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John Atcheson Why 'Fact-Checking' Gives Liars a Free Pass The story isn't that Trump gets his facts wrong—it's that he's a serial liar Read more |
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Gregory Shupak Media Worried US Won't Occupy Syria Forever And even if the U.S. were to pull its troops out of Syria, it's far from certain that this will mean the U.S. will stop meddling Read more |
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Andy Rowell “Shameful” Trudeau Accused of Violating First Nations Rights Over Gas Pipeline Indeed Trudeau has another crisis on his hands and once again his administration seems to be siding with oil and gas Read more |
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Nina Khrushcheva Trump's Wall With Mexico Follows in the Footsteps of Authoritarian Leaders Throughout History From China to Germany, walls have been used for centuries to spread fear, closed-mindedness and isolationism Read more |
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John Feffer Will Trump Rule by Decree? It’s a small leap from a “state of emergency” at the border to martial law throughout the country Read more |
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Elizabeth Bruenig Fact-Checking Has Flourished. But It’s More Complicated Than It Looks Politics has always been and will always be a battlefield for moral reasoning that requires more than spot-checking of facts Read more |
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Frank Clemente The GOP Tax Cut Is Just as Bad As We Feared it Would Be What more evidence do we need that the Trump-GOP tax cuts are bad law—for the economy, for working families, and for the health and well-being of millions of Americans? Read more |
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Dr. Divine Taylor It’s Time to End the Language of Oppression We are brothers, sisters, sons, fathers and mothers who have been branded by incarceration Read more |
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Danny Sjursen The 'Liberal' Foreign Policy Establishment's Hypocrisy Knows No Bounds Make no mistake, the Democrats have been tacking to the right on foreign policy and burgeoning their tough-guy-interventionist credentials for decades now Read more |
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Fran Korten Healthy Food Just Got a Big Boost in the New Farm Bill A program that doubles the spending power for food stamp recipients who buy fresh produce just got more funding Read more |
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Eugene Robinson Trump Is Terrified of the Far-Right Echo Chamber He’s afraid of his shrunken but loyal base, which could abandon him if he doesn’t give them a wall Read more |
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Reed Richardson Corporate Press Stoops to Absurdity to Balance Trump’s Border Wall Lies Factcheck false equivalence, the sequel Read more |
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Leo Gerard Tax Dollars Can Buy Happiness The deeper meaning of hygge—and why citizens of Denmark are so much happier than Americans Read more |
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Thom Hartmann 4 Reasons the Corporate Media Refuses to Talk About Things That Matter And how we can restore to America a rational media landscape Read more |
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Kate Ruane, Abdullah Hasan Marco Rubio and His Colleagues Need a Refresher on the First Amendment Marco Rubio and his colleagues may not agree with the BDS movement, and they have a First Amendment right to express that. But public officials cannot use the power of public office to punish views they don't agree with. Read more |
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Rebecca Gordon Confronting "Alternative Facts": A Twenty-First-Century Incredibility Chasm Life in the United States of Trump Read more |
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John Buell Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Right that Tax Justice is Key to our Democratic Prospect? There is so much wealth and income parked among a few at the top that sums in the neighborhood of 100 billion a year can be raised quite easily Read more |
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Joseph Stiglitz From Yellow Vests to the Green New Deal The grassroots movement behind the Green New Deal offers a ray of hope to the badly battered establishment: they should embrace it, flesh it out, and make it part of the progressive agenda Read more |
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Jesse Jackson Trump Administration Is Intent on Weakening Civil Rights Enforcement This administration is the most hostile to civil rights and to equal justice under the law than any since the passage of the Civil Rights laws Read more |
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Basav Sen Democratic Leaders Failed Their First Big Test on Climate Kicking the can down the road appears to be a bipartisan sport in Washington Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler A Green Future Is One Without War Our near-trillion-dollar military budget, and the endless and needless wars it funds—not to mention the ongoing development of our nuclear arsenal—can’t be quietly, politely ignored as we envision a sane tomorrow Read more |
