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Rev. John Dear The Ongoing Call for Nuclear Abolition at Los Alamos The sick people who prevent gun control and support AK47s are the same people who support the building and maintenance of nuclear weapons, which put millions of people at risk from some unimaginable massacre to come. Read more |
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Aviva Chomsky Jobs, the Environment, and a Planet in Crisis Unions vs. Environmentalists or Unions and Environmentalists? Read more |
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Phyllis Bennis In the US Killing Fields, We're Now Way Past "Thoughts and Prayers Are Not Enough" It's long past time to say the crisis is a crisis of white supremacy and racist xenophobic violence—rooted in US history but now enabled and encouraged and cheered on by a white supremacist racist xenophobic president Read more |
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Ryan Cooper The White Nationalist Plot to Destroy America Why do you hate America? Read more |
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Bill Lueders Take Away My Employer-Based Health Insurance. Please. Centrist Democrats like Joe Biden still aim to gin up mass fear over the prospect of leaving behind predatory insurers and the dizzying array of deductibles, co-pays, exclusions, humiliations, and rationing of care that characterizes our current system. Read more |
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Habib Ahmadzadeh This Iranian War Vet Has Some Advice for Trump: Don't Play Checkers with the Grandmasters of Chess War is not our business, but negotiations and diplomacy are. War is not our purpose. Peace is our mission. Peace is our philosophy in life, and you are right, diplomacy is our art. Read more |
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Jarod Facundo What Medicare for All Would Have Meant a Decade Ago Imagine if a new generation could experience guaranteed care, with quality not determined by wealth or income, but instead delivered as the human right it should be. Read more |
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Ather Zia There Is Reason to Fear for the Safety of Every Kashmiri in India The revoking of Article 370 is just the latest step in the BJP's grand plan to transform India into a Hindu-only nation. Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac Some Banal Thoughts About the Mutuality of Evil in our Midst We must defeat Trump, not entreat him Read more |
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Lucas Koerner NPR Shreds Ethics Handbook to Normalize Regime Change in Venezuela NPR needs no state coercion to toe Washington’s regime change line on Venezuela. Read more |
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Alice Slater Hiroshima Unlearned: Time to Tell the Truth About US Relations with Russia and to Ban the Bomb If the US and Russia can’t settle their differences and honor their promise in the NPT to eliminate their nuclear weapons, the whole world will continue to live under threats of unimaginable catastrophic humanitarian suffering and destruction. Read more |
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Adele M. Stan White Nationalist Does Massacre. Now the Gaslighting Begins The president of the United States stokes the right-wing disinformation machine. Read more |
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Thom Hartmann The Latest Massacre Shows the Second Amendment Model of ‘Slave Patrols’ Is Still in Effect Like his presidential hero Andrew Jackson, who owned enslaved people and bragged about murdering Native American women and children, Trump speaks to an exclusively white audience Read more |
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Joëlle Gergis The Terrible Truth of Climate Change The latest science is alarming, even for climate scientists Read more |
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Tim Wilkins In Response to El Paso and Dayton, Thoughts And Prayers Are Not Enough It will take more than a shrug and a smile to keep white nationalists with unlimited access to firearms from taking more lives Read more |
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Thomas Mote Greenland's Ice Wasn't Supposed to Melt Like Last Week Until 2070 The Greenland ice sheet covers an area the size of Alaska with enough ice to raise global sea level by more than 20 feet. Read more |
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Anis Shivani What the El Paso Mass Shooting Tells Us About the Operationalization of Fascist Violence We seem to have crossed some sort of a tipping point here, that this is a manifestation of something new and potentially viral, and far more ominous than the Charlottesville rally Read more |
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Nia Harris, Cassandra Stimpson More Money, Fewer Jobs: The Stubborn Truth About Employment and the Defense Industry The military-industrial jobs scam Read more |
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Jillian Peterson, James Densley We Have Studied Every Mass Shooting Since 1966. Here’s What We’ve Learned About the Shooters Instead of simply rehearsing for the inevitable, we need to use that data to drive effective prevention strategies. Read more |
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Diane Archer, Wendell Potter 'KamalaCare' Fails to Address Big Problem: That We Cannot Trust Insurance Companies Like other Democratic presidential candidates who propose a "public option," she never tells us what her plan will cost or why for-profit insurers will all of a sudden deliver good affordable health care. There’s a reason. Read more |
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Michael Winship Please, I'd Like to Stop Writing about Innocents Killed by Guns Another day, another massacre—this time two, in just 13 hours. Read more |
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John Morlino Will This Be the Next Unthinkable Act of Gun Violence? "It's little wonder that the annual number of firearm-related deaths in the U.S. has skyrocketed during the past decade." Read more |
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Margaret Kimberley Trump and Baltimore "There is only one person worthy of being defended in the wake of Donald Trump's Twitter tirade against Congressional Black Caucus member Elijah Cummings and the city of Baltimore. That man is Keith Davis, Jr." Read more |
