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Leonardo Flores A Triumphant Return to Power for Bolivia’s Social Movements The most important victory, however, did not come at the ballot box, but rather in the streets. Read more |
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Robert Reich Recognize What This Is: A Final Attempt of a Desperate, Bitter Man to Cling to Power Why this effort to steal an election and corrupt democracy won't work. Read more |
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Yves Engler Trudeau Lobbies Biden to Maintain Climate-Destroying Trump Policy Why is Ottawa trying to maintain one of the Republican's worst environmental policies? Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt State of Chaos Donald Trump knew us better than we knew ourselves. Read more |
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William Astore Reclaiming American Idealism We could use a leader like George McGovern again. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies Will the Biden Team Be Warmongers or Peacemakers? We must vigorously advocate for a team that would put an end to the normalization of war and make diplomatic engagement in the pursuit of international peace and cooperation our number one foreign policy priority. Read more |
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Jonathan Cook The UK Equalities Commission's Labour Antisemitism Report Is the Real 'Political Interference' Neither Jewish leadership groups nor the corporate media have an interest in highlighting the embarrassing fact that the commission’s findings exposed their campaign against Corbyn as misinformation. Read more |
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Naomi Klein Time for Democrats To Betray the Donor Class—Not the People A great many people did not vote for Joe Biden, they voted against Trump. We have to recognise how narrow this win was. Read more |
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Anna M. Phillips 5 Things Biden Can Do to Fight Climate Change Even Without Congress Some environmental advocates have said that because we are barreling toward catastrophe, Biden should invoke emergency authority to address climate change. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Progressive Message to Joe Biden: Don't You Dare 'Cooperate' With Mitch McConnell If Biden chooses to 'cooperate' with Mitch McConnell, that choice is likely to set off a political war between the new administration and the Democratic Party's progressive base. Read more |
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Michael Winship Hoorays for the Biden/Harris Victory, But the Battle's Far From Over When the cheering stops, the hard work begins. Read more |
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Robert Reich There Will Be No Graciousness or Concession From Trump—Incapable of Either So how can Biden heal the nation when Trump doesn't want it healed? Read more |
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Nina Turner Biden Needs to Deliver to the Working People Who Delivered for Him Biden and Democrats in Congress now have an opportunity to win a generation’s long-term loyalty, but only if they deliver the big changes young Americans demand. Read more |
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Robert Freeman Now Comes the Hard Part Trump's defeat is just the very beginning of this battle for the future. Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati The 2020 Election as a Triumph for Democracy? Hold the Hosannas Even high voter turnouts mask the reality of that "affluent authoritarianism" that now governs America. Read more |
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Thea M. Lee Biden and Harris Must Strongly Advocate for Working People Many elections across the country demonstrated that progressive, pro-worker policies are not just good economics, but also can be electoral winners. Read more |
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Joshua Cho Media Still Refuse to Report the Real News: Trump Is Actively Trying to Steal the Election Too many outlets turned an imminent threat to democracy into a factchecking "gotcha." Read more |
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Ralph Nader Biden Has Ousted a Lying and Corrupt Trump—But That Doesn't Mean Democrats Had a Great Election Day Loaded with nearly twice as much money as the GOP, the Democrats showed that weak candidates with no robust agendas for people where they live, work, and raise their families, is a losing formula. Read more |
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Anne Milgram Trump's Brazen Attack on Our Democracy Trump's remarks were plainly desperate, a last-ditch effort to claim that he is losing because others are cheating him. Read more |
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Mindy Isser What Democrats Should Learn From the Spate of Socialist Wins on Election Day It’s not enough to be anti-Trump. Socialists are showing you can win elections by standing for something. Read more |
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Jonathan Cook The Task of 'Sleepy Joe' Is To Put Liberal America Right Back To Sleep T he US empire’s insatiable greed and determination to colonise every last inch of the planet, if only with our waste products, is gradually killing the life-systems we depend on. Read more |
