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Kevin Johnson Will Voters Lead on Electoral Reform? The half-century peak in state level reforms this year is the best indicator we could ask for that major national level reform is not far behind Read more |
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Steven Choi In Trump’s Hands, the Census Becomes a Weapon The census determines how billions of federal dollars are allocated on a state and national level, and it is also used to draw political districts, thus determining political representation Read more |
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Eugene Robinson Trump Stokes Resentment Toward Minorities. Republicans Just Smile Republicans who do not reject and condemn Trump’s demagoguery are complicit in it and will share in history’s judgment Read more |
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Juan Cole Your Health, Social Security, and Safety Depend on Voting Democratic Today If you want to cast yourself down into poverty and watch your loved ones die for lack of health insurance, just go on voting Republican and giving heartless bastards like Trump the keys to the kingdom Read more |
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Lindsey Allen Big Banks Just Flunked Their Own Test on Climate, Indigenous Rights In a bitter irony, JPMorgan Chase and other banks revise their own environmental due diligence standards just as they re-up their support for fossil fuels Read more |
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Jonathan Cook With Brazil’s Bolsonaro, Israel Finds Another Natural Partner on the Far-Right Israel has relished the recent emergence of far-right leaders across the Americas and Europe, often to the horror of local Jewish communities Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Economic Inequality and Racism Are This Election's Crucial Issues Most Americans are financially struggling to stay afloat—people of color more so than whites—and corporate elites are laughing all the way to the bank Read more |
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Thom Hartmann Medicare for All Will Destroy the GOP—Because of Voting! If the national ID system were the key to getting your health care and medications, there’d be no need for “voter registration” and no ability for the GOP to purge voters. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Don’t be Flattered, Fooled and Flummoxed in Tomorrow’s Election On how to become a super-voter Read more |
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Paul Buchheit The Evidence Pours In: Poverty Getting Much Worse in America Poverty—and the stress of being poor—is killing people every single day Read more |
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Tracy L. Barnett Democracy Under Siege: Systemic Flaws May Override Record Electoral Participation The U.S. electoral system is not set up to facilitate a truly representative democracy and has been further undermined by those with a vested interest in a low turnout Read more |
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Medea Benjamin Trump Bullying Will Hurt Millions of Iranians The sanctions are already taking a tragic toll. While there are humanitarian exemptions on food and medicines, restrictions on banks and shipping companies make even exempted items difficult to obtain. Read more |
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James Carroll Entering the Second Nuclear Age? “They will not forgive us” Read more |
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Chris Hedges Scum vs. Scum in This 2018 Midterm We no longer live in a functioning democracy Read more |
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Jennifer Cohn Voting Machines: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Beyond the midterms, voters must pressure Congress to pass substantive election security legislation Read more |
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Ruth Conniff Get Ready for the Shake-Up: Grassroots Candidates Drive Midterm Surge While Donald Trump rallies the rightwing base with flagrant appeals to fear, anger, and racism, the most diverse slate of candidates in U.S. history is poised to change the direction of the nation’s politics for a long time to come Read more |
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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. Trump's Racism Can't Win Elections. Gerrymandering and Voter Suppression Can. It is time to fight for the heart of our democracy, and to elect those who can reconstruct its basic infrastructure Read more |
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Michael Winship Vote Against the Litany of Lies The GOP is openly talking about gutting Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, the programs you’ve paid for throughout your working life. Vote! Read more |
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Praveen Fernandes Forced Classification, Biological Determinism, and Sad Chapters From Our Nation’s History We ignore history at our own peril. Read more |
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Nozomi Hayase How Did Julian Assange Become a Political Prisoner of Our Time? Injustice against the Wikileaks founder continues Read more |
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Sue Sturgis The 2018 Ballot Measures That Could Help Build a More Just South There are ballot questions in Southern states — some of them citizen-initiated — that have the potential to expand voting rights, create a fairer economy, and protect the environment. Read more |
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Abby Scher Eight Lessons From History to Help Make Sense of Today’s Madness Somehow, we need to fight on behalf of true democracy, economic, gender and racial justice for all, the climate and the common good all at the same time. Read more |
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Ellen Brown Trump’s War on the Fed President Trump has stepped up his criticism of the Federal Reserve, saying of its aggressive interest rate hikes that it has “gone crazy.” The same charge has been leveled against Trump, but there may be a method to his madness . . . . Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati Mouthy Moguls: Our Latest Disappearing Species What do America's billionaires feel about the burning issues of the day? They'd rather not say—in public. Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli The Newborns vs. Trump Like his ardent followers, "Adolph" has assumed a stridently anti-immigrant tone that gives comfort to those who have an intense hatred of foreigners seeking to enter the country Read more |
