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Don Wiener, Mary Bottari ALEC’s Deadly Asbestos Agenda Benefits Koch Industries, Nationwide The ALEC bill offered by DeGroot would mean that many victims would not live to see their day in court. Read more |
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Neve Gordon, Nicola Perugini The Fallacy of Israel's Human Shields Claims in Gaza Desperately trying to justify the killing of unarmed protesters, Israel once again uses its 'human shields' mantra. Read more |
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Jacob J. Hutt A TV Mega-Merger That’s Bad for the First Amendment This unprecedented concentration of control, which contradicts the FCC’s own policies about how wide a broadcasting company’s reach can be, would stifle the diversity of views in the press that’s essential for a healthy democracy. Read more |
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Thomas Wolf, Wendy Weiser The Supreme Court Sidestepped Partisan Gerrymandering. Voters Need a Decision Before 2021 The Supreme Court once again passed up a historic opportunity to finally put some limits on partisan gerrymandering. In a pair of cases from Wisconsin and Maryland, the court declined to take on the big question: When does gerrymandering, the drawing of districts to benefit the political party in... Read more |
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Lornet Turnbull Scholastic Under Fire for Children’s Book Portrayal of Trump Parents and teachers aren’t angry over what the new book says about the president, but rather what it leaves out. Read more |
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Tim Wilkins Children Say NO! to Family Separations by ICE “Because I am out here, fighting for them to have the right to be with their families, to be happy.” Read more |
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Jeff Biggers Trump's Immigration Debacle Repeats History's Mistakes An insult to George Washington and Thomas Paine. Read more |
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Michael T. Klare Is War With China on the Horizon? The Pentagon’s provocative encirclement of China. Read more |
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Pierre Tristam Cruel and Usual Trump The zero-tolerance policy at the border doesn’t enslave children but it achieves the same ends: it dehumanizes parents and children and treats both as surplus merchandise warehoused in prisons, without a say, without rights. Read more |
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Juan Cole It’s All About the Midterms: Trump Took Those Children Hostage to Stoke His Base Ripping infants out of the arms of their mothers excites Trump’s base. Read more |
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Peter Dreier One Hundred Years Ago, Eugene Debs Gave An Anti-War Speech That Landed Him in Prison "But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.” Read more |
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Russell Mokhiber Florida Trial Lawyer Offers $100,000 Reward for Evidence That Corporations Are Behind Frivolous Lawsuits Against Corporations "We know that big corporate interests have successfully attacked the credibility of our civil justice system by highlighting frivolous lawsuits. They do it so they can eliminate truly righteous lawsuits." Read more |
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Briahna Gray Fetishizing "Identity Politics" Could Cost Democrats in 2020 It’s inevitable that every election between now and 2020 will be read like tea leaves, full of potential insights into how to unseat Trump. But that analysis must be rooted in evidence — what policies candidates actually support and how they frame them — rather than forcing pre-existing ideological... Read more |
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John Atcheson We Get It — Trump Is Awful Now what? Read more |
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Paul Buchheit The "Jobs for Everyone" Fantasy The super-capitalists want us to believe that they know what they're talking about. Read more |
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Saurav Sarkar Why We Fight About Pride Parades Can the queer community support members who suffer state violence or corporate exploitation? That's what the pride debates come down to. Read more |
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Michael Garcia Bochenek ‘Whatever’ – What Happens to Kids Taken From Families at US Border CBP has no childcare facilities in detention centers. Read more |
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Deborah Gross, Ellen Olshansky Toxic Effects of Stress on Children Separated From Parents This kind of trauma overwhelms the body. It causes feelings of terror and helplessness. Read more |
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Beverly Gologorsky What Does Poverty Feel Like? The poor in America. Read more |
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Robert Reich To the Press, After 18 Months of Trump Focus on what he’s really doing. Read more |
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Kate Davidson I've Worked for Tips for Most of My Life. It's Time to Pay Us the Minimum Wage D.C.'s ballot measure Initiative 77 would gradually raise the current base wage for tipped workers from $3.33 an hour Read more |
