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Dana Brown Pelosi Plan Not Good Enough: Lower Drug Prices Now Through a Pharmaceutical Public Option There has never been more momentum or more public outrage on drug pricing and issues of corporate excess in the pharmaceutical sector. The people deserve—and are demanding—much something much better. Read more |
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Rachel Sarah To the Adults Who Are Striking Today for the Future, Thank You Today is the day we must stand up for all generations. Read more |
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Tom Weis Another Open Letter to DNC Chair Tom Perez: How Are Democrats Going to Contain the Climate Worldfire If They Won’t Even Hold a Climate Debate? Either the Democratic Party is committed to mobilizing America to "address this threat on a scale not seen since World War II" or it isn't. Read more |
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Shannan Stoll Where Bill McKibben Finds Hope Amid the Climate Crisis The environmental activist says surviving an existential threat like climate change requires honesty—and hope. Read more |
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Andy Rowell Greta Tells Congress to #UniteBehindtheScience On Friday tens of millions of people around the world will participate in a climate strike, demanding action on the issue and an end to the use of fossil fuels. Read more |
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David Suzuki, Rachel Plotkin Connecting the Dots Between the Climate and Biodiversity Crises The polar bear has become the poster child for climate change impacts in the Arctic. Sea ice, which the bears depend on for hunting, is melting at an ever-expanding rate. Read more |
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John Atcheson Here We Go Again: Neoliberal Centrists Are Anointing One of Their Own—and It Could Cost Us Running a candidate who will advocate policies that are embraced by the elite are done in the interests of the oligarchy is literally the only path that leads to a Trump victory in 2020. Read more |
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Jessicah Pierre What the Felicity Huffman Scandal Says About America Low-income parents risk jail for putting their kids in better public schools, while the rich bribe colleges to shut the poor out. Read more |
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Jessica Garraway, David Boenke Teachers Should Join the Student Strikes Students are striking for a future—educators should join them. Read more |
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Jenny Ricks Led By Our Youth, the Climate Narrative Has Changed The lack of meaningful and radical action from our governments, the denial of the existence of a climate crisis, the monied interests that drive our overconsumption and reliance on fossil fuels are all trying to prevent radical and effective solutions to the climate emergency—these are the usual... Read more |
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Steven Singer Charter Schools Were Never a Good Idea. They Were a Corporate Plot All Along The concept always was about privatizing schools to make money. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Bad News to a Sick and Miserable-Looking Earth: "I'm Afraid You Have Humans." Has sanity—and by sanity, I mean hope—finally emerged as a counterforce to the impenetrable status quo of fossil fuel consumption, capitalism and nationalism? Read more |
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Ralph Nader 25 Ways the Canadian Health Care System is Better than Obamacare for the 2020 Elections Everybody in, nobody out, free choice of doctor and hospital. It will produce far less anxiety, dread, and fear. Can you hear that, Congress and the White House? Read more |
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Tamara Pearson The Climate Crisis Means the Wrong People Are Running the World There is no democracy when you can't do anything about the companies polluting your rivers and air. The unbridled power of the big corporations is despotic. Read more |
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Joe Emersberger Reuters’ Can’t Find US Critics to Question Amazon’s Anti-Venezuela Propaganda This technique not only invisibilizes principled US-based dissent from Washington’s aggression, but also associates anti-war and anti-imperial views with governments it has helped Washington vilify. This is not limited to Venezuela. Read more |
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Michael Sainato 2020: Democratic Establishment vs. Democratic Socialists Meet three new challengers to the entrenched old guard. Read more |
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Andy Rowell Americans Want Action on Climate; Not War Over Oil With Iran Rather than being exposed to the volatility of the oil markets and Middle Eastern politics, we could all insulate our selves by ushering in a new era of decentralized renewable energy as part of an international Green New Deal. Read more |
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Rev. John Dear Over 3300 Actions This Week with Campaign Nonviolence It’s about time for all of us to step to the plate the way Gandhi and Tutu and so many other heroes and peace leaders have before us. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson Can America Break Its Gun Addiction? Other nations savaged by civil war or outside invasion may suffer greater casualties in a conflict, but we have made violence—and victims of violence—routine. Read more |
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Juan Cole Palestinian-Israeli Joint List Gains Seats, as Netanyahu’s Demonization Backfires Netanyahu is always going on about how anyone who opposes his colonization of the Palestinian West Bank is a racist bigot, but there really is no greater racist bigot than he. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies Will Americans Let Trump Start World War III for Saudi Arabia and Israel? If Congress successfully reclaims its constitutional authority over the US role in this conflict, it could be a critical turning point in ending the state of permanent war that the U.S. has inflicted on itself and the world since 2001. Read more |
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Sarah Lahm GM Just Took Away Our Insurance, But It Can't Stop Our Strike "We are damn mad. They have abused our trust, especially when unions are under attack in our country right now." Read more |
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Robert Reich The Secret GOP Plan to Keep Power Despite the fact that Republicans continually receive fewer raw votes in national elections, they could regain control of the House through gerrymandering. Read more |
