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Bob Burnett Politics by Walking Around The basic notion in "managing by walking around" is that one stands a better chance of understanding what is going on by getting out of the office and going to visit folks where they live or work. Read more |
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Fran Korten Partisan Gerrymandering Could Soon Be Unconstitutional Regardless of how the Supreme Court rules on two cases, anti-gerrymandering action at the state level is well underway. Read more |
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Juan Cole G7 Views Trump’s US as Rogue State, as France Threatens a “G6” Memo "The American President may not mind being isolated, but neither do we mind signing a 6 country agreement if need be." Read more |
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Matt Taibbi An Ode to The Feeble Corporate Apology Some of America's biggest capitalist entities are begging for forgiveness on TV – while barely acknowledging their sins. Read more |
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Will Bunch Voters Wanted a Revolution. How'd They Get Stuck With Corrupt Bob Menendez? The Democratic elites would rather save themselves than save the country. Read more |
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Dave Lindorff We Need A Mass Movement to Save And Expand Social Security And Medicare Old, young, men and women of all races fighting together. Read more |
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Elon Musk and the Corporate Controlled Media When advertisers are calling the shots, don't call it journalism Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies How The War Industry Corrupts The U.S. Congress How can we, the public, make our voices heard by a Congress corrupted by war profiteers, when the war industry can buy a bipartisan majority for war and militarism in the U.S. Senate with such a tiny fraction of its profits? Read more |
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Chad Marlow This Is How Net Neutrality Will End The fight is far from over. Read more |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan NFL's Eagles Give Trump A Civics Lesson “You aren’t listening.” Read more |
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Domenica Ghanem Why We Should Be Alarmed That Israeli Forces And U.S. Police Are Training Together The Israeli forces mowing down unarmed Palestinian protesters also train U.S. police forces that brutalize communities of color. Read more |
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Olivia Riggio Anti-Trump Cartoons Stopped By Censor at Pittsburgh Post-Gazette None of these cartoons appeared in the Post-Gazette, despite Rogers being the paper’s full-time staff political cartoonist. Read more |
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Ryan Cooper Chuck Schumer Is The Exact Opposite of What Democrats Need Schumer has been doing the exact same tired stunt for well over a decade, and it was exhausted even in 2005. Read more |
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John Nichols Taking It to The States “It is time for us to dream again. It is time for us to get back to making big dreams real again.” Read more |
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Andrew Bacevich Infinite War: The Pentagon's Gravy Train Rolls On On not so great wars, theirs and ours Read more |
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Michael Winship When It Comes to The Economy, Trump Keeps Two Sets of Books Contrary to the belief system of this current kleptocracy, what the business of America should be is not business but a commitment to full and fair employment. Read more |
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Jim Klutznick, Marilyn Katz Three Myths About Gaza Dispelled The lives of 119 Gazans have been lost and thousands more unalterably changed. We can't let the truth die with them. Read more |
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Peter Certo Nevermind the Wall — They’re Building Warehouses The newest plank of immigration enforcement? Kidnapping children and piling them into detention centers. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Slogan Voters – The Road to Political Masochism Make America Great Again, Drain the Swamp, and Lock Her Up! Read more |
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Simone Chun Toward A Truly Indigenous Peace in The Korean Peninsula It’s time that American politicians, both Democratic and Republicans, give Koreans a chance to shape their own destiny. Read more |
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Sheila Carapico War of Aggression: The Saudi and UAE Slaughter in Yemen Isn’t A Proxy Conflict With Iran They are starving children under attack by filthy-rich monarchies wielding the most advanced weapons Britain and the United States have to sell. Read more |
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Richard Eskow 50 Years After 1968, Can the Young Change Politics? A Striking New Poll Says Yes Most Millennials want “a strong government” to manage the economy, and most millennial Democrats have a favorable view of socialism. Read more |
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Ramzy Baroud The Colonization of Palestine: Rethinking The Term ‘Israeli Occupation’ Israel has already, and repeatedly, violated most conditions of what constitute an 'Occupation' from an international law perspective. Read more |
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Jeremy Brecher A Climate Constitution in the Courts and the Streets A stable climate system is quite literally the foundation of society, “without which there would be neither civilization nor progress.” Read more |
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Steven Salaita How to Tell When Defending Israel Is Actually Racist The moment anybody defends Israel, of course. Read more |
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Amira Hass Anonymous Snipers and a Lethal Verdict We may never know the name of the soldier who killed Razan al-Najjar. But we do know the names of those who gave the order enabling him to kill her Read more |
