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Ilana Novick Progressives Will Stay Home for Michael Bloomberg The ability to buy your way into power is not proof that people like what you do—for Bloomberg or for Trump. Read more |
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Jaz Brisack Rhodes Scholars on Bernie, Buttigieg, and Meritocracy From our privileged position, we believe that the only candidate who is committed to transforming inequality and creating universal access to education is Bernie Sanders. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson Kerner Report Set Standard for What a Serious Presidential Candidate Should Champion The report became famous for its stark warning: "Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white—separate and unequal." It was the last attempt to address honestly the structural inequalities that plague African Americans. Read more |
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Jim Goodman Bloomberg Won’t, As They Say, Play Well in Peoria, But Then, Neither Should Trump The reality is that Bloomberg and the President are little more than two peas in a pod. Read more |
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Tom Gallagher Paul Krugman on This Bernie Sanders and Socialism Thing What Sanders actually calls himself is a "democratic socialist"—a term that never appears in Krugman’s article—because he doesn’t believe that billionaires shouldn’t be running the show and the working people of the country should. Read more |
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Robin Andersen Factchecking NPR’s Attempted Takedown of Bernie Sanders Their ignorance is willful, and finds its roots in a profoundly ideological position, an ideology adopted by journalists who favor and are rewarded by corporate arguments promoted by corporate Democrats. Read more |
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Mark Dudzic Why Won’t Corporate America Support Single Payer Medicare-for-All? The only thing that will move most large corporations is a powerful grassroots anti-corporate movement that will hold their feet to the fire. Read more |
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Max Richtman It's Time for Millionaires to Contribute Their Fair Share to Social Security Some of America’s wealthiest recognize the inherent unfairness in the system. Read more |
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Jeff Bryant The Charter School Movement Is Imploding. What Comes Next May Be Worse Trump’s plan for 'school choice' will lead to the further privatization of public education. Read more |
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Hamilton Nolan More Than 1,200 IBEW Members Call on Union Leadership to Retract Biden Endorsement In organized labor, as in society at large, the 2020 Democratic primary is exposing the deep, latent divide between the left and the establishment. Read more |
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Sarah Lazare Buttigieg and Centrist Dems Want a Military Response to Climate Change. That’s Dangerous. The Pentagon sees climate victims as threats. Read more |
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Rebecca Gordon Impunity Guaranteed for Torturers (and Presidents) "The right to do whatever I want as president." Read more |
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Renata Motta, Marco Antonio Teixeira Women From Every Corner Occupy Brasilia: the Marcha das Margaridas One of the largest women's mobilizations in Latin America, the Marcha das Margaridas, is led by rural trade unions, together with agrarian and feminist movements. Read more |
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Emily Beament World Shifting to Net Zero Emissions More than 30 trillion of the world annual product (GDP) is being generated in nations, regions and cities with an actual or proposed net zero target. Read more |
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Olivia Alperstein An Arms Race That No One Can Win We all have a vital interest in ensuring that nuclear weapons are not used. It’s time for the United States to take the lead on nonproliferation and disarmament. Read more |
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Nancy J. Altman, Linda Benesch Bloomberg (Still) Wants to Cut Social Security Bloomberg's words about 'options' are a clear signal. His language is insider speak, a wink and a nod to the donor class that he, like them, favors cutting Social Security. Read more |
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Kenneth Peres Buttigieg Is a Wall Street Democrat Beholden to Corporate Interests Given his history, it is no surprise that Wall Street, Big Tech, Big Pharma, health insurers, real estate developers and private equity have decided to invest millions of dollars into Buttigieg’s campaign. Read more |
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Rohit Anand The Real Choices in American Healthcare My parents had to decide between my sister’s health or their financial security. Read more |
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Johnathan Hettinger Jury Awards $265M in Damages in Dicamba Trial Against Monsanto, BASF After three weeks of arguments, the jury awarded the peach-farmer plaintiff $15 million in damages and $250 million in punitive damages against the chemical companies. Read more |
