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Pauline Muchina, Kennedy Akolo Leaders Must Act to Protect Refugees and Internally Displaced People in Africa The window of opportunity for containment is shutting fast. We must work together quickly to stop the spread of Covid-19 among the continent's most vulnerable populations. Read more |
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Thom Hartmann There's Only One Reason Trump and the GOP Don't Want Mail-in Voting Vote-by-mail makes voting easier. And when voting is easier, Republicans have a much harder time suppressing the vote. Read more |
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Michael Flynn, Katie Welsford COVID-19 Reveals the Inherent Vindictiveness of Migration Detention The COVID-19 pandemic is exposing the glaring injustices of the immigration detention system. Read more |
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Janis Petzel Let’s Pay Attention to What COVID-19 Is Trying to Tell Us About Climate Change It’s pointing us to a healthier and more resilient world if we chose to listen. We have no time to lose. Read more |
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Shahid Buttar A Whistleblowing Visionary Offers a Ticket to Our Future—If We Take It Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has a reputation for legislative mastery. She frequently uses it on behalf of corporate interests, however, not the invisible workers making less than minimum wage. Read more |
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Deborah Toler Is Stacey Abrams Progressive? The Georgia Democrat, while clearly forward-thinking on voting rights and other key issues, has repeatedly thrown her lot in with the corporate wing of the party. Read more |
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John Buell Is Mitch McConnell Blocking State Aid to Enrich Vulture Funds and Bolster Corporate Control of the Economy? Without further assistance from the Federal government, all states will be obliged to make draconian cuts in their budgets. Read more |
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Danny Sjursen The Coming of a Social-Distancing Version of War The future of forever war, American-style. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson Americans Have United Before to Defeat an External Enemy and We Can Again This is a time when leaders must emerge, move beyond their comfort zone, and offer bold responses to a stark crisis. This is not a moment for posturing. Read more |
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Richard Falk Arms Control & Disarmament: A Failed Marriage As with the climate crisis, the linkages between contagious disease and nuclear weapons are too evident to ignore. Read more |
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Andrew Bacevich US Public Remain the Tacit Accomplice in America's Dead End Wars Honor the fallen, but not every war they were sent to fight Read more |
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Kenneth Peres Murderer in Chief (Part Two): Trump's Gutting of Environmental Rules Will Lead to Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths The Trump administration—not state governors, not Congress, and not past presidents—is directly responsible for the hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths heading our way. Read more |
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Michelle Chen A Spontaneous Rebellion of Low-Wage Workers Is Rising Up Amid Pandemic Workers are fighting for their lives—even as they save ours. Read more |
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Matthew Rothschild Remembering Slain Peace and Justice Activists on This—and Every—Memorial Day Let us remember those who died fighting for human rights and a better world. Read more |
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Richard Eskow Let's Honor Fallen Workers on Memorial Day, Too Covid-19 has shown us how many different kinds of workers are needed to keep us safe, housed, and fed. Many of them face danger every day, just as soldiers do. Read more |
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Mirna Wabi-Sabi A History of News and Justice in the Americas Why hasn’t Social Media been more effective in bringing forth Social Justice? Some would argue that it has, by connecting people, trending the resistance against racism, and being useful in court —... Read more |
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Meena Miriam Yust, Arshad M. Khan Sea-Level Rise Could Sink the US Southeast: How to Fight It as Individuals The latest news on rising sea levels can be described as another example of human folly. The Anthropocene has seen plant extinctions, animal extinctions, both at an unforeseen pace, and now there is... Read more |
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Laura Flanders A Memorial Day For Lies? So which will it be? Will this disaster spark a shift for the better? Or will the deadly myths white Americans tell ourselves survive Covid-19? Memorial Day messaging bodes ill. I want to believe... Read more |
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Anthony Pahnke, Jim Goodman Make a Resilient, Localized Food System Part of the Next Stimulus From wasted food to the exploitation of farmworkers, the COVID-19 pandemic has made it painfully clear that this country’s food system must be changed. Politicians must pass further stimulus... Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli The Pandemic and the Trumps That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in, and the best of me is diligence. —Shakespeare, King Lear They were revelations. And they were revealed in the space of three days. And both... Read more |
