All Views Articles for 2016-10-05
 |
Deborah Burger How to Cut Drug Prices? California Can Set a Model With Prop. 61 Despite all the disgust with pharmaceutical price gouging and the public shaming of CEOs like Heather Bresch of EpiPen infamy and “pharma bro” Martin Shkreli, we’ve yet to see any concrete steps to... Read more |
 |
Robert Parry Dangerous New ‘Group Think’ for War with Syria/Russia Official Washington has a new 'group think' that is even more dangerous than the one that led to the Iraq War. This one calls for U.S. escalation of conflicts against Syria and nuclear-armed Russia. Read more |
 |
Mark Schuller Hurricane Matthew in Haiti: Looking Beyond the Disaster Narrative Well-meaning people have either emailed or texted me over the past couple of days, with some variant of “how are things going in Haiti?” Short of people’s prayers, and the question, “is everyone you... Read more |
 |
Alli McCracken Are U.S.-Saudi Relations Finally Souring? Pressure from human rights organizations like Oxfam to victims of the 9/11 attacks are helping erode the bond between these old political allies, but the results of this election season could squander our chance at change. Read more |
 |
John Russo, Sherry Linkon ‘Rich Enough To Forget My Name’: Springsteen, Trump and the Democratic Party If Democrats and the media had listened to the people whose lives Springsteen sings about, they might understand where their white working-class voters have gone. Read more |
 |
Isaiah Poole Amid “Men Yelling Indistinctly” At VP Debate, Shards Of Substance The vice-presidential debate Tuesday night was rated by some commentators as generating more heat than light. At times, that certainly seemed true when watching Democrat Tim Kaine and Republican Mike... Read more |
 |
Ezra Silk The Climate Emergency and the Election: A Pathway to WWII-Scale Mobilization This week I will turn 28, and thoughts of the future are weighing heavily on my mind. Clinging to the idea of a relatively stable future, people encourage me to get real, grow up, and focus on myself... Read more |
 |
Jake Johnson 'Either We Destroy War or It Will Destroy Us': Happy Birthday, Philip Berrigan In 1997, at the age of 73, Philip Berrigan, accompanied by five others, arrived at the shipyard of Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. It was early — just past four in the morning — and there was much... Read more |
 |
Andrew Crocker, Mark Rumold Yahoo Email Surveillance: the Next Front in the Fight Against Mass Surveillance In a bombshell published Tuesday, Reuters reports that, in 2015, Yahoo complied with an order it received from the U.S. government to search all of its users’ incoming emails, in real time. There’s... Read more |
 |
Ted Gup Another Deadly Drone Mistake: At What Point Do We Say Enough? It was an obscure item last week that drew little media attention. An apartment building in Afghanistan’s remote Nangarhar province was apparently hit by an American drone strike, killing at least... Read more |
 |
Robert Borosage Why Is This Election So Close? It’s the populism, stupid. Read more |
 |
Trevor Timm Yahoo May Have Let the Government Spy on Emails. Now Will We Embrace Encryption? Not only would this likely violate the fourth amendment; giving the NSA or the FBI a backdoor into a tech company’s innards could let hackers in too Read more |