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Meghan Tinsley Civil Rights and Voter Suppression in the US The rights of those whose citizenship is contested will not be guaranteed by appeals to loyalty and patriotism, but by social movements that are not bound by the state. Read more |
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Steven Singer The World Mourns for Jews After Pittsburgh’s Synagogue Shooting. What About Other Targets of Hate? It’s not enough to take a stand against anti-Semitism. We need to join together to fight all of it. Read more |
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David Korten Why I Have Hope in the Face of Human Extinction Around the world, people are realizing the current path will lead only to disaster, and they’re beginning to ask the hard questions about what to do next. Read more |
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Chris Kromm Immigrant Bashing Emerges as GOP's Closing Argument in 2018 Midterms Republicans appear to have settled on a theme to turn out GOP voters Read more |
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Martin Fleck Withdrawing From the INF Treaty Is One of Trump’s Most Dangerous Moves Yet In a few short years, there could be no treaties left restricting the world's two largest nuclear arsenals. Read more |
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Travis Jackson Why Alabama Is the Future of the Progressive Movement As we approach the November elections, voters should look past the pundits and recognize that Alabama is not a lost cause, but a state of people who have historically led the charge for a better nation through multiracial, grassroots organizing, often against all odds Read more |
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Gary Younge Why Democracy Will Be the Biggest Loser in the US Midterms Millions will be excluded on Tuesday—the voting system is shamefully rigged against ethnic minorities and the poor Read more |
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Reese Erlich Murder of Saudi Journalist Builds Opposition to Yemen War Mid-term elections could reverse Trump policies Read more |
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Carl J. Mayer In Ohio, A Key Test for Politicians Willing to Challenge Corporate Power If Cordray’s message of economic Populism and Progressivism prevails in this election, it will show not only the Democratic Party but the Nation that fighting for the people against entrenched corporate power is a winning strategy and the future of the Republic. Read more |
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Chloe Maxmin, Canyon Woodward What a Rural Maine House Race Can Teach the Left Chloe Maxmin could be the first Democrat ever to win Maine House District 88 in a place deep in the state where one thing is clear: The left abandoned rural America Read more |
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Pat Garofalo San Francisco’s Prop C Would Make Tech Companies Address the Homelessness Crisis They Helped Create Will San Francisco ask its wealthiest corporations to pay slightly more so that thousands of currently homeless people can have a roof over their heads? Read more |
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Daniel S. Goldman Robert Mueller Is on the Ballot This Year, Too The midterms are about control of Congress — it will determine the future of the special counsel’s investigation, especially who will run it after Sessions and Rosenstein Read more |
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Victoria López Warehousing Immigrant Children in the Texas Desert Considering that many of these children have family members or sponsors waiting to care for their safety and well-being, the government’s insistence on warehousing them at Tornillo is a moral disgrace Read more |
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Barbara Koeppel Blue Wave or Red Wave? No Way to Tell It’s a tremendous toss-up Read more |
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Will Bunch Stop Blaming Millennials for Not Voting. Blame America’s Screwed-up System—and Fix It! America—the supposed beacon of democracy—is one of the world's worst developed nations for voting Read more |
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John Atcheson Haters and Partisans Have Always Been With Us. But This Is Different We're in big, big trouble. Read more |
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Mary Miller Why Aren’t More Young People Involved in the Anti-War Movement? It’s so easy for Generation Z to ignore war since it has always been a part of our lives Read more |
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Olivia Alperstein We Have 12 Years to Save—or Lose—Our Only Home Consider this your all-hands-on-deck, siren-blaring warning that we need to act now or forever hold our peace Read more |
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Roy Eidelson A Tale of Two Caravans: What Trump Is Really Afraid of Is a Mass of Voters Trump and other GOP leaders believe that stoking fear, anger, suspicion, and contempt toward the migrant caravan is the best way to counter and undermine the voter caravan now massing against them. Read more |
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Rory Fanning, Spenser Rapone Your Commander-in-Chief Is Lying to You: Veterans Issue Open Letter to Active Duty US Soldiers By every moral or ethical standard it is your duty to refuse orders to "defend" the U.S. from these migrants. Read more |
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Peter Dreier Why #PlaidShirtGuy Wore A Socialist Rose A poll conducted in July and August of this year found that Americans aged 18 to 29 are more positive about socialism than they are about capitalism Read more |
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William Hartung Pentagon Socialism Militarizing the economy in the name of defense Read more |
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Justin Anderson Blaming ‘Both Sides’ for Hate Plays Into Hands of Right-Wing Media In the past decade, right-wing domestic extremism claimed 71 percent of deaths, compared with just 3 percent for left-wing extremists Read more |