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Ryan Cooper The Old Democratic Trade Paradigm Is Collapsing. Good Riddance. "Critically, Warren would also include the welfare of other countries as part of the considerations" as she negotiates a trade deal Read more |
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Jessica Stern, Yifat Susskind Not a Straight White Man? U.S. Religious Conservatives Are Coming for You Unless you are part of the narrow demographic of rich, white men deemed to have rights in 1776, this new Trump administration commission won't protect you Read more |
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Sarah Jones Joe Biden Is the Reason Obama’s Legacy Is on Trial "Even if we accept, for the sake of argument, that it’s a practical mistake for Democratic candidates to criticize the party’s popular former president, Biden is the one who put Obama’s legacy on trial." Read more |
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Will Bunch Neither ICE Nor Storms of Controversy Stops South Philly’s Le Virtù From Fighting for Immigrants "The investigation was, almost certainly, a result of our activism on behalf of immigrants." Read more |
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Angelou Ezeilo Seeing Color in Green Spaces: How to Increase Diversity in Conservation Black Americans are underrepresented in conservation and outdoor retail careers. To change that, White employers need to apply their liberal values to the workplace. Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati Can Inequality Be Hardwired into Our DNA? We need more than a moratorium on making inheritable edits in our genetic code. We need a moratorium on people getting rich off of editing our genes. Read more |
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Sandra Lubarsky Speak the Name of Beauty "So beneficial is exposure to the natural world that a new global movement has arisen to declare access to nature a human right." Read more |
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Ernesto Falcon The T-Mobile and Sprint Merger Is Blatantly Anticompetitive "The companies’ argument is that Americans must accept fewer choices at higher prices if they want to see new services. This is just untrue." Read more |
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Cindy Leung, Julia Wolfson Restricting SNAP Benefits Could Hurt Millions of Americans—and Local Communities "People who are struggling are already demoralized. Being able to make our own food decisions is something that keeps us feeling like human beings." Read more |
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Jessica Piper Debate Rules Drive 2020 Dems’ Digital Ad Spending Over $31 Million This week’s debates were pivotal for most of the field, as struggling candidates look for a breakout moment that can propel their campaigns into September Read more |
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Ralph Nader Trump’s Effective Intimidation of the Powerful Federal Reserve The Fed entrenches the power of the banks without accountability inside Washington. Read more |
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Adam Hochschild America's Real War: A Political 100-Year Flood Trump’s venom against the media, immigrants, "traitors," and more is nothing new. Read more |
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Olivia Alperstein The U.S. Should Never Start A Nuclear War Seventy-four years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a No First Use pledge would make our country—and the world—much safer. Read more |
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Julie Hollar CNN’s Industry Spin Shows Need for Independent Debates We desperately need serious, independently run debates, not over-the-top industry-friendly spectacles of the sort put on by CNN—and endorsed and gate-kept by the major parties. Read more |
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Sarah Anderson 3 Bills to Rein in Executive Pay Shortly before heading home for the summer recess, members of Congress are rushing to introduce proposals for cracking down on unpopular, overpaid executives. Read more |
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Katherine Paul When Will We Start Applying the Precautionary Principle to the Chemicals that Are Killing Our Kids? National Cancer Institute says cases of pediatric cancer in the U.S. have surged by almost 50 percent from 1975 to 2015. Read more |
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Gillian Kane Trump’s Is Not the First US Administration to Ignore Facts, and Slash Aid for Women’s Healthcare A little-known but influential lobby group in Virginia has fuelled ultra-conservative defunding campaigns for decades. Read more |
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Peter Bloom Viral Racism and the Politics of Distraction Republican and Democrats are both exploiting Trump's racism to avoid dealing with real issues. Read more |
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Michael Winship Debating Democrats, Please, No Fighting in the War Room Direct your artillery at the real enemy, not each other. Read more |
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John Atcheson Moscow Mitch and Yada, Yada, Yada: Progressives Need to Do a Better Job at Messaging Money in politics is the reason government doesn’t work and doesn’t represent the people and why the US is an oligarchy headed toward authoritarian rule. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin Guardianship System Eased, But Saudi Arabia Still Oppresses Women Saudi Arabia is the most gender-segregated society in the world. Read more |
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Pramila Jayapal It’s Time for Democrats to Get Their Facts Right on Medicare-for-all The Medicare-for-all movement has overwhelming public support, unprecedented grass-roots organization, and a serious plan that is ready to change our health-care system right now . Read more |
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Ryan Cooper Jay Inslee Just Wants to Save the World From Climate Change Kudos to Jay Inslee for trying to save America and human society. Read more |
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Jill Richardson You Don’t Save Money By Forcing People to Go Hungry Food stamps helped me get back on my feet during a tough time. Cutting them is lose-lose. Read more |
