’s Time for the Left to Retire the Word 'Taxpayer' Phrases like "protect the taxpayer" promote the idea that taxation is theft—and not an indispensable part of a healthy, functioning society. Read more |
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Robert Reich The Myth of the Rugged Individual If everyone thinks they’re on their own, it’s easier for the powerful to dismantle unions, unravel safety nets, and slash taxes for the wealthy. Read more |
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John Feffer Trump: Out of the Graveyard and into the Pyre? Even if Trump manages to end the war in Afghanistan, he’s fueling other wars that will be even more devastating. Read more |
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Leonard Pitts Jr. Republicans, Either Cowed or Clueless, Are Useless After a Mass Shooting Everything except the gun, everything except the fact that this is a country where the angry and disaffected can buy weapons of mass destruction more easily and with less regulation than you could buy a car. Read more |
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Juan Cole White Al-Qaeda, Trump and Economic Terrorism Against El Paso Both Trump’s rhetoric and the shooter’s murders target El Paso’s economy in classic terrorist style. Read more |
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Cynthia Kaufman Motivating Climate Action: A Review of Per Espen Stoknes "What We Think About When We Try Not to Think About Global Warming." I hope everyone in the climate movement will read this book, and think deeply about the ways we try to engage people, and the kinds of actions we have ready for them to take up. Read more |
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Rethinking Schools Editorial The Green New Deal and Our Schools This dystopian possibility is forcing us to imagine an entirely different kind of society. Schools have a central role to play in devising new alternatives and equipping young people to bring those alternatives to life. Read more |
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Norman Solomon The Danger of Nancy Pelosi’s Bad Attitude Toward Progressives At a time when the virulent racism of the Trump regime is becoming more flagrant, it might seem a divergence to challenge Democratic Party leadership. On the contrary, the imperative of preventing Trump's re-election will require massive engagement and huge turnout of the progressive grassroots... Read more |