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Josue De Luna Navarro If You Think Coronavirus Profiteering Is Bad, Wait Till the Climate Heats Up From testing for coronavirus to treating the health impacts of climate change, universal healthcare and publicly owned medicine production are critical components for adapting to the coming crisis. Read more |
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Kevin Martin Social Distancing? Peace and Social Justice Demand More Coming Together, Not More Distancing Let's get all US troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan, make peace with Iran, and address the real threats to human security like pandemics and the climate crisis. Read more |
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Josh Bivens Coronavirus Shock Will Likely Claim 3 Million Jobs By Summer Policy is needed now to curb further losses. Read more |
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Negin Owliaei The Detroit Organizers Long Demanding Water Justice As cities and states grapple with the spread of coronavirus, activists remind government why water is a human right and not a commodity. Read more |
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Edna Bonhomme Coronavirus, Colonization, and Capitalism What the global outbreak reminds us about inequality. Read more |
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Julie Hollar Who Wants a Revolution? No One Who Owns a Major Corporate Media Outlet The pundits appear willfully ignorant of their own role in shaping electability narratives. Read more |
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Robert Reich Coronavirus Outbreak Proves There Is No Public Health System in the US There is no public health system in the US, in short, because the richest nation in the world has no capacity to protect the public as a whole, apart from national defense. Read more |
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Ken Butigan Love and Nonviolence in the Time of Coronavirus The stark choice for a nonviolent future is here. Read more |
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Jeffrey Sterling I Reject Using My Unjust Conviction Against Julian Assange Given the long history of the U.S. government’s pursuit of Assange and the obvious political nature of his potential prosecution, I fear there will be nothing reasonable with regard to any sentence to be imposed. Read more |
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David McWilliams Central Banks Must Give Everyone Free Money. Right Now. Is it free? Yes. Is it one-off? Yes. Can it be done? Absolutely! To stem economic fears unleash by coronavirus, now is the time to act. Read more |
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Fran Quigley The Coronavirus Shows It is Time to Remove the For-Profit Infection from U.S. Health Care We have allowed the profit motive to drive our U.S. health care system, and it has driven us straight into a ditch. Read more |
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Sandra Fulton Senate Leadership Is Pushing Through a Dangerous Surveillance Bill as Americans Are Focused on Covid-19 If McConnell's push through the Senate succeeds, it would renew the government’s power to warrantlessly acquire billions of data points on every person in the United States. These are terrifying powers to hand to President Trump. Read more |
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Eileen Appelbaum Families First Coronavirus Response Act: What's Included and Who Got Left Out While the bill deseves to be signed by Trump as soon as it hits his desk, would it have been better if the Democrats in the House had passed a more robust piece of legislation? Read more |
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Shannon Liss-Riordan Coronavirus Bill Includes Sick Leave, But Not for Gig Workers Leaving out this growing and critical category of workers will only exacerbate the risk of Covid-19 for all of us. Read more |
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Leonardo Flores 'Maximum-Pressure March': US Hybrid War on Venezuela Heats Up This is not the first time that the Trump administration has amplified its regime change efforts in response to negotiations between the Venezuelan government and the opposition. Read more |
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Derrick Z. Jackson Coronavirus Pandemic: Science Sidelined in Trump Rose Garden Fiasco Without scientific evidence to rally the American people, the White House was reduced to showcasing corporate cheerleaders. Read more |
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Deepa Kumar, Patrick Barrett What Role Did Sexism Play in Warren's Failed Presidential Bid? Sexism no doubt played a role in limiting Warren's chances for the nomination, but her failure to win broader support is more significantly attributable to other key factors. Read more |
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Jonathan Kanter, Adam Kuczynski Social Distancing Comes With Social Side Effects—Here’s How to Stay Connected Building a foundation of healthy coping, maintaining awareness of the side effects of our necessary societal changes, and staying connected to our values and to each other, are imperative. Read more |
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Ruth Conniff The Democrats’ Coronavirus Divide Sanders is right about the need for radical change; Biden offers a woman VP and a return to ‘normalcy.’ Read more |
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Jeff Cohen Socialists for Biden and the Power of Corporate Media While behind in the race for delegates, Bernie Sanders' policy agenda—from Medicare for All to big tax increases on the wealthy—is remarkably popular with Democratic primary voters. Read more |
