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Robert Reich Should the Supreme Court Be Reformed? In an era of increasing political polarization, we should rethink how the Court is organized in order to rebuild public trust. Read more |
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Sarah Anderson Where Is 'Line Worker Barbie'? CEO-worker pay gaps are the clearest proof that corporations like Mattel and many others don't respect their employees. Read more |
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Bill Blum The Supreme Court Could Spell the End of American Democracy The nine justices who constitute our most powerful judicial body are set to decide a bevy of politically charged cases that could impact the 2020 elections and profoundly affect the lives of each and every American. Read more |
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Ryan Cooper Pete Buttigieg's Disingenuous Attack on Medicare-For-All Mayor Pete's plan would be more expensive than Medicare-for-all. He would "pay for that" by keeping more of the cost burden on the shoulders of individual Americans. Read more |
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Eric Levitz Bernie Sanders’s Campaign Is Alive and Well Sanders was better, crisper, and funnier than ever before. Read more |
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Timothy Karr Can Anyone Stop Facebook from Poisoning Democracy? While the social media giant wraps itself in the banner of free expression and political speech, it serves more as a scrim to hide its continued spread of political disinformation to tens of millions of voters in advance of the 2020 elections. Read more |
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Yanis Varoufakis, David Adler A Recession Is Coming. When It Does, We Need to Demand a Green New Deal. Having squandered the last crisis, we cannot make the same mistakes again. A Green New Deal is the only reasonable response. Read more |
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Zenobia Jeffries Warfield It’s Time for Effective Oversight of Police Violence Would the possibility of mandatory sentencing make a police officer think twice before pulling the trigger? What about them having to forego their pensions, or pay victims’ families from their 401Ks? Read more |
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Rebecca Gordon The True High Crimes and Misdemeanors of Donald J. Trump Extorting Ukraine is bad enough, but the president has done much worse. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson What I Learn When I Have Lunch at Cook County Jail These are not serial murderers or rapists. They are overwhelmingly people who erred or did wrong but are not bad people. Read more |
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Lee Camp Just 100 Companies Will Sign Humanity’s Death Warrant Basically, a tiny number of sociopaths make the decisions that are currently dooming us all, and as much as I’d like to tell you otherwise, those people don’t even notice if we all march outside in colorful hats. Read more |
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Vijay Prashad The IMF Convenes in Washington, Deaf to the Suffering It Causes Across the Planet What the people of the world want it clear: democratic control of their economies. The International Monetary Fund continues to stand in their way. Read more |
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Robert McChesney Means Testing: Sanders vs. Warren on the Single Most Important Policy Idea for Progressive Success Basing eligibility on wealth or income level is phony progressivism and a crucial tactic promoted by the right to eliminate social welfare programs that could benefit the entire population and the common good. Read more |
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Kenneth Peres Legalized Political Corruption Is So Much Bigger Than Trump: A Journey in 7 Charts It's time for a democracy movement that directly attacks systemic corruption by depending not on specific leaders but on a grassroots movement that both produces leaders and holds them accountable. Read more |
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Karen Stillerman As Presidential Candidates Prepare for Ohio Debate, Farmers Need a New Vision Tell the debate moderators that climate solutions, including soil health, are topics of critical importance to Ohio and the nation, and must be addressed in this presidential debate. Read more |
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Khury Petersen-Smith Trump’s Betrayal of the Kurds Is Terrible, But the Answer Is Not Endless War Like millions of others, the Kurds are victims of disastrous U.S. interventions in the region. Read more |
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Bill Bigelow It's Time to Abolish Columbus Day Just as the climate justice movement is doing with fossil fuels, we can organize our communities and our schools to divest from Columbus. And that would be something to celebrate. Read more |
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Dean Baker The Economics and Politics of Financial Transactions Taxes and Wealth Taxes Imagine that instead of handing money to our billionaires, we are taxing away their wealth at the rate of 3.0 percent annually. Read more |
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Stephen McCloskey What INGOs Can Learn From Greta Thunberg and the Global Climate Strikes Combining analysis, outrage and active citizenship can build and sustain large-scale public engagement. Read more |
