All Views Articles for 2019-09-04

Wednesday, September 4, 2019
An illustration of the burning Amazon rainforest. (Photo: Shutterstock) John Feffer
Burning Down the House
Far-right governments in the U.S., UK, and Brazil are laying bare their nihilistic roots and full destructive potential.
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The biggest winners of the last decade, in terms of income and wealth growth, have not been even the richest 1 percent, but the richest one-tenth of 1 percent. (Phone: Shutterstock) Chuck Collins
Tax the Rich Before the Rest
Candidates should pledge that the middle class won't pay $1 more in new taxes until billionaires put up at least $1 trillion.
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Protesters in Philadelphia after the 2016 presidential election dispute the results. Donald Trump lost the popular vote by more than a million votes, but won the electoral college. (Photo: Mark Makela/Getty Images) Chris Winters
What If We Made the Electoral College Moot?
Twice in 20 years, a president has won office without winning the popular vote. A new movement is looking to change that.
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Timothy Karr
A Pivot to Digital Shouldn't Spell the End of Local News
By vowing to increase support for public media and dedicate funds to newsgathering, a proposal put forth by Bernie Sanders is raising a question that's rarely come up in political debates: How can policymakers intervene to help revitalize local news and put journalists back to work?
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It’s not immigrants who are taking from us. It’s Trump. (Photo: Shutterstock) Jill Richardson
Get Ready for Unnatural Disasters This Hurricane Season
The Trump administration is moving money away from disaster relief to lock up more immigrants.
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Afghan policemen inspect the site of a blast in Kabul, Afghanistan, September 3, 2019 (Photo: Omar Sobhani/Reuters) Sahar Halaimzai
The Afghan 'Peace' Deal Will Not Bring Peace to the Afghan People
While rushing to strike an agreement with the Taliban ahead of the 2020 election, Washington is ignoring Afghan demands.
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Biden has been notoriously gaffe-prone for his entire career. (Photo: Marc Nozell/cc/flickr) Ryan Cooper
This Is Joe Biden's Emails Problem
Is Joe Biden mentally unsound?
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The path that we are on leads to darkness. (Photo: Gabriele Holtermann-Gorden/SIPA USA/PA Images) Laurie Laybourn-Langton
The G7 Was a Joke. Three Degrees Warming Isn’t
We need a European Green New Deal that delivers justice on a scale to match the threat of environmental breakdown. Here's how we do it.
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Don't despair, for a warm glow of hope beckons from the very midst of today's cold, often nightmarish system. (Photo: Jim Watson/Getty Images) Jim Hightower
Here's the Real Deal on 'Medicare for All'
The power of the establishment's money and lies wilts in the face of the moral imperative that is at the heart of Medicare for All: Everyone deserves, as a human right, affordable access to quality health care.
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"Historians belong in this debate," writes the University of Michigan professor, "because our moment is world-historical, and only historians can set it in context." (Photo: University of Michigan) Juan Cole
Failing Breitbart Comes for Juan Cole on Climate History and It Won’t Go Well
I don't demean myself by reading Breitbart. I'd rather lie naked in my garden during a rainstorm and let slugs traverse me, leaving trails of slime. But I know who they are are.
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