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Mary Gerisch Why I Got Arrested For #MedicareForAll So many lives are lost every day to our broken health system. Read more |
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Dror Ladin Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful’ Wall Crumbles in Court The court’s order is a vindication of border communities’ advocacy for themselves, and of our Constitution’s separation of powers. Read more |
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Christina Delgado Our Schools Need Healing, Not More Guns Gov. Abbott should reject HB 1387 Read more |
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Maude Barlow In the Face of Right-Wing Strongmen and an Economy Rife With Insecurity, We Must Reject the Politics of Despair Maude Barlow delivers keynote speech to Tommy Douglas Institute Read more |
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Sue Sturgis The Secret Money Behind the Push to Ban Abortion An index from the Institute for Southern Studies Read more |
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John Atcheson Law and Disorder: Why Corporatism Will Dominate US Policy for Decades to Come Trump and McConnell are doing everything possible to pack the courts with folks who have a higher regard for business than they do for the Constitution. Read more |
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Rebekah Barber Fight for $15 Protests McDonald's Over Workplace Violence Fight for $15 Protests McDonald's Over Workplace Violence Read more |
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Cynthia Kaufman Creating a Home through the Green New Deal A review of Bruno Latour's Down to Earth Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli The Muslim and The Trump It is not only in President Xi that Mr. Trump finds a companion spirit when the topic is Muslims. Read more |
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Paul Koberstein, Jessica Applegate Where the Forest Has No Name We are still waiting for someone to launch a campaign to “save the coastal ecosystem running from Northern California to Alaska." Read more |
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David Greene, Kurt Opsahl The Government’s Indictment of Julian Assange Poses a Clear and Present Danger to Journalism, the Freedom of the Press, and Freedom of Speech Make no mistake, this not just about Assange or Wikileaks Read more |
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Basav Sen The Terrifying Implications of India’s Elections for People and the Planet The Modi government’s far-right bigotry is well-known, but its equally disturbing environmental record isn’t. Read more |
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Mark Maslin "They'll Give Me a Detention but It'll Be Worth It"—A Climate Scientist Interviews His Climate Striking Daughter My daughter feels like she—and normal people like her—can make a difference. Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac Is Impeachment Really Optional? Sometimes a Strong Offense Is the Only Defense While Democratic leaders worry about being or seeming to be too “aggressive,” Trump is now turning the tables on them, putting them—and all of us who have questioned this administration—on the defensive. Read more |
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Michael Galant The Right to Stay Home Welcoming migrants is not enough—We need to change the global economy of displacement Read more |
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Adam Eichen Waking Up to the Sunrise Movement I battled climate change via a bank shot, never directly, in part because of existential despair. After attending a meeting, I realized my mistake. Read more |
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Christian Christensen Assange, Espionage, and the Cult of Personality Whatever schadenfreude some people—including some journalists, pundits and politicians—may feel over the idea of Assange spending time behind bars (regardless of the charge), the fact remains that criminalizing the work of journalism is ultimately destructive for any country that wants to call... Read more |
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Fiore Longo A Colonialist Land Grab Is Happening Right Now in Congo In the name of "conservation," thousands of families, tribes and communities in Africa and Asia have had their land stolen and been forced into destitution and despair Read more |
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Naomi Klein, Nnimmo Bassey, Bill McKibben, et al. We’re Stepping Up—Join Us For a Day to Halt This Climate Crisis We’re calling for a global strike on 20 September. Disrupting our normal lives is the only way to secure our future Read more |
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Renee Parsons Peace With Iran Is a Good Thing Trump allows himself to be played like a fiddle, complicit with the neocon’s latest nefarious schemes that reveal him as a second-rate player; deteriorating before the public with a history of clumsy international gaffe Read more |
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Juan Cole Jared Kushner Is Surprised He Can’t Get Palestinian Businessmen on Board with Promises of Prosperity They know that trying to build economic prosperity in an Occupied territory full of stateless people with no recourse is like building a mansion on quicksand. It will sink. Read more |
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Stephanie Kurose Fund Endangered Species Act, It's Saved 99 Percent of Wildlife on the Brink If we do not provide more funding to save them now, we will almost surely lose them forever Read more |
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Charles P. Pierce This Is Pure Authoritarian Audacity The administration* tries something and, if there's no resistance, tries something more. This time, it's shrouding the Pentagon in secrecy as we saber-rattle at Iran Read more |
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Peter Certo Pardoning War Criminals Is a Monstrous Way to Honor Memorial Day Glorifying serial killer-type behavior most service members would find appalling is a strange way to honor them Read more |
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Louise Melling An Outright Reversal of Roe V. Wade Isn’t All We Should Fear Much damage can be done—indeed, is being done—long before the question reaches the Supreme Court Read more |
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Russell Mokhiber Facing Growing Backlash CIA Veteran Stephanie Smith Steps Down As Chair of Kent State 50th May 4 Commemoration Advisory Committee “This is a people’s victory for all fighting for peace and justice in America.” Read more |