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Terri Hansen For Indigenous Peoples Day, Tribes Return to Alcatraz 50 Years Later A new generation of Native activists will take a canoe journey around Alcatraz to mark Indigenous Peoples Day and pay homage to occupation of the island 50 years ago. Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt American Brexit It’s not just Britain headed for the subbasement of imperial history. Read more |
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Christopher D. Cook The Problem With the Blue Angels Local news media celebrate a dangerous, expensive, military PR event without raising a single question or issue. Read more |
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Norman Solomon The More Joe Biden Stumbles, the More Corporate Democrats Freak Out A key problem for the Democratic establishment is that the "electability" argument is vaporizing in the political heat. Read more |
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Gosia Wozniacka A New Bill Could Help Protect the Sacred Seeds of Indigenous People Traditional seed varieties cultivated for generations have far fewer protections than modified or hybrid seeds. Six senators have introduced legislation to level the playing field. Read more |
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Teresa Albano Resisting Anti-Immigrant Hate in the City of Big Shoulders A gaggle of far-right MAGA men showed up at a Chicago church to protest its immigrant rights work. Bad decision. Read more |
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Jon Rainwater Trump Isn't Really Ending Endless Wars, He's Making Them Worse Here's what progressives should support in Syria. Read more |
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Juan Cole Kurds Consider Asking for Russian No-Fly Zone as Moscow Demands Foreign Armies Leave Syria A close reading of the Russian press, however, shows that a Russian no-fly zone against Turkey in northeast Syria is highly unlikely. Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Warren Wants to Close the Loophole Through Which Brett Kavanaugh and Maryanne Trump Barry Crawled Kavanaugh ascended to the U.S. Supreme Court and Trump Barry descended from a federal appeals court—moves which enabled them to escape the consequences of their misconduct. Read more |
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William Cohn The Don Fought the Law... Yes, we may see the law as a tool of the powerful, and it often is, but the law may also be the means to finally hold Trump accountable and to remove him from the office he never rightfully earned. Read more |
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Deborah Taffa Making National Parks Accessible to Native People Again A violent, racist history has kept Native people off their ancestral lands for decades. How can we remove the barriers that still exist today? Read more |
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Joshua Cho Major Media Bury Groundbreaking Studies of Pentagon's Massive Carbon Bootprint Given corporate media's propagandizing for starting and staying in wars and for neverending arms races, one should expect this. Read more |
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Josue De Luna Navarro A 'Red Deal': Why Indigenous Communities Belong at the Center of Climate Action Policies that aren't rooted in Indigenous communities can cause many of the same oppressive outcomes as extraction. Read more |
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Ralph Nader The Ukraine Shakedown Is Important, But Not Sufficient to Let People Realize All the Other Things Trump Is Doing The "abuse of the public trust," in Alexander Hamilton's phrase is overflowing. Read more |
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Jill Richardson What Life on the Margins Feels Like A recent uproar on my campus reveals the pain young people of color feel at being treated like "others." Read more |
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Matt Cagle California Just Blocked Police Body Cam Use of Face Recognition The rise of face and other biometric surveillance technologies gives governments an unprecedented power to track, classify, and discriminate against people based on their most personal, innate features. Read more |
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Vassilis K. Fouskas, Bulent Gokay Trump's Bankrupt Syria Policy: Civilians Will Pay the Price Trump's decision confirms the decline of US power in the Middle East and globally. Read more |
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Brett Wilkins Mainstream Media Suddenly Care About Syrian Civilian Casualties United States military has killed more foreign civilians than any other armed force on the planet since dropping two nuclear bombs on Japan in 1945. Read more |
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Malinda Maynor Lowery Why More Places Are Abandoning Columbus Day in Favor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day The growing recognition and celebration of Indigenous Peoples' Day actually represents the fruits of a concerted, decadeslong effort to recognize the role of indigenous people in the nation’s history. Read more |
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Jefferson Morley Understanding the Two Types of Whistleblowers Legal whistleblowers work within the system seeking to make the government work better. Civil disobedience whistleblowers go outside the system (and the law) seeking to change or disrupt government policy. Read more |
