All Views Articles for 2019-02-08
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Chuck Idelson We All Have "Skin in the Game." That's Why We Need Medicare for All. On the ongoing push to skin patients needing care Read more |
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John Buell Labor Strikes, Once Blunted by GOP and Corporations, are Back and Shaping Public Policy Even within the private sector there are stirrings we have not heard in many years Read more |
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Heather Smith The Green New Deal Is Out. Now What? Ocasio-Cortez and Markey are here to make America dream big again Read more |
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Sarah Jones Red for Ed Continues: Where Teachers’ Strikes Are Set to Spread Next A collective anger was un-bottled last year, so it’s not surprising that teachers are continuing to take collective action Read more |
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Ann Wright North Korean Missiles are Not the Threat to Hawaii—It’s Our Own U.S. Military’s Leaking Jet Fuel Storage Tanks it’s time to retire the leaking Red Hill Storage tanks—and protect our precious water supply Read more |
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Christian Christensen The Right-Wing Press and Violence Against Women: Terrible When Abroad, Ignored When at Home To these outlets, progressive politics on gender equality is not evidence of a more enlightened view of society, but of a capitulation to the tyranny of egalitarianism Read more |
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Eugene Robinson A ‘Green New Deal’ Sounds Like Pie in the Sky. But We Need It. Climate change is the most important story of our time Read more |
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Juan Cole Did the National Enquirer Blackmail Amazon’s Jeff Bezos to Protect the Saudi Crown Prince? Is Pecker secretly one of the more powerful men in the world, holding files on politicians and celebrities and coercing them behind the scenes? Read more |
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Ellen Brown The Venezuela Myth Keeping Us From Transforming Our Economy "Capitalism is quite simply incapable of regulating itself, and that is precisely where progressive governments and progressive government legislation needs to step in." Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Everybody Wants ‘Medicare for All’—Except Our Leaders The enemies are manifold: Republicans seeking to end all government assistance, private insurance companies seeking to preserve the status quo, and Democrats backing those companies Read more |
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Lawrence Wittner Don’t Expect Rulers of Nuclear-Armed Nations to Accept Nuclear Disarmament―Unless They’re Pushed to Do So Characteristically, all the nuclear powers have rejected the 2017 UN treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons Read more |
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Tanya Rawal-Jindia Ricardo Hausmann Is Taking Milton Friedman’s Lessons to Venezuela Will the legacy of putting neoliberal academic theories over the people win again? Read more |