All Views Articles for 2015-03-02
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Mark Fischetti How Climate Change Hastened Syria's Civil War Human-induced drying in many societies can push tensions over a threshold that provokes violent conflict Read more |
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Alex Main Will Biden's Billion Dollar Plan Help Central America? Militarizing security, deregulating markets, and dismantling labor rights isn’t the solution. Read more |
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Rena Steinzor Bad Feds, Deadly Meds FDA must be equipped to regulate compounding pharmacies. Read more |
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David Sirota Chris Christie Backed Law That Lets Him Divert ExxonMobil Settlement From Environmental Cleanup Only three months before New Jersey agreed to accept $250 million in cash from ExxonMobil to settle claims the oil giant sullied public land, Gov. Chris Christie was still signaling a hard line. The... Read more |
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Zephyr Teachout The Path to Freedom From Corruption Goes Through My State — And Your State Our current problem isn’t bribery of voters, but legal bribery of candidates. Read more |
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Jonathan Logan Scott Walker to Sign Anti-Union bill That Will Make Inequality Worse Wisconsin will soon become the nation's 25th "Right to Work" (RTW) state. RTW prohibits employers and unions from negotiating agreements that require non-members to contribute to the cost of... Read more |
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Trita Parsi To Netanyahu, Peace Is an Existential Threat To Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, peace between the US and Iran is an existential threat. By now, it should be clear to all: It's not an Iranian nuclear bomb he fears, but a US-Iran deal... Read more |
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Katherine Paul Consumers Want GMO Labels, Not Barcodes On Wednesday last week, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack once again floated the idea of consumers using barcodes to identify foods that contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs) as an... Read more |
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Paul Buchheit Four Reasons Young Americans Should Burn Their Student Loan Papers 'Hell No, We Won't Go' — 1967 'No Way, We Won't Pay' — 2015 Fifty years ago students burned their draft cards to protest an immoral war against the people of Vietnam. Today it's a different kind of... Read more |
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Chris Hedges The Time Is Right for a Palace Revolution A conversation with Tariq Ali Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt My War on Terror: Letter to an Unknown American Patriot Dear American Patriot, I wish I knew your name. I’ve been thinking about you, about all of us actually and our country, and meaning to write for a while to explain myself. Let me start this way: you... Read more |