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Robin Carver The Supreme Court Needs to Protect Trans People from Discrimination "I wasn’t hired because I am trans. And in more than half the country—twenty-nine states, in fact—that’s perfectly legal." Read more |
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Juan Cole How ‘Citizens United’ Decision Paved Way for Giuliani's Clients Parnas and Fruman to Buy influence in America As I pointed out last week, the most powerful intervention in US politics allowing foreign influence in US elections, which contributed to Trump’s victory in 2016, was the Supreme Court’s Citizens... Read more |
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Nick Turse As the World Looks Away, Death Stalks the Democratic Republic of Congo The forgotten trauma of a forgotten war. Read more |
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Tom Gallagher Turkey, the Kurds, and Lots and Lots of US Weapons The Turkish military doesn’t function without the U.S. weapons industry—and the approval of the U.S. government. Read more |
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John Atcheson A Trump Impeachment Inquiry Isn't Keeping Congress From 'Getting Things Done'—Mitch McConnell Is. As long as people keep voting for anti-government candidates they will elect people who are not interested in—or even knowledgeable about—governing. And that means things the people want, won’t get done. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J S Davies Crises in Iraq and Haiti Expose the Failure of Militarized Neoliberalism It should be no surprise that the new governments installed by all these U.S. wars and coups are among the most corrupt regimes on earth. Read more |
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Basav Sen Dig Beneath the World’s Far-Right Governments—You’ll Find Fossil Fuels From Brazil to India to the United States, extractive industries have aligned themselves with authoritarian governments waging war on minority populations. Read more |
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Julie Hollar How Ageist Is Too Ageist to Be Published? "How old is too old" stories draw on tired prejudices that need to be challenged by reporters, not reinforced by them. Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar The War in Afghanistan Turns 18, and No One Notices "It would be better if Americans had never come here." Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler The Rights Of Nature We're still treating a living, life-sustaining, crucial being as property: the ecosystem. And in the process, we’re choking our own habitat—that is to say, ourselves—to death. Read more |
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Max Richtman Upcoming Democratic Debate Must Include Social Security Older Americans are the country’s largest voting bloc, but during the first four Democratic presidential debates, the moderators didn’t ask even one question about Social Security. This makes no sense. Read more |
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David Welch A Few Informed Thoughts From a Veteran Cardio Rehab Nurse on Bernie's Heart Attack What does Sanders' recent heart attack mean for his campaign and fitness to be president? Frankly, not much at all. Read more |
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Robert Edwards Trump Shoots Man on Fifth Avenue The only real shock is that it took this long for a scandal like this to come out. Read more |
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Theo Wuest Don’t Leave Equality to the Supreme Court In 29 states, trans people can legally be denied jobs and housing because of who we are. Congress should act. Read more |
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Mehdi Hasan Dear Ellen: The Problem With George W. Bush Is Not His Beliefs—It’s His War Crimes Bush may owe Ellen six bucks for nachos. He owes the rest of us a prison sentence at The Hague. Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati Inequality Is Literally Killing Us Again and again, studies show that the richer wealthy Americans become, the shorter the rest of us live. Read more |
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Christopher D. Cook Only Bernie’s Green New Deal Answers Greta’s Call for Action To fulfill the promise of the climate strikes, we need a bold policy solution. Read more |
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Leonard Pitts Jr. Forgiveness Isn’t the Problem. One-way Forgiveness Is. Who Forgives Black People? By simply existing, black people remind white people of those sins of their forebears, sins many are desperate to minimize or forget. Because down that path lies white guilt. Read more |
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Francis Taylor Yes, Corporate Media Pushes an Agenda What’s hot in the press? War, greed and capitalism. Read more |
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Jodi Stark You Took Climate Action to the Streets. Now Take It to the Ballot Box! It’s time to exercise your democratic muscles and vote for a clean, climate-stable, healthy and just future for all! Read more |
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Charles P. Pierce The White House Stonewall Letter Is a MAGA Rally Draped in a Toga Gaze in awe at The Constitution According to Camp Runamuck. Read more |