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Andrew Bacevich The “Forever Wars” Enshrined What Illinois bikers know that Washington doesn't Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Joe Biden Is Not the Pragmatic Choice for 2020 Behind Biden are all the elite forces who dream of retaining the status quo that preserves their profits Read more |
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Leo Gerard Beware Billionaires Bearing Gifts For Americans to achieve real freedom and self-governance, some of the billions that flow into the pockets of the already rich must go instead into the paychecks of the workers whose sweat creates profits Read more |
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Miles Mogulescu It’s Time For The Democratic Party To Stand Up The reasons House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic leadership have thus far put politics above principle, and oppose commencing impeachment hearings, is their (mistaken) belief that it will help Trump win reelection Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Politicizing a Woman’s Body Denying a woman the right to have control over her own body is dehumanization of the highest order Read more |
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Adam Johnson Warren and Sanders Understand the Power of 'The Bad Guy' For Sanders and Warren, it’s simple: The Bad Guy is the rich, the one percent, the oligarchy Read more |
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Robert Reich Why We Must Legalize Marijuana The federal prohibition of marijuana has been unnecessarily cruel—wasting billions of dollars, unjustly harming millions of lives, and furthering racist policies Read more |
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Ralph Nader What and Who Gave Us Trump? Why did Trump look around and think, "Hey, I can get away with this."? Well, take a look around. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Will Biden’s Dog Whistles for Racism Catch Up with Him? Apt to be a big political liability among voters who normally vote Democratic in large numbers, the presumed frontrunner's troubling past on these issues is an incontrovertible reality Read more |
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Tim Lau The Government Is Expanding Its Social Media Surveillance Capabilities But social media monitoring programs and the algorithms that power them aren’t effective — and may be discriminatory. Read more |
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Russell Mokhiber Blaming Dead Pilots Brought to You by Boeing Why would they do this? To shift the blame. After all, there is an active criminal investigation focused directly on Boeing and the responsible executives. Read more |
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Michael Winship A US Foreign Policy in Three Simple Words: Do No Harm When it comes to the worldwide destruction of democracy, Trump is the enabler supreme. Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac Impeachment Will Succeed If It Demonstrates Very Publicly That Trump Is a Tyrant Unfit for Office and GOP Lawmakers Are His Enablers That is all that can be expected. But that is enough. Read more |
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Sarah Anderson America Needs a Long-Term Care Program for Seniors By 2035, seniors will outnumber children. A new plan in Washington state shows how we can care for them — and for their caretakers. Read more |
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Phyllis Bennis Foreign Aid That Costs an Arm and a Leg — Literally The U.S.-funded Israeli military is shooting so many unarmed Palestinians that the UN is warning of an amputation crisis in Gaza. Read more |
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Bill Moyers What If We Covered the Climate Emergency Like We Did World War II? Can we get this story right? Can we tell it whole? Can we connect the dots and inspire people with the possibility of change? Read more |
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Belén Fernández Has the New York Times Declared War on Iran? In its quest to paint Iran as a violent aggressor, the US media does not care to provide relevant history Read more |
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Ryan Cooper Bernie Sanders Is Bringing Back the Most Underrated Education Policy School integration has been outside the main political discussion for a long time, and it's long since time we started talking about it again. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson Extremist Laws Will Make It Harder for Poor Women to End Pregnancies Passing laws that outlaw abortions won't end abortions. They will simply make them less safe, putting more lives at risk. Read more |
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Pat Thomas 6 Reasons Impossible Burger's CEO Is Wrong About GMO Soy It's time to demand more from the food we eat, better protection from our regulators and a higher level of truthfulness and transparency from food brands Read more |
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Nancy J. Altman Beware Trump's Sneak Attack on Social Security "Chained CPI" might sound technical and boring, but anyone who has closely followed the Social Security debate knows better. It has long been proposed as a deceptive, hard-to-understand way to cut our earned Social Security benefits. Read more |
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Leana Wen Trump Owns This Attack on American Women This is now a fight we can and will win, if Americans are ready to act on their convictions and make women's health a priority. And by doing so, we will not only protect women's health care and rights for this generation and generations to come, but we will also shine a spotlight on Trump's... Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt The United States of... American Exceptionalism and Overseas Meddling On living in a nation of political narcissists Read more |
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Bill Blum Why Are Democrats So Scared of Impeachment? All things considered, the real issue is not whether Trump should be impeached, but when and how impeachment should unfold Read more |
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Thom Hartmann This Is How Republics Die And no, the nation will not just "bounce back" once Trump is gone Read more |
