All Views Articles for 2017-06-01
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Bill McKibben Trump’s Stupid and Reckless Climate Decision People say, if all you have is a hammer, then every problem looks like a nail. We should be so lucky. President Trump has a hammer, but all he’ll use it for is to smash things that others have built... Read more |
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Michael Winship Be Warned, Donald Trump: Ghosts Are Everywhere Harry Truman understood the importance of allies in Europe. President Trump does not. Read more |
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Livia Gershon Why It Matters That Poor Kids Don’t Have Time to Play Last year, Allyn taught a second grade class in a high-poverty school in Saint Petersburg, Florida. The school had been in the papers for poor test results, and it was pushing to change by adding... Read more |
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Stephen Kretzmann When Will Exxon Be Worthless? Not If. These are dizzying days. Our best advice is to stay woke, and pay attention. As we prepare for a day that will revolve around Trump’s Rose Garden speech to Make America Guzzle&Gush Again, it is... Read more |
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Michael Sainato Bernie Sanders’ Revolution Is Just Getting Started Several polls combined with his growing support base have confirmed that Sen. Bernie Sanders is the most popular politician in the United States. His presidential candidacy sparked a progressive... Read more |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan Kabul Bomb Blast Kills at Least 90 People. We Need to Know Their Names. A suicide bomb blast in Kabul, Afghanistan killed at least 90 people and injured over 450. Hidden in a tanker truck, the bomb is likely one of the largest ever set off in Kabul. It left a crater 13... Read more |
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Brian Kahn Donald Trump's Waffling on Paris Agreement Is Just as Impactful as His Final Decision President Donald Trump has treated the decision of whether or not to keep the U.S. in the Paris Agreement as a game show. If it were The Price is Right , we would be in the showcase showdown, about... Read more |
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Naomi Klein Economic Pressure Could Jolt Trump into Action on Climate Change Let’s just give up. That’s one way of responding to the reports that President Trump has decided to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord. After all, without the world’s largest... Read more |
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Craig Aaron Trump TV, Coming to a Market Near You Political appointees are changing the rules to let administration allies crowd out local voices on local TV. Read more |
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Ife Floyd Trump’s TANF Cut Would Hurt the Poorest Families, and States Might Make Them Worse President Trump’s proposed $2.2 billion cut to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program in 2018 would reduce states’ federal TANF funds by 10 to 18 percent (depending on whether a... Read more |
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Kelly Mitchell Exxon Shareholders are Resisting — Here’s Why It Matters In a historic vote, Exxon shareholders passed a climate resolution on the same day that Trump allegedly begins to exit the Paris climate agreement Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Strip and Flip: Democracy in a Cage The wound burst open in November. History, suddenly, could no longer be avoided. Reality could no longer be avoided. American democracy is flawed, polluted, gamed by the oligarchs. It always has been... Read more |