All Views Articles for 2015-05-01
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Todd Paglia Oil Trains Too Fast, New Safety Rules Too Slow In the first three months of 2015 four oil train accidents sent emergency responders scrambling, crude oil spilling into drinking water supplies, and fireballs blasting into the sky. The string of... Read more |
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Michelle Chen Baltimore’s Inescapable Inequality Freddie Gray died after he tried to run from the police. Some might think he was wrong for provoking a chase, but the thousands of people now protesting across the country know that getting killed as... Read more |
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Rainey Reitman, Mark Jaycox The New USA Freedom Act: A Step in the Right Direction, but More Must Be Done A bipartisan group of congressional leaders has reintroduced the USA Freedom Act. The bill is an attempt to rein in the intelligence community's " Collect It All " strategy, and passing USA Freedom... Read more |
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Ray McGovern The Lasting Pain from Vietnam Silence Many reflections on America’s final days in Vietnam miss the point, pondering whether the war could have been won or lamenting the fate of U.S. collaborators left behind. The bigger questions are why did the U.S. go to war and why wasn’t the bloodletting stopped sooner. Read more |
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Dave Johnson Writing The New Rules For The 21st Century – In Secret? The great Thomas “Mustache” Friedman is perhaps best known for encouraging the invasion of Iraq (and subsequent resistance insurgency, civil war, thousands of American and hundreds of thousands of... Read more |
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Robert Borosage The Sanders Challenge Tweeting that “America needs a political revolution,” Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders threw himself Thursday into the race for the Democratic nomination for the presidency. Sanders is in many ways the... Read more |
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Tom Gallagher The Significance of Bernie Sanders' Decision to Enter the Democratic Primaries Why has the longest serving independent member of Congress in American history just announced that he will seek the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination? Simply put, because Senator Bernie... Read more |
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Molly Selvin A New Model in the Fight for Abortion Rights Republicans insist that they care deeply about American families. But taken together, their actions in recent months—along with their inaction—on a string of modest and long-overdue proposals to... Read more |
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Sean Thomas-Breitfeld #BlackWorkersMatter Two weeks ago, New York City joined ten other states and municipalities in banning the use of credit checks in hiring . Like most forms of 21 st century discrimination, weighing the credit histories... Read more |
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Robert Reich The Political Roots of Widening Inequality For the past quarter-century I’ve offered in articles, books, and lectures an explanation for why average working people in advanced nations like the United States have failed to gain ground and are... Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Cutting Through Police Propaganda in Baltimore On Monday, the day 25-year-old Freddie Gray was laid to rest in Baltimore after fatal injuries sustained during an arrest, The Daily Beast reported that members of the Crips and Bloods had declared a... Read more |
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Bill McKibben Why the Planet Is Happy That Bernie Sanders Is Running for President After lunch, right about the time that Bernie Sanders was actually announcing his run for president, I went for a walk in the woods, and polled three chickadees, two wild turkeys, one vernal pool of... Read more |