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Tara Ritter A False Solution: Why Carbon Markets Don't Work for Agriculture "Carbon markets will do nothing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. All they will do is create another way for polluters to profit from their lack of environmental concern." Read more |
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Meghan Krausch We Talk About One U.S.-Backed Coup. Hondurans Talk About Three. Tracing U.S. complicity in the ongoing human rights crisis in Honduras. Read more |
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Michael Arria Bloomberg Defied a Flight Ban to Show Support for Israel, Defended the Country Shelling a School and Killing Sleeping Children Bloomberg: "Unfortunately, if there are innocents getting killed at the same time it’s not Israel’s fault." Read more |
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Norman Solomon The Escalating Class War Against Bernie Sanders In American politics, hell hath no fury like corporate power scorned. Read more |
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Nicolas J.S. Davies Afghan Troops Say Taliban are Brothers and War is "Not Really Our Fight" Afghanistan is not the United States' longest war. That tragic distinction belongs to the American Indian Wars. Read more |
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Liliana Harrington The Company Behind the Iowa Caucus App Debacle has a Deeply Troubling Plan to Manipulate Voters Treating citizens as mere pawns in a game run by propaganda shops Read more |
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Michael Winship It's Happening Here... Messages of resistance in two little books, one a movie script. Read more |
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Nozomi Hayase Assange’s Extradition Case: Critical Moment for the Anti-War Movement The US government’s extradition and prosecution of Julian Assange is a critical moment for press freedom, but also for the anti-war movement Read more |
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Linda McQuaig Jason Kenney Treated with Kid-Gloves, Indigenous Protestors with Assault Rifles The hardball tactics are alarming Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Truthiness: Trump & YouTube Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. -Robert Frost The Black Cottage It must have been a bit of a downer for the trump. It came just three days... Read more |
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Jamie Peck Bernie Sanders Can Beat Trump with His Progressive Vision for America. Primary Voters Know It. Democratic primary voters aren't just eager to win the presidency. They're also eager to see a leader fight for a real progressive policy platform. Read more |
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Rawan Elhalaby Banking is Changing. Its Lack of Diversity Must Change, Too, and Congress Can Help Ultimately, America’s economy cannot prosper if communities of color don’t prosper. Read more |
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Brett Wilkins UN Publishes List of Companies Profiting from Israel’s Illegal Settlements in Palestine Prominent international critics have called Israel’s Jews-only settlements, as well as segregated roads and other infrastructure, a form of apartheid. Read more |
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Anis Shivani So Many More People Understand the Meaning of Neoliberalism Today, and That’s a Huge Thing Ordinary people—nurses, teachers, salespeople, accountants, drivers—increasingly understand what Neoliberalism signifies. Read more |
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Laura Flanders Democracy vs. Dictatorship: Don't Let Bloomberg Muddy That Choice If there is one way for the Democrats to bungle this battle for democracy, Bloomberg is it. Read more |
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Ralph Nader “Democratic Socialism” – Bring it on Corporate Socialists! Our government today is of, by, and for the dominant corporations Read more |
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Amitrajeet A. Batabyal How the T-Mobile-Sprint Merger Will Increase Inequality Since economic power leads to political power, these companies have used their resources to lobby for rules and regulations that further narrow the scope of antitrust laws and harm consumers. Read more |
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Ellen Moore, Jen Moore Global Mining Corporations Have a Friend in the New Guatemalan Government The new president has appointed a former mining executive to a high-level post, worrying indigenous communities that have long protested the company’s harmful extraction activities. Read more |
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Anthony Torres When the People Lead, Leaders Follow—Lessons From the Fight to Impeach and Remove Trump The Senate may have betrayed the American people, but the movement for impeachment secured critical victories that will propel us forward in the longer battle for democracy. Read more |
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Abigail Penny Measuring Our Impact on the Planet Is Joaquin Phoenix the voice for farmed animals everywhere right now? Read more |
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Alex Kotch Democratic Presidential Candidate Michael Bloomberg Is a GOP Bankroller Over the last decade, Bloomberg helped Republicans take and maintain control of the U.S. Senate. Read more |