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Lauren-Brooke Eisen Resistance to Private Prison Industry Mounts Amid Debate Over Trump’s Immigration Detention Policies Controversy over immigration policy is shining an unwelcome spotlight on the private prison industry, which runs detention facilities that house tens of thousands of immigrants. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler The Inner Nixon Donald Trump, it turns out, is merely the inner Richard Nixon, live and uncensored. He’s also the inner Ronald Reagan—the inner voice, suddenly made public, of every white male racist who has ever occupied the Oval Office. Read more |
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Michael Felsen How Deregulation Led to the Opioid Epidemic In 2001, Congress rescinded the ergonomics standard that was designed to stem a range of common disabling workplace injuries. Absent regulation, injuries increased and large numbers of people were treated with addictive pain medications. Read more |
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Sarah Jaffe The Politics of Petulance, From Donald Trump to Boris Johnson Four decades of relentless there-is-no-alternative propaganda has so many people believing that change is impossible, so you might as well stick your middle finger up at the world instead. Read more |
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Norman Solomon There’s Nothing Moderate About "Moderates." A Primary Example Is Joe Biden Biden’s record of words and deeds is "moderate" only if we ignore the extreme harm that he has done on matters ranging from civil rights and mass incarceration to student debt and the credit card industry to militarism and war. Read more |
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Nick Engelfried Climate Activists Set Sights on Ending Fossil Fuel Exports in Pacific Northwest Once and For All Climate activists have defeated coal, oil and gas terminals up and down the Pacific Northwest coast. One of the largest remaining hubs may be the next to go. Read more |
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Jim Naureckas Ronald Reagan’s Racism Should Come as No Surprise The historical amnesia that allows people to be surprised that Ronald Reagan was a racist does more than sanitize the image of a historical figure. Read more |
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Barbara Gottlieb The Research Is In: Stop Fracking ASAP Over 1,500 reports show there’s simply no safe way to do it—and it’s harming us all every day it goes on. Read more |
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Steve Suppan USDA to Biotech: Call Your Own Compliance USDA, in its desire to maximize trade in GE crops as soon as possible and everywhere, has proposed a rule that would make it exceedingly difficult to assess a GE plant’s risks Read more |
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Rachel Hodes What 'Abolish ICE' Really Means It’s about asking whether we need an immigration system that terrorizes the least dangerous people in this country. Read more |
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Jamal Abdi, Andrew Bacevich, Juan cole, et al. Expert Letter on Deescalating with Iran There remains a narrow path for the U.S. and Iran to avoid military conflict and resolve ongoing disputes through negotiations. Read more |
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John Feffer Lifeboat Earth Is China or the Green New Deal the answer to climate change? Read more |
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David Dayen CNN's Debate Fail The Democratic debate was an inevitable by-product of turning news into an entertainment and cultural product Read more |
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Richard Eskow The Fatal Flaw in Kamala Harris’ Health Plan Kamala Harris’ plan is too fragile, too complex, and—most of all—too trusting of the predatory private sector to succeed. Read more |
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Michelle Chen Hong Kong Protesters and Militant Chinese Workers Point the Way to a New Kind of Internationalism We can remain warily optimistic that, regardless of the system of government that rules over them, workers and civil society are still the force from which even the most powerful states derive legitimacy. Read more |
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Nancy J. Altman It’s Medicare’s Birthday—Let’s Offer It to Everyone We need to call our representatives and tell them that we are current Medicare beneficiaries who strongly support Medicare for All. Read more |
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Timothy Wise Dear Democrats: We Owe Migrants More Than "Decriminalization" U.S. policies have created the disasters from which they are fleeing. Read more |
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Michael Winship Everyone's Gone to the Moon… … And given what it's like here at home, the moon may be the best place to be. Read more |
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Gabrielle Gurley #WeAreAllBaltimore As The Baltimore Sun wrote, it’s better to have a few rats than to be one. Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati A Lesson from West Africa, a Global Inequality Ground Zero To end poverty at the bottom of our economic orders, we need to stop wealth from concentrating at the top. Read more |
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Robert Jay Lifton, Naomi Oreskes The False Promise of Nuclear Power We must free ourselves from the false hope that a technology designed for ultimate destruction could be transmogrified into ultimate life-enhancement. Read more |
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James Zogby The Abuse of Religion to Foster Extremism Is a Universal Phenomenon When it masks a political agenda or when it justifies violence either by groups or state actors, it becomes a danger Read more |
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Guillermo Torres Indigenous People Demand an End to Detention on Stolen Lands "As the original caretakers of these lands and territories, we have inherent authority over migration and demand an end to these barbaric acts." Read more |
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Lawrence Wittner Dear Moderators of the Presidential Debates: How About Raising the Issue of How to Avert Nuclear War? Don’t you―as stand-ins for the American people―think it might be worthwhile to ask the candidates some questions about how best to avert a global catastrophe of unprecedented magnitude? Read more |
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Joan Martinez Alier , Nick Meynen Never-Ending Growth? The fatal flaw in the plan to end poverty and save the planet. Read more |