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Judy Rohrer COVID-19 Reveals Viral Discrimination, Higher Ed Should Pay Attention People are still saying “the virus doesn’t discriminate.” We know that’s just not true. We are not equally “all in this together.” The virus is hitting vulnerable populations the hardest—our elderly... Read more |
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Tom Gallagher What the Class of ‘70's Old New Left Might Have Talked About at Their Canceled Reunions There’ll be no fiftieth reunions for the class of ‘70, it seems. Abruptly thrust out into the world in the uproar following the National Guard’s killing of four students at a Kent State University... Read more |
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Ralph Nader Donald Trump, Resign Now for America’s Sake: This is No Time for a Dangerous, Law-breaking, Bungling, Ignorant Ship Captain Where are the calls for Trump’s resignation? Since his first months in the White House, Trump has been the most impeachable, most lawless, most self-enriching, most bungling President in U.S. history... Read more |
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Kelly Trout 5 Reasons We Must Act Now to End Oil and Gas Production The world needs a recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic that dispatches with the old subservience to the fossil fuel industry and instead puts health first, provides relief directly to people, centers workers and communities not corporate executives, builds solidarity across borders, and—crucially—... Read more |
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Luciana Tellez-Chavez This Year’s Forest Fire Season Could Be Even Deadlier Countries are using the coronavirus crisis to lift environmental regulations, even as COVID-19 leaves populations more vulnerable to health impacts from fires. Read more |
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Robert P. Alvarez A Simple Solution for the Coronavirus Crisis in Prisons Releasing low-risk inmates would ease the risk that sky-high prison infection rates pose to all of us. Read more |
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Katitza Rodriguez, Svea Windwehr International Proposals for Warrantless Location Surveillance To Fight COVID-19 Location surveillance comes with a host of risks to citizens’ privacy, freedom of expression and data protection rights. Read more |
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Robert Reich A Tale of Two Pandemics We are all weathering the same storm, but we are not all in the same boat. Read more |
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Jules Boykoff Why We Should Commandeer Hotels to House the Homeless Homelessness is a humanitarian crisis in plain sight and a bleak indictment of capitalism. Now the capitalists have a chance—a duty, really—to step up in the clutch. Read more |
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Amber Colón Núñez Covid-19 Profiteers Are Making a Killing Here are some of the most outrageous capitalist responses to the pandemic. Read more |
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Mitchell Plitnick Key Biden Adviser Offers Little Hope for Palestinians Being better than Trump is a very low bar, and hearing Blinken’s words made it clearer than ever that advocates for Palestinian rights will need to mobilize as never before under a Joe Biden administration. Read more |
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Julianne Tveten Trump’s Pick Could Move VOA Further Right—But It’s Never Been an Independent Outlet For decades VOA has enjoyed the best of both worlds for a Western media organization: operating at the government’s behest while masquerading as an exemplar of the free press. Read more |
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Norman Solomon In a Class War—Like It or Not—the System Always Makes a Killing While negative coverage of Donald Trump has been common due to his handling of the pandemic, media outrage has been muted in relation to the magnitude of the dying in our midst. Read more |
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Robert Shetterly Thomas Jefferson: One Man, Two Legacies It’s painful to speculate how different our history might have been, the altered quotient of human suffering in this country, and the world, if Jefferson, Washington and Madison had freed their slaves. Read more |
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Astrid Caldas Dangerous Hurricane Season To Open Amidst COVID-19 Emergency response officials need to develop COVID-19-safe evacuation plans, with safe locations and enforced social distancing, taking into consideration those most vulnerable socially and economically. Read more |
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Stan Karp Getting a Covid-19 Education: From Race to the Top to a Plunge to the Bottom The pandemic and federal education policy. Read more |
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Bob Dreyfuss The Wuhan Hoax Covid-19 and Trump’s war on the U.S. intelligence community. Read more |
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Mark Harris Pandemic Capitalism’s Cruel Absurdity The global pandemic has brought a new urgency to the need for political alternatives to status quo politics, a need for socialist politics, and organization and a vision of a future beyond capitalism. Read more |
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Heidi Shierholz Congress Must Do Much, Much, Much More to Help Tens of Millions Unemployed Nearly one in four workers has applied for unemployment benefits. Read more |