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Donatella Rovera, Benjamin Walsby Civilians Paid A Very High Price for Raqqa’s Devastating “Liberation” by US-led Forces Hundreds of civilians were killed: some in their homes; some in the very places where they had sought refuge; and others as they tried to flee. Read more |
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Erin L. Thompson Minority Lawyers Hanging From Their Own Bootstraps How law schools fail those who seek justice. Read more |
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Renee Parsons Forever AUMF Stalls at Senate Foreign Relations Committee It is difficult to recognize a more ill-considered, reactionary vote of enormous global consequences as adoption of a Forever AUMF which will surely hasten the Final Chapter of the American Empire. Read more |
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Ryan Cooper America's Rickety Constitution Is Proving No Match for The Mad King Donald Instead of restricting the growth of tyranny, the Constitution's separation of powers is enabling the coronation of our own mad king. Read more |
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Charles P. Pierce Trump Has Access to Everything A Dictator Could Want He is consolidating power based on deceit at an alarming rate, and getting more popular as he goes. Read more |
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Robert Reich A Second American Civil War? Consider Trump’s torrent of lies, his admiration for foreign dictators, his off-hand jokes about being “president for life” and his increasing invocation of a “deep state” plot against him. Read more |
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Dean Baker No You Assholes, Obama Did Not Do It Too Nobody has done what Trump did last week. To suggest otherwise is simply dishonest. Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati For Minimum Decency, A Maximum Wage Amid rising inequality, a new book argues, the notion of capping income has suddenly become politically plausible. Read more |
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Leah Litman Immigration Sins of the Past and the Forced Separation of Families Our system has largely allowed ICE to detain persons who are potentially removable or excludable, for as long as it deems necessary, and to hold them in shocking, inhumane conditions. Read more |
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Claudia Flores The Trump Administration Is Splitting Up Families at the Border. Here’s What You Can Do About It. #WhereAreTheChildren Read more |
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Allison Skinner The Slippery Slope of Dehumanizing Language It’s long been used to justify violence and destruction of minorities. Read more |
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Paul Buchheit The Taking of Millennial Wealth By Rich White Boomers "Ingenious financial and legal engineering turned our economy from an engine of long-term growth and shared prosperity into a casino with only a few big winners." Read more |
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William Astore The Military-Industrial Complex Strikes (Out) Again The Air Force’s strange love for the new B-21 bomber. Read more |
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Andy Rowell Could Trudeau’s “Wilful Self-Delusion” on Climate Rip Canada Apart? Kinder Morgan walks away with cash, whereas Canada could be heading for a constitutional crisis. Read more |
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Larry Beinhart Trump Might Be Leading the US to Another Meltdown Following the quiet rollback of Obama-era Wall Street regulations, the US may be on the verge of yet another crash Read more |
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Natalie Giotta, Daniel I. Weiner Trump Is Using Pardons To Rig The System For His Pals The man who as a candidate railed against our “rigged system” is, as president, only too happy to do a little rigging himself. Read more |
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Laura Flanders Throwing Shade, Not Light, on Youth Voting I'm always impressed not by how few, but by how many young people manage to cast a ballot given how vigorously others try to stop them Read more |
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H. Patricia Hynes, Frances Crowe JFK, the Pentagon, and Two Roads Diverged How far we have diverged as a country from the once hopeful promise of a more principled, strategic and humanistic vision for our national security Read more |
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Trevor Timm Whatever You Think of the Trump-Russia Investigation, Whistleblower Reality Winner Deserves Your Support Winner is caught between two camps — a whistleblower without a constituency. Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli The Nobel and the Trump After all, other esteemed warmongers have also won the prize Read more |
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Gregory Shupak Burying the One-State Solution in Palestine/Israel By suppressing the one-state idea, the media are hampering the public’s capacity to comprehend and debate the full range of possible ways to reach a just and viable resolution to the question of Palestine Read more |
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy Parkland High School Students Show Remarkable Political Savvy In the wake of the horrific Valentine’s Day shooting, survivors have become sophisticated political instigators. Read more |
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Jeremy Slevin The UN Just Published a Scathing Indictment of US Poverty New report explicitly lays blame with the Trump administration for policies that actively increase poverty and inequality in the country Read more |
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César Chelala Gun Violence Is Only the Symptom of a Very Troubled Society A nation that glorifies war and exports violence with unparalleled scope cannot be surprised when its own people are forced to suffer the consequences Read more |
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Robert Reich Why the Only Answer is to Break Up the Biggest Wall Street Banks If you took the greed out of Wall Street... all you'd have left is pavement Read more |