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Robert Reich Please Note: The 2020 Election Won’t Be Won by Democratic Centrists No, we don't want to go back to the way it was before Trump. We have to go forward. Read more |
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Julie Hollar WaPo Goes After Warren With a Posse of Centrist Sources Is what anonymous rich Democratic donors "think" and "fear" the whole story? Read more |
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Joseph Stiglitz No More Half-Measures on Corporate Taxes In the face of climate change, rising inequality, and other global crises, governments are losing out on hundreds of billions of dollars in tax revenue as a result of corporate tax arbitrage. Yet despite the obvious deficiencies of the global tax regime, policymakers continue to propose only... Read more |
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James Esseks What You Need to Know About Today’s LGBTQ Rights Arguments Before SCOTUS A bad ruling would strip away protections against discrimination that LGBTQ people have been able to use to protect themselves for two decades. Read more |
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Andrew Bacevich The Real Cover-Up: Putting Donald Trump’s Impeachment in Context High crimes and misdemeanors of the fading American century. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson To His Wealthy Donors, Trump Is Their Grifter The Trump economy doesn’t work for most Americans, but it works for his donors. They’re all in on the con. Read more |
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Juan Cole Winners and Losers From Trump Throwing Syrian Kurds Under the Bus Washington’s crusade against Iran and Russia (in the latter case with the exception of Trump) is irrelevant to this move, which is mainly about the Kurds and America’s further betrayal of them after they defeated ISIL for us. Read more |
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Eugene Robinson On the Bootlicking Cowardice of Republicans For now, Trump can cling to the fact that lily-livered Republicans still fear his wrath. Read more |
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Vijay Prashad, E. Ahmet Tonak What to Expect from Turkey’s Coming Invasion of Syria Erdogan’s government is preparing to enter Syria for a major military operation against the SDF. Read more |
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Sarah Anderson Paying the Boss 1,000 Times More Than a Worker Encourages Reckless Corporate Behavior Sentiment is building to tax excessive CEO pay at public companies. Read more |
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Vandana Shiva We Need Biodiversity-Based Agriculture to Solve the Climate Crisis We need to move from oil to soil. Read more |
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Larry Beinhart When Lies Trump Truth If Trump's falsehoods do not get him impeached or defeated in 2020, the future of American democracy will be bleak. Read more |
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Gerald Friedman How the US Could Afford 'Medicare for All' Medicare, America’s greatest success in advancing health care, succeeded precisely because it was limited and had its own dedicated funding streams. Read more |
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Chris Hedges Time to Rebel The corporate forces that have seized control of our political and economic systems will, unchecked, drive us into extinction for profit. All we have left is nonviolent, disruptive civil disobedience. A rebellion. Read more |
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Juan Cole Trump Talks Tough With Journalists But Lets Real Strongmen Like Turkey’s Erdogan Walk All Over Him Never has the United States had a more cowardly president, or one who could not be bothered to actually pursue a coherent foreign policy. Read more |
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Juan Cole Iraqi Government Teeters as Protest Death Toll Rises to 100, With 4,000 Wounded Youth protesters are upset about the spoils system in the Iraqi government. They are upset about the government’s inability to deliver basic services or sufficient jobs. They are exercised about severe corruption. Read more |
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Meena Miriam Yust, Arshad M Khan Dying Wildlife on a Warming Planet If fish decline, so does a food source for humans and the water birds that feed on fish, and as insect pollinators decline, so do our crops and the plants around us. Read more |
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Emily Kirklin The Movement Bernie Started Is Bigger Than Any One Person. Have Faith in That Movement, Not Just the Man The reason people support Bernie Sanders is not because of the man; it is because of the ideals that he represents. Read more |
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Leonardo Flores The Latest on the Diplomatic War Against Venezuela So far, the diplomatic war is being won by the Maduro government, but the Venezuelan people continue to suffer from the brutal U.S. sanctions. Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli The Lyricism of the Trump When the lyrical muse sings, the creative pen dances.. —Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium It is easy, when getting caught up in impeachment talk, crude behavior towards women, assaults on integrity, and... Read more |
