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Jesse Jackson Our Fundamental Right to Vote Is Under Attack In state after state, Republicans want to suppress voting because they know they are a minority party. Read more |
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Jordan Libowitz, Caitlin Moniz Trump Reported Making More Than $1.6 Billion While President When Trump failed to separate himself from his businesses—and in fact used the presidency to increase his business earnings—he made it clear that his top priority was his personal profits. Read more |
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Lewis M. Steel Reflections on Battling White Supremacy I was a civil rights lawyer in the 1960s. As I watched GOP senators shrug off a racist coup attempt, I thought: We’ve seen this before. Read more |
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James D. Zirin Are Judges Just Politicians in Robes? Having seen that appointed judges refuse to toe the party line at the federal level, the GOP has decided to employ partisan gerrymandering to change the way judges are elected at the state level. Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Profiles of "Courage" During the Trump Impeachment Trial Sycophantic antics of Republican members who opposed Trump's impeachment. Read more |
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Timothy Karr Cutting Deals with Big Tech Won't Save Journalism We need strong public-media laws that prioritize a free press, civic-minded news production and the interests of the communities news outlets are supposed to serve. Read more |
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Wenonah Hauter Deb Haaland Attacked by Fossil Fuel Industry If Haaland follows through on the actions the oil and gas industry and their allies in Congress are worried about, she will be the most effective Interior Secretary in recent memory. Read more |
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Paul Buchheit 2021 Update: Half of America In or Near Poverty We need Guaranteed Jobs. President Biden's proposed Civilian Climate Corps is a positive step in this direction. Read more |
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Paul J. Ramsey Politicizing Schools and Science, Again Remote learning surely is saving some lives—of students' elderly family members and vulnerable teachers—which, in a pandemic, should take priority over political—even economic—concerns. Read more |
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Marion Brady Salvaging Public Schooling Using scores on tests of recalled secondhand information to shape education policy doesn’t just invite societal suicide, it assures it. Read more |
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Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy Young Madagascar Farmers Find New Ways to Help Lemurs, Rainforests—and Themselves "The local community living near these protected areas can be the source of the lemurs' conservation problems but is also the solution to those same problems." Read more |
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Ann Garrison Kizito Mihigo and the Struggle for Truth and Reconciliation in Rwanda Rwandan musician, genocide survivor, and peace activist Kizito Mihigo was remembered in his homeland and beyond on the first anniversary of his death. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Why Didn't Speaker Pelosi Want Witnesses? As Republican strategist Kevin Philips noted years ago, the Republicans go for the jugular while the Democrats go for the capillaries. Read more |
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Robert Freeman Texas Freeze Illustrates a Failed Economic System We need to begin changing our fundamental ethic, from "I'm getting mine. Screw you," to "We're all in this together." Because we are. Read more |
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Jeremy Lent Transforming to an Ecological Civilization: The Alternative Is Unthinkable A society based on natural ecology might seem like a far-off utopia—yet communities everywhere are already creating it. We need to forge a new era for humanity—one that is defined, at its deepest level, by a transformation in the way we make sense of the world, and a concomitant revolution in our... Read more |
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Tyler Lobdell Smithfield Claims To Be 'Sustainable' While Remaining One of the Biggest Industrial Polluters in the US Smithfield is pushing a massive greenwashing campaign to dupe consumers into thinking its products are environmentally friendly. Read more |
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Shannon M. Smith How the National Guard Became the Go-to Military Force for Riots and Civil Disturbances The modern National Guard evolved from Colonial-era militias. Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati American Social and Medical Disorder: The 'Pre-Existing Condition' That Doomed the U.S. Covid Response? The answer from a blue-ribbon medical commission on the Trump years: decades of rising inequality. Read more |
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Abdi Nor Iftin President Biden Needs to Step Up Efforts to Stop the War in Yemen by Ending All Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia Mothers are helplessly lowering their toddlers to graves next to the remnants of American-made bombs used by Saudi Arabian forces. Read more |
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Debra Gore-Mann Toward a Shared Liberation: Our Interconnected Struggles Are Built on Asian and Black Solidarity We must train our eyes on the true enemy: white supremacy in all its forms. Read more |
