All Views Articles for 2016-12-03
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Marjorie Cohn The Remarkable Legacy of Fidel Castro When Fidel Castro died on Nov. 25 at the age of 90, we lost one of the most remarkable leaders of the 20th century. No other head of state has so steadfastly stood up to the United States and... Read more |
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy Three Men in a Room: The D.C. Edition For years, New York’s dysfunctional state government has been derisively called “ Three Men in a Room .” The three men were the Governor, the New York State Senate Majority Leader and the New York... Read more |
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Ilana Solomon, Ben Beachy After the TPP, Here’s a Progressive Vision for Trade This op-ed was originally published on the Sierra Club's Compass blog on November 16, 2016. Opposition to status-quo trade deals has reached unprecedented heights. The entire 2016 election cycle... Read more |
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Jamie Williams The Problem of Our Surveillance Laws: Report Exposes Deeply Rooted Governmental Secrecy—Underscoring Why Obama Should Act Now Kafka wrote in his parable The Problem of Our Laws , “It is an extremely painful thing to be ruled by laws that one does not know.” By this standard, America has long been in pain. Secret law runs... Read more |
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Karin Kamp As Hate Incidents Rise, Rights Groups Urge Trump to Denounce Bigotry The Southern Poverty Law Center reveals a "national outbreak of hate" since Donald Trump's election. Read more |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan How the Media Iced Out Bernie Sanders & Helped Donald Trump Win We hadn’t seen Bernie Sanders in Philadelphia since last July, when he watched his primary opponent, Hillary Clinton, win the Democratic Party’s nomination. Sanders joined the “Democracy Now!” news... Read more |
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Carl Takei, Joanne Lin In Stunning Reversal, Law Enforcement, Military, and Security Advisors Urge Homeland Security to Shift Away from Private Prisons In a surprise development, the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC), an expert panel of law enforcement, national security, military, and other experts who advise the secretary of the Department... Read more |