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Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies Biden’s Reckless Syria Bombing Is Not the Diplomacy He Promised Biden must recognize that the best way to protect U.S. personnel in Syria, Iraq, and elsewhere in the region is to take them out of the Middle East. Read more |
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Phyllis Bennis, Khury Petersen-Smith Dangerous US Bombing of Syria Worsens Regional Instability and Threatens Iran Nuclear Deal Regardless of who is giving orders to US bombers, we know that deploying US troops, drones, and warplanes across the region does not provide safety or security for anyone. Read more |
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Lee Saunders, Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II Austerity as Fake News: It Is Time to Bury Myth That a Race to the Bottom Will Get Us to the Top To honor Black history, now is the moment to remind people about the power of government action, especially but not exclusively during moments of crisis. Read more |
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José Antonio Ocampo, Joseph Stiglitz 'Global Minimum Tax on Multinationals': An Open Letter to Joe Biden on International Corporate Taxation For too long, international institutions have failed to address one of the most toxic aspects of globalization: tax avoidance and evasion by multinational corporations. Read more |
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Kerry Cullinan The Most Fundamental Stumbling Block To Vaccine Access Is That Private Pharmaceutical Companies Are in Control and Rich Countries Are Enabling Them Charitable donations from rich countries and individuals are welcome—but they won’t ensure fair vaccine distribution unless the drug-patenting system is reformed, too. Read more |
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Astra Taylor Biden Absolutely Has the Power To Unilaterally Cancel All Federal Student Debt. He Just Refuses To Do It. Biden owes this country debt relief not only because he campaigned on it, but because he helped cause the problem. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Windmills: The New Scapegoat The real scapegoat here is the Green New Deal, proposed legislation—not actual law—that begins re-envisioning who we are as a nation and what our relationship is to the future. Read more |
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Kevin Martin Trillions of Our Tax Dollars for New Nuclear Missiles? Let’s Stop the Omnicider! It’s hard to imagine a more colossal waste of money, energy and human ingenuity, especially with the pandemic and climate chaos bearing down on us. Read more |
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Julie Hollar There Is Nothing "Moderate" About Opposing the Very Popular $15 Minimum Wage In corporate media, it seems, the minority view that opposes a living wage can also be the "moderate" one—so long as it’s "pragmatically" courting business interests. Read more |
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Branko Marcetic The Right Is Using the Capitol Riot as an Excuse to Target Activists on the Left Since January 6, Republicans across the country have introduced a slew of anti-protest bills. Read more |
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Lorah Steichen The United States Is the Biggest Carbon Polluter in History—Now Is the Time for Bold Action The U.S. is officially back in the Paris Climate Agreement. But Biden must do much, much more than restore the status quo under Obama. Read more |
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Mitchell Zimmerman Trumpedemic: The Coronavirus Death Toll Reached 500,000 Because Trump Sabotaged the Covid Response Donald Trump placed his perceived political interests over stopping a pandemic. Read more |
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Michael T. Klare We Can't Afford Another Cold War on This Scalding Planet Biden, climate change, and China. Read more |
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Ben Jealous Congress Must Fight for a Better Democracy and Pass the For the People Act Republicans and Democratic voters agree: We need to make sure leaders actually represent "we the people." Read more |
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Norman Solomon GOP Hypocrisy Is No Reason to Support Neera Tanden Progressive activists have ample cause to be alarmed at the prospect of Tanden becoming OMB director—one of the most powerful and consequential positions in the entire Executive Branch. Read more |
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Andrew McCormick Lead With Facts, Not Punditry: Journalists and the Looming Superstorm of Climate Disinformation Journalists must shirk the habit of framing everything as a two-sided debate. Read more |
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Richard Heinberg Capitalism, the Doomsday Machine (or, How to Repurpose Growth Capital) A healthy society recognizes that unrestrained growth is suicidal. Read more |
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Steve Rendall Rush Limbaugh Was Vital to the Conservative Movement—and Paved the Road for Trump Limbaugh's show taught disparate parts of the right that they should be one big happy family. Read more |
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Elsie Roderiques What Is a Migrant Worth? Communicating the value of people and nature in financial terms comes at a cost. Read more |