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Ramzy Baroud When Bolsonaro and Netanyahu Are ‘Brothers’: Why Brazil Should Shun the Israeli Model Bibi's militancy, oppression of the indigenous Palestinian people, his racially-motivated targeting of Black African immigrants and his persistent violations of international law are not at all what a country like Brazil needs Read more |
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Olivia Alperstein This EPA Rule Change Could Kill Thousands Mercury regulations save 11,000 lives each year. Now, the EPA wants to weaken them Read more |
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Peter Certo Not One Network Should Have Aired Trump’s Immigration Speech The president is going to demonize the media no matter what they do. So why not do the right thing? Read more |
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Tim Lau Flawed Terrorism Report Shows Administration’s Skewed Priorities While over-hyping terrorism committed by immigrants, DOJ is overlooking a bigger threat: terrorist violence from the far right Read more |
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Ruth Conniff Goodbye ‘Divide and Conquer’: With Walker Gone, Wisconsin Begins a New Era “We’ve gotten away from who we are and the values that make Wisconsin great. Not Democratic or Republican values, but Wisconsin values: Kindness and respect, empathy and compassion and integrity and civility.” Read more |
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Donna Smith Shutdown Offers Taste of Suffering the Poor and Vulnerable Know Too Well Quick lesson for those who do not know now or have forgotten what it is like to live on the financial edge: most businesses and financial institutions waiting for bill payment will not care why bills are not paid on time Read more |
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Caroline Cox There’s a Toxic Weedkiller on the Menu in K-12 Schools Across the U.S. Monsanto’s glyphosate has been found in over 70 percent of oat-based breakfast cereals served to US school children Read more |
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Gary Olson The Infantile Politics Of Compulsive Trump Bashing Trump bashing, as smugly gratifying as it might be, only obscures some basic truths and handicaps our thinking about the best way to unite and struggle against a common enemy Read more |
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Brian Tashman A Look at Trump’s Biggest Border Lies Trump’s characterization of the situation on the southwest border is driven not by facts but by his own nativist agenda and political obsession with building a wall Read more |
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Juan Cole The Real Threat Is Invasive Climate Crisis, and Our Shield Is Science Big oil, and Trump, and Fox Cable News don’t know what the earth is worth, amid their deliberately concocted confusion of climate change denial Read more |
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Michael Winship About Last Night... Trump's Oval Office address was a sham and a disgrace Read more |
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Vijay Prashad Here’s What a Real Strike Looks Like: 150 Million Say No to Despotism in India If a new trade union law goes into effect, India will essentially abandon any commitment to workplace democracy Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Alice Slater The New Congress Needs to Create a Green Planet at Peace The time has come for a New Peace Deal that repudiates endless war and the threat of nuclear war which, along with catastrophic climate change, poses an existential threat to our planet Read more |
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Kate Ruane Instead of Ending the Shutdown, Senators Plan to Encourage Punishment of Israel Boycotts While we take no position on Israel boycotts, the BDS movement or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, we do maintain that states should not be sanctioning businesses on the basis of First Amendment-protected expression and association Read more |
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Chris Hedges The Election Circus Begins “Elections are about a lot of things, but at the highest level, they’re about money.” Read more |
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Michelle Chen Two Native Women in Congress Isn't Enough to End the Systemic Violence Native Girls Face Every level of government has failed to protect communities from violence or support their deteriorating social infrastructure Read more |
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Nick Turse Bases, Bases, Everywhere... Except in the Pentagon’s Report One Down, Who Knows How Many to Go? Read more |
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Elizabeth Henderson Why Sustainable Agriculture Should Support a Green New Deal "De-carbonize the atmosphere, re-carbonize the soil!" Read more |
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Dave Lindorff Claiming a ‘National Emergency’ to Justify Building a $5-Billion Wall At last! A workable reason to impeach the MF Read more |
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Thom Hartmann It’s Time to Bring Back the Corporate Death Penalty When big companies engage in criminal harm to the public, they deserve serious punishment Read more |