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David Gutman Seattle in the Age of Coronavirus: Not Quite Empty, but Eerie Seattle is not empty. But it is eerie. There are cars on the road. But there is no traffic. Restaurants are open. But there are few customers. Planes are flying out of Sea-Tac, ferries are sailing... Read more |
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Simon Springer Toilet Paper Wars and the Shithouse of Capitalism The run on toilet paper has brought the failings of capitalism front and center to the bathroom of every house across Australia, a trend that has now spread to other countries. We are witnessing, in... Read more |
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Hank Edson The Anti-Science Movement in the Democratic Party 1. “Garbage In, Garbage Out” Software programmers have a saying about their enterprise that expresses the core of all scientific enterprise. The saying is “Garbage In, Garbage Out,” and it refers to... Read more |
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Steven Singer Public Schools Can Recover from the COVID-19 Quarantine by Skipping High Stakes Tests 'Skip the tests.' Read more |
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Jan Zuckerman I Committed Civil Disobedience by Blocking Oil Trains in Portland, Oregon — and Won A few weeks ago, I showed the world that I am not a criminal, despite having been arrested and charged with first-degree criminal trespass. In a five to one vote, a Multnomah County, Oregon, jury... Read more |
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Robert Reich Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors Robert Reich wrote this piece for the New Yorker magazine’s issue of November 30, 1998: It used to be that people who owned a lot of things could protect themselves and their things by erecting... Read more |
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Randall Amster The New Abnormal This is a moment, to be sure. There aren’t many of this magnitude over the course of a lifetime, and the effects can linger for decades after the immediate emergency passes. Whatever shape the... Read more |
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Richard Heinberg Coronavirus, Economic Networks, and Social Fabric Connections will be strained in the coming weeks—some of them interpersonal and local, some economic and global. It’s up to us to nourish the connections that are most essential, while finding backups for those that can no longer be relied on. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Trump Minimizing and Sugarcoating Coronavirus Perils; Bernie Must Continue Campaign Bernie needs to continue his campaign to the Party’s convention. Just like Jesse Jackson did in 1984 and Ronald Reagan did in 1976. Read more |
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Linda McQuaig The Public Lab That Could Have Helped Fight COVID-19 Pandemic Canada once had a publicly owned pharmaceutical company that could have made a difference in the current coronavirus crisis — except that we sold it. Connaught Labs was a superstar in global medicine... Read more |
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Sarah Anderson, Sam Pizzigati Does the Coronavirus Crisis Have to End with a Wealthier Wealthy? This time around, let’s use the power of the public purse to reduce inequality. Read more |
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Mike Lofgren How Authoritarianism Short-Circuits the Lizard Brain The GOP’s slavish groveling overrides – for once – its basic instinct for fear and panic. Read more |
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Jeffrey D. Sachs The Generational Divide Between Biden and Sanders Bernie Sanders' revolution has fallen short of its electoral aspirations not because of Sanders' concepts—some of which is supported by voters in both parties—but because Sanders has faced the generational divide in voting behavior. Read more |
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Liz Watson Coronavirus Prevention That Works For Working People It should not take a terrifying national emergency for us to wake up to the realization that we all pay the price when we treat people like they don’t matter. Read more |
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Reese Erlich On My Stint in Coronavirus Quarantine Am I the next Typhoid Mary? Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Ariel Gold To Help Stem Coronavirus, Lift Sanctions on Iran Among those in Iran who have been unable to get critical medications have been patients with leukemia, epidermolysis bullosa, epilepsy, and chronic eye injuries from exposure to chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq war. Now coronavirus is added to that list. Read more |
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Don Wiener, Arn Pearson Despite Coronavirus Threat, Americans for Prosperity Still Leads Fight Against Medicaid Expansion Coronavirus or not, AFP’s opposition to health care for the poor and working poor remains resolute. Read more |
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Elise Gould Union Workers Are More Likely to Have Paid Sick Days and Health Insurance COVID-19 sheds light on inequalities among the poorest and least-empowered workers. Read more |
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Julie Hollar Elite Media Dismiss Voter Suppression on Grounds That It’s 'Complicated' It’s charitable that the affluent aren’t complaining about standing in line for hours (as no one should face obstacles to vote)—but they’re also typically not worried about getting fired or missing a paycheck for doing so. Read more |