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Arindrajit Dube New Report Estimating $15 Minimum Wage Will Cost 1.4 Million Jobs Is Wrong A much-cited Congressional Budget Office estimate doesn’t reflect the best economic evidence. Read more |
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Timothy A. Wise Mexico's Decision to Ban Glyphosate Has Rocked the Agribusiness World GM corn presidential decree comes despite intense pressure from industry, U.S. authorities. Read more |
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Jonathan Cook By Putting Big Pharma's Patents Before Patients, Doctors Will Further Erode Trust in Experts Doctors have largely been trained into complicity with a medical money machine. Read more |
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Monique Morrissey Congress Should Go Big to Improve the US Postal Service Policymakers should focus on rebuilding the Postal Service after the Trump years. Read more |
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Ashik Siddique The Answer to the Climate Crisis Is Not More US Militarism Climate change poses an existential threat. That doesn’t mean we should further empower an already bloated Pentagon. Read more |
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Ari Paul Guardian's Firing of Nathan Robinson Over Israel Joke Highlights Paper's Rightward Drift "What this shows is that even at the Guardian, the editors want to very tightly police what writers say on Israel/Palestine." Read more |
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Julia Travers Sunshine for All: Closing the Solar Energy Gap Proven strategies can make solar power available to lower income people. Read more |
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Clara Liang Indigenous Water Protectors Fight to Stop Construction of the "Pandemic Pipeline" Biden halted Keystone XL, but Enbridge’s Line 3 would pipe the same tar sands oil into the U.S. and across Anishinaabe treaty lands. Read more |
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Jim Hightower What the Texas Deep Freeze Revealed About Corporate-Run Government Not only must our corporate-controlled electric grid be replaced; so must our corporate-controlled ag policy—and our corporate-controlled elected officials. Read more |
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Lisa Graves, Evan Vorpahl Ahead of Hearing, Calls Grow for Postmaster General DeJoy's Removal Despite the destructive sabotage by the USPS Board of Governors and Louis DeJoy hope for meaningful reforms still exists. Read more |
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Laura Flanders In Indian Country, It’s Not the Weather, It’s the Racism That’s Leaving Thousands in the Dark How do we explain the fact that of the 55,000 homes in the Navajo Nation, about 15,000 don’t have electricity—now, or at any time? Read more |
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Rajan Menon How This Country Fails Its Most Vulnerable A field guide to our threadbare social safety net. Read more |
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Joseph Stiglitz Congress Must Pass Biden's Relief Package or Risk an Anemic and Devastatingly Incomplete Recovery To do anything less than what Biden has proposed would be irresponsible and reckless. Read more |
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Sarah Rawlins Scrap the Cap! Today Is the Day Millionaires and Billionaires Stop Paying Into Social Security Wage cap allows millionaires to stop contributing to Social Security on February 23, 2021. Read more |
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Michael Windsor As Cage-Free Momentum Soars, Companies Like Wendy's Lag Far Behind Competitors It's clear that consumer outreach can motivate these companies to do the right thing, we just need more of it right now. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies What Planet Is NATO Living On? NATO's failure to seriously examine its own role in what it euphemistically calls "uncertain times" should therefore be more alarming to Americans and Europeans than its one-sided criticisms of Russia and China, whose contributions to the uncertainty of our times pale by comparison. Read more |
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Basav Sen Law Enforcement's Dangerous Double Standards on Protest We're getting an up-close look at how law enforcement treats left and right protests differently. But the solution is protecting protest, not supercharging law enforcement. Read more |
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Robert Reich The GOP Intends to Entrench Its Shrinking Minority Over the Majority Here's their playbook—and what the rest of us can do to stop them. Read more |
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Sarah Anderson Danny Glover Explains Why He's in Alabama With Amazon Workers "I agree with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's view that the best anti-poverty program is a union," says Hollywood actor and veteran progressive activist. Read more |
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Chuck Collins Nomadland: The Lifetime Impacts of Gender-Bias in Wages Watch the movie. Then read the book. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson Our Fundamental Right to Vote Is Under Attack In state after state, Republicans want to suppress voting because they know they are a minority party. Read more |
