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Russell Mokhiber Single Payer Gold Standard HR 676 Rest in Peace “Unless the movement acts quickly to assure HR 676’s ban on for-profit institutions is maintained, Jayapal’s new bill will remove this vital section of HR 676.” Read more |
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Thomas Neuburger Medicare For All—The Democratic Party Audition for 2020 How will the Democratic Party, in the aggregate, respond when bills in Congress present Party leaders with a moment of decision — to support or not to support; to sabotage in secret or to show their approval in plain sight and by their actions? Read more |
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Vijay Prashad Reality Is Starting to Creep Into the Billionaire Oasis of Davos Only 26 individuals have as much wealth as 3.8 billion people. Let that sink in. Read more |
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Robert Shetterly Thinking About George Washington's Teeth on MLK, Jr. Day I wonder if we are all taught the story about the wooden teeth to cover up the story of the slaves' teeth. Perhaps Washington himself, ashamed of the truth, promoted the wooden teeth story. Read more |
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Juan Cole Copenhagen to be 1st Carbon Neutral City by 2025 and Other Wind Energy Good News Stories Denmark, Costa Rica, and India are pioneering crucial models to avoid the worst effects of our climate crisis Read more |
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John Feffer The Next US-North Korea Summit Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un are scheduled to meet again. Here are several reasons to be optimistic about next month’s summit Read more |
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Chris Hedges Confronting the Culture of Death When we pit ourselves against the culture of death—and this means performing acts of civil disobedience and noncompliance, it means becoming an outlaw in the eyes of the corporate state—then suffering, and even death, does not have the last word Read more |
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Zenobia Jeffries Warfield The Part About MLK Many White People Don’t Like to Talk About Dr. King was widely disliked for his message of liberation for oppressed people in this country—Black people, Brown people, Native people, all poor people Read more |
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Karen Greenberg The Year of the Child (in Trouble): We-Are-Not-Them Exceptionalism Creating a global lost generation Read more |
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Mike Lofgren Is Pence as Unfit for Office as Trump? His delusional, dead-on-arrival speech about ISIS certainly suggests it. Read more |
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Rachel Gilmer Trump's Shutdown Is a Historic Opportunity for Real Change Now, as support for Trump is waning, leftists need to stop 'playing-it-safe' and present a new vision for this country Read more |
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Linda McQuaig Trudeau Should Consider Buying GM and Making Electric Cars The global auto industry is in flux, with the world expected to transition to the electric car over the next few decades Read more |
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Rev. John Dear The Resurrection of Dr. King From Jesus to Dr. King, those who give their lives in the nonviolent struggle for justice, disarmament and peace, even though they appear to fail, bear tremendous good fruit in the long haul Read more |
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Katie Halper The 11 Most Anti-Capitalist Quotes from Martin Luther King Jr. The truth is, most politicians would distance themselves from Dr. King's stunning (and spot on) indictments of capitalism. Read more |
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Naomi LaChance What Activists Today Can Learn From MLK’s Bold Anti-War Stance King, facing public pressure to support the war, set an example for progressives by doing just the opposite Read more |
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Juan Cole Why Martin Luther King, Jr., Would Support Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez We aren’t typically exposed on television to King’s anti-imperialism, anti-capitalism, and anti-war message Read more |
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Jeff Cohen The System’s Falling Apart: Were the Dogmatic Marxists Right After All? With our political system in lockdown and our natural world under global threat, we need to look—as some have argued for decades—"beyond capitalism" Read more |
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Dr. Sanjeev K. Sriram Dr. King Would Want Us to Fight for Medicare For All Now is the time for Medicare For All and for health care to be a basic human right regardless of where you live, what you earn, or what you look like Read more |
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Paul Buchheit Capitalist-Style Wealth Gap: 1 Tech Guy = 1,000,000 Teachers As Charles Koch said, "I want my fair share and that's all of it." Read more |
