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Christopher Brauchli Ted Cruzifictions Being in the United States Senate does not imbue a person with wisdom, common sense, or integrity. If you doubt that, just look at the junior Republican Senator from Texas. Read more |
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Jonathan Cook Trump May Be on Trial, But You Can Bet the System That Produced Him Will Be Acquitted Trump is too small and limited of a target to be considered the true and deepest enemy we face. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Will Trump's Grand Finale Be Conviction by the US Senate? Congressional Republicans have aided and abetted, for four years, Trump's assertion that "With Article II, I can do whatever I want as president." Dangerous Donald did just that. Read more |
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Sue Sturgis Meet the GOP State AGs Who Spread Election Lies That Fueled an Insurrection Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) never acknowledged its role in fueling Trump supporters' ire by sharing repeatedly debunked lies about the outcome of the presidential election. Read more |
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Pierre Tristam No, Open Sedition Is Not a First Amendment Right The right to protest is not in dispute. If that's all the mob had done, its rights would certainly be defensible and protected. Read more |
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Adam Federman Turns Out That the Oil Industry Wasn’t Interested in the Arctic Refuge After All The Trump administration’s Arctic Refuge oil lease auction was a total bust. Read more |
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David Orr Questions "Too Puny" for Our Dire Circumstances The unanswered question is whether we have the political will to do what is required to prevent Earth’s climate from spiraling out of control. Read more |
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Alvaro Sanchez How the Biden-Harris Administration Can Fight Climate Change and Structural Racism Addressing the root causes of climate change and structural racism means equity must be core to the framework for action. Read more |
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Laura Flanders We Should Learn From Georgia to Show Us the Way Forward Over slow generations, they built a broad enough "we" and an effective bottom up force that formed not just a victorious voting block this year, but a caring community dedicated explicitly to dismantling white supremacy. Read more |
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Andy Rowell Impeached Twice, Trump's Presidency Was a Climate Disaster The world burned on Trump’s watch, leaving behind a horrendous lasting environmental legacy. Read more |
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Fred Wertheimer Republican State Officials Are Already Using Trump’s Big Lie as Cover To Pursue New Laws To Make It Harder To Vote Congress must move quickly to enact H.R. 1, the For The People Act, and H.R. 4, the Voting Rights Advancement Act. Read more |
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Belén Fernández Here We Go Again, But Now the Target Is Iran Two decades after invading Iraq for alleged links to al-Qaeda, the US now says Iran is the armed group's 'new home.' Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Lynching Political Correctness Are we in a state of national emergency? Read more |
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Emily Galvin-Almanza, Sean McElwee If Lawmakers Really Care About "Unity" They Should Support Policies Voters Actually Want Americans largely support progressive policies—despite objections from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. Now is the time to pass them. Read more |
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Sheila Rawat, Elisa Devlin How We Came to Build A Progressive Ground Game After Bernie's campaign ended, we were determined to stay in the fight. We built our own structure which was key in the freedom and guidance in making our actions effective. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies Will the Senate Confirm Coup Plotter Victoria Nuland? Nuland would be a ticking time-bomb in Biden’s State Department, waiting to sabotage his better angels much as she undermined Obama’s second-term diplomacy. Read more |
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Mike Lofgren A Layman’s Guide to Spotting Sedition, Treason, and Lunacy in General The words people speak have consequences—but maybe not what you think. Read more |
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Jason Pramas We Must Defeat the Far-Right Insurrectionist Movement. Here's How We need to mobilize like never before. Read more |
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Mary Miller There's Nothing Vegan About War As more and more people rethink their consumption of animal products, it is inevitable that the world’s military forces will increasingly use veganism to appear progressive, trendy, and virtuous. My plea to my fellow vegans: don’t fall for it. Read more |
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Richard Heinberg Insurrection, Pandemic, and Censorship Democracy requires an informed citizenry and reliably informative media. Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac A Second Trump Impeachment Has Not Lessened the Current Danger This move by House Democrat is insufficient to forestall the possibility of further Trumpist-incited violence. Read more |
