All Views Articles for 2016-07-19
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Jeffrey C. Isaac Why Melania Trump’s Plagiarism Matters Two paragraphs from Melania Trump’s speech last night before the Republican National Convention were almost word for word the same as two paragraphs from Michelle Obama’s 2008 speech. This is a fact... Read more |
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Adam Hochschild Letting Tarzan Swing Through History 'Me Tarzan, You Adam': How I Met the Ghosts of My Own Work in a Local Multiplex Read more |
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Donna Smith Progressive Strides Undone If Hickenlooper Chosen as HRC Running Mate As we approach Friday’s announcement by the Hillary Clinton camp of their selection of running mates, Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado is apparently one of the people who has been under... Read more |
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Tomas Lopez , Kwame Akosah Keep Politics Out of Virginia Voting Rights Restoration Today, the Virginia Supreme Court will hear arguments in a suit challenging Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s (D) April order that restored voting rights to 200,000 Virginians with past felony convictions... Read more |
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Russell Greene Beyond Paris: Finding the Courage to Face the Climate Emergency Last weekend in Orlando the platform committee of the Democratic Party added language into their platform acknowledging the official position of the Democratic Party to be that we are in a global... Read more |
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Bill Bigelow Nation’s Largest Teachers Union Endorses Teaching 'Climate Justice' In May, the Portland, Oregon school board passed the country’s first comprehensive “climate justice” resolution. The school board voted unanimously to “abandon the use of any adopted text material... Read more |
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Stephen Zunes The Good News and the Bad News About Turkey’s Attempted Coup The survival of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his ruling Justice and Welfare Party of an attempted coup last week is a mixed blessing. Despite the ultra-conservative policies and... Read more |
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John Nichols Donald Trump Will Lead a Theocratic Party Into the Election Republicans attack LGBTQ rights, women’s rights, judicial independence, and the wall of separation between church and state. Read more |
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Terrance Heath What Rudy Giuliani Did For New York Would Make America More Unsafe What Rudy Giuliani did for New York City as its former mayor, and what Donald Trump promises to do for America, will only make things more dangerous for Americans — both for the police, and for those... Read more |
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Sandra Steingraber 53 Arrested Protesting Gas Storage Near Seneca Lake "We are ALL Seneca Lake" was the message delivered this morning by prominent environmental leaders Wes Gillingham, program director of Catskill Mountainkeeper, David Braun, co-founder of Americans... Read more |
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Paul Pillar Turkey’s Faltering Democracy Turkish President Erdogan crushed a military coup this weekend but this victory for civilian rule will do little to revive Turkish democracy which Erdogan has been strangling with his autocratic grip on power Read more |
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Juan Cole Rep. Stephen King, White People and ‘Civilization’ Rep. Stephen King objected to a comment during a cable news discussion at MSNBC that this will be the last election dominated by old white people. Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) offered an unusual defense... Read more |