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Roy Eidelson The 1% Could Use Their Influence to Challenge Racism and Bigotry. Too Often, They Don't When the 1% encourage prejudice and discrimination, they're prioritizing the preservation of their tremendous material advantages over the creation of a more equal and more decent society Read more |
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Steven Singer This Father's Day, Let's Be Worthy of Our Children A country that doesn't respect the rights of parents—even if those parents aren't documented U.S. citizens—has no right to pretend it values fatherhood or motherhood Read more |
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Leonard Pitts Jr. Would God Really Snatch a Suckling Baby From Its Mother's Breast? Trump's evil border policy is a look-the-other-way, not-my-fault species of moral putrefaction brought to you by the most ostentatiously Christian political party in one of the most noisily Christian nations on Earth Read more |
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Doug Rawlings Does the Burns/Novick Vietnam Documentary Deserve an Emmy? The war was never "begun in good faith." It was never just a "mistake." It was, from the beginning and throughout, a morally depraved undertaking. Read more |
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Laura Flanders We Should Be Excited About the Bottom-Up Wins in Virginia's Primaries Progressive candidates like Leslie Cockburn and Anthony Flaccavento fared well in the state's races Read more |
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Adam Parsons We Need to Reclaim the UN's Radical Vision of Global Economic Justice That thousands of people die daily from poverty-related causes, while the number of chronically undernourished people increases, is an affront to the very idea that everyone has the right to an adequate standard of living Read more |
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Jim Pugh Republicans' Food Stamp Work Requirement Is a Scheme to Punish Hungry Americans We should aim to remove barriers to access, not take away food assistance from those who can't find work Read more |
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Juan Cole Americans Will Only "Sit Up" for Trump When He's Handcuffed and Frog-Marched Out of the White House Support for Trumpism falls around 9.5 percent if we ask voters about areas of agreement with him Read more |
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John Atcheson If the Economy Is So Good, Why Are People So Unhappy? Both political parties endorse policies centered on empowering industrialists and the financial community at the expense of workers Read more |
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Emile Nakhleh The Middle East Is Worse Off in Trump's Wake Trump's proclivity for strongmen and benign attitude toward human rights violations globally have empowered these regimes to torture their peoples and silence their voices Read more |
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Gregory Shupak Pundits Worry Threat of Nuclear War Is Being Reduced For the punditry, the goal of US/North Korea talks isn’t lasting peace on the Korean peninsula, it’s total North Korean submission to US commands. Read more |
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Shervin Malekzadeh Boys Go to Baghdad, Real Men Go to Tehran It may be that the next greatest U.S. failure will be to allow the sort of people who pulled the country into folly in 2003 to come back in 2018 to do the same elsewhere. Read more |
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy The Curious Campaign Role of Donald Trump’s Foundation In an extensive complaint and supporting documents, New York’s Attorney General says Trump’s foundation made nearly $3 million in illegal contributions to his campaign. Trump calls the suit “ridiculous” and says he won’t settle. Read more |
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Rasha Abdul Rahim Why Project Maven Is the Litmus Test For Google’s New Principles As AI technology advances, the question of who will be held accountable for associated human rights abuses is becoming increasingly urgent. Read more |
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Sarah Eckel-Dalrymple, Brienne Kordis From Wall Street to the Vatican; The Pope’s Chat With Larry Fink Considering the countless conflicts that have raged across the world and the continued threat of climate change, it’s well past time to hold institutions accountable for profiting on the backs of global destruction. Read more |
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Renee Parsons Public Barred From Markup of Pentagon Spending Bill in Senate Committee Every iota of debate and vote taken were conducted in secret. Read more |
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John M. Repp UN Report Says US is a “Shithole Country” Instead of corporate media basically ignoring the UN report, there should be screaming headlines. Read more |
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Jennifer Turner Alice Marie Johnson Talks About Her Life Sentence, Getting Clemency, and Her Newfound Freedom "Now that my case has magnified this problem again we need to be even more active in this fight. All of us." Read more |
