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Ralph Nader The War Over Words: Republicans Easily Defeat the Democrats The hard core political right wingers symbolically claimed the Bible and the American flag, and later the words “liberty," “freedom,” and "populism." Read more |
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Marc Daalder Why Every Democrat In Congress Should Support Bernie Sanders’ $15 Minimum Wage Bill Every member of Congress should be forced to vote on whether they will pass a bill helping tens of millions of people better afford housing, food and healthcare Read more |
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Adam Green The Midterms Prove It: Progressive Ideas Are Now Mainstream Candidates who promised to stand up for working people, challenge powerful interests and shake up a rigged political and economic system won up and down the ballot Read more |
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Annie Lo How Did Democrats Flip the House? Fairer Maps Commissions or courts, not partisan lawmakers, drew over 70 percent of the seats that went from the GOP to Dems Tuesday, a new Brennan Center analysis finds Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt The Donald and the Fake News Media An affair to remember Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Gunfire and Wildfire: The New Abnormal This is a country at war with itself in multiple ways Read more |
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Michael Winship This Was No Voting Accident But New York, too, has "retrograde voting laws and practices." Read more |
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Jacob Sugarman Amazon's Billion-Dollar Shakedown of America's Cities If these corporate behemoths are loyal only to their shareholders, what is to prevent this same travesty from repeating itself in cities across the country? Read more |
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Michael Molitch-Hou If We Don't Act Fast, 'We're F**ked': An Urgent Call to Climate Action From Extinction Rebellion in the UK Climate Activists send message to UK Prime Minister by blocking access to the street in front of her office Read more |
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Stephen Zunes Dems Eye Hawkish Eliot Engel to Chair House Foreign Affairs Committee It’s nothing short of a betrayal that the Democratic leadership would turn this important committee over to someone so far to the right Read more |
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Steven Rosenfeld The Florida Election Recount Is About to Get Very Confusing The technical capabilities of Florida’s vote-counting systems, the continued examination of ballots and court rulings are set to collide in the coming days—or weeks Read more |
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Jasmine Aguilera Beto O’Rourke’s Lasting Legacy The competitive campaigns of red-state progressives like Beto redefined several states seemingly overnight Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati Democrats Won Big. Can They Go Bold, Too? The party's leaders have been far too cautious in the past. Newer ideas could spark real change in who owns and runs America Read more |
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Eric Holthaus How to Process Climate Grief Over the California Wildfires It’s also worth remembering — every damn day — that a burned and broken world is not our destiny Read more |
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Les Leopold Will the Wall Street Democrats Part the Blue Wave? The Wall Street Democrats sure hope so. They have little desire to emphasize working class economic issues, many of which could threaten their vast riches. Read more |
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Ahmad Kabariti Palestinians in Gaza Flee Homes Moments Before Israeli Airstrikes: ‘I Rushed to My Children’s Bedrooms to Check if They Were Alive’ “I no longer care about the air strikes. If I am still alive or fatally hit by shrapnel, then it’s all the same for a girl who has already experienced three wars.” Read more |
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Pat Garofalo The Frenzy Over Amazon’s HQ2 Should Be a National Embarrassment After gathering data on hundreds of cities, Amazon wound up going with the home of Wall Street and the home of America’s government, two advantages no amount of money could buy Read more |
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Robert Reich Now Is the Time for Medicare for All The American public has a real choice here: expensive health care for the few or quality, affordable health care for the many Read more |
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Greg Muttitt The IEA Comes Up Short on Climate (Again) The IEA has a significant opportunity for leadership, an opportunity that it regrettably missed with it's latest World Energy Outlook report Read more |
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John Feffer Welcome to the Ultimate Escape Room Will this climate-change dystopia have a sequel? Read more |
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Dror Ladin Secret CIA Document Shows Plan to Test Drugs on Prisoners Documents long hidden by the agency reveal that CIA doctors were hunting for a "truth serum" to use on prisoners as part of a previously secret effort called Project Medication. Read more |
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Jon Bauman 2018 Showed the GOP Doesn’t Have a Lock on the Senior Vote Now, it’s up to the newly elected House Democrats to make good on their promises on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid Read more |
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Valerie Vande Panne 7 Economic Terms That Are Often Used to Trick People Out of Their Money If it sounds too good to be true, take a closer look beyond the buzzwords Read more |
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Chris Hedges Crucifying Julian Assange What is happening to Assange should terrify the press. And yet his plight is met with indifference and sneering contempt. Read more |
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Leo Gerard The Best Way to Get Voters to Vote America loves a party. Why not institute Saturday celebrations for mandated electors at American polling places? Read more |
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Robert Reich Amazon Is Everything That's Wrong With America As the American middle class disappears, the two groups falling perilously behind are white, rural, non-college Trumpsters, and the urban poor Read more |