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John Lynch Global Food System Emissions Alone Threaten Warming Beyond 1.5°C—But We Can Act Now To Stop It We have to switch the energy sources powering farms and food production from fossil fuels to renewables, while halting the deforestation that creates new farmland. Read more |
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Elise Gould Thanks to GOP, Next President Inherits a Devastated Economy With Millions Out of Work Policymakers cannot ignore the economic devastation happening to workers and their families across the country. Read more |
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Peter Bloom Resisting the "Moderate" Reaction To defeat Trumpism the extreme centre must stop blaming leftist and minorities for their losses. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Progressives Made Trump's Defeat Possible. Now It's Time to Challenge Biden and Other Corporate Democrats. Without a strong progressive program as a rudder, the Biden presidency will be awash in much the same old rhetorical froth and status-quo positions that have so often caused Democratic incumbents to founder, bringing on GOP electoral triumphs. Read more |
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Ruth Conniff Why Trump Will Lose Wisconsin Recount Governor Tony Evers lashes out at Trump's claims of fraud as 'beyond irresponsible.' Read more |
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Robin Andersen Media Fail to Prepare Public for Potential Trump Coup Will the media continue to align themselves with a demagogue by failing to identify his refusal to leave as a "coup," or will they finally embrace the perspective demanded by their First Amendment mandate. Read more |
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Chris Hedges America Is Now a Corpse However inequitable its bias, capitalist democracy at least offered the possibility of incremental and piecemeal reform. We are past that now. Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac Biden Might Just Eek This Out, But Even the Best-Case Scenario Is Pretty Dismal No one who cares about democracy can take heart from the place in which we now find ourselves. Read more |
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Jeneé Osterheldt Regardless of Who Wins This Election, America Is Lost Donald Trump is not the root of our American problems. He is a side effect, a megaphone, and a permission slip to no longer hide one’s true capitalistic and supremacist desires. Read more |
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Rebecca Gordon Our Work Is Just Beginning "It's only afterwards, once we’ve won, that the real difficulties begin. In short, there is still much to do." Read more |
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Robert Freeman It’s Far From Over Trumpism has not been repudiated, not even close. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Listening To Trump Leaves Me Speechless I imagine if Trump could, he'd put every anti-Trumper in the country into border cages. All 69,567,432 of us. Read more |
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Dan Froomkin The Biggest Story of Our Time Requires an Army of Journalists to Tell The role of the free press in the world’s leading democracy is not to sit by and watch as authoritarianism takes root. Read more |
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Andrew Mitrovica We Now Know What America Is After four years of Trump, millions of Americans have still chosen to vote for him. Read more |
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John Feffer U.S. Democracy: The Four-Year Rule? American democracy is in rough shape. It’s going to take more than this election to set it right. Read more |
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Jules Kortenhorst, Andrew Steer Paris Agreement: Don't Count the US Out Just Yet The vast majority of people in the United States support the Paris Agreement. Read more |
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Hamilton Nolan Everyone Needs to Be More Furious Right Now Trump and gangster Republicans are now very openly trying to steal a presidential election. Read more |
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Kimberly Alters Trump Has Not Won, No Matter What He Says It's outright dangerous to have a leader who refuses to acknowledge a sound democratic process. Read more |
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Will Bunch America Wakes Up to a Near Worst-Case Scenario Trump’s bogus victory claim, likelihood of a gridlocked D.C. reveal a still-broken nation. Read more |
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Olivia Rosane U.S. Now Officially Out of the Paris Climate Agreement The U.S. is now the only country to withdraw from the accord. Read more |
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Richard Eskow In a Fearful Moment, We Are Honored by History This moment connects us in an unbreakable thread to so many of the generations that came before us and came after us—generations who fought invaders, resisted slavery, challenged colonialism, and fought fascism. Read more |