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Christian Christensen From Greta Thunberg to Parkland: Young Activists and the Right-Wing Smear Industry These attacks have become an industry supposedly rooted in a worldview that worships rights and individual freedoms, but, in actual fact, is rooted in a hatred of activism, principle, and dedication Read more |
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Vijay Prashad Fear the Mustache: Why Bolton Makes Even Donald Trump Nervous The normal aggressiveness of the U.S. military force does not satisfy Bolton; he wants the United States to deepen its aggressiveness. Read more |
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Marcia Mitchell Iraq All Over Again? And Where Is Katharine Gun A rush to war based on faulty intelligence and a manufactured crisis sounds very familiar. Read more |
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Laura Flanders Can It Happen Here? It's not the hate that’s new. It’s the apparent sense of entitlement. Read more |
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Eric Margolis Fire the Nutcases Leading Us to War Trump is playing with fire by making threats against Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Libya, Cuba, North Korea and China. He appears well on the way to a major war by either plan or accident. Read more |
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Antonia Zerbisias The War on Women Is Still On In Trumpistan, legislative attempts to ban abortion are a blatant sign that women are under attack. In Canada, the war on women is escalating, but slowly and stealthily. Read more |
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Chris Hedges America's Reproductive Slaves Ignore the religious rhetoric and moral posturing about abortion. This is about capitalism's cruelty. Read more |
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Paula Radley We're Shutting Down BP Because It's a Climate Emergency BP is motivated by profit, regardless of the damage. Their time has come to an end. Read more |
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Janine Jackson Corporate Media Setting Up Iran as New 'Threat' That Must Be Confronted If we can still call things "surreal," that would describe watching corporate media do the same things they did in the run-up to the Iraq War Read more |
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Celina della Croce 98.3% of Ghana's Gold Remains in the Hands of Multinational Corporations The disproportionate focus on corruption of national leaders distracts from the systemic theft of national wealth by multinational corporations Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Why Mike Pompeo Smirked When Asked If North Korea Executed Negotiators "It does appear that the next time we have serious conversations, my counterpart will be someone else," said the secretary of state Read more |
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Juan Cole Are ExxonMobil Execs the Most Evil People in the 200K-Year History of Humanity? Tens of millions of human beings will die so that they can have private planes and huge mansions Read more |
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Chrisse France Ohio Lawmakers Ignored Us When They Banned Abortion. They Can't Ignore Us in the Courtroom In defense of people across Ohio, I knew that our clinic couldn't stand by and do nothing while politicians intrude on one of the most private and personal decisions an individual can make Read more |
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Ronaldo Munck Emerging Transnational Unionism Contains the Seeds of a New Global Movement Globalization, rather than being the death knell of labor, has helped to revitalize it Read more |
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Jeff Bryant The Federal Government Has Poured Millions into Failing Charter Schools in Louisiana Parents in New Orleans are sick of the instability that temporary charter schools have brought to their community, calling the schools an "illegal experiment" on their children Read more |
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Daniel Ellsberg The Truth-Teller: From the Pentagon Papers to the Doomsday Machine Daniel Ellsberg discusses the continuing existential threat posed by the military-industrial complex Read more |
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Sandra Park & Allie Bohm New York Passes a Bill to Ensure No One Loses Their Home for Calling the Police When a property is the site of "too many" 911 responses, the city may punish the property owner with penalties such as fines, revocation of rental permits, or orders of closure Read more |
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Mike Lofgren Iran and the Coalition of the Weird Attacking another Middle Eastern country: what could possibly go wrong? Read more |
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Alexa Kolbi-Molinas Alabama Is the Most Explicit Example of What's Been Happening to Abortion Rights for Decades Our elected representatives should be working towards creating a future that safeguards abortion care, upholds basic rights, and justice and respects our decision-making Read more |
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Joshua Cho For Corporate Media, Space Belongs to Washington We can expect more alarmist reports from corporate media about the "threats" posed by countries seeking a peace treaty with the U.S. in outer space Read more |
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Massimo Paciotto Biggers Why I’m on Climate Strike in Iowa The alarms are flashing, but humanity is not acting fast enough for the emergency at hand Read more |
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Carmen Perez Bill de Blasio Can't Run for President as a Progressive If He Doesn't Fire Daniel Pantaleo This level of moral cowardice is disqualifying for a would-be president Read more |
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Thom Hartmann The GOP Is on the Road to Mass Lockups for Women Who Have Miscarriages The Republican Party's attack on women's reproductive rights has put the nation on a terrifying path Read more |
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Gregory Jaczko I Oversaw the US Nuclear Power Industry. Now I Think It Should Be Banned. The danger from climate change no longer outweighs the risks of nuclear accidents. Read more |
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Madeline Page, Rachel Curley As Climate Crisis Threatens, Does Ford Have Something to Hide About Its Stance on Emissions Regulations? It's time for this top automaker to come clean with its investors Read more |