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Abaki Beck Why Aren't Fossil Fuel Companies Held Accountable for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women? Resource extraction takes a toll on more than just the economy and the environment. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Bernie's Heart. And Ours. Bernie has a huge and eternally healthy heart, filled with the lifeblood of empathy and dedication. In essence, that's what the 2020 Sanders campaign is all about. Not him. Us. Read more |
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Ron Fein Ukrainegate Is Impeachable. But So Is Putting Kids in Cages Do we really want to send future presidents the message that, so long as they don't pressure foreign governments to punish their political opponents, they can put children in internment camps? Read more |
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Alan MacLeod The Phony Liberalism of Bill Maher Despite everything he does and says, media still call HBO host a 'liberal' Read more |
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Diane Archer Watch Out, Seniors! Trump Just Launched a Stealth Attack on Medicare Trump's new executive order does nothing to hold the Medicare Advantage plans accountable for their fraudulent overcharges or their inappropriate denials of care and coverage. Rather, it rewards them. Read more |
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Anis Shivani Lessons from Hurricane Harvey, for a Still-Flooded Houston As Imelda’s floodwaters drain from my hometown, I observe a discourse around Harvey’s two- year anniversary constrained by a presumed opposition between the needs of humanity and the forces of nature—as though the two were in mortal combat. Read more |
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Juan Cole US Press Horrified By Trump’s "Shoot Migrants in the Legs" But Ignores What Israeli Snipers Do to Palestinian Protesters The Israeli army and government are now officially worse that the worst elements of the Trump administration. Read more |
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Jodie Evans Why I Confronted Trump’s Architect of U.S. Sanctions Against Iran and Called Her a 'Weapon of Mass Destruction' Sigal Mandelker’s cruel policies cost too many lives to ignore. Read more |
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Bill C. Davis A Criminal Trump, GOP Complicity, and Hitler's "Chimera of Conscience" The forces keeping this chaotic, renegade organism in place are oblivious to the harm they are doing to themselves and indifferent to the harm being claimed by others. Read more |
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Lulu Friesdat Voting Machines Pose A Greater Threat to Our Elections Than Foreign Agents Security experts are alarmed at internet connectivity in voting systems because it can allow hackers to inject malware that disrupts or changes the outcome of an election. Read more |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan Snowden Knows Exactly Why No One Wants to Be a Whistleblower "NSA whistleblowers who did go through this process had their lives destroyed." Read more |
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Genna Reed Science Advice Shouldn’t Be at the Whim of a President and His Appointees This executive order was just another example of this administration seeking to cut science and information out of the government and decisionmaking process. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Shame of the Nation: The 1% Rules and the 99% Lets Them There has never been so much but so little for the majority. Read more |
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John Atcheson When the Fringe Is Mainstream and the Mainstream Is Fringe: On Orwell and US Oligarchy The Democratic Party and the mainstream press are doing their best to make all records tell the same tale, and they’re doing it as part of a systematic coup by the oligarchy that has been four decades in the making. Read more |
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Frances Moore Lappé, Bruce T. Boccardy Most of Us Are Not Doing So Well: Numbers Crunching Working People Our government’s and corporate media’s failure to capture the true extent of unemployment creates a distorted narrative about work that feeds bewilderment and self-recrimination. Read more |
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John Feffer The New Age of Protest People are hitting the streets to protest government inaction, repression, and corruption. Does that mean democracy is in trouble or stronger than ever? Read more |
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Rose Bookbinder After Largest Workplace Raid in a Decade, Immigrant Workers Are Organizing We can only expect that these raids will keep coming. The more prepared we are with rapid response, the more potential there is to organize and create a united front to fight back. Read more |
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Paul Kiel IRS: Sorry, But It’s Just Easier and Cheaper to Audit the Poor Congress asked the IRS to report on why it audits the poor more than the affluent. Its response is that it doesn’t have enough money and people to audit the wealthy properly. So it’s not going to. Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar No Good Reasons to Avoid Impeaching Trump If Trump survives an impeachment vote because his backers in the Senate refuse to abandon him, he may go on to lose at the polls because of the impeachment process. Read more |
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Frida Berrigan Protecting the Children on a Trumpian Planet Trumping the future would mean no future at all for my three kids Read more |