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Jordan Libowitz, Caitlin Moniz Trump Reported Making More Than $1.6 Billion While President When Trump failed to separate himself from his businesses—and in fact used the presidency to increase his business earnings—he made it clear that his top priority was his personal profits. Read more |
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Lewis M. Steel Reflections on Battling White Supremacy I was a civil rights lawyer in the 1960s. As I watched GOP senators shrug off a racist coup attempt, I thought: We’ve seen this before. Read more |
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James D. Zirin Are Judges Just Politicians in Robes? Having seen that appointed judges refuse to toe the party line at the federal level, the GOP has decided to employ partisan gerrymandering to change the way judges are elected at the state level. Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Profiles of "Courage" During the Trump Impeachment Trial Sycophantic antics of Republican members who opposed Trump's impeachment. Read more |
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Timothy Karr Cutting Deals with Big Tech Won't Save Journalism We need strong public-media laws that prioritize a free press, civic-minded news production and the interests of the communities news outlets are supposed to serve. Read more |
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Wenonah Hauter Deb Haaland Attacked by Fossil Fuel Industry If Haaland follows through on the actions the oil and gas industry and their allies in Congress are worried about, she will be the most effective Interior Secretary in recent memory. Read more |
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Paul Buchheit 2021 Update: Half of America In or Near Poverty We need Guaranteed Jobs. President Biden's proposed Civilian Climate Corps is a positive step in this direction. Read more |
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Paul J. Ramsey Politicizing Schools and Science, Again Remote learning surely is saving some lives—of students' elderly family members and vulnerable teachers—which, in a pandemic, should take priority over political—even economic—concerns. Read more |
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Marion Brady Salvaging Public Schooling Using scores on tests of recalled secondhand information to shape education policy doesn’t just invite societal suicide, it assures it. Read more |
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Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy Young Madagascar Farmers Find New Ways to Help Lemurs, Rainforests—and Themselves "The local community living near these protected areas can be the source of the lemurs' conservation problems but is also the solution to those same problems." Read more |
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Ann Garrison Kizito Mihigo and the Struggle for Truth and Reconciliation in Rwanda Rwandan musician, genocide survivor, and peace activist Kizito Mihigo was remembered in his homeland and beyond on the first anniversary of his death. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Why Didn't Speaker Pelosi Want Witnesses? As Republican strategist Kevin Philips noted years ago, the Republicans go for the jugular while the Democrats go for the capillaries. Read more |
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Robert Freeman Texas Freeze Illustrates a Failed Economic System We need to begin changing our fundamental ethic, from "I'm getting mine. Screw you," to "We're all in this together." Because we are. Read more |
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Jeremy Lent Transforming to an Ecological Civilization: The Alternative Is Unthinkable A society based on natural ecology might seem like a far-off utopia—yet communities everywhere are already creating it. We need to forge a new era for humanity—one that is defined, at its deepest level, by a transformation in the way we make sense of the world, and a concomitant revolution in our... Read more |
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Tyler Lobdell Smithfield Claims To Be 'Sustainable' While Remaining One of the Biggest Industrial Polluters in the US Smithfield is pushing a massive greenwashing campaign to dupe consumers into thinking its products are environmentally friendly. Read more |
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Shannon M. Smith How the National Guard Became the Go-to Military Force for Riots and Civil Disturbances The modern National Guard evolved from Colonial-era militias. Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati American Social and Medical Disorder: The 'Pre-Existing Condition' That Doomed the U.S. Covid Response? The answer from a blue-ribbon medical commission on the Trump years: decades of rising inequality. Read more |
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Abdi Nor Iftin President Biden Needs to Step Up Efforts to Stop the War in Yemen by Ending All Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia Mothers are helplessly lowering their toddlers to graves next to the remnants of American-made bombs used by Saudi Arabian forces. Read more |
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Debra Gore-Mann Toward a Shared Liberation: Our Interconnected Struggles Are Built on Asian and Black Solidarity We must train our eyes on the true enemy: white supremacy in all its forms. Read more |