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Alan MacLeod For Media in New Hampshire, Losing Is Winning and Winning Is Losing Sanders is the frontrunner going into the next Democratic debate on Wednesday. But don’t expect the media to treat him particularly well. Read more |
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Thomas Hanna, Mathew Lawrence Reimagining Democratic Public Ownership for the Twenty-first Century A new transatlantic project will explore how new models of public ownership can shape the emerging commanding heights of the economy. Read more |
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David Reichmuth Are Electric Vehicles Really Better for the Climate? Yes. Here’s Why Switching to an EV can make a big difference in how much global warming emissions we produce and is one of the biggest actions a household can take to reduce their carbon footprint. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J S Davies Can the World’s Second Superpower Rise From the Ashes of Twenty Years of War? The peace movement’s small victories demonstrate that we have more power to challenge U.S. militarism than most Americans realize. Read more |
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Ted Morgan Why the Democrats Should Back Bernie Sanders: And Why They Won’t, If They Can Possibly Help It This could represent the beginning of a real healing of America’s tragic history around race and class. Read more |
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Jim Hightower The Irony of the Centrist-Progressive Debate Moderates consistently warn that progressive ideas can't win "the middle." But just look at the polls. Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt War Addicts, Inc. Making sense of the age of carnage. Read more |
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Danny Sjursen America and Israel Against the World The only other nations supporting the Trump and Netanyahu plan are dictatorial and/or monarchical Arab client states like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates. Read more |
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Joshua Cho No. 1 Sponsor of Terrorism? US Media Name Iran, but Overlook a Candidate Closer to Home There’s a much stronger case that the US rather than Iran is actually the world’s biggest state sponsor of terrorism. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler The Wall: Separating Democracy From Voters We have a political system that continually surrenders to us-vs.-them thinking: leadership that requires an enemy to keep the country united. Read more |
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Jeff Cohen When CNN Introduces Bernie-Bashers Only as 'Former,' CNN Is Lying To You A lot of the corruption in Washington stems from former officials, whether Democrat or Republican, leaving government to work as consultants or lobbyists for greedy private interests. Read more |
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Peter Certo Who’s Afraid of 'Socialism'? Americans were taught to associate "socialism" with dictatorship and "capitalism" with democracy. Are those days over? Read more |
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Russell Mokhiber NPR Mara Liasson Mandatory Medicare for All and the Ramped Up Attack on Single Payer Leaders of the single payer movement were taken aback by the use of the term and did not know where it came from. Read more |
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Ruth Conniff Election 2020: Transformation or Stability? We don’t know whether the candidate with the most progressive policy ideas will win. What we do know is that there are different paths to victory. Read more |
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Robert Reich 5 Ways Donald Trump Has Not Drained the Swamp Trump has enlarged and deepened the swamp, but the swamp was there before he got to Washington. Read more |
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Jim Hightower Health Care for People...or for Corporate Profits? Unable to win public support on their own merit, the corporatists and their hired political hacks are going all out to continue their profit gouging and keep control of America's dysfunctional system. Read more |
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Harriet Shugarman How to Support Your Children in Turning Climate Angst Into Climate Action We must tell the truth and show through our actions that we stand with young people in their efforts. Read more |
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Paul Heideman Michael Bloomberg, American Billionaire Oligarch The multi-billionaire has spent his career using his fortune to undermine democracy and enact his preferred political agenda. His presidential gambit is just the latest example. Read more |
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Juan Cole From 'Swiss Cheese' to 'Frankenstein's Monster,' Arab Leaders Have Many Names for Kushner-Trump Apartheid Plan A contest among Arab leaders to find the most colorful way of expressing how truly catastrophic the Kushner Apartheid is for the Palestinians and the Arab world. Read more |
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Mehdi Hasan With Back-to-Back Wins for Sanders, Pundits Proven Wrong in Iowa and New Hampshire It was a big, big mistake to write off both Bernie Sanders and his No. 1 policy proposal. Read more |
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Mark Weisbrot Bernie Sanders Isn’t a Radical—He’s a Pragmatist Who Fights to Un-rig the System Sanders would use both markets and government to reverse the upward redistribution of income to the already rich. Read more |