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Jamie Henn How The Election Became A Referendum on Fossil Fuels If Biden is able to withstand this fossil fuel industry juggernaut and win the election, it should send a clear signal to him and the Democratic party that they can take on Big Oil and emerge triumphant. Read more |
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Brian Stelter What Will TV and Social Networks Do if Trump Prematurely Declares Victory? The question at hand: Should the networks act as gatekeepers and decline to broadcast Trump's claims, unfiltered, to tens of millions of Americans, or is their role to show news as it happens? Read more |
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Thom Hartmann This Election Proves the Need for a Right to Vote America needs a 28th Amendment that establishes an absolute right to vote for all citizens who’ve achieved the age of majority. Read more |
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Bill McKibben This Election Isn't About the Next Four Years. It's About the Next Four Millennia Time is running out to act on global heating. Electing Donald Trump the first time cost us dearly; a second term would be catastrophic. Read more |
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Paul Jay Without Illusions, the Left Should Vote for Biden This election isn't just about choosing the lesser evil; it's about choosing a more advantageous field upon which to wage battle. Read more |
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Tony Norman What to Do When Your Democracy Is on Fire: Vote! This is the most important Election Day since the Civil War. Read more |
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Allan Nairn Trump's GOP Worked Harder to Stop People From Voting Than They Did to Stop Covid-19 From Spreading While Republican lawyers work overtime to have counts stopped and legal, filled-out ballots destroyed, the president tries to scare opposing voters away. Read more |
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Anita Sinha An American History of Separating Families I initially was unable to answer my students’ question of how the U.S. government can engage in such cruelty, until together we realized that family separation is embedded in American history. Read more |
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John Buell Whoever Wins the Election Will Face Severe Eviction Crisis, as 30 Million Brace for Homelessness Despite the massive mortgage debt overhang and the impending foreclosure crisis there is very little talk about how debt might be restructured or how to house the many who will be left homeless. Read more |
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Cynthia Kaufman Nonviolence as a Strategy for Protecting the Election Results The particular situation we are facing, in the mass rallies that are planned, is a classic one where enforcing nonviolence by people who show up on our side is important. Read more |
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Julie Matthaei Dump Trump AND!!! Singing Across the Generation Gap for a 21st-Century Revolution Dump Trump AND!!! (defund the military and the police), Dump Trump AND!!! (grow a culture of love and peace). Read more |
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Tom Valovic Three Questions That Didn't Get Asked During the Presidential Debates (and Probably Never Will) The questions that never make it through the corporate media's screening process. Read more |
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Heidi Shierholz Thanks to Mitch McConnell, 30 Million Workers Head Into Election Day Unnecessarily Hurting It is both cruel and terrible economics that Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell adjourned the Senate last Tuesday with no COVID relief. Read more |
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Robert Reich Feeling Frightened on Election Eve? Here Are Some FAQs to Keep You Company "The last thing Chief Justice Roberts wants is another Bush v. Gore." Read more |
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David Solnit, Julie Searle 'Choose Democracy, Stop a Coup:' Guerilla Street Mural in Oakland "This mural is a call to everyone that we need to choose to defend democracy and build the kind of world that we want together." Read more |
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Mark Pocan Everyone Needs to Do More to Fight COVID-19 We have little room for error if we are going to prevent thousands of people from getting sick and dozens from dying every day. Read more |
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Christopher D. Cook Trump Is the Anti-Worker President Despite the "populist" myth, Trump has decimated workers' rights and protections. Read more |
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Daniel Ellsberg, Michael Ellsberg Dear Fellow Progressives: Please Vote for Biden The best hope of removing Trump from the White House is a landslide victory for Biden. Read more |
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Juan Cole Top 5 Ways Trump Failed You Too Epically to Ever Be Reelected Trump has promoted coal burning, the dirtiest fossil fuel and the one most deadly to the health of the earth’s climate. Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt We've Been on Donald Trump's Road for a Long, Long Time America in the mid-seventies and 2020. Read more |