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Julie Weder, Avi Lewis Time to Follow the Green New Leaders Young people are rapidly changing the political calculus on climate in this country — even though many of the leaders are too young to vote Read more |
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Paul Pillar Only Ones to Blame for Fresh US-Iranian Tensions: Team Trump Such an atmosphere would never have existed if the administration had not turned its obsession with Iran into a relentless campaign of hostility Read more |
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Richard Silverstein Ignore the Propaganda: A US War Against Iran Would Be a Costly Mistake Democrats must make this an election issue to ensure the Trump administration keeps the country out of another war of choice Read more |
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Danny Sjursen Where Is the Democratic Alternative to Forever War? There sure are lots to choose from. By now, more than 20 candidates have announced a run for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. And with national security adviser John “Regime Change”... Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Neocons Won’t Stop Until They Get Their War With Iran We've been here before. Read more |
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Adrienne Pine An Academic Arrested for Protecting the Venezuela Embassy As a scholar and educator, there are times when standard tools of teaching, publishing, and public speaking aren't enough. There are times when we need to put our bodies on the line. Read more |
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Jeffrey D. Sachs America's Illusions of Growth Buoyant GDP and unemployment data in the United States may have improved President Donald Trump's re-election chances. But these indicators fail to measure what really counts for the public. Read more |
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William Hartung It’s Time to Stop Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia Congress should work to close off the other main avenue of U.S. support for the Saudi-led coalition—the sale of bombs, combat aircraft, armored vehicles, attack helicopters, and other equipment to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, the two primary perpetrators of the humanitarian crisis in Yemen Read more |
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Suyin Haynes 'Now I Am Speaking to the Whole World': How Teen Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Got Everyone to Listen Organizers estimate that on March 15, a remarkable 1.6 million people in 133 countries participated in a climate strike inspired by Thunberg’s solo action Read more |
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Charles P. Pierce I No Longer Believe House Democrats Will Uphold Their Constitutional Duty And, as a result, the president*'s chances of reelection are better than anyone thinks Read more |
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Helaine Olen Alabama’s Abortion Ban Doesn’t Promote Life. It Exhibits Contempt For It. That the lecherous Donald Trump is presiding over this sustained rollback of women’s reproductive rights and seeming social breakdown is a feature, not a bug Read more |
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Andy Rowell 415 ppm: We Are all Part of Exxon’s Unchartered Climate Experiment Now Never before in human history have carbon dioxide levels reached 415 parts per million Read more |
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy Don’t Rebrand Corruption No one is happier about the Supreme Court’s rebranding of corruption than sketchy politicians, argues Brennan Center Fellow Ciara Torres-Spelliscy. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Trump: Importing Dangerous Medicines and Food and Keeping Consumers in the Dark Messrs. Trump, Azar, and Perdue better wake up before innocent Americans lose their lives due to corporate indentured government officials failing to properly do their jobs Read more |
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Mashal Hashem, James Allen How to Lobby Washington to Death A business model from hell and the war in Yemen Read more |
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Martha Burk The Most Dangerous Time for Women’s Rights in Decades Merely banning abortion isn't enough for some on the rabid right—a few are even threatening women with the death penalty. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler War's Unanswered Questions For those who already know that war is not only hell but utterly futile, the raw question hovering over these potential new exercises in mass murder transcends the obvious question: How can they be stopped? Read more |
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Stephen Zunes The Threat of War With Iran Is the U.S. lurching towards another illegal war in the Middle East? Read more |
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Robert Freeman Trump Attacks Western Civilization Itself Trump’s imperious usurpations of that system do not simply affront political sensibilities or conventional norms. They desecrate the western constitutional order that has been 800 years in the making. Read more |
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Robert P. Alvarez Let Prison Inmates Vote Mass incarceration is now a bipartisan concern. Its effects on our democracy should be, too Read more |
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Alan MacLeod For Democrats, So-Called ‘Purity Tests’ Can Be a Good Thing When powerful people complain about "purity tests," it means they're being pressured in ways they don't like Read more |
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Adam Johnson WaPo Must Acknowledge CIA Role in Pakistan Polio Crisis It’s common moral sense that to prevent future problems, one must have an accurate and true accounting of how these problems were created Read more |
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Juan Cole Top Ten Differences Between the Iraq War and Trump’s Proposed Iran War There is no way to compare the devastating consequences of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, but a war of choice with Iran would represent something on an even larger scale Read more |
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Robert Reich The U.S. Constitution Demands the House Undertake a Trump Impeachment Inquiry Given what we now know, and because of some things we still do not know, lawmakers have a constitutional duty they can no longer ignore Read more |