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Derrick Z. Jackson Asbestos, Ubiquitous and Avoidable, Is a Deadly Threat to Our Kids Like cigarettes, asbestos is a time bomb causing disease in victims decades after exposure—in this case lung cancer and mesothelioma. Read more |
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John Sanbonmatsu No, Bernie Sanders Isn't a Socialist (But that's okay) Read more |
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Kelsey Yule Trump’s Border Wall Is an Ecologist’s Nightmare Blowing up mountains, bulldozing sacred sites, guzzling groundwater—the wall is turning border ecosystems into a grim dystopia. Read more |
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William Hartung Will Trump Ride Pentagon Spending to Reelection? The president bets on arms sales big time. Read more |
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Assal Rad Iranian-Americans in the Age of Trump, the Travel Ban, and the Threat of War We want democracy and freedom for Iran, not because of Iranian exceptionalism, but because those are the values we aspire for at home, and therefore believe all people deserve. Read more |
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Allen Hester The Doomsday Clock Is the Call to Action We Need Right Now Nuclear weapons make us less, not more, safe, and it’s time to stop playing a no-win game of chicken and enact common-sense nuclear policies before time runs out. Read more |
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Robert McChesney If Bloomberg Wants to Buy an Election, He Should Run as a Republican Against Trump—Not Sabotage Democrats The mega-billionaire should be running against Trump in the Republican primaries, not as a Democrat. If he actually cared about this country more than stroking his massive ego that is exactly what he would be doing. Read more |
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Adolph Reed Jr. Here They Come Again: The Kind of Neoliberal Democrats Who Prefer Trump to Sanders Here's the question: to what extent is the Establishment's commitment to democratic institutions greater than their commitment to current forms of capitalist hierarchy? It seems like we are about to find out. Read more |
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Brett Wilkins The Beasts and the Bombings: Reflecting on Dresden, February 1945 The Dresden bombing shocked the world’s conscience. Read more |
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Rev. John Dear Fire Drill Fridays Take L.A. Catastrophic climate change is not coming in fifty or one hundred years. It’s upon us now. Read more |
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Barbara Smith I Helped Coin the Term 'Identity Politics.' I'm Endorsing Bernie Sanders. I support Sanders because I believe his campaign is currently the best hope for helping marginalized Americans. Read more |
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Michaela Rafferty Before Celebrating Sinn Féin Election Surge, Consider Their Pro-Austerity Record in the North of Ireland For over two decades, the party has shared power in the North of Ireland, where it has widened the gaps between rich and poor. Read more |
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Pat LaMarche The Climate-Fueled Camp Fire Took Their Homes. Now They Are at Risk of Losing FEMA Housing Too. It's time for our country to focus on massive, extreme events—fueled by climate change—that result in the instantaneous homelessness of tens of thousands of people. Read more |
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Jason Sattler Moderate Democrats Have a Duty to Consider Sanders. He Has a Clear Path to Beating Trump. Bernie Sanders isn't even my favorite senator running for the 2020 nomination. But I see his potential to unite the Democratic Party and oust Trump. Read more |
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Juan Cole Israeli Blocking of Palestinian Exports to Jordan Shows Reality of Apartheid That the Kushner Plan Would Only Cement That Israel can stop Palestinian-Jordanian trade demonstrates conclusively that Palestine is not a free agent but is rather an Occupied territory, and that all the power rests in the hands of the Occupation military. Read more |
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Chris Hedges What Is Happening to Assange Will Happen to the Rest of Us The publication of classified documents is not yet a crime in the United States. If Assange is extradited and convicted, it will become one. Read more |
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Michael Klare The Arctic: World War III’s Newest Battlefield U.S. troops head for the far north. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Why the Buttigieg Campaign Tried to Have Me Arrested for Handing Out These Medicare for All Fliers So much for freedom of speech and open election discourse in public places—even in the "Live Free or Die" state of New Hampshire. Read more |
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Adam Gaffney Trump Says Covering All Immigrants Would Bankrupt Our Healthcare System. That’s a Lie. Covering undocumented immigrants under Medicare for All isn't just morally right—it’s also economically sound. Read more |
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Sarah Jones The Democrats Finally Get Around to Talking About Abortion "Abortion rights are in theory one of the Democratic Party's basic principles, a standard it will not compromise. Except that it does, with disastrous results." Read more |