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George Goehl Why I’m Going to the Border for Father’s Day I hope dads across the country can, for just a minute on this Father’s Day, contemplate the risks that migrant fathers take to make their children safe. Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Trump Helps the Cause of Peace in the Koreas, but What About Elsewhere? Trump’s foreign policy involves giving free rein to the military establishment in a way that even Obama did not, which could result in perpetual war everywhere but in the Koreas. Read more |
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Robert Reich The Military Industrial Drain It’s time to rein in Pentagon spending and this endless war machine, and demand investment in America. Read more |
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Ralph Nader The Constitution and the Lawmen are Coming for Trump—He Laughs! A different kind of law is closing in on the cheating Donald. Read more |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan Trump's North Korea Summit Reveals Democratic Party Fault Lines Who wouldn’t cheer avoiding nuclear war? Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt A Twenty-First-Century History of Greed American wars and self-decline. Read more |
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Josh Hoxie Just How Rich are the Ultra Rich? Some rich people fly first class to fancy hotels. Others fly private jets to private islands. Read more |
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John Feffer Call It ‘Unileaderism’: Trump’s Foreign Policy of One From the G-7 dustup to the flashy photo shoot with Kim Jong-Un, U.S. foreign policy is now determined solely by the president's pettiest personal preferences. Read more |
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Bill Blum Supremes Give Stamp of Approval to Voter Suppression The case could embolden other states to take steps to disenfranchise minorities, homeless, low-income, and people with disabilities—i.e., those who tend to vote Democratic. Read more |
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John O'Day Why Do US Media Only Worry About One Authoritarian’s Nukes? Trump, Kim and American exceptionalism. Read more |
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Kevin Martin Everybody, Especially Congressional Democrats, Take a Deep Breath and Follow the President's Lead (President Moon's, Not Trump's) South Korea’s Moon Jae-in has been brilliant in pursuing peace and diplomacy with both Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in just over a year in office. Read more |
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Jill Richardson Scott Pruitt's Corruption Is Bad, But His Planetary Sabotage Is Worse Scott Pruitt's abuse of our environment is far more dangerous than his abuse of taxpayer money. Read more |
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Mona Younis Other Countries Expect More of Their Leaders. So Should We. We're the wealthiest country on earth, but over 40 percent of us live in or near poverty. Read more |
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Eileen McCabe Our Throw-Away Society We are at a crossroads not just for the health of our planet, but also for the health of our society. Read more |
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Trita Parsi Iran Is Not North Korea: Trump's Regional Allies Prefer Civil War to Peace Unlike with Pyongyang, America’s allies in the region are not interested in a diplomatic solution to the Iran issue. Read more |
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Glenn Greenwald The Democratic Party’s 2018 View of Identity Politics Is Confusing, and Thus Appears Cynical and Opportunistic Given its rhetoric, how does the Democratic Party justify supporting white, male machine politicians over credible female challengers, LGBT people, and people of color? Read more |
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Catalina Adorno What Immigrants Can Learn From the Teachers Strikes Without immigrant labor, the economy would collapse. Read more |
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Ramzy Baroud Beating the US ‘Veto’: Palestinians Need Urgent Protection From Israel Israel should not have free reign to abuse Palestinians at will, and the international community should not stand by and watch the bloody spectacle as it continues to unfold. Read more |
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Veronica Isabel Dahlberg ICE’s Military-Style Raid Leaves Immigrant Communities Terrorized Regardless of citizenship status, for workers — including teenagers, mothers, fathers, and those with medical issues — to be treated like enemy insurgents is beyond disturbing. Read more |
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Kevin Gosztola Backlash to Trump-Kim Summit Is Motivated By Commitment to Projecting American Superpower What leverage does the U.S. have to force Jong Un to do something meaningful about human rights if negotiations are not to move forward without action? Read more |