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Juan Cole As Trump Stumbles in War on Coronavirus at Home, He Bombs Shiites in Shiite-Ruled Iraq The Trump administration is now more or less forcibly occupying Iraq against the will of its elected representatives, and is waging a low intensity war on a section of the Iraqi military with which the US is supposed to be allied. Read more |
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Alice Slater The Virus of Nuclear Proliferation Rather than addressing the promising path forward provided by the new Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons to finally ban the bomb, the U.S. launched a new initiative. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler War, Profit and the Coronavirus If the possibility of a global pandemic is real, how could anyone question the urgency of government investment in the development of a vaccine and then making it universally available? Read more |
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Zoltán Grossman Washing Our Hands of Trump and Powerlessness Community resilience that emerges in response to the coronavirus crisis may become models to overcome the innate crisis of social isolation under capitalism. Read more |
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Steve Striffler, Thomas J. Adams Everything Is Impossible Until It Happens—US Foreign Policy as Bernie’s Next Frontier Sanders represents a foreign policy where the US does not lead by throwing around its military and economic might to the misfortune of Americans and others across the globe, but works in collaboration to create a more democratic and just world. Read more |
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Raúl M. Grijalva Trump’s Border Wall Isn’t Just an Assault on Native Americans, It’s an Assault on American History Native American history is often misrepresented as something alien to real American culture. In fact, it’s profoundly central to American culture, and to the history of the land we all now call home. Read more |
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Alan Hirsch Is America Prepared For A Presidential Election Crisis? If we are smart, we will take appropriate measures before the next crisis. Read more |
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Nomi Prins The Fed, the Virus, and Inequality A global Dr. Frankenstein at work. Read more |
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Michael Halpern White House Removes Public Health Experts from Coronavirus Discussions Every day without full transparency means we are less prepared and more vulnerable. Read more |
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Mitchell Zimmerman Who’s Ready to Die for Trump’s Ego? Putting politics ahead of science is a prescription for disaster when you face a pandemic. Read more |
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Michael Winship Trump's Brand Is Chaos "Stupidity has a knack of getting its way." Read more |
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Dan Froomkin Elite Political Journalists Are Eager to Kick Bernie Sanders on His Way Out the Door They don’t hate him because their corporate masters tell them to. They hate him because he is a walking, breathing, sometimes yelling reproof of the sacrifices they have had to make to succeed in their chosen profession. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Ariel Gold Saudi’s Brave Women Pull Back the Curtain on Crown Prince MBS How can the world’s leaders pretend that it is acceptable to meet in a country that imprisons and tortures peaceful women activists and bombs civilians in Yemen? Read more |
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Christian Parenti, Dante Dallavalle Wall Street Is High on Government Supply For more than a decade, the US government has been taking over ever larger portions of the financial system to prop up shaky markets. It hasn’t worked. We need a real socialization of finance — for the majority, not the banks. Read more |
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Ellen Brown The Fed’s Baffling Response to the Coronavirus Explained The next time the country’s largest banks become insolvent, rather than bailing banks out, Congress should nationalize them. Read more |
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Neil deMause Reading About Coronavirus Without Scaring Yourself Too Much (or Too Little) Reading up on the new coronavirus can feel like a rabbit hole of conflicting reports. Read more |
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Kelly Trout The Loopholes Lurking in BP’s New Climate Aims It’s time for BP and all oil companies to stop hiding behind net-zero rhetoric and commit to immediate action on the scale of the crisis we’re in. Read more |
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Elise Gould Amid COVID-19 Outbreak, the Workers Who Need Paid Sick Days the Most Have the Least Many of the 73% of workers with access to paid sick days will not have enough days banked to be able to take off for the course of the illness to take care of themselves or a family member. Read more |
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David Orr Politics and Consequences: From Climate Emergency to Coronavirus After a forty-year waged on both science and government, the dangers that face us now are no surprise at all. Read more |
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Norman Solomon 'In a Dark Time, the Eye Begins to See': The 2020 Bernie Campaign Represents a Fight That Must Continue Corporate media and corporate Democrats want the Bernie 2020 campaign—and the grassroots energy behind it—to melt away. That's not going to happen. Read more |
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Miles Mogulescu The Coronavirus Is A Wake-Up Call For Climate Change If the world can do this for one virus, it can begin to do this for the even more catastrophic — and predictable — danger of climate change. Read more |