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Michael Winship Something That Doesn’t Love a Wall. A President Who Does. Crazed and fear-fueled ideology runs rampant over reality. Read more |
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Miles Mogulescu Trump’s Delusion About the Wall That Never Was There never has been a serious plan to build a Wall. And there never will be a Wall. And that’s just fine with Trump, as long as he continues to keep the Wall as a political cudgel. Read more |
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Mike Lofgren Extraordinary Popular Delusions How childish belief masquerades as folk wisdom and warps our politics. Read more |
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Erika Spanger-Siegfried The Miraculous Hope of Climate Realists Today, the only thing we need to ask of ourselves is, whether it’s defeating the fossil fuel industry, winning pro-climate elections, defending climate science, or getting out in the streets in demonstration, that we’re still in Read more |
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Russell Mokhiber Center for Science in the Public Interest: Greg Jaffe, Cornell, and GMOs Greg Jaffe, the head CSPI’s Biotechnology Project, has publically aligned himself with one of the most pro-GMO groups in the country—the Cornell Alliance for Science. Read more |
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Jenni Monet Why You Couldn’t Find Big Media Coverage of Haaland and Davids Time has run out to convince colonized newsrooms that Indigenous issues and perspectives are necessary to the national narrative Read more |
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Timothy Karr Chairman Pai Can't Win for Losing FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s 2017 repeal of the Net Neutrality rules is the worst decision in the agency’s history Read more |
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Ben Lilliston Senator Warren's Push for Climate Risk Disclosure Warren's new bill shines a light on how agribusiness and food companies will have to adapt to new conditions to reduce their risk and transition toward a more resilient, climate-friendly economy Read more |
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Lawrence Wittner Do We Really Need Billionaires? According to numerous reports, the world’s billionaires keep increasing in number and, especially, in wealth Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt Is Donald Trump an Asteroid? Honestly, this could get a lot uglier Read more |
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Paul Buchheit By the Best Definition, the Poverty Rate Should Be Tripled Depressing news doesn't sell on our news shows. So the struggles of the bottom half of America are downplayed, while the "booming" economy for the upper-middle class is highlighted. Read more |
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John Atcheson With Self-Inflicted Pay-Go Rule, Democratic Victory in 2020 Just Got Harder Is Pelosi doing the Republican's work for them? Read more |
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Matt Stoller Congressional Staffing for Dummies: The Pay Go Dispute There are a lot of people arguing about this thing called Pay Go. Here’s my attempted explanation of what Pay Go is and how it intersects with stuff you care about. Read more |
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Robert Reich Democrats Are Hunting Big Game – Did Big Money Already Bag Them? The party of Pelosi and Schiff is not immune to the influence of Wall Street. Grassroots activists must stay vigilant Read more |
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Belén Fernández How Capitalism Is Killing Us And how we may have passed the 'point of no return' Read more |
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Juan Cole Rashida Tlaib and Working Class Authenticity v. Trump’s Plutocrat Pretense Corporate media pundits and political elites expect the wealthy to do bad imitations of working class profanity, but despise the real thing Read more |
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John de Graaf Beauty—The Forgotten Recipe For Happiness Beauty makes me happy and evidence shows that's true for many, if not, most of us Read more |
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Annie Lo, Thomas Wolf Partisan Gerrymandering Back at the Supreme Court Will the justices finally curb efforts to use control of redistricting to rig maps? Read more |
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Charles Eisenstein Why the Climate Change Message Isn't Working Threats of global catastrophe won't move people to action. Only the heart can inspire zeal. Read more |
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Jason Hickel Degrowth: A Call for Radical Abundance One of the core claims of degrowth economics is that by restoring public services and expanding the commons, people will be able to access the goods that they need to live well without needing high levels of income. Read more |
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Paul F. deLespinasse How Congress Could, But Probably Won't, Take Charge of Shutdown Battle It all sounds simple. That it has become impossible tells us how much trouble we truly are in Read more |
