All Views Articles for 2017-06-16
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Sonali Kolhatkar Republicans Keep Missing the Point About Gun Violence—Even When They’re the Targets Gun rights activists for years have fought for the free proliferation of firearms throughout the U.S., perhaps subconsciously imagining they were only arming themselves. But a shooting incident in... Read more |
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Sara Mersha, Carol Schachet Leaving Paris for All The Wrong Reasons The announcement by Donald Trump that that United States intends to ignore the non-binding Paris Climate Agreement, with the intention to renegotiate it to foist his America First policy on the rest... Read more |
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Bob Burnett When Will Trump Lose His Base? After the Trump White House careened through another terrible week, Washington, DC insiders wonder how long Trump can survive. The answer is: as long as he holds his base. Trump and his voters are... Read more |
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Amber Halbert Paid Leave Should Value All Care and All Families I worked in the service industry for many years. Five years ago when my son was born, I had a C-section and was allowed 6 weeks to heal. The time was unpaid. I had some complications but work put a... Read more |
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Kathy Kelly Feed the Hungry, Treat the Sick: A Crucial Training On June 15, 2017, the New York Times reported that the government of Saudi Arabia aims to ease the concerns of some U.S. legislators over U.S. weapon sales to Saudi Arabia. The Saudis plan to engage... Read more |
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Richard Eskow Resistance in a Time of Gunfire The smell of gun smoke had net yet lifted from an Alexandria baseball field when the calls for unity began. “An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us,” said House Speaker Paul Ryan. “You’re... Read more |
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Kenneth Peres Wrong Way Economics: Trump's Roadmap for Corporate Domination Trump's economic policies can be summed up as CACAnomics: an acronym for Corporate Agenda (CA), Cronyism (C) and Authoritarianism (A) Read more |
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Lindy Hern The Power of Personal Connections in the Dark Age of Trump Sitting in my relatively new home in Hawai’i in January of 2017, I’m watching Nina Turner, past state-senator in Ohio and current progressive leader, speak to hundreds of single-payer activists at... Read more |
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Jake Johnston Miami Conference Signals Further Militarization of US Policy in Central America In a high-level meeting Friday, the presidents of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador will discuss the region’s security with American and Mexican officials. Innocuous enough, you may think. But part... Read more |