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Michael Winship Vote as If Your Life Depends on It. Because It Does. This could be our last chance to send the American dictator packing. Read more |
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Taylor Barnes From Arms to Renewables: How Workers in This Southern Military Industrial Hub Are Converting the Economy Huntsville, Alabama is teeming with engineers and STEM talent. Some are leaving the defense economy for the clean energy one. Read more |
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Kolina Koltai How to Be a Good Digital Citizen During the Election—And Its Aftermath People spreading disinformation may be trying to sway the election one way or the other or simply undermine confidence in the election and American democracy in general. Read more |
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Jeff Bryant Bad Leadership Is Plunging Public Schools Into a Crisis Covid-19 exposed how important teachers are to students and families—it's a shame that school leaders still won't listen to them. Read more |
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Frank J. Christensen Biden Is Labor's Best Bet Despite his attempts to portray himself as a leader who protects the interests of so-called forgotten Americans, President Trump is no working-class hero. Read more |
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Miles Kampf-Lassin How Our Politics Came Undone Under Trump, our notion of shared truth has been shattered. In its place, monsters have swarmed. Read more |
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John Feffer This Election Is About Trump's Pandemic Failures. But What Happens Next? It's going to take more than a change of personnel in Washington to address our decaying climate, public health, and democracy. But it's not too late. Read more |
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Juan Cole The Real Cancel Culture: Trump Rallies Sicken 30,000, Kill 700, and Trump Train Prevents Biden Gathering in Texas The American people have it in their power to stop this cancellation of our health, well-being, and basic constitutional rights. On Tuesday, they can cancel Trump. Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli The Email and the Election A few examples from two senders follow but their emails are nothing more than representative of the dozens that arrive each day during the election season. Read more |
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Tony Norman The Dead Eyes and Cold Heart of Jared Kushner The poster boy for presidential nepotism shows his true colors. Read more |
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Carlos Figueroa Working-Class America Needs Real Change, Not Slogans Working-class people demand better from a republic that promotes freedom, equality, and the pursuit of happiness. Read more |
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Elaine Shelly Make This Election About Care There should only be one America: one where we all get the best care and the widest range of choices. Read more |
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H. Patricia Hynes The David and Goliath in Our Time We have never been so close to nuclear annihilation, in the opinion of many nuclear weapons experts, as today. Read more |
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Michael Winship A Few Days Away From Nov. 3, Another Week of Trumpian Havoc But despite everything, Christmas may be a little bit early this year. Read more |
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Gabriel Arkles Don't Let the Supreme Court Open the Door to More Discrimination Against LGBTQ People LGBTQ people already get turned away from food banks, shelters and more. The high court's decision in Fulton could make things worse. Read more |
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Miles Mogulescu There Already Is a Republican Plan for Pre-Existing Conditions: It’s Called Obamacare There is simply no way to protect people with pre-existing conditions, other than an Obamacare/Romneycare approach of subsidized insurance exchanges, or a Medicare For All, everyone in, nobody out approach. That’s why it’s been impossible for Republicans to propose their own alternative plan to... Read more |
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Jim Goodman How Decades of Corporate-Friendly Farm Policies Wrecked Rural America—And Paved the Way for Trump If the Biden-Harris ticket, and the Democratic Party in general, wants to begin to heal this rift and regain what the Democrats have lost in rural America, they will need to articulate a clear vision for a future that includes rural Americans. Read more |
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Fran Quigley The Socialist Preacher "Socialism, or something like it, is the settled conclusion of a society that values democracy." Read more |
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David Baake New Mexico Has the Opportunity to Enact Some of the Best Oil-and-Gas Pollution Rules in the Nation. It Shouldn’t Squander It. If done right, it will deliver tremendous environmental and economic benefits and set an example for other states to follow. Read more |