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Olivia Riggio Spiked Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Cartoonist Speaks Out "As I’ve said to some people, I’ll be fine, but the city won’t be fine if we lose this paper, if this paper continues down this road." Read more |
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Andy Rowell Iconic African Baobab Trees Dying Due to “Changing Climate” There seems no news that will shake us out of our misguided malaise. Read more |
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Cecile Richards Conservatives Are Fighting to Roll Back Abortion Rights. And They're Winning Limiting access to abortion does not eliminate the need for abortion; it only makes abortion illegal and unsafe. Read more |
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Jonathan Cook How the Corporate Media Enslave Us to a World of Illusions Our planet and our children's futures depend on us liberating ourselves, seeing the ghosts in the machine for what they truly are. Read more |
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Lindsay Koshgarian Diplomacy Is Better Than War in North Korea If you’re against war, this is a good development. Read more |
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Vaccines and the Liberal Mind Instead of demanding blue-ribbon safety science and encouraging honest, open and responsible debate on the science, too many online outlets are silencing critics and shutting down discussion on this key public health and civil rights issue Read more |
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Reese Erlich Summit With North Korea: We've Been Here Before "The government of North Korea is tyrannical...but should we be in a state of war with all tyrants?" Read more |
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Alycee Lane A Just Dystopia: Climate Activism Must Include Planning for the Worst-Case Scenario No matter how hard we organize, no matter how many “fossil fuel-free” resolutions we pass, no matter how often we march, we might still end up rushing inexorably toward climate change catastrophe. Read more |
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Jenny Town Trump Kim Summit: Rhetoric Versus Reality Watching reactions to the Singapore summit as it unfolded became the ultimate foreign policy Rorschach test - everyone came away with a different picture of what happened. Read more |
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Belén Fernández Trump's Astronomically Misguided 'Space Force' Plans to create a US 'space force' will take global militarisation to another level. Read more |
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Yanis Varoufakis If Trump Wants to Blow Up the World Order, Who Will Stop Him? As horrified as we may be at Trump’s uncouth antics, it is important to understand the tectonic shifts underpinning them. Read more |
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Fadi Abu Shammalah, Jen Marlowe The Great Return March and the Women of Gaza Why Palestine’s feminists are fighting on two fronts. Read more |
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Juan Cole If Obama Had Met with Kim Jong Un, the Republican Party Would Have Had a Cow One of the concerning developments on the internet is that hypocrisy, which was probably the ultimate Cool Meme in the zeroes of this century, no longer rules. Read more |
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Adam Scott What Canada’s Pipeline Purchase Means for Line 3 and KXL When all of these projects reach the end of the line, it’s the taxpayer that will pay to clean it all up. Read more |
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Gareth Porter How Corporate Media Got the Trump-Kim Summit All Wrong They have assumed that North Korea cannot live without nuclear weapons—without making any effort to understand North Korea’s strategy in regard to nuclear weapons. Read more |
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Chris Hedges Scapegoating Iran "Americans say they want the Middle East to be free from violent extremism, but this will only happen when the Middle East is free from occupation and foreign intervention." Read more |
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Jared Bernstein How Trend-Riding Trump Is Taking Credit for the Economy He Inherited Though it is almost always undeserved, presidents take credit for good economies and try to blame others for bad ones. Read more |
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Arnold R. Isaacs Giving a Pass to Anti-Muslim Bigotry Islamophobia enters the government, is incorporated into the law, and becomes increasingly acceptable in America. Read more |
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Ira Helfand A Failed Trump-Kim Summit Would Be a Catastrophe We cannot know if such negotiations will be successful. But we do know what will happen if they fail and nuclear weapons are used Read more |
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Richard Eskow “Establishment Wins” Are Bad for Democrats – and the Country Despite millions being spent to defeat the progressive movement, the left is experiencing an extraordinary ascendance. Read more |
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Pierre Tristam Pious Homophobes Win One Until the dissenting opinions win the day, the dignity of millions will be sacrificed at the hetero-altar of religious correctness. Read more |
