All Views Articles for 2017-08-20

Sunday, August 20, 2017
"Donald Trump has brought bigotry and hate into the mainstream. He has legitimized the politics of resentment. It's time for progressives to stand up to Trump's hate-filled conduct," Burnett writes. Bob Burnett
Make America Safe Again
"During the next six months, Trump won't change. This six-month period provides a golden opportunity for progressives and Democrats, in general, to tell voters what they stand for."
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"Although EFF has been keeping an open mind about the agreement until we have a better idea of what it will contain, the secrecy of its first negotiation round augurs poorly for what is to come," Malcolm writes. Jeremy Malcolm
As First NAFTA Round Opens in Secrecy, Digital Rights Groups Fear Another TPP
The opening round of a series of negotiations over a proposed revised North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) began this week in Washington, D.C. between trade representatives from the United...
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"Many of the CEOs on these councils had been under heavy pressure to disavow Trump’s agenda of hate and racism even before Charlottesville. That pressure came from grassroots activists," Anderson writes. Sarah Anderson
The Activists Who Helped Shut Down Trump’s CEO Councils
The implosion of these high-level advisory bodies followed a months-long grassroots campaign calling on CEOs to reject the President’s hate-filled agenda.
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"Bannon wanted to cut N. Korea loose, so as to have a clear shot at China," Cole writes. Juan Cole
Trump Fires Bannon: Who Are the Winners and Losers Globally?
Steve Bannon by his own admission promoted the Breitbart webzine as a mouthpiece of white supremacism, in an attempt to create a new, well-educated and well-dressed version of seedy racism. The...
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"Commemorations in public spaces should recall the past and also provide inspiration and hope for the future," Williams writes. Yohuru Williams
No Two Sides About It, Confederate Statues Must Come Down
"The president is wrong. You can preserve history without building or preserving monuments to hate."
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"If only someone running our government read history. Or even read," writes Lynn Sherr. Lynn Sherr
Collaboration: Be Careful Who You Work With
At a time when precise language has gone missing from the White House, how best to describe those Republicans still loyal to President Trump?
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