All Views Articles for 2019-07-26

Friday, July 26, 2019
The classrooms of universities and multiversities, are concentrated arenas of learning that offer special opportunities to raise students and intellectuals to speak up for the poor, for Mother Earth and her children. (Photo: Nnimmo Bassey) Nnimmo Bassey
We Must Wake the World From Slumber to Tackle the Existential Crises of Our Days
The classroom of life has no graduation.
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Congress has no ability to check the executive branch in any meaningful way. (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images) Danielle Allen
We Are in Our Articles of Confederation Moment
Our national legislature no longer functions.
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"Warren’s foreign policy positions have shifted a fair amount in recent years, particularly during the past few months." (Photo: Marc Nozell/flickr/cc) Reese Erlich
Elizabeth Warren on War and Peace
Warren’s troubling foreign policy history includes uncritical support of Israel, supporting sanctions on Venezuela, and vilifying Russia and China as national security threats. But her views are also evolving.
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Geopolitical Crimes are ongoing and others are being initiated to reflect current realities. (Photo: CommonDreams) Richard Falk
Geopolitical Crimes: A Revolutionary Proposal
We can no longer afford the occurrence of deliberate choices by representatives of leading governments that pose grave harm to the human interest in achieving humane societies and a sustainable future for the species
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Congress either needs to exercise its oversight prerogative, or voters need to elect a different president in 2020, so that the criminal justice system can be brought to bear on private-citizen Trump. (Photo by Jonathan Ernst - Pool/Getty Images) Kim Wehle
The Question Isn't Whether Trump Obstructed Justice, But Whether Congress Even Cares
What’s at stake is not Trump the man, but the very nature of the institution of the U.S. presidency.
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New York Times depiction (7/24/19) of Bernie Sanders at a student debt rally with indebted former student Pamela Hunt. (Photo: J. Scott Applewhite/AP) Jim Naureckas
The NYT’s Six Percent Solution for Student Debt
Why are Democratic candidates going on about student loan debt? Why, the problem is practically solved already! That’s the message of a piece in The Upshot ( 7/24/19 )—the New York Times ‘ project...
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Republicans have quite plainly looked at our current state of electoral dysfunction and concluded that it’s working pretty darn well for them. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Paul Waldman
Mitch McConnell Is Right. Secure, Open Elections Would Elect More Democrats.
Legislation to secure our elections is partisan. And the fact that it’s partisan shows just how pathological the Republican Party has become in its determination to hold on to power.
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Johnson will jeopardize our children’s future, because he is a climate denier. (Photo: Dominic Lipinski/PA Images via Getty Images) Andy Rowell
Meet Boris, the UK’s Climate-Denying New Prime Minister & "Donald Trump of Britain"
No wonder the Republicans are excited, as Boris Johnson is one of their own. He is cut from the same cloth.
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So far, that wager has netted Americans nothing. No money. No deal. No bridges, roads or leadless water pipes. And there’s nothing on the horizon since Trump stormed out of the most recent meeting. (Photo: Cyrus McCrimmon/Getty Images) Tom Conway
Trump Promised Massive Infrastructure Projects—Instead We’ve Gotten Nothing
That contract Trump signed with American voters to produce an infrastructure plan in the first 100 days: worthless. It never happened.
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Sonali Kolhatkar
Puerto Ricans Demonstrate How to Oust a Corrupt Leader
What's happened in Puerto Rico provides important lessons for all Americans fed up with our deeply corrupt, racist, misogynist and hateful commander in chief
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The Framers anticipated the possibility of a Donald Trump. (Photo: Screenshot) Robert Reich
Why Impeach Trump? It's the Right Thing to Do
The Constitution mandates that the House undertake an impeachment inquiry and present evidence to the Senate
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