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Andy Rowell Paradise Lost As California once again reels from the fires, many are warning this is climate change in action Read more |
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K. Sabeel Rahman Democrats, Don’t Compromise With Trump Now that they've won back the House, they should focus on building a better party—not on passing legislation. Read more |
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Robert Freeman Why World War I Still Matters It is a foolhardy enterprise for the U.S. to plunge the world toward war by trying to retain control of last century’s central resource: oil. But that is exactly what the U.S. is doing. Read more |
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Steven Rosenfeld Here’s Why the Georgia Governor’s Race Is Far From Over Tens of thousands of uncounted votes and possibly more in rejected vote-by-mail envelopes Read more |
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Oscar Reyes Want to Save the Climate? Break Up the Big Banks Despite regularly claiming new commitments to ‘green finance,’ the big banks continue to lend billions to the fossil fuel industry every year Read more |
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Juan Cole Macron’s Slam of Nationalism Got It Right, But Didn’t Note Dehumanization Animalizing people, dehumanizing them, is part and parcel of destructive nationalisms that have blighted so many lives so fruitlessly Read more |
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Heather Wokusch Killing the Messenger: Truth in a Time of Universal Deceit The murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the case of Julian Assange, and freedom of the press Read more |
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John LaForge Armistice Day First “You can no more win a war than win an earthquake.” Read more |
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Miles Mogulescu Is Government Of, By, and For the People Over? Such a government may be in the process of perishing in the U.S., to be replaced by a government of the minority, by the minority, and for the minority Read more |
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Rory Fanning The Stories War Tells Me A veteran and parent can’t stop thinking about the war he fought Read more |
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Nellis Kennedy-Howard People Like Me "Native Americans are the first inhabitants of this land. Yet we are one of the last groups recognized to vote and one of the last groups to have a representative in Congress." Read more |
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Ryan Cooper When Obstruction of Justice Is Glaringly Obvious "It's a safe bet that acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker—like Robert Bork before him—will be the cat's paw Trump will use to halt or impede Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe." Read more |
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Will Bunch George W. Bush Started an Immoral War. Now He's Getting the Liberty Medal "Donald Trump's narcissistic embrace of racism, crudeness, and blatant lying is too easy to brand as un-American and 'not who we are.' But George W. Bush's militarism, empire-building, and hypocrisy in pursuit of those goals was maybe a little too American." Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati The House Has Gone Democratic. Can the House Now Go Bold? Vague rhetoric about "access to healthcare" and "good jobs" won't challenge the plutocracy that keeps our lives brutal. These proposals could. Read more |
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Juan Cole The Lessons of World War I: Don't Trust Hateful Politicians Like Trump "Trump's own American nationalism is destabilizing for the world. Let's hope he doesn't stumble into a debilitating and fruitless war." Read more |
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Laura Flanders WTF White Women? In terms of white women's voting habits, 2016 was bad—and 2018 was worse Read more |
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Lauren Smith Amnesia & Lack of Accountability Reign as Wall Street Celebrates Halliburton’s 100-year Anniversary The time to hold the ruling elite accountable is now —before another invasion and occupation is executed against a fake enemy that just so happens to coincidentally have a large desirable oil reserve Read more |
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Rob Dietz The Secret of Eternal Growth? It’s Wishful Thinking We desperately need an economy that can meet humanity’s needs without risking environmental meltdown and undermining the basis for civilization Read more |
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Martin Winiecki 80 Years Since the Holocaust Began: Can We Stop Fascism Today? "The speedy rise of fascism always seems to hit the world by surprise. Yet what we're witnessing did not begin with the Bolsonaros, Trumps or Dutertes, just as German fascism did not begin with Hitler." Read more |
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Mark Weisbrot Trump Was Handed a Major Defeat on Tuesday—And There Will Be More The Democrats' victory in the House is important not only in the immediate sense that it will provide a check on Trump but also because it could mark the beginning of the end of this nightmare Read more |
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Steven Rosenfeld For Georgia and Florida, Midterm Election Counts Continue Democratic candidates’ push for counting every vote raises questions about election technology for future races nationwide Read more |
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Camillo Mac Bica A Celebration of Killing and Dying I have realized that I and many others who claim the title of Marine have had our selflessness, dedication, and patriotism exploited; asked, better compelled, to make sacrifices fighting in wars that were (are) ill-conceived, unnecessary, unjust, and immoral Read more |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan After an Election of Historic Firsts, the Real Work Begins Amidst the backdrop of white nationalist violence linked to the presidency of Donald Trump, the 2018 midterm elections are ushering in a slate of elected officials representing the country’s diversity more than ever before Read more |
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Juan Cole The Top 11 Things the Dems Absolutely Must Do in the House More progressive Democrats in the House must be prepared to fight like hell against the Pelosi-Schumer establishment, which will try to make them quiescent and go along with corporate priorities Read more |