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Miles Mogulescu Stop Manchin and Sinema From Imitating Jim Crow Dixiecrats and Letting the Filibuster Block Civil Rights and Voting Rights Sinema's and Manchin's decisions may well determine whether America remains a democracy or whether it's indefinitely distorted by minority rule. Read more |
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Canadian Foreign Policy Institute An Open Letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Regarding Haiti It’s time for the Canadian government to stop propping up a repressive and corrupt dictatorship in Haiti. Read more |
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Carolyn Clendenin Gov. Abbott: Millions of People in My State Without Power? Damn Liberal Climate Agenda! It’s far from surprising that Texas leaders are using a crisis to do some PR against real action on climate change. It’s strategy #1 in the GOP playbook for dealing with the existential crisis facing our nation. Read more |
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Writers and Scholars Opposing Censorship On the Sacking of Nathan J. Robinson: An Open Letter to Guardian US Editor John Mulholland Regardless of one's opinions on the Middle East, everyone should be distressed by The Guardian' s act of blatant censorship. Read more |
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Akilah Sanders-Reed Stopping Line 3 Is a Matter of Intergenerational Justice Take five minutes today to do three things to #StopLine3. Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt The American Century Ends Early How the USS Enterprise was transformed into the USS Roach. Read more |
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John Feffer What About Eliminating the Senate Altogether? The U.S. Senate is a global and national problem. Read more |
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Vandana Shiva Reclaiming Our Common Home: Expand the Commons to Include Everything We Need Ecological civilization is based on the consciousness that we are part of the Earth, not her masters, conquerors, or owners. Read more |
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Cynthia Kaufman A Just Transition to a Fair and Sustainable Society or Healthy Green Growth? A review of Tomorrow's Economy: A Guide to Creating Healthy Green Growth Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Bending the Moral Arc of the Universe—Toward Peace, Sanity, and Survival—No Matter the Obstacles Uncertainty in a vulnerable world. Read more |
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Derrick Z. Jackson America's Response to Covid-19 Should Long Perforate Our Pomposity About Being the Greatest Nation on Earth 500,000 US Covid-19 deaths and counting: a shameful public health failure. Read more |
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Mitchell Zimmerman GOP Senators Said Trump Was Culpable, but a "Private Citizen" Now. Fine—Indict Him Like One. Impunity is a disease that rots the rule of law. Read more |
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John W. Roulac Making America's Rivers Blue Again: Connecting the Dots Between Regenerative Agriculture and Healthy Waterways Building a regenerative food system where bees buzz, dragonflies hover, and fish and frogs thrive will begin when we change hearts and minds. Fake meats and GMO soy are not the answer. Read more |
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James K. Galbraith CBO Not Competent to Assess Economics of Minimum Wage in "Unreliable" New Report CBO should not have published this report, and no one should rely on it. Read more |
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Adam Gaffney, David Himmelstein Universal Healthcare for Less! CBO Scores Medicare for All The bottom line of the CBO analysis—that universal coverage can be affordably achieved even as benefits are expanded and cost sharing all but eliminated. Read more |
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Randy Baker Failure to Prosecute Trump's Serial Assaults on the Republic Would Be Indefensible Failure to prosecute Trump will embolden aspiring autocrats. Read more |
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Jonathan Cook Why Politicians and Doctors Keep Ignoring the Medical Research on Vitamin D and Covid Most experts—scientists and doctors—have not taken Vitamin D seriously, despite the growing evidence, because it is made in the mystical touch of sun on skin rather than by white-coated technicians in a laboratory. Read more |
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Rebecca Long We Must Give Power to the People Most Affected by Climate Change, While Also Disrupting the Capitalist System In her new book, Shalanda Baker, President Biden’s choice for Deputy Director of Energy Justice, emphasizes the need for an urgent and equitable response. Read more |
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Juan Cole From Covid To Mass Power Outages, the Texas Republican Party Has Created a Failed State The Republican Party does not believe in government. They believe in coddling the very rich. Read more |
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Michael Winship The Truth on Trial at Trump’s Second Impeachment Big stories reveal the good, the bad and the ugly of humankind—and that includes those who report and comment on the news. Read more |