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Michael T. Klare Can Biden Achieve Progress Where It Matters While Avoiding a New Cold (or Hot) War? President Biden’s China conundrum. Read more |
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Jeff Hauser Impeaching Trump Is Only the Beginning Biden must rid the government of Trump holdovers wherever possible and reverse Trump’s attacks as quickly as possible. Read more |
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Mark Hertsgaard Trump's Attacks on Democracy Threatens Climate Survival Only a democracy that works can defuse the climate crisis. Without that expression of grassroots democracy, the world would likely be entering the climate nightmare of four more years of Trump. Read more |
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Sharon Squassoni Biden Must Retire the Illogical Great Power Competition Paradigm There is no winning a nuclear arms race and no winning a nuclear war. The use of any nuclear weapon in conflict is a loss for humanity. Read more |
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Alexander Langlois The Houthi Designation: Tone-Deaf Foreign Policy for a Tone-Deaf Administration This public health crisis and the coinciding crisis surrounding basic resources constitute the humanitarian situation in Yemen today—a conflict that is completely manmade and caused by the poor decisions of non-democratic leaders in Yemen, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and the United... Read more |
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Joseph Nevins The Irony Of Calling America A 'Banana Republic' The history of the banana republic reminds us that the notion of the United States as a beacon of human rights and democracy is, for all too many across the globe, a lie. Read more |
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Bill Moyers, Heather Cox Richardson The Day the Confederate Flag Flew in the United States Capitol What happened in the 1850s and what happened in the present are very similar in a number of ways, though the symbol of the insurrectionist Confederate army never flew in that nation's capitol—not once—until January 6, 2021. Read more |
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Mahad Dirieh The Case For Course Correction in Yemen's Endless War The crisis in Yemen is largely America's making. America needs to fix it now. Read more |
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Faramarz Farbod Let's Burn All Illusions in 2021 Expect nothing transformative from the governing class. The future depends on what We the People will choose to do. Read more |
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Ramzy Baroud Covid-19 Under Apartheid: How Israel Manipulates Suffering of Palestinians Long after the deadly pandemic is contained, the tragedy of occupied Palestine will, sadly, continue unhindered, until the day that Israel is forced to end its military occupation of Palestine and the Palestinians. Read more |
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Karen Dolan A Winning Strategy for Joe Biden: Raise the Wage and Tax the Rich Despite our sharp divisions, a majority of Americans are united behind many policies to combat poverty and reduce inequality. Read more |
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Joseph Stiglitz Small Tweaks Won't Be Enough to Save American Democracy Fortunately, Joe Biden will assume the US presidency on January 20. But, as the shocking events of January 6 showed, it will take more than one person—and more than one presidential term—to overcome America’s longstanding challenges. Read more |
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Christopher D. Cook We Must Not Allow Violent Pro-Trump Insurrection to Usher in New Anti-Protest Laws The tools we create in response to the January 6 insurrection will be used to tamp down mass protest from the left. Read more |
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William Astore We're All Prisoners of War Now When will America free itself from war? Read more |
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Katrina Eiland Biden Must Follow Through With Promise to Restore US Asylum A reversal of Trump's asylum system is simply not enough—we must build our asylum system back better. Read more |
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Sarah Jones Republicans Want Clemency, and With It, a Return to the Status Quo The public deserves something better: a true champion of the poor and vulnerable. Read more |
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Sarah Lazare Biden Must Reject Trump's WTO Policy That Could Lead to "Vaccine Apartheid" in Global South The president-elect pledged to combat racism. But he’s been mum about a racial injustice taking place on a global scale. Read more |
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Joe Lowndes, Daniel Martinez HoSang Will a More Dangerous Far Right Spring From the Corpse of Trumpism? Deferring to the economic and political elites that have set the stage for this carnage will only the embolden the far right to continue to provide a kind of reactionary framing to the feelings of abandonment, isolation and betrayal. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Leonardo Flores The Trump Administration's Parting Outrage Against Cuba "Perpetuating the myth that Cuba is a threat to the American people—while minimizing the threat posed by far-right extremists at home—is an embarrassment to our country on the world stage." Read more |