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Peter Dreier Martin Luther King Was a Radical, Not a Saint “For years I labored with the idea of reforming the existing institutions of society, a little change here, a little change there. Now I feel quite differently. I think you’ve got to have a reconstruction of the entire society, a revolution of values.” Read more |
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Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, Chuck Collins An MLK Day Reflection: The Racial Wealth Gap Is Killing the Middle Class Ninety years out from Dr. King's birth, the typical white family had 41 times more wealth than the typical Black family Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati The Deep-Pocket Push to Deep-Six Public Schools The backstory to the showdown in Los Angeles between teachers and billionaires Read more |
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Juan Cole The Stupidity of Evil: Teens Shouting ‘Build that Wall’ at Native American Vet The teen’s smug look no doubt was worn by those thugs who ordered the Trail of Tears Read more |
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Susann Scherbarth, Sean Sweeney 2019 Is the Year to Embrace Energy Democracy—Or Face Social and Climate Breakdown The private sector has proved it can’t lead the transition to a low-carbon economy. It's time for something new. Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli The DeVos and the Defrauded The Education Department under Trump is making for-profit businesses happy Read more |
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Derrick Z. Jackson Trump Swamp Threatens Waters of the US Trump wants to give the nation’s chronic polluters freedom from consequence for harming ecosystems and the nation’s drinking water. Read more |
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Marjorie Orellana Why I Stand With UTLA’s Fight for Teachers, Families and Children We have an opportunity in this moment to publicly ratify the human rights of teachers, families and all children, and to call for an end to the erosion of public education in the second largest school district in the nation. Read more |
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Sue Sturgis Institute Index: The Racial Injustice of the Government Shutdown An eye-opening list of the shutdown's impacts Read more |
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Al Martinich, Tom Palaima President Donald Trump and Political Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy Trump’s latest manifestationof political MSP has many stages. Read more |
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Nancy J. Altman Let’s Honor MLK’s Fight for Economic Justice by Expanding Social Security Those who stand in the way should know that we are watching and we vote. Read more |
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Cynthia Kaufman Belonging and Social Change: A Critique of the Politics of Wokeness Being woke and seeing what is wrong serves no good purpose if it is not also aligned to engagement which is aimed at transforming social patterns. Read more |
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Dean Baker Washington Post Forgets to Mention, Scott Walker Misled Fifth Graders About Taxes Former Wisconsin governor either does not understand how our income tax system works or is deliberately lying to advance his agenda Read more |
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Leo Gerard The Indignity of Work Without Pay Forty percent of conservative Republicans view the government shutdown as inconsequential Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt Hiroshima and Me: A Duck-and-Cover Story I still remember those dreams... that were nightmares Read more |
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Gerry Condon The Wall, The Endless War, and the Troops Who Pay Neither Trump nor the rest of the Establishment appear to give a damn about the men and women whom they praise so effusively Read more |
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Jeff Bryant A Swelling Tide of Major Teacher Strikes Is Shifting Our Politics Against the Charter Agenda When charter schools pull funding from a public school, it damages the school’s ability to educate the students who remain Read more |
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John Nichols Donald Trump Has Never Cared About Workers, and Never Will Trump as president has “betrayed workers at every turn.” Read more |
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Ted Glick Elections and Movement-Building Through 2020 and Beyond Let’s resolve in this first month of the new year to make the next 22 months the decisive period in history that they absolutely need to be Read more |
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Jeremy Zwang-Weissman Teachers in Los Angeles are Striking for our Students, Not Ourselves I dream of a district that works to do what’s best for our students, rather than minimizing costs and maximizing so-called efficiency Read more |
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Juan Cole Top 6 Things Wrong With Trump Denying Pelosi Gov’t Transport I suggest Speaker Pelosi consult with Rep. Rashida Tlaib about how to deal with Trump’s erratic mind games Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar The L.A. Teachers’ Strike Is About So Much More Than Wages Los Angeles teachers are telling the district and the world that their public schools have been deeply damaged by years of austerity Read more |