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Sandra Lubarsky Now Is the Time to Practice Beauty Beauty is intimately and evolutionarily connected to the urge to live. It is the value associated most keenly with experiences that affirm our vitality in relation to the vitality of other beings. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Rethinking Public Safety: Trust vs. Force We need to start over: set down the guns and strip this system down to the bone, with the intention of rebuilding our social infrastructure on a foundation of trust, cooperation and a belief in the sanctity of life. Read more |
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Bernie Horn To Save Lives—and Democracy—We Need to Vote by Mail We need tens of millions of fewer Americans voting at the polls. Sending ballots in the mail is the simplest solution. Read more |
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Alec Connon In the Fight to Curtail the Climate Crisis, the Earth Just Moved a Little Nearly half of Chase’s owners have demanded to know how the bank plans to align its business model with the Paris Agreement. On the surface, that probably doesn’t sound like an earthquake. But it’s quietly seismic. Read more |
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H. Patricia Hynes Women Have Risen to Heroic Heights During Covid-19 Yet, the global pandemic in physical and sexual violence against women continues unabated and worsened during the coronavirus pandemic. Read more |
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Claire O’Manique The Way Out of the COVID-19 Crisis Is a Green New Deal This crisis has reinforced what we already know—our current economic system is leading us down a path of destruction. Read more |
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Donald K. Sherman Trump Just Removed the IG Investigating Elaine Chao. Chao’s Husband, Mitch McConnell, Already Vetted the Replacement. The President’s attack on inspector general independence at the Department of Transportation deserves just as much public scrutiny as all the rest. Read more |
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Linda McQuaig Let’s Not Be Duped Again By Deficit Hawks Peddling Austerity We could actually be on our way to a very different and promising future. But, count on it, the deficit hawks will soon be circling menacingly overhead, hell-bent on preventing any diversion from the austerity they’ve confined us to for decades. Read more |
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Emily Folk Coronavirus and the Inhumane Treatment of Meat Packers The meat industry has always been exploitative of employees—but the coronavirus has exposed the poor working conditions of meat packers who are getting sick at alarming rates. Read more |
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Victor Pickard The Answer to the Media Industry's Woes? Publicly Owned Newspapers. Newspapers must be for the people. It’s worth investing our tax dollars in them. Read more |
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Vandana Shiva Poisons Mean Extinction: For Bees and Humanity Protecting bees is an ecological duty, pushing them to extinction is an ecological crime. The threat to bees is a threat to humanity. Read more |
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Mark Dudzic, Richard Master Medicare Is Best Way to Cover the Millions of Americans Whose Health Insurance Has Been Taken Away This solution is the most seamless for patients, and the most cost-effective approach for taxpayers. Plus, it prevents an unnecessary and massive transfer of government money to America’s health insurance companies. Read more |
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Michael Lynk Canada Missing in Action on Israel's Proposed Annexation of the West Bank Canada has developed a debilitating case of diplomatic laryngitis on this issue. Read more |
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Negin Owliaei Reopening the Economy Is a Death Sentence for Workers The wealthy may be fine with sacrificing the vulnerable, but workers are fighting for the sanctity of human life. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson Remembering the Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education The Supreme Court decision fueled the civil rights movement and the call for voting rights that are now under assault across the country. Read more |
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Robert Reich The Privileged and Powerful in the Pandemic Those in power must stop viewing the pandemic as an obstacle to personal ambition. Read more |
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Elizabeth Shackelford Trump’s Inspector General Purge and the Death of Dissent A government without avenues for dissent is a dangerous authority indeed. Read more |
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Juan Cole Fundamentalist Pandemics What evangelicals could learn from The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam Read more |
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Michael Winship Never Have So Few Done So Much to Destroy America Comparing Trump to Winston Churchill is a laugh riot. Read more |
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Joseph Winters Rather Than Cull Millions of Livestock, Let’s End Animal Agriculture In the long term, we must not waste this opportunity to start mending our broken relationship with animals. This begins with the end of factory farming and the redirection of all government relief and future subsidies towards plant-based agriculture and food processing. Read more |