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David Daley As Polarized As Americans Are, They Agree on This: Gerrymandering Is Wrong In red states, blue states and purple states, they’ve had it with politicians drawing their own districts, choosing their own voters and distorting democracy Read more |
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Arnold R. Isaacs Disremembering Vietnam: On Making America’s Wars Great Again The Pentagon whitewashes a troubling past Read more |
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Victoria Bassetti Matthew Whitaker’s Appointment Threatens the Rule of Law Trump’s new acting attorney general is an outspoken critic of the Russia investigation Read more |
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Brett Wilkins Latest US-Led Air Strikes Kill At Least 80 Syrian Civilians In the wider US-led war against terrorism, at least hundreds of thousands and likely more than a million men, women and children have died in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Libya and Syria since October 2001 Read more |
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Sarah van Gelder If You Want A Just World, Neither Republicans Nor Democrats Will Give It To You Many are reimagining and building the world they want, beginning where they live Read more |
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Jim Hightower White House Economists Are Obsessed with Socialism A new White House report links the idea of Medicare for All with Mao. Really? Read more |
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Domenica Ghanem The ‘Blue Wave’ Was Also a ‘Muslim Wave’ In the most Islamophobic election in history, Muslim candidates scored big wins by embracing progressive policies Read more |
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Nicolas J S Davies Yemeni War Deaths Underestimated by Five To One ACLED estimates the true number of people killed in Yemen is probably between 70,000 and 80,000. Read more |
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Mary Bottari A Public School Teacher Just Beat the Pants Off Scott Walker A Democrat in the governor’s mansion will also put an end to Wisconsin’s role as a national petri dish for right-wing policies promulgated by the Koch brothers and the American Legislative Exchange Council Read more |
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Erik Gunn Randy Bryce, in Defeat, Looks at the “Whole Picture” Instead of gloom, Bryce and his supporters seemed to exude an air of gritty resolve Read more |
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Robert Reich America Rejects Trumpism The nation has repudiated Trump, but do not believe for a moment that our national nightmare is over Read more |
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Andy Rowell BP’s Blatant Climate Hypocrisy on Show As it “Buys” Vote to Defeat Carbon Tax So the company that at the beginning of the century promised to go “beyond petroleum” just defeated a ballot which would have helped the US to do that Read more |
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Robert Kuttner How a Progressive Message Won House Seats Advocating policies like Medicare-for-all, a significant expansion of Medicare, or a buy-in at age 55, Dems won in heavily blue and red districts Read more |
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John Feffer Trump’s Only Election Strategy Was Racism Republicans can only win by racial gerrymandering and voter suppression. And Trump can only win by using fear and racism Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler The Issues That Won't Go Away Most of the issues that truly matter, that require a fundamental shift in American politics, remain rawly unaddressed and unacknowledged Read more |
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Robert Borosage 2018 Midterms: Blue Wave, Red Undertow The 2018 election exposed once more how divided the country is – but it also showed how strongly the tide is running against Trump’s hateful brand of politics and the party that he continues to deform Read more |
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Phyllis Bennis, Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II We Have Movement Work To Do If more registered voters—more young people, more people of color, more poor people, more women, more immigrants and students and workers and activists—had voted, things might be just a bit better. That's our real challenge. Read more |
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Peter Certo Midterm Takeaway: We Need a Lot More Democracy Republicans banked this election on lies, fear-mongering, and rule-rigging. It almost worked Read more |
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Vijay Prashad Most of the World Does Not Like U.S. Foreign Policy But disregard for world opinion—as well as the opinion of the U.S. citizenry—defines the U.S. government Read more |
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Steven Rosenfeld It Was a Blue Wave Election—And the Republicans Are Feeling the Fallout But the country’s anti-democratic electoral structures and many legitimately conservative voters are very real Read more |
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Juan Cole Refugee Muslim Women That Trump Wouldn’t Have Let In, Win House Seats They are Trump’s worst nightmare and the antithesis of what he thinks America is or should be Read more |
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Nicole Ghio Four Ways for Democrats to Root out Republican Corruption Tuesday’s elections brought a major shift to the U.S. House, and handed Democrats the opportunity to investigate the rampant corruption of the Trump Administration Read more |
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Sarah Anderson 6 Women of Color Who Campaigned for Congress on Inequality and Won These trailblazers often drew from their own personal stories to connect with and win over the hearts of voters. Each is heading to Washington to advance a bold social and economic justice agenda, with a strong focus on reversing inequality. Read more |
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Will Bunch Trump Appealed to the Very Worst in America. Too Often, It Worked The election was a gut check on the national character, at a moment when many both here and abroad fear America is sliding into authoritarianism Read more |
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Ryan Cooper America Repudiates Trump This election is a clear demonstration that the Republican Party and its leader Donald Trump are badly out of step with the mainstream of American society. Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt Autocrats, Inc.: Thoughts on Election Day 2018 America, you might say, now has a 103-degree temperature and there isn’t an emergency room in sight. Read more |
