All Views Articles for 2017-05-23
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Robert Reich Trump’s Cruel and Deviant Budget For years, conservatives warned that liberals were “defining deviancy downward.” They said that by tolerating bad social behavior, liberals in effect lowered what was deemed acceptable behavior... Read more |
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Michael Linden Trump's Immoral Budget Is 'Dead on Arrival' in Congress President Trump’s budget proposal is an affront to decency, economics and, at a basic level, math. It is full of both broken and false promises. It forces those who have the least to suffer the most... Read more |
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Douglas Blackmon 'RussiaGate' Has Become a Catastrophic Failure of Leadership — and a Debacle From Which the Trump Presidency Will Not Recover The Trump-Russia scandal has metastasized quickly and destructively. Read more |
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Benjamin Dangl Trump’s Budget Expands Global War on the Backs of the American Poor It is fitting that while President Trump is traveling the world, sealing a weapons deal with Saudi Arabia, he would drop his own kind of bomb on the American people: his budget proposal for the... Read more |
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Jitu Brown School Choice Is a Scam in Segregated Neighborhoods Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos seems not to hear the fierce protests of parents, teachers and school officials over school closings and charter expansion in New York, Chicago, Oakland, Detroit... Read more |
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Richard Eskow They’re Talking a Better Game, But Will the Democrats Fight? In public, leading Democrats blame outside forces like Russia and former FBI Director James Comey for their losses in 2016. But privately, many acknowledge the party needs a new direction. The... Read more |
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Katrina vanden Heuvel Trump Escalates War on Women Trump may be escalating the war on women, but in doing so, he has awakened women and girls Read more |
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Mattea Kramer Boycott Trump Can a Movement to Hurt the President Financially Change the Political Landscape? Read more |
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Juan Cole Terror and Geopolitics: Manchester 2017 and 1996 Manchester, UK, was hit with the deadliest bomb attack on Monday since a June Saturday morning in 1996, when a massive 3000 lb. Provisional Irish Republican Army blast leveled the city center... Read more |
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Steven Singer Why Care About Other People’s Children As a vocal critic of charter and voucher schools , one of the most frequent questions I get from readers is this: “Why should I care about other people’s children?” One reader put it this way: “Why... Read more |