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David McWilliams Capitol Rioters Can’t Stop the Economic Forces Undermining Their Tribe If we fail to appreciate what's going on in the world, we will all suffer from the curse of the entitled, who rail against change rather than embracing it. Read more |
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Jonathan Cook Twitter's Ban on Trump Will Deepen the US Tribal Divide This is a perfect illustration of why curbs on political speech—even of the most irresponsible kind—invariably backfire. Read more |
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Chuck Collins, Omar Ocampo Trump's Top Ten Billionaire Enablers Trump didn’t get here on his own. Many have enabled him, especially the billionaires who funneled money his way and then stood by as he damaged our democracy. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Denouncing Republican Evils Can’t Do Much for the Biden Presidency Without Demanding Progressive Policies The Sanders prescriptions for antidotes to right-wing poisons are absolutely correct. Read more |
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Ted Lieu We Have a Constitutional Duty To Defend Our Democracy in Making Trump the First President in History To Be Impeached Twice For justice and to heal our nation, we need to hold those involved in the insurrection accountable. That includes the president. Read more |
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Jonathan Rich The Bipartisan Neoliberal Regime Is No Alternative to Trumpism and the Far-Right The first reason for this crisis is that the US political system is not a "democracy" at all, but rather an oligarchy run by the unchecked power of corporate bribery. Read more |
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Bill Quigley Past Time to Remember Thousands Displaced and Left Behind by Hurricanes Laura and Delta As 2020 ended some people were still living in tents. Read more |
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Bill Blum 25th Amendment or Impeachment? The Answer: Both The punishment would fit the crime, and he’d be stripped of unwarranted perks. Read more |
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Nomi Prins The Martians of Wall Street Have Invaded As Covid-19 grew ever worse while 2020 ended, the stock market reached heights that hadn’t been seen before. Ever. Read more |
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Robert Reich Impeach Trump. Then Arrest Trump. Then Prosecute Him for Sedition Unless all who participated in or abetted the attempted overthrow of the United States government are held accountable, it will happen again. Next time it may succeed. Read more |
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Juan Cole Yes It Was Attempted by Wingnuts, But It Was a Coup Attempt Just the Same Over 140 Republican congressmen and 8 senators joined the attempt to overturn the election even after the mob tried to kill or kidnap them. Read more |
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Christian Christensen Trump, Social Media and “Orwellian” Bullshit After a relentless and unbroken 40-year fight to hand informational control and power over to a small number of corporate actors, the political right is now wetting their collective pants over Trump being banned by a privately-owned company. Read more |
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Chuck Idelson Confederates in the Capitol: The Re-enactment of a Lost Cause The lesson we must learn from the crushing of Reconstruction is that escorting Trump out the door must not be the end of this story. Read more |
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Mark Schlosberg Trump Lit the Match for an Attempted Coup, But Decades of Misinformation Supplied Fuel The dangerous attempt at a coup of the Capitol didn't happen in a vacuum. A culture of misinformation — even from those who should know better — has played a role in distancing too many people from the realities our country faces, including climate change. Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati Our Post-Trump Democratic Prospects: What the Ming Dynasty Can Tell Us 'Good government' has always rested on equitable distributions of wealth and power. Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac Trump, the Coup, and the Collusion That Made It Possible It will be hard to disentangle the levels of causal, moral, and legal responsibility, and harder still to repair the damage. Read more |
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Christina Warner How We Respond to Threats Against Democracy The U.S. is bearing the fruit of decades of cruelty — breaking up unions, cutting public services and siphoning public resources and wealth into the hands of the very elite — also seen in Canada. Read more |
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Steven Singer What I Told My Students About Wednesday’s Attempted Trump Coup The day after domestic terrorists try to steal our system of government isn’t the time to hold back. Read more |
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Alan MacLeod Billionaire-Owned Media Look Out for Neediest by Demanding They Get No More Money “How to pay for it” is the question they perennially ask when the prospect of helping ordinary people is raised. Read more |
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Alex Newhouse Far-Right Activists on Social Media Telegraphed Violence Weeks in Advance of the Attack on the US Capitol The siege was consistent with their openly expressed hopes and plans. Read more |