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Bill Blum The Attacks on Birthright Citizenship Are Just the Beginning Beneath the bluster, the attacks are a rallying cry for voter suppression and will in all likelihood accelerate as the 2020 presidential race begins in earnest Read more |
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Maria Svart Democratic Socialists on the Rise as Capitalism Having Increasingly Hard Time Hiding Its Ugly Face The core idea of democratic socialism is that we, working people, deserve better. We have a right to the wealth our labor creates. Read more |
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Kevin Johnson Will Voters Lead on Electoral Reform? The half-century peak in state level reforms this year is the best indicator we could ask for that major national level reform is not far behind Read more |
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Steven Choi In Trump’s Hands, the Census Becomes a Weapon The census determines how billions of federal dollars are allocated on a state and national level, and it is also used to draw political districts, thus determining political representation Read more |
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Eugene Robinson Trump Stokes Resentment Toward Minorities. Republicans Just Smile Republicans who do not reject and condemn Trump’s demagoguery are complicit in it and will share in history’s judgment Read more |
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Juan Cole Your Health, Social Security, and Safety Depend on Voting Democratic Today If you want to cast yourself down into poverty and watch your loved ones die for lack of health insurance, just go on voting Republican and giving heartless bastards like Trump the keys to the kingdom Read more |
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Lindsey Allen Big Banks Just Flunked Their Own Test on Climate, Indigenous Rights In a bitter irony, JPMorgan Chase and other banks revise their own environmental due diligence standards just as they re-up their support for fossil fuels Read more |
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Jonathan Cook With Brazil’s Bolsonaro, Israel Finds Another Natural Partner on the Far-Right Israel has relished the recent emergence of far-right leaders across the Americas and Europe, often to the horror of local Jewish communities Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Economic Inequality and Racism Are This Election's Crucial Issues Most Americans are financially struggling to stay afloat—people of color more so than whites—and corporate elites are laughing all the way to the bank Read more |
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Thom Hartmann Medicare for All Will Destroy the GOP—Because of Voting! If the national ID system were the key to getting your health care and medications, there’d be no need for “voter registration” and no ability for the GOP to purge voters. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Don’t be Flattered, Fooled and Flummoxed in Tomorrow’s Election On how to become a super-voter Read more |
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Paul Buchheit The Evidence Pours In: Poverty Getting Much Worse in America Poverty—and the stress of being poor—is killing people every single day Read more |
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Tracy L. Barnett Democracy Under Siege: Systemic Flaws May Override Record Electoral Participation The U.S. electoral system is not set up to facilitate a truly representative democracy and has been further undermined by those with a vested interest in a low turnout Read more |
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Medea Benjamin Trump Bullying Will Hurt Millions of Iranians The sanctions are already taking a tragic toll. While there are humanitarian exemptions on food and medicines, restrictions on banks and shipping companies make even exempted items difficult to obtain. Read more |
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James Carroll Entering the Second Nuclear Age? “They will not forgive us” Read more |
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Chris Hedges Scum vs. Scum in This 2018 Midterm We no longer live in a functioning democracy Read more |
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Jennifer Cohn Voting Machines: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Beyond the midterms, voters must pressure Congress to pass substantive election security legislation Read more |
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Ruth Conniff Get Ready for the Shake-Up: Grassroots Candidates Drive Midterm Surge While Donald Trump rallies the rightwing base with flagrant appeals to fear, anger, and racism, the most diverse slate of candidates in U.S. history is poised to change the direction of the nation’s politics for a long time to come Read more |
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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. Trump's Racism Can't Win Elections. Gerrymandering and Voter Suppression Can. It is time to fight for the heart of our democracy, and to elect those who can reconstruct its basic infrastructure Read more |
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Michael Winship Vote Against the Litany of Lies The GOP is openly talking about gutting Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, the programs you’ve paid for throughout your working life. Vote! Read more |
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Praveen Fernandes Forced Classification, Biological Determinism, and Sad Chapters From Our Nation’s History We ignore history at our own peril. Read more |
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Nozomi Hayase How Did Julian Assange Become a Political Prisoner of Our Time? Injustice against the Wikileaks founder continues Read more |
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Sue Sturgis The 2018 Ballot Measures That Could Help Build a More Just South There are ballot questions in Southern states — some of them citizen-initiated — that have the potential to expand voting rights, create a fairer economy, and protect the environment. Read more |
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Abby Scher Eight Lessons From History to Help Make Sense of Today’s Madness Somehow, we need to fight on behalf of true democracy, economic, gender and racial justice for all, the climate and the common good all at the same time. Read more |