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Michael Winship Another Day, Another Disaster. And Another, And Another... It’s as if the country’s being run by Beetlejuice. Read more |
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RoseAnn DeMoro 10 Things We All Lose If Bernie Chooses Not to Run in 2020 What policy issues would be off the table? What demands for transformation would be watered down? Read more |
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Ralph Nader Bar Barr or Regret this Dictatorial Attorney General There is much more in Barr’s secretive, corporatist, anti-consumer, labor, and environmental record to get the Senate Democrats’ dander up and throw down the gauntlet. But, no, they prefer to be polite and in so doing let the American people down Read more |
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Alycee Lane Trump’s Federal Government Shutdown and Unpaid Dishwashers Steeped in Trump’s anti-labor practices, this shutdown must be seen for what it is: a war on working people, executed from the Oval Office Read more |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan Steve King Stands for Everything MLK Fought Against On this 90th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, let’s recommit to the eradication of racism and bigotry Read more |
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Susan Southard Against Forgetting: Ground Zero Nagasaki Living the nuclear past—and future Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler What About Open Borders? “The construction of more walls will only worsen the existing human rights catastrophe." Read more |
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Bill Bigelow Tax the Rich, Fight the Climate Crisis Why we need much more of what solidarity and organizing just accomplished in Oregon Read more |
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Vijay Prashad America Has Its Gunsights on Venezuela It is plain as day that the United States wants to overthrow the government in Venezuela Read more |
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Richard Heinberg Could a Green New Deal Save Civilization? To fully and systematically address the climate/energy crisis, the plan will have to be far broader in scope than what is currently being proposed. And while we need to mobilize society as a whole with a World War II-level of effort, the reality is that there's never been a challenge like this... Read more |
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Sam Husseini Triumph of Conventional Wisdom: AP Expunges Iran/Contra Pardons from Barr’s Record As attorney general in 1992, Barr endorsed Bush’s pardons of Reagan administration officials in the Iran/Contra scandal Read more |
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Steven Rosenfeld DNC Rules Chair: How the 2020 Caucuses Could Change DNC Rules Committee co-chair James Roosevelt III explains the proposed changes and challenges Read more |
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Chuck Collins The Government Shutdown Expands the Ranks of ‘Underwater Nation’ Unemployment is low, but federal employees are lining up at food banks. They aren’t alone. Read more |
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Jessicah Pierre A Dream Deferred: MLK’s Dream of Economic Justice is Far From Reality 90 years after King was born, the racial wealth divide is actually growing — which drags down the entire economy Read more |
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Jesse Starkey Arne Duncan's Attack on Los Angeles Public Teachers Shows He Doesn't Care About Real Student Needs Public education is a right. But the former secretary of education has treated it like—at best—an afterthought Read more |
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Jefferson Morley William Barr’s Deep State Resume: Cover-Ups, Covert Ops, and Pardons A close examination of Barr’s legal career indicates a high tolerance for presidentially sanctioned law-breaking Read more |
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Kelly Trout The U.S. Oil and Gas Industry Is Drilling Us Towards Climate Disaster The fossil fuel industry is gearing up to swing a giant wrecking ball through global climate goals Read more |
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Roger Bybee Masters of Our Domain: Foxconn and State Minions Seize Land Eminent domain is supposed to support projects for the public good. In Wisconsin, it’s been harnessed instead for private gain Read more |
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Erin McHenry-Sorber 3 Reasons to Pay Attention to the LA Teacher Strike Teachers walk out in the second-largest U.S. school district for the first time in 30 years Read more |
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Robert Reich The Trump Dictatorship Trump’s entire presidency to date has sacrificed the means of democracy to the end of his personal power Read more |