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Miles Mogulescu Stop Manchin and Sinema From Imitating Jim Crow Dixiecrats and Letting the Filibuster Block Civil Rights and Voting Rights Sinema's and Manchin's decisions may well determine whether America remains a democracy or whether it's indefinitely distorted by minority rule. Read more |
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Canadian Foreign Policy Institute An Open Letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Regarding Haiti It’s time for the Canadian government to stop propping up a repressive and corrupt dictatorship in Haiti. Read more |
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Carolyn Clendenin Gov. Abbott: Millions of People in My State Without Power? Damn Liberal Climate Agenda! It’s far from surprising that Texas leaders are using a crisis to do some PR against real action on climate change. It’s strategy #1 in the GOP playbook for dealing with the existential crisis facing our nation. Read more |
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Writers and Scholars Opposing Censorship On the Sacking of Nathan J. Robinson: An Open Letter to Guardian US Editor John Mulholland Regardless of one's opinions on the Middle East, everyone should be distressed by The Guardian' s act of blatant censorship. Read more |
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Akilah Sanders-Reed Stopping Line 3 Is a Matter of Intergenerational Justice Take five minutes today to do three things to #StopLine3. Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt The American Century Ends Early How the USS Enterprise was transformed into the USS Roach. Read more |
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John Feffer What About Eliminating the Senate Altogether? The U.S. Senate is a global and national problem. Read more |
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Vandana Shiva Reclaiming Our Common Home: Expand the Commons to Include Everything We Need Ecological civilization is based on the consciousness that we are part of the Earth, not her masters, conquerors, or owners. Read more |
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Cynthia Kaufman A Just Transition to a Fair and Sustainable Society or Healthy Green Growth? A review of Tomorrow's Economy: A Guide to Creating Healthy Green Growth Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Bending the Moral Arc of the Universe—Toward Peace, Sanity, and Survival—No Matter the Obstacles Uncertainty in a vulnerable world. Read more |
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Derrick Z. Jackson America's Response to Covid-19 Should Long Perforate Our Pomposity About Being the Greatest Nation on Earth 500,000 US Covid-19 deaths and counting: a shameful public health failure. Read more |
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Mitchell Zimmerman GOP Senators Said Trump Was Culpable, but a "Private Citizen" Now. Fine—Indict Him Like One. Impunity is a disease that rots the rule of law. Read more |
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John W. Roulac Making America's Rivers Blue Again: Connecting the Dots Between Regenerative Agriculture and Healthy Waterways Building a regenerative food system where bees buzz, dragonflies hover, and fish and frogs thrive will begin when we change hearts and minds. Fake meats and GMO soy are not the answer. Read more |
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James K. Galbraith CBO Not Competent to Assess Economics of Minimum Wage in "Unreliable" New Report CBO should not have published this report, and no one should rely on it. Read more |
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Adam Gaffney, David Himmelstein Universal Healthcare for Less! CBO Scores Medicare for All The bottom line of the CBO analysis—that universal coverage can be affordably achieved even as benefits are expanded and cost sharing all but eliminated. Read more |
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Randy Baker Failure to Prosecute Trump's Serial Assaults on the Republic Would Be Indefensible Failure to prosecute Trump will embolden aspiring autocrats. Read more |
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Jonathan Cook Why Politicians and Doctors Keep Ignoring the Medical Research on Vitamin D and Covid Most experts—scientists and doctors—have not taken Vitamin D seriously, despite the growing evidence, because it is made in the mystical touch of sun on skin rather than by white-coated technicians in a laboratory. Read more |
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Rebecca Long We Must Give Power to the People Most Affected by Climate Change, While Also Disrupting the Capitalist System In her new book, Shalanda Baker, President Biden’s choice for Deputy Director of Energy Justice, emphasizes the need for an urgent and equitable response. Read more |
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Juan Cole From Covid To Mass Power Outages, the Texas Republican Party Has Created a Failed State The Republican Party does not believe in government. They believe in coddling the very rich. Read more |
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Michael Winship The Truth on Trial at Trump’s Second Impeachment Big stories reveal the good, the bad and the ugly of humankind—and that includes those who report and comment on the news. Read more |
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Eric Hansen A Message to Joe Biden: Stop Line 3 Isn't it time to stop creating dangerous crude oil infrastructure? Read more |
