All Views Articles for 2019-03-26
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Max Richtman Honoring Frances Perkins, the 'Mother' of Social Security "You care about this thing. You believe in it," FDR told Perkins of her idea for a social insurance program for retirees. "Therefore, I know you will put your back into it more than everyone else." Read more |
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Bill Blum The Dangerous and Unrelenting Extremism of Clarence Thomas Since arriving at the court, according to several empirical studies, Thomas has ranked as the panel’s most conservative member Read more |
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Vijay Prashad The People of Palestine Are on the March Israel has begun to bomb from the sky Read more |
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Sarah Anderson How Wall Street Drives Gender and Race Pay Gaps The total 2018 Wall Street bonus pool was $27.5 billion—more than 3 times the combined annual earnings of all U.S. full-time minimum wage workers Read more |
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Rhea Suh Senate Rejection of Green New Deal Won't Slow Americans' Desire for Climate Action It’s long past time for us to speak directly to our leaders and remind them what government by the people is all about Read more |
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Jeffrey D. Sachs, Bandy X. Lee The Trump Contagion US President Donald Trump’s growing rages may partly be the result of cognitive decline, suggested, for example, by his deteriorating ability to form complete sentences, use complex words, and maintain a coherent train of thought. What is certain is that Trump is putting the world at risk Read more |
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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II The Mueller Report Was Never Going to Save Us. We Must Fight Collusion Ourselves. "Our present crisis is much bigger than Trump and his mendacity. It goes to the very heart of who we are as a nation." Read more |
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Steve Striffler Venezuela, US Solidarity, and the Future of Socialism Despite committed work by relatively isolated intellectuals and activists, too many social democrats in the US—willing to attack Trump on almost anything else—have either remained relatively quiet or (worse) largely accepted the premises of his imperialist foreign policy Read more |
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Rebecca Gordon Turning Our Backs on Nuremberg John Bolton and Mike Pompeo defy the International Criminal Court Read more |
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Tim Koechlin Stephen Moore? Really? Stephen Moore is not an economist or an “analyst.” He is only interested in helping his super-rich benefactors get richer. Read more |
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Stephen Zunes U.S. Recognition of Israel’s Golan Annexation a Threat to World Order The Trump Administration’s decision marks a serious violation of fundamental principles of international law Read more |
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Thom Hartmann Has "Cover-Up General" William Barr Struck Again? Barr's history of helping Republican presidents in legal crises may explain why Trump brought him back in to head the Justice Department Read more |