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Steven Singer Dear Betsy DeVos, I Will *Never* Report My Students to ICE I will defend my students. I will stand up for their safety and their rights. That’s just what we do in public school. Read more |
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Wenonah Hauter What Fossil Fuels and Factory Farms Have in Common Hint: They’re both issues of environmental injustice. Read more |
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Bryce Covert Why 50,000 Las Vegas Workers Are on the Verge of Striking "We want corporations to understand that we’re doing our jobs, and we want them to do their jobs also." Read more |
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Paul Street Needed Now: A Real and Radical Left Without a functioning left able to fight and do things for ordinary working and poor people, we will have nothing to defend and sustain our households, families and communities when the next big capitalist meltdown comes—an event that is due in the very near future Read more |
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Luz Sosa Join Us To Keep Families Together Is the United States, as many of us are taught, a nation of refuge, the land of the free and the home of the brave? Or are we a nation of fear? Read more |
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Adam Johnson WaPo Editors: We Have to Help Destroy Yemen to Save It The most logical way the US can stop the slaughter of Yemen is to stop engaging it in it. But to the Washington Post, this runs against the US policy of bombing and/or sanctioning anything that has the most remote connection to Iran, so this simple course is just not on the table Read more |
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Ryan Cooper The Deafening Message of Trump's Dinesh D'Souza Pardon It is a spectacular abuse of the pardon power and a barely-veiled announcement that Trump will use that power to protect odious conservative criminals and undermine the Mueller investigation Read more |
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Stan Sorscher We Have a "Free Trade" Problem, But Trump Offers All the Wrong Economic Answers Free-market orthodoxy has failed. It’s time to consider our public interest. Read more |
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Jamal Abdi Did Congress Just Shut Down Trump’s War Plans for Iran? The Senate would do well to follow the House’s lead — and go even farther to shut all the backdoors to war. Read more |
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Elizabeth Warren Trump’s New Proposal Is Another Attempt By The Government to Control Women’s Bodies Let’s be clear: the gag rule the president has proposed is not about improving women’s health care. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin The Message From Saudi’s “Reformist” Crown Prince to Saudi Women: Shut Up And Drive While gaining the right to drive certainly brings Saudi Arabia a step closer to joining the 21st century, the biggest impediment for women has not been the inability to drive—but the male guardianship system that is a form of gender apartheid. Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Racism Keeps Rearing Its Ugly Head We see over and over the dehumanization of people of color in our country and our world. Read more |
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Katie Sullivan, Lis Power Study Finds 5,000 People May Have Died From Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. Cable News Focused on Roseanne Instead. Cable news covered Roseanne for over 10 hours. They covered Hurricane Maria's death toll in Puerto Rico for just over 30 minutes. Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt Duck-and-Cover America: Advice to College Graduates in The Age of Trump A commencement speech to the "campus of my mind" about what can't be walled out—or in. Read more |
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Jan Resseger Rivka Galchen Takes You Inside the Oklahoma Teachers’ Walkout and Inside Red-State, Anti-Tax Politics "Oklahoma has essentially been under single-party rule for about a decade." Read more |
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Jeff Bryant New Charter School Plan Should Alarm the Nation “A design for racial and economic segregation.” Read more |
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Mike Ferner Veterans’ Group Says “No” to Emmy for PBS Vietnam War Series “In this war-torn world, what is desperately needed – but what Burns and Novick fail to convey – is an honest rendering of that war to help the American people avoid yet more catastrophic wars.” Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler The American Way of War: Evolution Stops Here There’s nothing in this controlling consciousness devoted to creating — or imagining — a world without nuclear weapons or a world free of war and poverty. Read more |
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Maria Cardona America Is Better Than Trump's Cruel Immigration Policies This new policy is vicious, brutal and is nothing less than Trump administration-endorsed, U.S. government-sanctioned child abuse. Read more |
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John Atcheson Sides, Balance, and the Death of Truth Progressives need to reject the right’s false narrative, not compromise with it Read more |
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Amanda Devecka-Rinear Organizing After Disasters – Both Natural and Man-Made New Jersey Organizing Project members fought for the dignity of their community when hurricane recovery efforts prioritized the rich and powerful. Read more |
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Adam Eichen The Electoral College Reform Movement Made Great Strides This Month, But Is It Enough? “The vote of every American citizen should count equally, yet under the current system, voters from sparsely populated states are awarded significantly more power than those from states like Connecticut…This is fundamentally unfair.” Read more |