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Helena Cobban The Emperor’s New-Old Nuclear Clothes Israel wants to keep leaders in Washington distracted and always a little off-balance, so they will end up without the bandwidth and the stamina needed to confront Israel over the continuation of colonial expansion in the lands occupied in 1967. Read more |
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Jeff Biggers Parents, Time to Misbehave and Climate Strike With Your Kids Our kids get it: While schools and parents wring their hands and debate over issuing "excused absences" for missed classes, they have ignored the fact that the surge of carbon emissions last year increasingly renders a bleak future. Read more |
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Reynard Loki Global Climate Strike: Kids Are Demanding Action, But Will Adults Act? There’s growing frustration, particularly among the world’s youth, with how adults have so horribly mismanaged the climate crisis. Read more |
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Fran Quigley Removing the Profit From Our Pills: The Case for a Public Pharma System The American people are ready to extract the profit from our pills, and this new report shows us how to do it. Read more |
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Robert Freeman Conflict With Iran Portends World War III The importance of this cannot be overemphasized. It is, quite possibly, life-and-death for the planet. Read more |
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Joseph Gerson The Uncertain and Dangerous Interregnum: World Peace and the Post-Cold War Era On geostrategic dynamics and a vision for Eurasian common security diplomacy Read more |
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Harriet Feinberg Why Trump Can’t Learn: An Educated Guess by a Veteran Teacher Dyslexia may explain a lot about the twisted behavior of the president. Read more |
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Alberto Saldamando, Jim Walsh Expanding Carbon Offsets Will Not Solve the Climate Crisis or Protect Tropical Forests Rather than expanding California’s failing cap-and-trade program to include tropical forest offsets, the state should scrap it altogether and require polluting companies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the source. Read more |
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David Solnit Climate Strikes to the Green New Deal: Arts Organizing to Protect the Planet "We need more than dire warnings about the future. We need artists to create images of the better and more beautiful world we want to build." Read more |
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Alison Rose Levy The Incredible Belief That Corporate Ownership Does Not Influence Media Content Given that "90% of the United States' media is controlled by five media conglomerates," the top executive at many news outfits is likely the CEO of a multinational corporation. Read more |
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Mike Lofgren Are We the People Unfit for Democracy? Maybe we are wired for authoritarianism—but the present crisis has another cause. Read more |
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Ramzy Baroud Apartheid Made Official: Deal of the Century Is a Ploy and Annexation Is the New Reality Israeli leaders are facing little or no hindrance whatsoever as they finalize their complete colonization of all Palestinian land. Read more |
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Maha Hilal Admitting the Terrorism Watchlist Was Unconstitutional is Important, But Not Nearly Enough We must acknowledge the totality of the U.S.' collateral damage, from those subject to extra scrutiny at airports to those being bombed in their home countries for nothing more than adhering to Islam. Read more |
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Robert Jensen The Danger of Inspiration: A Review of On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal Naomi Klein's new book is essential reading, but does it go far enough in confronting the grim realities we truly face? Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt On the Precipice: The Collective Asteroid of Human History Blind to our future fate and that of our children and grandchildren, humanity has been installing in power leaders who are the literal raw material for ensuring that the collective asteroid of human history will indeed be delivered. Read more |
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Thom Hartmann The Big American Bribery Scandal Isn't Felicity Huffman's $15,000 While bribing your child’s way into an elite college is pretty bad, it pales in comparison with the millions of dollars in bribes paid every hour in America at the federal and state level so billionaires and big corporations can get the laws they want. Read more |
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Vijay Prashad Only the Coalition of the Foolish Wants a War With Iran If you want to identify the most reckless powers in our world today, look no further than Israel, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States of America. Read more |
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Norman Solomon The 'Official Secrets' Movie vs. Joe Biden's Lies About the Iraq War The current Democratic frontrunner did everything he could to enable the Iraq war, and—still—takes no responsibility for doing so. Read more |
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Linda Armitage We Need a Homes Guarantee. Now A grassroots-led effort aims to ensure every person in the United States has safe, accessible, sustainable, and permanently affordable housing. Read more |
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James Zogby An Israeli Election That Will Decide Nothing Both Netanyahu and Blue and White know that they can claim sovereignty over large parts of the West Bank, continue to strangle Gaza, expand settlements in the West Bank and "Greater Jerusalem" and nothing will happen. Read more |
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Catherine Tumber Land Without Bread: The Green New Deal Forsakes America's Countryside Missing altogether from the Green New Deal is the language for protecting rural land, the very land that supports the "healthy communities" the Green New Deal aims to cultivate. Read more |
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Robert Reich Reasons for Optimism Whenever privilege and power conspire to pull us backward, we eventually rally and move forward. Read more |
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Rachel Plotkin Why Greta Thunberg Inspires Me I appreciate her reliance on scientific evidence, her unique and direct form of communicating and simplifying complex issues and the way she models a low-carbon lifestyle. Read more |