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Ashley Shelton The Coronavirus Is Devastating Already Devastated Communities The people and equity-centered recovery approach we are putting forward is intended to address immediate needs, but it’s also a guide for long-term change. Read more |
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Ellen Brown Another Bank Bailout Under Cover of a Virus Insolvent Wall Street banks have been quietly bailed out again. Banks made risk-free by the government should be public utilities. Read more |
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Esha Bhandari, ReNika Moore Coronavirus 'Immunity Passports' Are Not the Answer A system of immunity passports in the United States threatens to exacerbate racial disparities and harm the civil liberties of all. Read more |
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Kumar Venkat, Susan Cholette Emerging From the Pandemic With a Climate Plan As we come out of this pandemic with an altered business landscape and more awareness of our personal consumption patterns, we have a rare opportunity to make sure that the planet’s climate doesn’t become an even bigger crisis than the one we are battling now. Read more |
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Pierre Tristam Food Drops Are Not Enough. Expand Food Stamps Programs Now. As heartening and important as these food drops are, they’re a supplement, not a replacement for what government can and must do. Read more |
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Basav Sen Fossil Fuel Bailouts Are Class War. This Is How We Fight Back Only a recovery based on principles such as those of the people’s bailout would be able to create a more just society out of the ashes of the coronavirus crisis. Read more |
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Karen Greenberg So Long to American Exceptionalism Over there is now over here: America’s pandemic role reversal. Read more |
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Ted Morgan Are the Democrats Dead (Again)? For election after election, the Democrats failed to present either an effective counter to the Republican myth-makers or a program that would effectively address the needs of workers who felt left out. Read more |
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Raúl Carrillo The Pandemic Has Shown That We Need a Public Option for Banking Services A public option for basic banking services, and an improved, publicly accountable payments system, are necessary parts of a recovery infrastructure that works for everyone. Read more |
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Gregory Shupak Corporate Media Setting Stage for New Cold War With China The idea that China is a threat to Americans' security is baseless. Read more |
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Alex Kotch Secretive Right-Wing Nonprofit Plays Role in COVID-19 Organizing CNP's founders include multiple members of the conspiracist John Birch Society and Paul Weyrich, co-founder of the Heritage Foundation and ALEC. Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati Civil Disobedience, Billionaire-Style Elon Musk's successful bullying has vividly revealed that our duly elected leaders and the governments they lead cannot, when push comes to shove, adequately safeguard the health and well-being of average working people. Read more |
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Cynthia Kaufman Alternatives to Killing People for the Economy In order to pay for those programs and help the country get back on its feet, we need to tax the wealthy and invest in our common good. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Trump: Letting Big Corporations Get Away with Whatever They Want Trump considers himself above the law. Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Who's Lying When it Comes to the Flynn Case? The lie that gave rise to the current dilemma was a lie told not to the parent by the consumer of a purloined ice cream bar, but a lie told to an entity known as the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Read more |
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Walden Bello The Race to Replace a Dying Neoliberalism One would be foolish to count out the left. Read more |
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Diane Archer The Best Way to Ensure Unemployed Workers Get Health Care? Pay for It Through Medicare There's only one group that benefits handsomely from the COBRA proposal: The health insurance industry. Read more |
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Pramila Jayapal We Can and Must Do Better: Why I Will Vote No on the HEROES Act Our response here in Congress must match the true scale of this devastating crisis. The Heroes Act—while it contains many important provisions—simply fails to do that. Read more |
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Amee Chew Stop the $2 Billion Arms Sale to the Philippines Philippine strongman Rodrigo Duterte is using the pandemic to crush his opposition—and the U.S. is poised to arm him to the teeth. Read more |
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Jamie Henn Our Greener, Climate-Friendly Future Is Going to Be Amazing—It's Our Job to Tell That Story A more comfortable apartment. Cheaper electricity bills. Your stove cooks faster, your dishwasher washes cleaner, and the lightbulbs look great. Even the food is more delicious! Read more |