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Judy Rohrer New “Day of Infamy,” Centuries Old White Supremacy Were Wednesday's events really that "unbelievable"? Read more |
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Ralph Nader Can Justice Finally Overtake Trump, Its Most Defiant Fugitive? Despite the many crimes Donald Trump regularly committed over four years, it took his blatant incitement of the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, to put him on the road to prison... Read more |
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Timothy Karr Facebook, Twitter and YouTube: Ban Trump or Face Another Mass Boycott These powerful tech giants and their top executives must decide: Are they on the side of democracy or in favor of profiting from the spread of bigotry and lies? Read more |
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Jeffrey D. Sachs The Truth About Trump’s Mob The storming of the US Capitol by predominantly white supporters of President Donald Trump was in keeping with a long tradition of mob violence directed by white elites in the service of their own interests. The difference this time is that the rioters turned on their own. Read more |
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Tiffany Duong Amazon Rainforest Will Collapse by 2064, New Study Predicts The forest could lose its ability to store the world's excess carbon which helps to regulate the climate and planetary temperature. Read more |
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Daniel Ellsberg Will Unprovoked War With Iran Be Trump's Parting Gift to the World? I will always regret that I did not do more to stop war with Vietnam. Now, I am calling on whistleblowers to step up and expose Trump’s plans Read more |
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Dave Inder Comar Mob Violence in the Capitol A Logical Completion to Trumpian Politics It is no longer hyperbole to conclude that the rule of law in the United States is now under grave threat. Read more |
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John Ripton Biden-Harris and the Progressive Movement in an Uncertain World "A lukewarm Biden-Harris presidency—even one that eventually brings the pandemic under control—will not achieve the populist policy objectives necessary to win in 2024." Read more |
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Juan Cole From Mulvaney to DeVos, GOP Rats Are Deserting Trump's Sinking Ship All the times they didn’t resign or even criticize his monstrous deeds in the last four years. Read more |
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Simon Davis-Cohen Civil Society Groups Warn Against Anti-Protest Legislation Following Siege of US Capital "We have to make sure this moment is not used to further anti-protest legislation." Read more |
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Stephen Miles Biden and Congress Must Repeal Law Authorizing Endless Wars As the 117th Congress prepares to get to work and President-elect Biden continues to put together his administration, it is time to repeal and replace the 2001 AUMF. Read more |
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Walden Bello The United States Has Entered a Frightening Weimar Era The violent storming of the Capitol by pro-Trump extremists underlines the face of crises to come. Read more |
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Julie Hollar As Far Right Storms Capitol, Media Need to Look at Their Own Role in How We Got Here The media needs to take responsibility for its own role in normalizing the GOP’s long-term efforts to drag this country toward authoritarian rule—and their cynical enjoyment of the ratings bonanza provided by the enthralling spectacle of Trump’s assault on democracy. Read more |
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Michael Winship The Capitol Invasion Must be the End of the Line for Trump The inciter-in-chief has urged his suporters to destroy every vestige of democracy and truth. Only two weeks left but he's gotta go. Read more |
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Nick Turse Will America's Forever Wars Ever Be Over? The 20th anniversary of the war on terror arrives. Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac The United States Is in a Dangerous State of Emergency The day Donald Trump 'stood down and stood by' after inciting an insurrection. Read more |
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Joseph Gerson Was Trump Hoping for a Coup? There remain 13 potentially dangerous days before Biden is inaugurated. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Real Change on a Living Planet Restorative Justice, which can be used to address—and heal—harm that was been done, is part of our indigenous heritage. Read more |
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Jackie Smith A Post-Election Strategy for National Unity: Focus on Future Generations It is abundantly clear that we cannot continue to be governed by the short-termism that prioritizes ever-expanding material wealth over health and well-being. Read more |
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Sarah Jones They're Not Going Anywhere. Trump Has Created Right-Wing Beast He Cannot Control When Biden takes the oath of office later this month, Trump’s presidency will be over. White supremacy, however, will not be. Read more |