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Eric Hansen A Message to Joe Biden: Stop Line 3 Isn't it time to stop creating dangerous crude oil infrastructure? Read more |
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Jesse Jackson 43 Republican Senators Chose To Stand With the Seditionists Rather Than Defend the Republic What we saw Saturday was a profile in cowardice. Had there been a secret ballot, the Senate vote to convict Donald Trump likely would have been overwhelming. Read more |
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Robert Reich The GOP Is a Dangerous Cult That Democrats Should Not Negotiate With We either have a future based on lies, violence, and authoritarianism—or on unyielding truth, unshakeable civility, and democracy. Read more |
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Alex Kotch Parler Is Now in the Hands of a Right-Wing Extremist Seeking a Radical Rewrite of the Constitution Mark Meckler has a long history of creating organizations to mobilize far-right activists. Read more |
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Rachel Gore Freed Reversing Myanmar's Coup Isn't Enough. Here’s How to Build a Better Burma Myanmar's military should be held accountable for the coup, but the West needs to make sure they are punished for their abuses against the country's minorities as well. Read more |
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Adnan Karim Recent Events Reveal Urgent Need for Civics Education in the US If citizens do not have the basic knowledge to defend our democracy, they will be drawn to the delusional and irresponsible declarations and promises of immoral leaders who build their base by spinning lies. Read more |
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Rev Dr Liz Theoharis We Must Put Human Life Before Corporate Profits Whose rights matter in pandemic America? Not those of poor Americans, that's for sure. Read more |
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Juan Cole Unemployment Is 3 Times Higher Than They Are Telling Us—We Need Stimulus Now If we are to do anything about these human tragedies the first task is to not hide behind concepts and narratives that understate the problem. Read more |
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Belén Fernández The Case Against Jared Kushner's Nobel Nomination Former US presidential son-in-law is nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize over his role in Arab-Israeli normalisation. Read more |
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Ariel Dorfman "Libertad y Justicia Para Todos": How Spanish Can Help Us Survive Viral Times A journey into the heart of a language we need now more than ever. Read more |
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Patrik Paulov The Gulf War 30 Years Ago: Memories From a Shelter in Baghdad On February 13, 1991, a horrific massacre took place in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq. The U.S. coalition bombed a shelter and killed more than 400 people. Read more |
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Ken Jacobs A $15 Minimum Wage Would Be Life-Changing for Workers and Save the US Billions per Year Beyond the working families who will get a raise, every single American taxpayer has a stake in raising the minimum wage. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies Is Biden Committing Diplomatic Suicide Over the Iran Nuclear Agreement? American neocons and hawks, including those inside his own administration, appear to be flexing their muscles to kill Biden’s commitment to diplomacy at birth, and his own hawkish foreign policy views make him dangerously susceptible to their arguments. Read more |
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Stephen Cockburn Big Pharma Must Share Their Vaccine Knowledge and Technology With the World—Now To stop the global pandemic, rich countries need to stop hoarding vaccines. Read more |
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Zoe Weil What's Really Wrong With—and How to Fix—Our Broken Education System Change the goal of schooling and watch the good unfold. Read more |
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Robert Reich Out of the Ashes of Trump, Will the US Finally Bury Reaganism? Ronald Reagan convinced the nation that big government was the problem. It was rubbish. Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac Now Is the Time to Really Prosecute the Case Against Trump—By Pivoting to Real Democratic Reform Any approach to moving forward must reckon with the fact that one of this country's two major parties is no longer committed to multiracial democracy. Read more |
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Naureen Shah This Is Biden's Chance to End ICE's Abuses—For Good The systemic abuses of ICE make communities less safe—especially when they act in tandem with law enforcement through programs like 287(g), ICE detainers, and Secure Communities. Read more |
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Ralph Nader, Bruce Fein Democrats' Shameful Cave Trials without witnesses are not genuine trials. Read more |
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Shaan Sachdev Trump's Global Grim Reaper, Mike Pompeo The real reasons he was a shameful Secretary of State, and how Antony Blinken can do better. Read more |
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Juan Cole Who Were the Republican Senators Afraid of When They Acquitted Their Own Attempted Murderer? At some point you have to wonder whether the bigger danger was the Capitol insurrection or the pusillanimous GOP reaction to it. Read more |