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Robert Reich How We Should Respond to the National Coronavirus Emergency Congress must immediately enact an emergency $400 billion. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson I Support Bernie Sanders Because He Is Only Candidate Who Inspires a New Generation Sanders will beat Trump by summoning America to a new day, not by calling for a return to yesterday Read more |
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Diana Sierra Becerra If You Support Women and Feminism, Back Bernie Sanders Many are urging Warren to endorse Sanders because his platform is feminist and because he has the best chance to defeat Trump. Read more |
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Bill Quigley Six Quick—But Very Important—Points About Coronavirus and Poverty in the US The most vulnerable among us simply do not have the same options as the most privileged. Read more |
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Tom Gallagher Boomer, Hold Thy Tongue If you fall into the category of voters who generally agree with Sanders on the issues but fear that he can’t be elected, then please, at the least, stop acting as an echo chamber for the supposed irrational fears of your peers. Read more |
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Nan Levinson Would a Draft Matter? The nature of the military that fights America’s forever wars. Read more |
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Josh Bivens Even HBO’s John Oliver Didn’t Provide the full Context on "Medicare for All" and Jobs Many studies project that providing health insurance to currently uninsured and underinsured people will substantially boost demand for health care services, which in turn will boost demand for health care workers. Read more |
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Dean Baker Coronavirus Is a Reason to Worry About the Economy—the Stock Market Plunge Is Not If the coronavirus becomes very widespread, we could see enormous economic impacts. Read more |
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Adam Gaffney Medicare For All: If Not Now, When? The vast majority of the nation could benefit from single-payer reform—and that fact makes it winnable. Read more |
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Jennifer Goff, Erika Gubrium, et al. Five Americans Living in Social Democratic Norway Explain Why Bernie Sanders Is So Appealing We had to live in such a society before we could believe that it was possible. Here's what we discovered. Read more |
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Jesse Hagopian Why as a Black High School Teacher I'm Endorsing Bernie Sanders This is the campaign to fix the hole in the soul of America. Read more |
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Adolph Reed Jr. Push for Racial Justice Beyond Race Alone Today, liberals and many on the left reflexively cast “African American” and “working class” as antagonistic rather than overlapping categories. Read more |
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Maria Morris Are Our Prisons and Jails Ready for COVID-19? People in prisons and jails are uniquely vulnerable to coronavirus. Officials must act quickly to pull together a plan to ensure the safety of incarcerated people, medical staff, and correctional officers. Read more |
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Carly Regina Not Just 'Two Old White Men,' This Democratic Primary Is Now a Serious Fight Between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders When it comes to the issues and their agendas, the contrast between these two candidates could hardly be more stark. Read more |
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John Buell Will the Establishment's Neoliberal Model of Drug Profiteering Finally Kill Us All? Why is there even a debate on whether any Coronavirus Vaccine Should be Free? Read more |
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Bill Moyers Losing Reality: Can We Get the Truth Back? Bill Moyers in Conversation with Robert Jay Lifton. Read more |
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Anis Shivani Time to Debate: How Bernie Could Destroy Biden in 120 Minutes Or Less Some serious advice for Sen. Sanders from somebody who is not a professional campaign strategist. Read more |
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Josh Bivens With Working People Most Vulnerable, It's Time to Get Serious About Economic Response to Coronavirus The first two characteristics of a potential COVID-19 slowdown—that it could come fast and come straight for low-wage workers first—suggest one potential response: rapid direct payments to individuals. Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Beware the Buyer's Remorse of Impulse-Purchase Joe Biden While Biden may indeed be a "nice guy," he is quite possibly the worst candidate to challenge Trump. Read more |
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John Feffer President Trump as a Political Hit Man Trump’s perpetual reelection machine. Read more |
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Chris Hedges If It's Biden vs. Trump, This Year's One-Choice Election Will Be for Oligarchy We don’t need a "Punch and Judy" show between Trump and Biden. But that, along with corporate tyranny, is what we seem fated to get, unless we take to the streets and tear the house down. Read more |
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Joe Nguyen & Liz Lovelett Hey Fellow Warren Supporters, Let's Rally Around Bernie Sanders For all the strife we saw between Warren and Sanders during the campaign, the fact remains that the two have much more in common than not. Read more |
