All Views Articles for 2019-09-19
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Tom Weis Another Open Letter to DNC Chair Tom Perez: How Are Democrats Going to Contain the Climate Worldfire If They Won’t Even Hold a Climate Debate? Either the Democratic Party is committed to mobilizing America to "address this threat on a scale not seen since World War II" or it isn't. Read more |
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Shannan Stoll Where Bill McKibben Finds Hope Amid the Climate Crisis The environmental activist says surviving an existential threat like climate change requires honesty—and hope. Read more |
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Andy Rowell Greta Tells Congress to #UniteBehindtheScience On Friday tens of millions of people around the world will participate in a climate strike, demanding action on the issue and an end to the use of fossil fuels. Read more |
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David Suzuki, Rachel Plotkin Connecting the Dots Between the Climate and Biodiversity Crises The polar bear has become the poster child for climate change impacts in the Arctic. Sea ice, which the bears depend on for hunting, is melting at an ever-expanding rate. Read more |
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John Atcheson Here We Go Again: Neoliberal Centrists Are Anointing One of Their Own—and It Could Cost Us Running a candidate who will advocate policies that are embraced by the elite are done in the interests of the oligarchy is literally the only path that leads to a Trump victory in 2020. Read more |
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Jessicah Pierre What the Felicity Huffman Scandal Says About America Low-income parents risk jail for putting their kids in better public schools, while the rich bribe colleges to shut the poor out. Read more |
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Jessica Garraway, David Boenke Teachers Should Join the Student Strikes Students are striking for a future—educators should join them. Read more |
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Jenny Ricks Led By Our Youth, the Climate Narrative Has Changed The lack of meaningful and radical action from our governments, the denial of the existence of a climate crisis, the monied interests that drive our overconsumption and reliance on fossil fuels are all trying to prevent radical and effective solutions to the climate emergency—these are the usual... Read more |
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Steven Singer Charter Schools Were Never a Good Idea. They Were a Corporate Plot All Along The concept always was about privatizing schools to make money. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Bad News to a Sick and Miserable-Looking Earth: "I'm Afraid You Have Humans." Has sanity—and by sanity, I mean hope—finally emerged as a counterforce to the impenetrable status quo of fossil fuel consumption, capitalism and nationalism? Read more |
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Ralph Nader 25 Ways the Canadian Health Care System is Better than Obamacare for the 2020 Elections Everybody in, nobody out, free choice of doctor and hospital. It will produce far less anxiety, dread, and fear. Can you hear that, Congress and the White House? Read more |
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Tamara Pearson The Climate Crisis Means the Wrong People Are Running the World There is no democracy when you can't do anything about the companies polluting your rivers and air. The unbridled power of the big corporations is despotic. Read more |