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Robert Reich American Democracy Seems Rigged Because It Is Why we must get big money out of politics Read more |
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Ebony Slaughter-Johnson Integrating the Social Safety Net Into America's Prisons The First Step Act is a good first step in facilitating incarcerated Americans’ reentry into society. The next should be facilitating the enrollment of the incarcerated into social safety net programs upon their release. Read more |
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Steven Rosenfeld Democrats in Congress Unveil Ambitious Plan to Fix Our Election System The new House Democratic majority will introduce H.R. 1, the most comprehensive democracy reform legislation seen this century Read more |
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Craig Dube Doctors Strike in Zimbabwe as Government Imposes Austerity to Attract More Chinese Investment In the post-Mugabe era, the new regime aims to show it is worthy of a bigger piece of the Chinese pie Read more |
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Andy Rowell Within Hours of Taking Office, “Trump of the Tropics” Starts Assault on the Amazon Bolsonaro’s policies could triple deforestation in the Amazon. If this happens, the so-called lungs of the world, will collapse. Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Elizabeth Warren’s Presidential Bid Leaves Questions to Be Answered Leading into the primary races of 2020 our task as progressives is to demand that Warren—and all the other Democratic candidates—understand clearly that they serve the American people, not the elites Read more |
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Robert Reich What to Expect of House Democrats They will do little to change the growing imbalance of wealth and power in this country unless they are pushed to do so Read more |
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Katie Halper The Factual Reporting About Beto by David Sirota That Stirred Epic Freakout "I was portrayed as some sort of horrible villain dividing the Democratic Party for one tweet that said, 'I didn't know this...' And it became this huge controversy and people are freaking out." Read more |
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Frances Moore Lappé What Could the French “Yellow Vests” Teach Us about Ourselves? For the French, equality is a positive value; whereas here at home calls for greater equality are fought by evoking fear of creeping “communism” and—with racist undertones—the coddling of the “undeserving” poor Read more |
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Tim Lau, Daniel I. Weiner Historic Bill to Strengthen Democracy Introduced in Congress Landmark measure would expand voting rights, curb gerrymandering, bolster ethics rules, and revamp how campaigns are funded Read more |
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Talia Remba It’s Time to Get Serious About Prison Reform Over 80,000 people are locked up in isolation cells every day in America Read more |
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Jodie Evans What I Learned Being Part of the Sanctuary Caravan: Delivering Support to Asylum Seekers on the U.S. Border We saw an outpouring of generosity for the people most hurt by our oppressive immigration policy Read more |
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Michael Goldberg Is Whole Foods Telling Us the Truth About Its Stance on Animal Rights? An ethical supermarket shouldn’t be so defensive about animal rights activists trying to make the company more ethical Read more |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan Censoring Commentary on War Crimes and Mass Starvation Is No Joke Netflix should be ashamed and reverse its decision Read more |
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Conn Hallinan “Are You Serious?” Awards 2018 From Saudi Arabia funding Islamophobic attacks on Muslim congresswomen to Israel arming anti-Semitic militias, we look at some of the more fascinating boondoggles from 2018 Read more |
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Ruth Conniff And They’re Off! Candidates Race to Challenge Trump in 2020 Here’s a prediction: Political leaders who believe people are entitled to health care, food, and housing will see their stock rise in the coming year. Read more |
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Ralph Nader It’s Your Congress, People! Make It Work for You! Just 535 humans (Senators and Representatives) need your votes far more than they need fat cat campaign contributions Read more |
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Stephen Zunes Despite Everything, U.S. Troops Should Leave Syria A small detachment of U.S. troops won’t protect the Kurds from Turkish aggression, but putting conditions on arms transfers might Read more |
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James Zogby Looking Backward (2018) and Forward (2019) By any measure, 2018 was a tumultuous year, in no small way owing to President Trump's unpredictable behavior. He has been, in a word, exhausting. Read more |
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Nicolas J S Davies The Hidden Structure of U.S. Empire This irresponsible empire has squandered the resources of our own and other nations and spawned existential dangers that threaten the whole world, from nuclear war to environmental crisis. Read more |