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Tim Koechlin A Reminder of What Is Possible There is still a lot of work to do, of course. There is a lot of pain out there. But it feels so good to be hopeful. Read more |
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Elaheh Farmand We Must Fight the System, Not Each Other Once I saw the connection between domestic and international injustices of our societies and capitalism, I found myself awoken after years of sleeping in the belly of the beast. Read more |
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Julie Hollar Impeachment Trial Is Not About Convincing GOP Senators—Many of Whom Were Trump's Co-Conspirators The point of the impeachment trial is to determine how history will remember Trump's anti-democratic presidency as well as the party that supported him—and media's framing today will have a powerful influence on that eventual verdict. Read more |
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JoAnn Lum Workers' Groups to Biden: Support Equal Rights for All Workers to Organize Workers' organizations call on working people to support Biden's plan to create a path to citizenship for 11 million undocumented workers and further demand Biden support equal rights for all workers to organize to strengthen workers unity. Read more |
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Mark Engler, Paul Engler It's a Myth That Presidents Welcome Movement Pressure—and Biden Is No Different Politicians fear the disruptive power of a mobilized base, even when it helps them succeed. Read more |
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Juan Cole Federal Court Strikes Down Arkansas Attempt to Punish Proponents of Boycotting Israel Over Its Treatment of Palestinians The anti-boycott laws are the ultimate in cancel culture. They are also un-American. Read more |
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Chuck Collins, Bob Lord Taxes on the Rich: One-Sixth of What They Used to Be A new IPS briefing paper highlights the unique role of tax policy in wealth concentration. Read more |
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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II The Fight for a $15 Minimum Wage Is a Fight for Racial Justice Democrats need to stop playing games and use their majorities to pass a $15 minimum wage right now—we can't wait any longer. Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac Trump's Guilt Clearly Demonstrated During Senate Trial The Democrats are now presenting a "slam dunk" impeachment case in the Senate. And it will almost certainly "lose" in "court." What's next? Read more |
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Sarah Anderson We Must Expose the Insurrection Financiers The January 6 assault on our democracy should lead to greater accountability for future political leaders—and their wealthy financial backers. Read more |
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Elliot Gilfix Jeep Ad Featuring Bruce Springsteen Emblematic of Lazy Obsession With the Mythical Political "Center" Sorry, but there is no "seeking the middle ground" with the GOP. It has gone way off the deep end. Read more |
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Jonathan Cook The Guardian Reveals Its True Face by Sacking Progressive Columnist Nathan Robinson for Criticizing US Military Aid To Israel We need to understand that old corporate media like the Guardian are not an ally to the left, they are the enemy. Read more |
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Mike Lofgren The Right Devolves From J.S. Bach to Skinhead Rock How conservatives fell in love with trash culture, and why it reflects their rage. Read more |
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Labor Notes Editorial Staff Karen Lewis Lit the Spark That Inspired a Generation of Teachers and Union Organizers When you see fire in educators who are standing with students and community to demand justice, look in those flames for her unwavering determination—and her wide smile. Read more |
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Jeff Schuhrke After Threatening Strike, Chicago Teachers Set "New Standard" With Safer School Reopening Plan Hard-fought negotiations and a strike threat led to Chicago teachers reaching the "most comprehensive agreement for reopening schools" in the country, potentially setting a model for other districts nationwide. Read more |
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John Feffer It’s Time To Resurrect a Global Anti-Fascist Consensus To Name, Shame, and Throw These Guys Out of the Game Beating back the far right globally. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Ariel Gold Biden Should Stop Payment on U.S. Funds To Sisi's Egypt Sisi's reign of power has caused vast human rights abuses and a large-scale breakdown of civil society. Read more |
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Tina Gerhardt How Biden Can Tackle the Climate Crisis Joe Biden has promised to ensure climate justice, but will his administration rise to the challenge? Read more |
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Brian Terrell Ending the Other War in Yemen The global proliferation of weaponized drones is no surprise and Biden’s plea for peace in Yemen that allows for their continued use is a hollow one. Read more |
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Larry Bensky, Conn Hallinan Saving Pacifica Radio Is Critical to Building a Progressive Movement "We are in a battle for the heart and soul of Pacifica." Read more |
