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Tuesday, June 25, 2019
The two largest private prison companies, GEO Group and CoreCivic, have seen business swell due to increased ICE detention of immigrants. (Photo: Ted S. Warren/AP Photo) Kalena Thomhave
Banning Private Prisons—and Prisoner Exploitation
Elizabeth Warren’s newest plan goes beyond limiting the private role in mass incarceration, and seeks to prevent corporate abuse of vulnerable inmates
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Corn bursts from a grain bin which was soaked with floodwater on March 23 near Union, Nebraska. Damage estimates from flooding in Nebraska top $1 billion. (Photo: Scott Olson / Getty Images)  Karthik Ganapathy
Florida Is Burning. The Midwest Is Flooding. Why Aren't Democrats Debating Climate?
Miami hit its highest temperature ever recorded in the same week Democrats arrived for the first presidential debate. This isn't rocket science.
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Julie Hollar
WaPo Doesn’t Want Voters to Know Medicare for All Will Cut Their Health Costs
Healthcare consistently ranks as one of the top issues for Democratic voters, so helping those voters understand Democratic presidential candidates’ positions on healthcare ought to be a key job for...
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In 1953, the U.S.—with the UK—overthrew the democratically elected government of Mohammed Mossadeq and over the course of the next two decades provided full support to the unpopular government of the shah of Iran. (Photo: Shutterstock) Vijay Prashad
The Hybrid War Against Iran
Sanctions, the information war, and the American sabotage
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A demonstrator with a sign reading "Impeach now" takes part in Trumps Birthday Protest in front of the Trump International Tower, June 14, 2019 in New York City. - A group of activists protested against his immigration policy. (Photo: JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images) Miles Mogulescu
Nancy Pelosi's Anti-Impeachment Stance Makes Increasingly Less Sense With Each Passing Day
The House Speaker's position only makes Democrats appear weak and unprincipled. And appearing weak and unprincipled is, by definition, bad politics.
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In 2018, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft spent 70.9 million dollars on lobbying and supporting candidate. (Photo: Screenshot) Robert Reich
Why We Need to Break Up Big Tech
Monopolies aren’t good for anyone except for the monopolists, especially when they can influence our elections and control how Americans receive information
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Aaron David Miller (New America via Flickr) Robert Wright
When NPR Is More Dangerous Than Fox News
When you tune in to "mainstream" media, you may think you’re getting an objective account when in fact you’re getting an account that’s biased in favor of war—just biased in subtler, harder-to-detect ways than the accounts on Fox News
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With plenty of Democratic members of Congress with terrible voting records, a grassroots primary campaign can put a scare into those who pay more attention to big donors than consituents and voters. (Photo: Gordon_Frets/flickr/cc) Norman Solomon, Sam McCann, Pia Gallegos, and Jeff Cohen
Meet the 'Bad Blues': House Democrats Who Deserve to Be Primaried by Progressives
A detailed look at a few members of Congress whose time serving corporate interests over people should soon be over
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