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Jesse Jackson 43 Republican Senators Chose To Stand With the Seditionists Rather Than Defend the Republic What we saw Saturday was a profile in cowardice. Had there been a secret ballot, the Senate vote to convict Donald Trump likely would have been overwhelming. Read more |
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Robert Reich The GOP Is a Dangerous Cult That Democrats Should Not Negotiate With We either have a future based on lies, violence, and authoritarianism—or on unyielding truth, unshakeable civility, and democracy. Read more |
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Alex Kotch Parler Is Now in the Hands of a Right-Wing Extremist Seeking a Radical Rewrite of the Constitution Mark Meckler has a long history of creating organizations to mobilize far-right activists. Read more |
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Rachel Gore Freed Reversing Myanmar's Coup Isn't Enough. Here’s How to Build a Better Burma Myanmar's military should be held accountable for the coup, but the West needs to make sure they are punished for their abuses against the country's minorities as well. Read more |
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Adnan Karim Recent Events Reveal Urgent Need for Civics Education in the US If citizens do not have the basic knowledge to defend our democracy, they will be drawn to the delusional and irresponsible declarations and promises of immoral leaders who build their base by spinning lies. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Cuomo and Newsom Symbolize the Rot of Corporate Democrats—and the Dire Need for Progressive Populism More than ever, many entrenched Democrats are worried about primary challenges from the left. Such fears are all to the good. Read more |
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Rev Dr Liz Theoharis We Must Put Human Life Before Corporate Profits Whose rights matter in pandemic America? Not those of poor Americans, that's for sure. Read more |
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Juan Cole Unemployment Is 3 Times Higher Than They Are Telling Us—We Need Stimulus Now If we are to do anything about these human tragedies the first task is to not hide behind concepts and narratives that understate the problem. Read more |
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Belén Fernández The Case Against Jared Kushner's Nobel Nomination Former US presidential son-in-law is nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize over his role in Arab-Israeli normalisation. Read more |
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Ariel Dorfman "Libertad y Justicia Para Todos": How Spanish Can Help Us Survive Viral Times A journey into the heart of a language we need now more than ever. Read more |
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Patrik Paulov The Gulf War 30 Years Ago: Memories From a Shelter in Baghdad On February 13, 1991, a horrific massacre took place in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq. The U.S. coalition bombed a shelter and killed more than 400 people. Read more |
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Ken Jacobs A $15 Minimum Wage Would Be Life-Changing for Workers and Save the US Billions per Year Beyond the working families who will get a raise, every single American taxpayer has a stake in raising the minimum wage. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies Is Biden Committing Diplomatic Suicide Over the Iran Nuclear Agreement? American neocons and hawks, including those inside his own administration, appear to be flexing their muscles to kill Biden’s commitment to diplomacy at birth, and his own hawkish foreign policy views make him dangerously susceptible to their arguments. Read more |
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Stephen Cockburn Big Pharma Must Share Their Vaccine Knowledge and Technology With the World—Now To stop the global pandemic, rich countries need to stop hoarding vaccines. Read more |
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Zoe Weil What's Really Wrong With—and How to Fix—Our Broken Education System Change the goal of schooling and watch the good unfold. Read more |
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Robert Reich Out of the Ashes of Trump, Will the US Finally Bury Reaganism? Ronald Reagan convinced the nation that big government was the problem. It was rubbish. Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac Now Is the Time to Really Prosecute the Case Against Trump—By Pivoting to Real Democratic Reform Any approach to moving forward must reckon with the fact that one of this country's two major parties is no longer committed to multiracial democracy. Read more |
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Naureen Shah This Is Biden's Chance to End ICE's Abuses—For Good The systemic abuses of ICE make communities less safe—especially when they act in tandem with law enforcement through programs like 287(g), ICE detainers, and Secure Communities. Read more |
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Ralph Nader, Bruce Fein Democrats' Shameful Cave Trials without witnesses are not genuine trials. Read more |
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Shaan Sachdev Trump's Global Grim Reaper, Mike Pompeo The real reasons he was a shameful Secretary of State, and how Antony Blinken can do better. Read more |