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Amy Traub Trump’s America: More Freedom for Banks, Less for Working People On Monday, the Supreme Court released its decision in Epic Systems v. Lewis, ruling 5-4 that employers who steal wages, harass employees, or discriminate on the job can block workers from banding together to pursue justice in the courts. Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati U.S. CEOs Are World’s Best – For Themselves How can the same marketplace value the labor of U.S. CEOs so much more highly than the labor of CEOs from other nations? Read more |
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Jamie Williams, Jennifer Lynch Amazon, Stop Powering Government Surveillance Amazon should stand up for civil liberties, including those of its own customers, and get out of the surveillance business. Read more |
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Chris Hedges Teaching ‘Les Misérables’ in Prison My students will spend their lives condemned as felons. Read more |
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Will Bunch 'Did Climate Change Kill … People in Ellicott City?' Team Trump is doing everything it can to “ignore” climate science. Read more |
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Nada Elia Gaza's Great Return March Massacre: A Turning Point Palestinians must mobilise and strategise to ensure that Israel’s latest assault will be its last. Read more |
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H.D.S. Greenway Trump’s Willful Ignorance Is Another Strain of American Exceptionalism America is the “prize amateur nation in the world.” Read more |
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Mike Lofgren Pity the Right-Winger: He Gets No Respect! Notes from the Never-Ending Culture Wars Read more |
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Nick Turse Tomorrow's Terror Today: Pentagon Documents Detail Dystopian Dangers Narco-corruption, ISIS 3.0, and the terror drone attack that never happened. Read more |
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Richard Eskow How Trump And The GOP’s SCOTUS Screw Workers Americans have traditionally viewed the Supreme Court as an unbiased, apolitical institution. But today, more than ever, this is an illusion. Read more |
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Robert Reich America’s Megalomaniac With Trump, there’s no longer American foreign policy. There’s only Trump’s ego. Read more |
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Juan Cole On Memorial Day, US Troops Still Dying in Afghanistan but Half the Country Is Lost "I don't think Afghanistan stays on our minds, despite the fact that we are still war-fighting there and it is our longest war in history." Read more |
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Linda Kramer Jenning Stacey Abrams Wants You to Upend the Status Quo, Too The first black woman candidate for governor of Georgia overcame obstacles at every turn, and laid out the road map for others to follow Read more |
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Ellen Brown Blackstone, BlackRock, or a Public Bank? Putting California's Funds to Work California has over $700 billion parked in private banks, private equity funds or shadow banks. These funds could be transferred to an infrastructure bank to generate credit for the state—while the funds remain safely on deposit in the bank. Read more |
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Zach Henson My Answer to 'Thank You For Your Service' On Memorial Day, we shouldn't just honor our fallen brethren with a moment of silence. We should also question why they died. Read more |
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Bill Quigley Memorial Day – 7 Facts Documenting Our Neglect of Millions of Veterans Politicians who preach patriotism would do well to address these issues Read more |
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Phyllis Bennis, Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II The Best Way to Honor Our Vets and Protect Americans? End the Wars Soldiers, civilians, and the 140 million Americans who are poor or low-income pay the price for our never-ending wars Read more |
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Noelle Sullivan, Lisa Ann Richey There Are Better Ways To Fight Poverty Than Giving Money To Corporations Worldwide strides toward a so-called free market have increased, not decreased, global inequalities. Read more |
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Juan Cole Legal? Despite Withdrawal Pledge, Trump’s Massive Mission Creep in Syria Mission creep can go very wrong very quickly Read more |
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Camillo Mac Bica Homily for the Slain Memorial Day is a facade, a misrepresentation. Read more |
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Ray McGovern South Korean President Moons Bolton The summit may still be alive because it appears advisers around Trump may well be warning him not to follow his national security adviser down the road to disaster. Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Conflicts of Interest Recusal. Such a simple word. And yet it is the plug that enables you to drain the swamp that you create. Read more |
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Steven Singer The Best Charter School Cannot Hold a Candle to the Worst Public School Charter schools are at heart a less democratic system than public schools. Read more |
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Cassady Sharp Keeping Fossil Fuels in the Ground is the Only Way to Save Polar Bears Ravaged by Climate Change That’s why I’m working with the Brown’s Last Chance campaign to demand Jerry Brown stop new oil and gas drilling in California and devise a fair plan to phase it out entirely. Read more |
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Robert Crawford Reflections on Gina Haspel’s Confirmation In short, accountability will not come from the top Read more |
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Nathaniel Matthews-Trigg Oppression is the Greatest Determinant of Deadly Heat Climate change mitigation and adaptation requires sweeping progressive reforms Read more |
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Kent Shifferd The War Tree Why has all this anti-war, pro-peace activity not worked? Read more |