All Views Articles for 2016-10-24
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Jim Lobe For the Middle East, It’s the Center for American Regress Last week, I featured a new Atlantic Council report by former Stimson Center president Ellen Laipson in which she argued that the nuclear deal with Iran—and the opportunities for future cooperation... Read more |
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Sabrina King Crossing the Fossil Fuel Industry Could Now Get You Locked Up – For Decades In the United States, people have the right to protest, and the press has the right to write about it. But over the past month, multiple journalists, documentary filmmakers, and activists have been... Read more |
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Tim Koechlin Free to Plunder: The Case Against Gary Johnson and Libertarianism A recent Quinnipiac poll reports that 19% of likely voters between the ages of 18 and 34 – “millennials” – plan to vote for Gary Johnson. Many of these voters identify as “progressive.” I find this... Read more |
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Kevin Gosztola Clinton Campaign Mulled Embracing Sanders’s Agenda Against Corruption In the first months of the Democratic presidential primary, one of Hillary Clinton’s advisers conducted focus groups and polling of swing voters to examine “voter distrust” of the political system... Read more |
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Michael Winship If Trump Had Been at Gettysburg in 1863 On Saturday, Donald Trump made a speech in Gettysburg that was nothing like President Abraham Lincoln's revered one. Michael Winship imagines the speech Trump might have delivered in Lincoln's day. Read more |
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The Nation Editors Tom Hayden and the Unfinished Business of Democracy Though an irreplaceable voice for peace has been silenced, his vision will live on. Read more |
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Gary Younge An All-American Slaughter: The Youthful Carnage of America’s Gun Culture Every day, on average, seven kids and teens are shot dead in America. Election 2016 will undoubtedly prove consequential in many ways, but lowering that death count won’t be one of them. To grapple... Read more |
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Dave Johnson Watch Out For The Coming Corporate Tax-Break Trickery One of the biggest fights coming up in the newly elected Congress next year will be “corporate tax reform.” If you follow policy news you’ve been hearing that Congress wants to “reform” corporate... Read more |
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Bernie Sanders Stand Up to Big Pharma Greed. Vote Yes on Proposition 61 Prescription drug prices in the United States are the highest in the world — by far. Californians on Nov. 8 have a chance to stand up to the pharmaceutical industry’s greed and spark a national... Read more |
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Paul Buchheit New Layers of Dirt on Charter Schools An earlier review identified the "Three Big Sins of Charter Schools": Fraud, a Lack of Transparency, and the Exclusion of Unwanted Students. The evidence against charters continues to grow. Yet... Read more |