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Will Bunch Trump's Politicized Supreme Court Has Lost Legitimacy. 2021's Dems, Do Something! A Democratic Congress and White House could expand the Supreme Court by just three seats—the same number as appointed by Trump during a presidency that history may regard as essentially invalid. Read more |
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Leah Greenberg, Sean Eldridge Hope for the Best, Plan for the Worst: Why We Must Be Ready to Protect the Vote Trump is laying the groundwork to dispute the valid election results. That’s not hyperbole, Trump has said it clearly. Read more |
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Yifat Susskind A Feminist Blueprint for Saving Democracy in the US—and Beyond If Trump refuses to step down after the election, we’ll need to unite, mobilise and resist. Feminists from Belarus to Sudan can show us how. Read more |
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Victor Pickard Post-Election We Need a Bold Plan for Journalism Ultimately, the market won't save us. Nor will rich benefactors. We need a systemic fix, a public media option that's dedicated to universal service in its true meaning: all Americans must have access to high quality news and information. Read more |
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Amira Al-Subaey, Parker Breza The Class of 2020, Another Lost Generation The only solution that matches the scale of the crisis is full student debt cancellation, without leaving anyone behind. Read more |
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Tim Koechlin This Land Is Our Land: Trump's America, and Our America The Trumpian tragedy is doubly tragic because it makes so much sense. We can decide that Trump is an anomaly. But, in fact, Trump looks and acts a lot like America. Read more |
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Heidi Shierholz Let's Be Very Clear: Senate Republicans Have Failed Every Struggling American Family It is cruel, and bad economics, to withhold stimulus aid. Read more |
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Ruth Conniff Donald Trump Is a Superspreader of Many Terrible Things Trump, GOP dismiss the pandemic as Wisconsin cases spike. Read more |
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Thom Hartmann Was April 7, 2020 the Day That Sealed the Fate of America? Look at what they said and did. And look at when they said and did it. Read more |
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Mark Hertsgaard, Andrew McCormick The World Is Burning, but the Political Press Insists on its Horserace In the few days that remain before the election and in the months that will follow, journalists must ask themselves if they’re truly conveying the gravity of the climate crisis to their audiences, as well as all the challenges and opportunities it entails. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler The Parallel Universe of Peace Those who are committed to peace and global equality are forced to work for it in a world that is seriously prejudiced in favor of war. Read more |
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Karen Greenberg Donald Trump’s Failed State America's daunting New World and the coming election. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Why Noam Chomsky and Daniel Ellsberg Are So Adamant About the Imperative of Defeating Trump Defeating Trump is a crucial—and certainly insufficient—precondition for making possible the kind of changes in government policies that are desperately required for social decency. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies Ending Regime Change—in Bolivia and the World In the long history of U.S.-backed "regime changes" in countries around the world, rarely have a people and a country so firmly and democratically repudiated U.S. efforts to dictate how they will be governed. Read more |
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Margot Rathke, Sarah Anderson Unleashing the Power of Poor Voters Low-income voters could decide this election. These neighborhood activists are working to make it happen. Read more |
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Mariko Lewis, Yixia Cai The Rise in Material Hardship Among Working-Class Whites and How It Could Impact the 2020 Election The rise in material hardship among lower-income whites without college degrees, and the Congressional GOP’s opposition to new legislation addressing it, will likely make it harder for Trump to hold on to these important swing voters in next week’s election. Read more |
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Jules Lobel Incensed Over Amy Coney Barrett's Confirmation? Don't Mourn—Organize and Vote For the past half century or so, the progressive movement has often relied on the courts, not the political branches to win and protect rights. It's time for that to change. Read more |
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Mary Green Swig, Steven Swig Freedom Dreamers: The Faces of Student Debt Millions of people don’t even know they’re being harmed by student debt, but should be dreaming of a world without it. The facts are staggering. Read more |
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Greg Wilkinson Between Chaos and Commonwealth Some reflections from decades of contemplating the rich, the poor, and the conviviality that comes with common purpose. Read more |