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Andrew Taggart If Work Dominated Your Every Moment, Would Life Be Worth Living? An obsession with work causes needless human suffering and immiserates our imagination. Read more |
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Amanda Follett Hosgood At the Unist'ot'en Outpost, a Tightknit Group Readies for Police "This is my home. It's not a protest camp." Read more |
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Russell Mokhiber West Virginia Legislation Would Make Civil Disobedience Against Gas Pipelines a Felony "West Virginians value their rights to free speech and free association as granted to us under the Constitution. We will not stand for the legislature taking these rights away." Read more |
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Anita Desikan The EPA's New Shameful Tactic: Avoid People Poisoned by Coal Ash The Trump administration has rolled back requirements for public hearings regarding federal rules, making the fossil fuel industry even less accountable to communities. Read more |
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Ryan Cooper American Democracy Is Dying "About every other country has suffered a constitutional collapse at some point; our number may well be up quite soon." Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati Living in Inequality, Dying in Despair Americans are living a little longer. But we still lag well behind the developed world's life expectancy norm. As the world's most unequal developed nation, we shouldn't be surprised. Read more |
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Lornet Turnbull What Happens When a Person Is Deported? A new guide provides resources to help those being returned to their countries of origin. Read more |
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Ralph Nader The Vengeful, Lawless, Corporate Toady Trump Explodes "The egomaniacal Trump is inebriated with his disgraceful acquittal, convinced of his own innocence, despite the clear evidence of his guilt." Read more |
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Belén Fernández Child Suicide Is a Symptom of Our Traumatised World The prevalence of psychological trauma among refugee youth should be an issue of utmost urgency for us all. Read more |
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Anastasia Christman, Brian Chen House Approves Worker Rights Bill in Face of Growing Labor Backlash Against Trickle-Down Policies The PRO Act, which offers a pathway to increased power for the working class, passed the House with bipartisan support. Read more |
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Linda Kramer Jenning How Advocates Are Fighting Voter Suppression As the 2020 election season gets under way, activists are beginning to push back against voter disenfranchisement across the country. Read more |
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Mneesha Gellman Deported to Death: US Sent 138 Salvadorans Home to Be Killed The murders of 138 deportees belie any notion that El Salvador can protect citizens who are under threat. Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar The Coronavirus Panic Exposes the Pathology of Nationalism "The idea of America First, the nationalist populism, is against everything that we believe in in global health." Read more |
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Martha Argüello Climate Justice Movement Joins Forces With Entertainment Industry at Fire Drill Fridays to Take on Big Oil in Los Angeles Los Angeles is the perfect city to host the launch of Fire Drill Fridays in California—where our "West Coast" image of environmental progressivism clashes with the reality of a city still grappling with its relationship to the fossil fuel industry. Read more |
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Wenonah Hauter Banning Fracking: Politically Smart and a Climate Necessity A call to ban fracking is bound to energize climate activists and progressive voters, who see it as the kind of bold action necessary to confront the climate crisis. Read more |
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Norman Solomon With Establishment Knives Out for Bernie, Iowa Fiasco Just a Taste of What's Coming The glaring subtext of what's now occurring is the frantic effort to find some candidate who can prevent Sanders from becoming the party's nominee at the national convention in July. Progressives must fight back—not succumb to fatalism. Read more |
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Richard Eskow Of Course Bloomberg's an Oligarch—and He's Coming For Your Social Security I'm not a dictionary, but I know what words mean. And I'm not a clock, but I know what time it is. Read more |
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Isaiah J. Poole Out of the ClickHole, a Light on Alternative Media Ownership Models It marks a new entry into the ranks of employee-owned firms and puts a spotlight on a problem facing larger and more serious-minded media enterprises that employee ownership might help solve. Read more |
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Jennifer Epps-Addison, Rahna Epting, George Goehl, Leah Greenberg, et al. The Time Is NOW For The PRO Act To Protect Workers Working people have never stopped fighting for their rights. Now it’s time for Congress to join their fight. Read more |