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Miles Mogulescu Trump Violates Law by Taking Putin Notes Will Congress – including the Republicans who control the Senate – finally step up to their responsibility as a co-equal branch of government to stop Trump? Read more |
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Gaby Hinsliff Gillette's Ad Is Not PC Guff, Piers Morgan – Look Beyond the Macho Stereotype The TV presenter’s rant misses the point about letting boys be boys. The expectation of what that means must be widened Read more |
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Zeeshan Aleem Democrats' Attacks on AOC Are Silly and Self-Defeating Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez isn't a bomb-thrower, she's a rising star who is picking her battles and who looks more and more like the future of their party Read more |
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Alexandra Rojas, Sean McElwee A Democrat Who Votes With Trump 69% of the Time Should Be Primaried When new members know there's a progressive base they need to respond to, they embrace progressive policies Read more |
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Dahr Jamail 'We Can't Undo This': On a Planet in Crisis The heat’s on us Read more |
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Vanita Gupta Bill Barr Must Not Be Sessions 2.0 on Civil Rights Senators must obtain assurances from Barr that he will embrace and enforce our federal civil rights laws, not seek to undermine them Read more |
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Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, Chuck Collins Dreams Deferred: How Enriching the 1 Percent Widens the Racial Wealth Divide Our new report highlights how a polarizing racial wealth divide has grown between White households and households of color over the past three decades Read more |
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Norman Solomon Democrats Are Afraid Of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Too. And That’s A Good Thing. The corporate Democrats who dominate the party’s power structure in Congress should fear losing their seats because they’re out of step with constituents Read more |
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Bill Blum This Is How American Democracy Ends Trump’s threat to deploy extraordinary powers to counter a fake crisis on our southern boundary should spark a clarion call to reexamine, repeal and replace the NEA Read more |
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Steven Singer LA Teachers Strike Is About Charter Schools and High Stakes Testing Corporate Democrats like almost all Republicans support the same education policies – school privatization and high stakes testing – that are robbing the LA Unified School District of the funding it needs to meet the needs of its students Read more |
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Phyllis Bennis United Nations Inaction and the Gaza Crisis: Ten Years ago and Today The refusal of the United Nations, largely because of U.S. pressure, to hold Israel to account for the horrific "Cast Lead" operation a decade ago created a dangerous precedent of impunity that has continued to this day Read more |
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Steven Rosenfeld Big Changes Are Coming to Iowa's 2020 Caucuses Why the process could look very different next year in the key early-voting state Read more |
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Ronnie Cummins A Call for the Food Movement to Get Behind the Green New Deal "In the next decade we must facilitate a just transition away from climate-destabilizing factory farms and fossil fuel-intensive agriculture, at the same time as we switch, as rapidly possible, to 100-percent renewable energy." Read more |
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Juan Cole Who’s Running John Bolton to Start a War With Iran? He Worried Even Mad Dog Mattis Bolton has been agitating for a war on Iran for two decades Read more |
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Greg Grandin How Not to Build a “Great, Great Wall” A timeline of border fortification Read more |
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Chris Hedges The ‘Private Governments’ That Subjugate U.S. Workers This neoliberal economic model is defective. Read more |
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Jeff Cohen Corporate Media Bias on 2020 Democratic Race Already in High Gear Let's be clear: One reason mainstream journalists were so wrong about the 2016 election is because they are largely divorced from poor and working-class voters Read more |
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Daniel McGowan What the Government Shutdown Really Means for Federal Prisoners Pay no attention to stories about prisoners feasting during the shutdown. The reality is that the shutdown only makes prison conditions worse Read more |
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Bianca Rosen The Next Steps for the #MeToo Movement Movement leaders and anti-violence advocacy groups need to turn their sights on localities—to call on city officials to develop sound, survivor-centered policies that respond to and prevent, sexual violence Read more |