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Andrew Bacevich Can America's Soul Be Saved From Poison Injected by Trump? Only by acknowledging the evil caused by the simultaneous presence of racism, materialism, and militarism, will it be remotely possible for the United States to take the first few halting steps toward redemption. Read more |
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Ari Paul The Fawning Coverage of Psaki’s Performance Suggests Some in the Press Have Forgotten That Spin Doctors Are Not on Your Side For all the calm Psaki is bringing into the White House press room after a four-year circus, as State Department spokesperson it was her job to justify the most imperial aspects of the Obama administration’s foreign policy. Read more |
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Jamie Henn Ad Agencies Like Wavemaker Need to Stop Greenwashing Chevron's Climate Crimes The real purpose of Chevron's deceptive feel-good advertising is to convince the public and politicians that the oil and gas giant is already acting on climate, so there's no need to regulate them or hold them accountable. Read more |
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Mondaire Jones Biden Could Cancel Student Debt With the Stroke of a Pen Canceling student debt isn’t just the right thing to do—it’s the economically smart thing to do. It would liberate millions of Americans to meaningfully participate in our economy. Read more |
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Christopher D. Cook Republicans Are Now the Party of Lawlessness and Disorder There really is no debating that Trump incited a deadly insurrection riot, no more so than we might debate that the earth is round. And the pending vote to convict or acquit will make clear exactly what the GOP has become. Read more |
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Vanessa Meraz All Undocumented Americans Deserve a Pathway to Citizenship Years of advocacy have made DACA the floor of what’s possible, not the ceiling. Read more |
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Kaniela Ing With Environmental Justice, the Devil Is in the Details If we invest enough, and we invest right, our communities—Black, Indigenous, Latinx, all of us—will finally get a taste of the good life that America has forever promised. Read more |
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David Hart If You Want Healing, Get Off My Bike Do we, as a people, want the events of January 6th to be seen by history as the beginning of national healing, or will we allow it to be the start of an even worse time of division and violence in our nation? Read more |
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Julie Hollar Washington Post Curates the Memory of George Shultz By exclusion or distortion, establishment obituaries rewrite history to make the official heroes fit for adoration. Read more |
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Roger Bybee Why Should U.S. Citizens' Tax Dollars Be Diverted to Enriching the Manufacturing Base of Other Nations When Americans Need Jobs? The President’s plan to reinforce the Buy American Act is the first step in reviving the U.S. industry. Read more |
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John Buell GameStop Fiasco Proves We Need a Financial Transaction Tax America is over-financialized and needs a tax on speculation. Read more |
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Jim Hightower We Can Push Biden for Fundamental Change at the USDA and Beyond Here's a chance for progressives to rally a broad grassroots constituency to refocus the work of this huge public resource and make it The People's Department again. Read more |
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Trevor Potter Impeachment Trial Must Result in Trump Lifetime Ban To Protect Our Democracy We cannot begin to address this threat and rebuild trust unless we send a clear message that future presidents cannot incite an insurrection at the end of their term and get away with it. Read more |
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Philip H. Howard, Mary Hendrickson Corporate Concentration in the US Food System Makes Food More Expensive and Less Accessible A resilient food system that feeds everyone can be achieved only through a more equitable distribution of power. Read more |
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Alice Slater Time to Negotiate for Peace in Space A legally binding international treaty banning the basing of weapons in space should be the global objective of all. Read more |
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Laura Packard Hedge Funds Tried to Kill GameStop. Now They’re Coming for Our Health Care System Too Hedge funds and private equity firms make profits off our misery and threaten any future health care reform. Read more |
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Rebecca Gordon The Looming Fires Climate change, the bomb, or the flame of hope? Read more |
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Mary Babic Top Reasons It's Time to Raise the Minimum Wage Now When employers don’t pay people enough to survive, those workers are compelled to seek government assistance, meaning taxpayers are essentially subsidizing the corporations. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Democrats Disarm Themselves Before Trump’s Senate Impeachment Trial If the Democrats do not go full throttle in this trial—this last clear chance to exercise the Constitution against Tyrant Trump—they will be remembered as profiles of infamy. Read more |