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Eileen McNamara 13 More Days Is 13 Too Many. Invoke The 25th Amendment Now Where is the Cabinet, invoking the 25th amendment to remove this deluded narcissist from office for the unprecedented threat he poses to American democracy? Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac This Is an Insurrection Incited by Trump This coup attempt was entirely predictable. In fact, it was predicted. Read more |
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Robert Weissman This Is a Dark, Dark Day for America Trump and his enablers have generated a quasi-fascist movement that is poised to perpetuate racist street violence, conspiratorial thinking, and serious perils for a functioning democracy. Read more |
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Mark Hertsgaard, Andrew McCormick With Climate Action Finally on the Table, Journalists Must Redouble Their Commitment to the Climate Story A new year's resolution: climate journalism to match the crisis. Read more |
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Jeffrey D. Sachs Five Reasons for Optimism in 2021 In the coming year, we can lay the foundations for a new era of sustainable development, peace, and cooperation, though we must also be vigilant to stop the forces of greed, ignorance, and hatred from hijacking the new technologies for their ulterior purposes. Read more |
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Zena Wolf Why Progressives Should Care About Biden's Pick for Commerce Secretary The nation deserves a leader at the department who will fight for the urgent needs of people, not the desires of corporations. Read more |
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Charles P. Pierce The Pennsylvania Debacle Is Proof Trumpism Is Entwined With Republicanism All the Way Down Nothing is over, to paraphrase Senator John Blutarsky, until they say it is. Which often is never. Read more |
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Ariel Gold In Israel, Vaccine Leadership or Medical Apartheid? Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza direly need the COVID-19 vaccine. Read more |
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Robert Freeman The Republican Party and Victimhood as Ideology Republican victimhood hijacks legitimate suffering to elevate itself into self-anointed martyrdom. Read more |
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Peter Dreier The 2024 GOP Presidential Race Has Already Begun—And It Won't Be Pretty They all support low and regressive taxes, are hostile to social programs, oppose abortion, hate unions, and resist government regulations that protect workers, consumers, and the environment. Read more |
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Mark Weisbrot Why Partisanship Will Increase in the Post-Trump Era The powerful minority in the Republican Party will keep blocking the economic policies that the majority of voters wants. Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt Saying Goodbye to the Con-Man-in-Chief Demining America after The Donald. Read more |
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Alison Bodine Venezuela Elections: A Key Victory for Anti Imperialist Movement in Latin America Throughout Latin America, poor masses, the working class and young people are rising—in response to the deepening crisis imposed upon them by U.S. imperialist domination and neo-Liberal governments. Read more |
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Robert Reich Defeating McConnell: The Real Stakes of the Georgia Runoffs Mitch McConnell cares about only one thing: Power. He has single-handedly turned the Senate into a failed institution that has abandoned the American people for partisan gain. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson Take a Stand Against Gun Violence Terrorizing Our Streets We are killing one another in larger numbers in the midst of the national pandemic. Read more |
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Ted Snider Israel-Linked Assassinations: How Much Is the US Really Involved? Any remaining objection to the idea that the United States would participate in the assassination of Iranians was rendered ridiculous by the January 2020 American assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani. Read more |
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Madelyn Hoffman, Ryan Swan Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons: The Road There and the Road Ahead For those of us who have been part of the anti-nuclear movement, this moment in history is one filled with possibilities. Read more |
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Chris Hedges The Empire Is Not Done with Julian Assange As is clear from the memoir of one of his attorneys, Michael Ratner, the ends have always justified the means for those demanding his global persecution. Read more |
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Adelina Nicholls If Dems Want to Win GA, Biden Needs to Step Up on Immigration We need to hear directly from the Democratic Party leader that Democrats will take aggressive and immediate action to protect our communities. Read more |
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Diane Archer, Toni Smith To Honor the Legacy of John Lewis, Vote for Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff It's game on! Georgia voters hold the key to control of the Senate—which means they hold the key to our public health and our health care. Read more |