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Christian Cayon Preparing Medical Students for a Warmer World Now more than ever, in this anti-regulatory and polluter-friendly political environment, the medical community must come to grasps with the imminent health threat posed by the uncontrolled release of greenhouse gases Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler A Loose Cannon for Peace? What is the value of Trump’s decision to start shrinking U.S. involvement in several war-ravaged sectors of the Middle East? Read more |
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Jeffrey D. Sachs US Withdrawal From Syria a Chance for Peace From Donald Trump’s point of view, a US-installed Syrian puppet regime that would push out Russia and Iran is neither central to US national security nor practicable. And, here, Trump is right for a change. Read more |
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Bill Blum Donald Trump Will Not Go Quietly Like Nixon Guided by narcissism and self-interest, and backed by his dogged white nationalist base, he’ll stay put until he is either removed or defeated at the polls Read more |
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Michael Lighty Now That Everybody Is for Medicare for All, Opponents Say Let’s Dilute It Tweaks and fixes that leave the for-profit insurers intact won't work. Only a mass social movement can overcome the huge resource and political advantages of the medical-industrial complex Read more |
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Lorraine Chow 10 Worst-Case Climate Predictions If Global Temperatures Rise Above 1.5 Degrees Celsius If humankind carries on its business-as-usual approach to climate change, there’s a 93 percent chance we’re barreling toward a potentially catastrophic level of warming Read more |
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Zenei Cortez 2019: The Year of Medicare for All Behind all of the disheartening statistics found in the current for-profit system are real people, enduring pain and suffering that should be unacceptable in the wealthiest country on earth Read more |
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Thom Hartmann The GOP’s Most Successful Scam Is About to Reboot Itself Republicans pour on the tax cuts and spending increases, year after year, whenever they have the power to do so, to intentionally inflate the national debt Read more |
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Eugene Robinson Who Isn’t Running for the Democratic Presidential Nomination? If you thought the 2016 GOP debates were crowded, just wait. This year, Democrats may have to debate in shifts, or perhaps stand on risers like a choir Read more |
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John Feffer Peak Trump The president will never again have so many levers of power at his disposal Read more |
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Jim Hightower DIY Democracy Our elected "representatives" have been bluntly ignoring what we want and routinely delivering precisely what we don't want Read more |
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Gideon Levy In 2018, Israel’s Mask Finally Came Off Having cemented its apartheid nature into law, Israel is creating legislative cover for the act of formally annexing the occupied territories beyond the recognised boundaries of the state Read more |
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John Nichols Mark Pocan on Democrats Taking Charge and Holding Trump to Account A former Dane County supervisor and Wisconsin state representative, Pocan remains a passionate champion of economic, social and racial justice and an ardent advocate for peace and the planet Read more |
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Naomi LaChance Netflix Removed Clip That Criticized Saudi Arabia's Human Rights Record The Kingdom’s Communications and Information Technology Commission asked that the clip be removed because of a law allowing a ban on digital media “impinging on public order, religious values, public morals, and privacy.” Read more |
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Anthony Pahnke Trump's Wasteful Military Venture What have the soldiers done at the border? According to one report, “very little.” Read more |
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Joseph Nevins The Problem With "Border Security" Border security—supported by Republicans and Democrats alike—is responsible for the death of Jakelin Caal, the exoneration of the Border Patrol agent who murdered a Mexican teen, and the separation and death of thousands of immigrant families. Read more |
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John Atcheson The War for the Democratic Party Continues The only way Democrats could lose their 2018 momentum in 2020 is to return to the same old neoliberal, corporate-friendly policies that sunk the party in 2016 Read more |
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David Korten From Me to We. My New Year’s Resolution In 2019, we must move beyond the myth of the lone individual to recognize our deep interdependence and responsibilities for one another and nature. Read more |