All Views Articles for 2016-02-16
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Peter Dreier A Trump Candidacy Is Good for the Democrats, But Bad for America Would having Donald Trump as the GOP nominee be good or bad for the Democrats -- or for the country? On the one hand, I'm confident that either Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders could beat Trump... Read more |
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Brent Budowsky Surging Sanders Could Surprise Nevada Caucus As the Nevada Democratic caucus on Saturday comes closer, Bernie Sanders is surging, Team Clinton is panicked and the contest will be much closer than pundits expected. For the last six months the... Read more |
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Glenn Greenwald Two Former U.S. Presidents Simultaneously Advocate for a Close Family Member as the Next U.S. President Americans love to mock the British for choosing — in the 21st century — to live under a monarchy and honor the hereditary succession of a royal family. I enthusiastically participate in that derision... Read more |
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Zoe Weil From Good Works to Good Ideas: Educating the #SolutionaryGeneration Kids are doing all sorts of good works these days. More often than not their efforts are focused on: 1) Raising money for charities 2) Collecting and providing food and essentials to the poor, and/or... Read more |
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Joe Lauria Syria: Obama’s Most Momentous Decision President Obama must decide if he will let the Syrian civil war come to an end with Russian-backed President Assad still in power or if he will escalate by supporting a Turkish-Saudi invasion, which could push the world to the brink of nuclear war Read more |
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Peter Van Buren Minimum Wage, Minimum Chance: On Being Nickel and Dimed in 2016 When presidential candidate Bernie Sanders talks about income inequality, and when other candidates speak about the minimum wage and food stamps, what are they really talking about? Whether they know... Read more |
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David Michael Green The Loser’s Way (or What Do You Do When Your Politics Suck?) What do you do if you’re a freakin’ loser? Oops, sorry – I don’t mean you. I mean ‘you’ as in your ideas and your party. And, actually, I probably don’t mean ‘your ideas’ and ‘your party’ for most... Read more |
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Bill McKibben Why We Need to Keep 80 Percent of Fossil Fuels in the Ground Life depends on it. Bill McKibben on the big changes we’ve already made in remarkably short order. Read more |
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Robert Bullard Let’s Make 2016 the Year of Justice: A Call for Environmental Justice Milestones In 2014, the nation commemorated some important milestones in our historic march toward justice and equality for all Americans. We marked the 60th anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education U.S... Read more |
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Mary Bottari Reporter's Guide: Federal Contractors with History of OSHA Violations Battle New Safety Rules Every day, American workers are killed and injured on the job. From explosions, electrocutions and toxic fumes to more common falls or crushing injuries, lives are altered and families irreparably... Read more |
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Owen Jones George W Bush’s Support for Jeb is a Reminder of His Disastrous Legacy The former president puts on the charm as he joins the campaign trail. But the world we’re living in today is in many ways a result of the misery he inflicted Read more |
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Kevin Gosztola US Shrugs Off Yet Another Report of Cluster Bombs Launched By Saudis In Yemen Following a new report from Human Rights Watch on the use of banned cluster bombs by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, the United States State Department has once again given a statement so the... Read more |
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Robert Reich The Death of the Republican Party I’m writing to you today to announce the death of the Republican Party. It is no longer a living, vital, animate organization. It died in 2016. RIP. It has been replaced by warring tribes:... Read more |