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Dennis Jett The Pittsburgh Shooter’s Xenophobia Sounds a Lot Like Trump’s There is simply no plausible way to ignore the fact that Trump's language validated the Pittsburgh shooter's paranoid worldview Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Mass Murder and American History This is America, where we have the freedom to kill one another Read more |
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Molly Scott Cato Why I’m Turning From Law-Maker to Law-Breaker to Try to Save the Planet Direct action and civil disobedience are now needed to force governments to see that our survival as a species is at risk Read more |
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Jim Hightower Beware of the Real Gremlins This Season With devilish signals to their base, they promise to be more Trumpian than Trump, offering a Mephistophelian agenda ranging from the harsher treatment of the poor to the more plutocratic alchemy enthroning the rich over America's workaday people Read more |
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Paul Street Trump’s Endless Mendacity and the Dawn of American Fascism No U.S. president has ever lied as prolifically, constantly, insidiously and dangerously as Donald Trump. He never stops. He’s the Energizer Bunny of endless falsehood. Read more |
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Ryan Cooper The Right's Deadly Anti-Semitism Problem Elected Republicans are, as usual, keeping their heads down and hoping for a change of subject. Don't let them get away with it Read more |
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Nora Barrows-Friedman Why Israel Does Not Mind Trump's Anti-Semitic Supporters It is in the interest of Israel for Jewish Americans and Jewish Europeans to feel unsafe Read more |
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Andy Rowell Bolsonaro: A Despot Who “Spells Disaster, Not Only for Brazil But for the Planet” Those fighting for environmental protection or indigenous rights in Brazil need our support and they need it now Read more |
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Michael Winship Trump's Trick or Treat The president's games of Let’s Pretend and vilification have dire consequences. Read more |
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Robert Reich The Truth About Trump’s Economy Don’t be fooled. Read more |
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Francesc Badia i Dalmases Brazil: the Day After Our Brazilian friends are going to be needing us, a lot, in the coming years. What is left of global civil society has to be prepared and give shelter to those under attack Read more |
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Juan Cole Top 5 Mistakes GOP’s Wohl Made in Allegedly Framing Mueller for Sex Charges Perhaps his biggest and sixth mistake was simply being completely unprincipled Read more |
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Jonathan Cook Bolsonaro: A Monster Engineered by Our Corporate Media Despite their professed concern, the plutocrats and their media spokespeople much prefer a far-right populist like Trump or Bolsonaro to a populist leader of the genuine left Read more |
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Jessicah Pierre As Midterm Nears, Trump Returns to an Old Formula: Lies and Hatred The president is putting up a dirty fight to maintain the Republican majority in Congress. Read more |
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Bill McKibben Big Oil Is Sloshing a Crude Tsunami Across the Country The sums the oil companies are investing are so large that they may well overwhelm science and common sense Read more |
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Omar Jadwat No Mr. President, You Can’t Change the Constitution by Executive Order Birthright citizenship is one of the bedrocks of this country Read more |
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Jeff Bryant How Teachers Might End Up Beating Back the Koch Brothers’ Plan to Privatize Arizona Schools A destructive voucher program drained the state of millions of education dollars Read more |
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Jill Richardson The White House Desperately Wants This Election to Be ‘Us’ vs. ‘Them’ As the midterms approach, the administration is ratcheting up its attacks on anyone who isn't a straight, white, native-born Christian. Read more |
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Chuck Collins Time for a Tax on Billionaire Wealth Dynasties Now just three families own a combined fortune of $348.7 billion, which is four million times the median wealth of a U.S. family Read more |
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Ralph Nader Democrats: Headline "America Needs a Raise" Now Before Elections Again and again, too few Democrats will not stand for explicit policies that reflect majoritarian opinion and contrast with the plutocratic, big business interests of the Republicans. Read more |
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Rev. Jennifer Bailey, Dove Kent From Charleston to Tree of Life: White Nationalism Is a Threat to Us All Spaces of worship are where our communities are most resilient, most resistant against injustice—and also, sadly, most vulnerable to white nationalist violence Read more |
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Russell Mokhiber 'Kleptocracy in America' A conversation with journalist and historian Sarah Chayes Read more |
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Vijay Prashad Bolsonaro of Brazil: Slayer of the Amazon Brazil’s new president’s embrace of corporations puts the Amazon rainforest and indigenous communities at risk Read more |
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Eugene Robinson Don’t Tell Me That ‘Both Sides’ Need to Do Better Only the right is to blame — starting with President Trump and his complicit enablers in the Republican Party Read more |
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Jesse Jackson We Must Not Be Bystanders When Darkness Descends The arc of the universe, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. taught, is long but it moves towards justice, but only if we bend it that way Read more |
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Sarah Anderson Busload of Activist Nuns Log 5,600 Miles for Tax Justice The renowned 'Nuns on the Bus' are heading to Mar-A-Lago, the final stop in a cross-country campaign to undo the damage of the Republican tax reform Read more |