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Sarah Lahm Billionaires Are the Biggest Threat to Public Schools For education "disruptors" like Bill Gates and Betsy DeVos, COVID-19 isn’t a crisis—it’s an opportunity. Read more |
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Michelle Chen Prisons Are Using the Pandemic to Impose Lockdowns Advocates say the extreme restrictions on movement are punitive and dangerous. Read more |
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Will Bunch Native Americans Wage War Against New Virus and a 400-year Disease of Bias, Ignorance "We’re helping other nations with billions in aid, and the Navajo are still waiting on aid." Read more |
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Bill Fried For John Bolton, No Bad Deed Goes Unrewarded And most vulnerable among us are forced to pay the price. Read more |
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Andrea Mazzarino Who Is "Essential" to Our Covid-19 World A military spouse's perspective on fighting this pandemic. Read more |
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Ariel Gold My Israeli Nemesis Is Moving to America The soon-to-be ambassador to the U.N., Gilad Erdan, made clear his lack of regard for international law and global opinion, stating that: "We are telling the world that it doesn’t matter what the nations of the world say." Read more |
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Jess Tomlin, Jessica Houssian Gender Equality Out of Reach During COVID-19? We don’t buy it. Read more |
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Rachel Bronson Something Like Coronavirus Is Exactly What the Doomsday Clock Has Been Warning About While "social isolation" and other tactics being used today to combat the coronavirus pandemic are not those needed to address the dangers posed by nuclear weapons and climate change, the resolve now being exhibited to take major steps to bring about swift change is a model for dealing with these... Read more |
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Amy Hanauer The Right Vision for Remaking Our Economy Does Not Include Tax Cuts for the Rich People are getting sick and losing jobs in every corner of this country . So the same-old trickle-down, tax-cut agenda that drowns government in a bathtub won’t get us out of this . Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Sussan Tahmasebi Iranian Women Squeezed By US Sanctions, COVID-19 and Their Government "The Iranian women’s movement is more isolated today than it has ever been in all my years of activism." Read more |
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Alan Minsky The Democratic Party's Hand Is Weak. Only Progressives Can Strengthen it. Only a progressive New Deal-like response can address the people's needs. Read more |
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Winnie Wong The Democratic Party Cannot Defeat Trump by Returning to Past Failures What we need now is a new vision for America to repair the damage done to our nation, and transform this country into a more equal and compassionate democracy. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Racism and the National Soul The nation’s racism has manifested itself over the centuries in countless ways, politically, socially, economically. The racism is deeply embedded in the country’s institutions, its legal system and—oh so discretely and between the lines—in our founding documents. Read more |
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Norman Solomon The Sanders Campaign Was About "Us"—Not Bernie—Remember? It is vital that grassroots activists in upcoming primary states take the initiative and get out the vote for Bernie. Read more |
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Heidi Shierholz In Just Two Months, More Than 33 Million Americans Have Filed for Unemployment Congress must act. Read more |
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Sandy Smith-Nonini To Re-Open Safely We Need a "Health Force" of Disease Detectives In the long run such a workforce could help address the long-standing shortage of primary care in the United States—including community-based programming to assist families with preventive health, nutrition, exercise, chronic diseases and mental health needs. Read more |
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Janice Li, Svante Myrick Facing Down Bigotry—and a Pandemic Against harassment and bigotry, Asian-American officials are finding ways to care for their communities through this crisis. Read more |
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Negin Owliaei 'Reopening' Means Workers Will Die The wealthy may be fine with sacrificing the vulnerable, but workers are fighting for the sanctity of human life. Read more |
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Guy Standing Class Politics Fit for the Times The themes the Left should be coalescing around are dismantling rentier capitalism, offering a new income distribution system in which basic income divorced from the performance of labor is the anchor, and reviving all forms of commons and commoning. Read more |
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Robert Reich The Real Reason Trump Wants to Reopen the Economy He’s trying to force the economy to reopen to boost his electoral chances, and he’s selling out Americans’ health to seal the deal. No matter the cost, Donald Trump’s chief concern is and will always be himself. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson The Murder of Ahmaud Arbery—And Our Continuing Terror His slaying has become a global embarrassment for whites. But when the camera turns away, the savage injustice that embarrasses us becomes simply business as usual. Read more |