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Lindsay Koshgarian Longest Shutdown Ever: This Is Bad Governance This shutdown is a brazen power grab by the president, and so far, too many members of Congress have been willing to cede this power Read more |
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Valerie Vande Panne Universal Basic Income: Why a So-Called 'Solution' for Disappearing Jobs Makes Serfs of Us All UBI is a big distraction from questions we should be asking Read more |
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Bill McKibben Ocasio-Cortez's Climate Genius Stroke: Her #GreenNewDeal Is the Most Serious Response to the Crisis Yet The call to get off fossil fuel by the 2030s is hard but technically achievable; the guarantee of a job in the renewable industry to anyone who wants one would actually provide the labor required to make a transition of this magnitude Read more |
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César Chelala Violence Against Women: A Pandemic No Longer Hidden Worldwide, violence is as common a cause of death and disability among women of reproductive age as cancer Read more |
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Elizabeth Goitein, Tim Lau Can Trump Declare a National Emergency to Build the Wall? A Q&A with the Brennan Center's Liza Goitein, a leading expert on emergency powers Read more |
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Juan Cole Pompeo's US Jingoism and Anti-Iran Warmongering Rejected by Mideast Public In both Egypt, where Pompeo spoke, and in Iraq, which he had just visited, over 90 percent of the population has an unfavorable view of the United States Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Federal Workers' Woes Trump knew that federal workers would go without pay so long as the shutdown was in place—he didn't know that during past shutdowns when the IRS employees were furloughed, tax refunds weren't being processed Read more |
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Margery Eagan 'Extremists' Like Elizabeth Warren and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Are Actually Closer to What Most Americans Want Trump ran as a populist, but governs like Marie Antoinette. And a sleeping, scammed America is finally waking up Read more |
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John Atcheson Why 'Fact-Checking' Gives Liars a Free Pass The story isn't that Trump gets his facts wrong—it's that he's a serial liar Read more |
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Gregory Shupak Media Worried US Won't Occupy Syria Forever And even if the U.S. were to pull its troops out of Syria, it's far from certain that this will mean the U.S. will stop meddling Read more |
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Andy Rowell “Shameful” Trudeau Accused of Violating First Nations Rights Over Gas Pipeline Indeed Trudeau has another crisis on his hands and once again his administration seems to be siding with oil and gas Read more |
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Nina Khrushcheva Trump's Wall With Mexico Follows in the Footsteps of Authoritarian Leaders Throughout History From China to Germany, walls have been used for centuries to spread fear, closed-mindedness and isolationism Read more |
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John Feffer Will Trump Rule by Decree? It’s a small leap from a “state of emergency” at the border to martial law throughout the country Read more |
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Elizabeth Bruenig Fact-Checking Has Flourished. But It’s More Complicated Than It Looks Politics has always been and will always be a battlefield for moral reasoning that requires more than spot-checking of facts Read more |
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Frank Clemente The GOP Tax Cut Is Just as Bad As We Feared it Would Be What more evidence do we need that the Trump-GOP tax cuts are bad law—for the economy, for working families, and for the health and well-being of millions of Americans? Read more |
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Dr. Divine Taylor It’s Time to End the Language of Oppression We are brothers, sisters, sons, fathers and mothers who have been branded by incarceration Read more |
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Danny Sjursen The 'Liberal' Foreign Policy Establishment's Hypocrisy Knows No Bounds Make no mistake, the Democrats have been tacking to the right on foreign policy and burgeoning their tough-guy-interventionist credentials for decades now Read more |
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Fran Korten Healthy Food Just Got a Big Boost in the New Farm Bill A program that doubles the spending power for food stamp recipients who buy fresh produce just got more funding Read more |
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Eugene Robinson Trump Is Terrified of the Far-Right Echo Chamber He’s afraid of his shrunken but loyal base, which could abandon him if he doesn’t give them a wall Read more |
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Reed Richardson Corporate Press Stoops to Absurdity to Balance Trump’s Border Wall Lies Factcheck false equivalence, the sequel Read more |