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Andy Rowell Scientists Warn That Canadian Glacial Melting Is “Outside the Scope of Normal” "I think Arctic science should be a priority. I think understanding our terrestrial and marine ice should be a national priority.” Read more |
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Michael T. Klare On the Road to World War III? This is not your mother's Cold War Read more |
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Thom Hartmann It’s a Right-Wing Cover-Up: Trump Was a Big Inspiration for the Synagogue Slaughter in Pittsburgh We can’t let them conceal the motive for the killings, which lead back to Trump Read more |
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Robert Reich Hate Unbound Make no mistake: This lineage of cause and effect begins with Trump and his Fox News propaganda machine Read more |
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Belén Fernández The Inconvenient Truth About the US-Bound Migrant Caravan The migrant caravan Trump is so obsessed about is a direct result of US foreign policy Read more |
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Khaled Beydoun Why Aren't We Calling the Pittsburgh Shooting 'Terrorism'? Perhaps the path to end terrorism begins with abandoning it as a term we selectively deploy and actively distort Read more |
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Marco Carnelos How Jamal Khashoggi's Murder Could Reshape the Middle East Order The journalist's brutal killing could threaten the US-Saudi relations and Saudi crown prince's grip on power, and dramatically affecting the calculations of Israel and the US Read more |
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Chris Hedges The Cult of Trump Our only hope is to organize the overthrow of the corporate state that vomited up Trump Read more |
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Sidhant Gugale The Clock Is Ticking on Addressing Climate Change — Med Students Can Help Climate change is here, climate change is in our face, and climate change is just as relevant to physicians as it is to lobbyists or politicians Read more |
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Josh Healey The Pogrom in Pittsburgh: Darkness in America, Light in a Synagogue I went to synagogue last night... And then woke up to the news. Read more |
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Will Bunch The Love That a Pittsburgh Madman Tried to Extinguish – and How You Can Feed the Flame The only real way to fight back against Saturday's insanity in Mr. Rogers' neighborhood is to look for the helpers — and give them our support Read more |
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Juan Cole Does Anti-Muslimism Enable Anti-Semitism? It seems clear that US far-right extremism is a hotbed of hatred against both Jews and Muslims, and that its proponents mix the two up Read more |
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Michael Lerner Solidarity After the Massacre of Jews in Pittsburgh... and How Best to Defend Ourselves This pattern of violence and demeaning of “the Other” has become so deeply embedded in the culture of the U.S. that only a true consciousness transformation will undermine its prevalence in both political parties. Read more |
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Alex Hochuli Who is Jair Bolsonaro and Why is He More Dangerous Than Trump? The many reasons why Bolsonarismo stands alone when compared to its global far-right peers. Read more |
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Valerie Vande Panne How the Headwrap Expo Is Helping to Break Cultural Barriers A major forum offers a path to eliminate stereotypes and foster a deeper understanding of people. Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Sexual Identity in Trump's World Trump’s vision for Amerika, is not like Hitler’s vision for Nazi Germany—yet. Read more |
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Todd Gitlin The Hondurans are Coming! Trump Stirs the Pot of Hysteria, the Media Happily Spoons It Out It's crucial to understand that Trump could not drum up this latest round of panic on his own. Read more |
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Bob Topper The American Taliban Our equally extreme evangelical vice president Mike Pence also believes our laws should be based on the bible. Read more |
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Steven Singer The Pittsburgh Community is Stronger Than the Synagogue Shooter’s Hate There’s a popular yard sign in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh. In bands of green and blue and yellow, it projects the same message in Spanish, English and Arabic: “No matter where you... Read more |
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Linda McQuaig Premier Ford Driving a Race to the Bottom for Ontario’s Lowest-Paid Workers After decades of losing ground to the elite, millions of Canadians will find themselves falling behind deeper and faster. Read more |
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Pierre Tristam Trump’s Responsibility Liberalism isn’t doing this. Immigrant hordes aren’t doing this. Trumpism is. Read more |
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John Atcheson A Tragedy in Three Parts: Corporations, Coups, and Crazies Imagining that Trump is the cause of our complete dysfunctionality is folly. He is merely a symptom Read more |
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William E. Connolly Neoliberalism and Fascism: The Stealth Connection The current fascist electoral campaign rallies by Donald Trump are designed to up the ante of charges against liberals and the Left Read more |
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Laura Flanders Is Donald Trump Responsible for Violence? Yes. Complicit in killing? Absolutely. Read more |
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Max Richtman Voters Face a Simple Choice: Expand Social Security and Medicare, or Watch GOP Eviscerate Them Both Plainly put, millions of American seniors are feeling the pinch and they need a raise in the form of bigger Social Security checks and expanded Medicare benefits Read more |
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Bob Burnett Voter Suppression in the 2018 Midterms Republicans are determined to get out their base and to suppress the vote of everyone else Read more |