All Views Articles for 2016-01-11
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Cassady Sharp The State of the Union Depends on the State of Our Democracy From voting rights to campaign finance, our democracy is under attack. Read more |
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Peter Van Buren A Game of Thrones in the Middle East What’s the Real Story Behind Saudi Arabia’s Execution of Shia Cleric al-Nimr? Read more |
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Lauren Wolfe When Does the Violation of Women's Bodies Become a "Red Line"? If people divide their understanding of militarized violence into normal and not normal, acceptable and not acceptable, it makes a terrible kind of sense: violence against women has been "normalized" Read more |
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Nick Dearden Venezuela’s Food Revolution Has Fought Off Big Agribusiness and Promoted Agroecology Just days before the progressive National Assembly of Venezuela was dissolved, deputies passed a law which lays the foundation for a truly democratic food system. The country has not only banned... Read more |
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Jeremy Brecher Climate Insurgency After Paris 'The governments of the world may rule the world but they don’t own the world.' Read more |
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Garry Leech The Hypocrisy of Obama’s Gun Control Crusade President Barack Obama took to the stage last week to announce the latest initiative in his crusade to make it more difficult for Americans to purchase firearms. He even shed some tears for American... Read more |
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Rick Shenkman Why “Collateral Damage” Elicits So Little Empathy Among Americans (or How We Learned to Stop Worrying About People and Love the Bombing) Read more |
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Paul Buchheit The Real Terrorists: The .01% They consist of 16,000 individuals, about the size of a crowd at a professional basketball game. The inequality horror they've fomented is reaching far beyond the half of America that is in or near... Read more |
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Alli McCracken Send Obama to Gitmo President Obama should be given props for the progress made in thawing US-Cuban relations, but there’s a piece of unfinished business that he could—and should—still attend to: returning the US Naval... Read more |