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Katherine Newman Retirement Shouldn’t Mean Poverty Social security helps, but growing inequality means millions of elders are just barely making it. Read more |
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Tom Matthews Heatwave: Think It’s Hot in Europe? The Human Body Is Already Close to Thermal Limits Elsewhere Spare a thought for less fortunate communities who are routinely experiencing extraordinary temperatures. Read more |
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Miles Mogulescu Nadler to the Rescue? While Nadler and his Judiciary Committee colleagues may have saved Democrats from having nothing to say to their constituents about impeachment during the recess, the question remains whether they're being too clever by half Read more |
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Danny Sjursen How America's Wars End (Messily) And the Afghan war will be no exception Read more |
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Linda McQuaig Animals Protected from Sexual Abuse, But Not Factory Farm Abuse In a real head-scratcher, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in June 2016 that sexual contact with an animal was legal, as long as there was no penetration. Whatever uncertainty that created for... Read more |
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John Atcheson Trump is Sucking the Air Out of the Political Debate - And Democrats and the Media Are Enabling Him Another Monday, another day devoted to Trump’s insane tweets, racist rants, and faux outrage . Just as he wants it. Trump is a puppet master, his tweets, rants, and outright insanity are the strings... Read more |
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Arthur Haberman The American Version of Fascism is Alive and Prospering The United States, as a whole, is not a fascist country. There are many places in states and localities where democracy thrives. The federal Republican Party, however, has become a fascist... Read more |
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Christopher Teel America Gone Rogue If America goes to war in Iran, it will be because we are a rogue state, not because they are. Iran’s government is a vicious theocracy which supports bloodthirsty regimes, but the current crisis... Read more |
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Ronnie Cummins The 9% Lie: Industrial Food and Climate Change The Climate Emergency is finally getting the attention of the media and the U.S. (and world) body politic, as well as a growing number of politicians, activists and even U.S. farmers. This great... Read more |
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Jeffrey D. Sachs The Crisis of Anglo-American Democracy There is an obvious answer to the question of how the world's two oldest and most venerable democracies installed disordered minds in power and enabled them to pursue unpopular policies. But there is also a deeper explanation. Read more |
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Eric Margolis New Captain for a Sinking Britain Britain’s new prime minister, Boris Johnson, is being called by many ‘the British Trump.’ It’s an easy comparison, given their quirky, confrontational styles, prominent blond hair, tribal politics... Read more |
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Katie Halper MSNBC’s Anti-Sanders Bias Makes It Forget How to Do Math When MSNBC legal analyst Mimi Rocah ( 7/21/19 ) said that Bernie Sanders “made [her] skin crawl,” though she “can’t even identify for you what exactly it is,” she was just expressing more overtly the... Read more |
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Nnimmo Bassey We Must Wake the World From Slumber to Tackle the Existential Crises of Our Days The classroom of life has no graduation. Read more |
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Danielle Allen We Are in Our Articles of Confederation Moment Our national legislature no longer functions. Read more |
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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. Read more |
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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 Read more |
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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. Read more |
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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... Read more |
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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. Read more |
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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. Read more |
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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. Read more |
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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 Read more |
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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 Read more |
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Ryan Cooper Hey, Democrats: Robert Mueller Still Isn't Going to Do Your Job For You Instead of using the Mueller report to build a general case against Trump, and satisfy their base's demand to at least try to provide a check on his accelerating abuses, they hauled Mueller before the House to summarize his own report back to them like it's kindergarten story hour Read more |
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Michael Winship Mueller at the Congressional Ramparts Trying to protect us from the rude tyranny at 1600 Pennsylvania. Read more |
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Nancy J. Altman Today's Congressional Hearing Is A Huge Milestone In The Fight To Expand Social Security Social Security is unquestionably the most important source of retirement annuities, life insurance, and disability insurance for the nation’s working families, even for those fortunate to have other assets Read more |
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Matt McGrath 12 Years to Save the Planet? Make That 18 Months "The climate math is brutally clear: While the world can't be healed within the next few years, it may be fatally wounded by negligence until 2020." Read more |
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Tara Lohan A Climate-resilient Los Angeles Must First Address Its Polluted Past To meet ambitious climate goals, L.A. needs more local water. A critical step is battling the ghosts of industry past—polluted groundwater that dates back to World War II. Read more |