All Views Articles for 2018-12-15

Saturday, December 15, 2018
Christopher Brauchli
Holiday Detention
"Trump has now discovered another group of people he can indefinitely detain in what seems an obvious violation of the constitutional right of all who are in the United States, to not spend lengthy periods in prison without due process of law."
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Will Bunch
Is France Showing Us What America’s Next Civil War Will Look Like?
"Everything I've seen so far out of France is singing loudly that, yes, it's a small world, after all – and that what's happening on the barricades is both a reflection of what's going on in much of the developed world and a screaming alarm for what could come next."
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Sarah Kastner
Why Do We Revere Malala But Not Ahed Tamimi?
"The point isn't that Malala doesn't deserve the platform she’s been given, but that while we celebrate Malala's advocacy for girls' education, we must ask why that platform is not extended to children like Ahed."
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Lindsay Koshgarian
Nine Things to Buy with $5 Billion Instead of a Border Wall
Five billion dollars is not huge in a federal discretionary budget of more than $1 trillion. But it's an incredibly meaningful sum to any number of smaller federal government programs.
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Protesters on July 24, 2017 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida railed against Republican senators attempting to destroy the Affordable Care Act also made clear their demand for Medicare for All that would cover everybody with high-quality care. Wendell Potter
Take It From Me: Tweaks Won't Fix Healthcare
Democrats should focus on for Medicare for All—health insurance companies are interested in profits, not playing fair. I should know. I used to be a vice president at Cigna.
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