All Views Articles for 2016-03-01
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Nathalie Baptiste A Survey of Felon Voting Rights on Super Tuesday Laws preventing ex-offenders from voting vary across the country, and disenfranchise millions. Read more |
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Ursula Wolfe-Rocca Why We Should Teach About the FBI’s War on the Civil Rights Movement This month marks the 45th anniversary of a dramatic moment in U.S. history. On March 8, 1971—while Muhammad Ali was fighting Joe Frazier at Madison Square Garden, and as millions sat glued to their... Read more |
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Andrew Bacevich Don’t Cry for Me, America What Trumpism Means for Democracy Read more |
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Richard Eskow New Study Confirms: Private 'Trade' Courts Serve the Ultra-Wealthy A new study confirms what many activists have suspected for a long time: The private courts set up by international “trade” deals heavily favor billionaires and giant corporations, and they do so at... Read more |
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Dr. Hakim How Many Global Crises Can a Fifteen-Year-Old Afghan Take On? On 31st Jan, I followed Zekerullah, an Afghan Peace Volunteer who coordinates the Borderfree Street Kids School in Kabul, to visit Zuhair and his family in their rented room. Zuhair attends the... Read more |
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Jared Bernstein An Anti-Poverty Agenda That Excludes Access to Reproductive Healthcare is Woefully Incomplete I’ve written extensively in this column about anti-poverty policy. I’ve underscored the importance of minimum wages, work supports including child care and wage subsidies, SNAP (food stamps), housing... Read more |
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Jeremy Brecher A New Wave of Climate Insurgents Defines Itself as Law-Enforcers One in six Americans say they would personally engage in nonviolent civil disobedience against corporate or government activities that make global warming worse. That’s about 40 million adults. The... Read more |
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César Chelala In Yemen, a Humanitarian Pause is Urgently Needed As war continues to rage uninterrupted in Yemen, a humanitarian pause is badly needed as the country spirals down to chaos, leaving the majority of the population in urgent need of medical care... Read more |