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Juan Cole After What Trump Did to Iran and Canada, Why Should N Korea Trust Talks With Him? Even if the talks go nowhere, Pyongyang will have seen a permanent rise in its world standing. Read more |
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Kathy Kelly A Mile in Their Shoes: In Praise of Afghans Walking for Peace Can the a recently declared cease-fire lead to negotiations and an end to the war? Read more |
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Robert Reich The Constitutional Crisis Is Now For a year and a half the president of the United States has been carrying out a systemic attack on the institutions of our democracy. Read more |
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Timothy Karr Net Neutrality Can Still Be Saved You can be sure that Trump's FCC chairman Ajit Pai and his cronies in the phone and cable lobby will declare victory on Monday, but the expiration of the 2015 rules will be only a temporary hiccup. The fight is far from over in Congress, in the courts and across the country. Read more |
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John Atcheson Republicans Lost Their Way Long Before Trump (But So Did the Democrats) When the entire democratic system is off the rails, this is what you get Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati Wage Theft: To Fight the Crime, Attack the Motive 'Respectable' corporate giants in the United States today are stealing their employees blind. We need to better understand how—and why. Read more |
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James North, Philip Weiss New York Times Teams Up With Israel to Smear Slain Medic Razzan al-Najjar as 'Complex,' Not Innocent "Everyone knows what this woman was doing: protesting and saving lives." Read more |
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Josh Bell How the Justice Department's Seizure of a Reporter's Email Records Subverts the Free Press The Trump administration's actions in this case increase the danger of a real chilling effect on both reporters doing their jobs and sources who will be less likely to talk. Read more |
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Sam Husseini Anthony Bourdain: The Last Gasp of CNN's Original Vision There's a hunger among regular people in the U.S. for the unvarnished realities of the rest of the world, and major media are serving up precious little to feed it. Read more |
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Gina Benevento Who Owns America's Water? Not you. Not if you're an average American citizen. Read more |
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James Risen Donald Trump's Surveillance of New York Times Reporter Is a True Declaration of War Against the Press Unlike his predecessor, Barack Obama, Trump was not known to have spied on journalists or tried to jail them—as Obama did with me—for refusing to reveal their sources. Until now. Read more |
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Juan Cole Anthony Bourdain: The Only Mensch on Gaza In the face of dehumanization of the Palestinians, Bourdain stood as an all too rare exception. Read more |
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Adam Johnson Media Treat Trump Administration's Partisan Fear-Mongering as Objective 'Government' Report Though the "insolvency" of entitlement programs is not a universally agreed-upon fact, the eminent fall of the fiscal sky is not put up for debate. Corporate media ought to subject this claim to skeptical scrutiny. Read more |
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Krissy Kasserman Big Ag's False Solution Ag-gag laws are really just a ploy to protect profits Read more |
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Harry Blain Wars Come and Go in Gaza, But Economic Violence Is Every Day Don't wait for the next massacre to start calling out the more insidious violence Palestinians suffer every day Read more |
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Richard Eskow For Captured Regulators, Repealing the Volcker Rule Is Child's Play Americans have very little protection from the next disaster—and regulators are about to make the next disaster even more likely. Read more |
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Nikita Naik Following the Money to Nowhere New York diverts pollution trading funds to “highly questionable” programs. Read more |
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Jonathan Hafetz The Trump Administration Wants to Dump a Detained American Into One of the Most Dangerous Places on Earth This isn’t a safe release, it’s a death sentence, and we will soon be challenging it in court. Read more |
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Dean Baker Killing the Myth of the Gig Economy It seems the gig economy means much more to pundits than to workers. Read more |
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Trevor Timm Trump's Justice Dept Escalates Its Disturbing Crackdown on Leaks by Seizing New York Times Reporter's Phone and Email Records "That should be a grave concern to anyone who cares about an informed citizenry.” Read more |