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Osprey Orielle Lake & Katherine Quaid Celebrating Climate Women on International Women's Day In the midst of multi-layered injustices including institutionalized patriarchy, colonization, racism, and economic inequality, women continually lead the way. Read more |
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Scott Casleton Bernie Beats Trump (and Biden) on Trade There is simply no question that Sanders's approach to trade prioritizes workers and the environment, and not corporate convenience. Read more |
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Nanticha Ocharoenchai What I Learned From the Women Fighting to Save Our Planet Creating change meant fixing a problem, and fixing a problem meant facing the complexities of environmental policy and political drama. Read more |
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Leonard Pitts Jr. They Really, Really Don't Want Black People to Vote, Do They? Six hours is time enough to steal a democracy. But it's time enough to save one, too. Read more |
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Gregory Shupak Media Malfunction as Sanders Notes Positive Aspects of Latin American Socialism A far more urgent task for reporters covering the U.S. election cycle would be asking candidates how they plan to combat U.S. authoritarianism at home and abroad, and questioning why the accomplishments of Latin American socialism aren't possible in the United States. Read more |
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Eric Margolis End Bush's Stupid War Today Since 2001, hardly a word of truth about Afghanistan has come out of Washington. Read more |
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Sascha Cohen Freelancers Shouldn't Betray Other Gig Workers By Allying with Anti-Union Opponents of AB5 AB5 certainly needs tweaking, and jettisoning the arbitrary 35 article cap for writers is a good place to start. But it's another thing entirely to sidle up to Big Tech, Republican politicians, and firms like PLF, and to defend our work using the capitalist ethos of "individualism." Read more |
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Nikki Madsen Unnecessary Restrictions on Abortion Pose Undue Burden to Women's Constitutionality These regulations—as well as the extremist legislators who impose them—ignore the fact that abortion is safe, and as clinics close, more and more patients are forced to travel outside of their communities for care. Read more |
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John Feffer Will the Coronavirus Kill Globalization? The Spanish flu helped herald the collapse of the first wave of modern globalization. A century later, could the coronavirus do the same? Read more |
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Roger Lancaster Welcome to the New Legitimation Crisis: Bernie Sanders vs. the Plutocrats In these dangerous times, we might be pardoned for finding comic relief in the spectacles that are constantly playing out, as our uncomprehending ruling class stages displays of its own rank incompetence, its unfitness to govern. We might be excused for mocking the emperor's new clothes. Read more |
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Juan Cole It Seems That Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince MBS Is Continuing His Purge of Potential Rival Princes Former Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, his brother Nawwaf, and Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz Al Saud are accused of plotting to overthrow King Salman. Read more |
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Vera Eidelman Will the US Supreme Court Protect the Right to Protest? An officer sued DeRay Mckesson. The lawsuit, which should have been swiftly dismissed, now threatens the First Amendment rights of millions. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Trump vs. Sanders: A Concise Comparison for Voters (and Why Bernie Wins Hands Down) When there is a conflict between big business and the public good, on labor rights, consumer rights, small taxpayer respect, and environmental protections, Bernie has stood with the people. Read more |
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David Korten Corporations are Human Creations. We Can't Let Them Threaten Our Survival The concentration of corporate power is driving us toward catastrophe. We need new organizational models that serve the common good. Read more |
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Laura Carlsen The Organization of American States Is Eroding Faith in Democracy Under its pro-Trump secretary general, a politicized OAS has botched electoral missions across the hemisphere—and even precipitated a coup. Read more |
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Juan Cole Exactly How Many People in Iran Will Die of Coronavirus Because of Trump's Inhumane Sanctions? If you were an evil comic book villain attempting to kill large numbers of people with a disease outbreak, you could not do a better job in putting people in harm's way than Trump has been doing. Read more |
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Joe Emersberger WaPo Prints Study That Found Paper Backed an Undemocratic Bolivia Coup When you have election monitors beholden to the US government, and a corporate media willing to cover for them, it is only duly elected officials in poor countries that need fear those kinds of consequences—and much worse. Read more |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan It's Medicare or Coronavirus-for-All A healthy populace with regular access to affordable health care is the best defense against an epidemic like we now face. Read more |