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William Astore The Ultra-Costly, Underwhelming F-35 Fighter: A Wasteful Weapon for America's Forever Wars Lockheed Martin remains top gun in the Pentagon's cockpit. Read more |
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Chris Hedges Our Invisible Government The most powerful and important organs in the invisible government are the nation’s bloated and unaccountable intelligence agencies. Read more |
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Juan Cole Trump Awaits Orders From Saudis; and Why the Houthis Could Have Done It We all kept saying it is dangerous to have an erratic person like Trump in the White House in case there was a major global crisis. This might be it, folks. Read more |
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Jeff Cohen What George Carlin Taught Us About Media Propaganda by Omission: On Bernie Sanders, Medicare for All, and the Green New Deal It is instructive when you realize what news outlets are doing when they only give you the "partial score." Read more |
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Peter Kalmus How to Live With the Climate Crisis Without Becoming a Nihilist 'Today, despite all the grim climate news, I actually feel more optimistic than ever.' Read more |
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Ariel Gold Israel: Two Elections, One Apartheid State Israelis are getting ready to head to the polls for the second time in 2019. Israel’s last national elections were five months ago in April, ending in a razor-tight finish with Netanyahu’s Likud... Read more |
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Alan MacLeod Russia Has ‘Oligarchs,’ the US Has ‘Businessmen’ In 150 NYT, CNN and Fox articles, ‘oligarch’ seems reserved for Slavic billionaires Read more |
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Laura Flanders From Voice of America to NPR: New CEO Lansing's Glass House I don’t know about you, but I take a teeny weeny bit of offense when a guy in a glass house lobs a great big stone and expects me not to notice the sound of shattering. Which brings me to National... Read more |
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Robert Freeman Teaching Democrats to Talk About Socialism It doesn’t matter who the Democratic nominee for president is next year, they will be attacked for being “socialist.” It will be relentless and merciless. The problem is that none of the current... Read more |
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Naomi Klein Maxime Bernier Attacked Greta Thunberg’s Autism. Naomi Klein Says Autism Made the Teen a Global Voice of Conscience Maxime Bernier wants us to think he is sorry. The leader of the extremist People’s Party of Canada had tweeted that Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is “clearly mentally unstable. Not only... Read more |
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Kathleen Romig, Kathleen Bryant Cutting Social Security to Offset Paid Parental Leave Would Weaken Retirement Security Two recently introduced bills allowing workers to trade part of their future Social Security retirement benefits for parental leave benefits after the birth or adoption of a child would undercut... Read more |
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John Atcheson The Plutocratic War on People: Centrists and Conservatives are Ignoring the Giant Elephant in Our National Living Room The best analogy I can think of to characterize what passes for political “debate” in America these days, is a bunch of people stuck in a rubber life raft with a big leak hissing away, drifting in... Read more |
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Volker Franke Me First and the Loss of Compassion America stands at a crossroads today. Terrorism and nuclear proliferation, immigration, climate change or the growing gap between rich and poor reveal policy priorities that increasingly segregate... Read more |
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Ann Wright From A Russian: Our Planet is So Small that We Must Live in Peace Traveling to Yakutsk in Far East Russia Read more |
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Michael Winship Democratic Debate's Top Ten in Texas Candidates debate guns—and much more—in an open carry state. Read more |
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Julie Hollar, Jim Naureckas ABC Democratic Debate Lowlights Judging the candidates is one thing, but the quality of the questions was hardly inspiring. Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar #NeverForget the War in Afghanistan Let's remember: the only reason U.S. troops are dying in Afghanistan is because they are deployed to Afghanistan Read more |
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Rebekah Barber How the South Could Help Flip the US Senate Flipping any of these seats will not come easy for Democrats, but real organizing and political investment is the only way Read more |
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Austyn Gaffney They Can’t Vote Yet, But Youths Are Ready to #ClimateStrike We’re hurtling toward collapse. Thank goodness your kids are paying attention. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Avalanche-Level Liar Trump Learned Art of Deception From the Pros: US Corporations Before there was Trump there was a corporate stranglehold on false claims and campaigns that had a singular purpose to mislead Read more |
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Sam Husseini Biden Takes Iraq Lies to the Max at Democratic Debate When so much was on the line, what the former vice president did when he was in the U.S. Senate was to help ensure war happened while trying to wash his hands of responsibility for it Read more |
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Juan Cole Looks Like Israel Was Caught Spying on Capitol Hill Cell Phones and Trump Was Fine With It If you were in FBI counterintelligence and you found Israeli StingRays all over downtown DC and you told the president about it and he blew you off, you’d really have no further option but to go to the press. Read more |
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Sarah E. Parker, Jorge Majfud The Latin American Migration Crisis Was Born Out of Greed and Myths About Race In Unwanted People , historian Aviva Chomsky’s essays explore the roots of this violent history. Read more |
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Evlondo Cooper, Ted MacDonald ABC's History of Poor Climate Coverage Doesn't Bode Well for the Next Presidential Primary Debate Good news: There are a few easy ways the moderators can make the climate crisis a substantive and informative part of the debate. Read more |
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David Daley, Adam Eichen It’s Time to Talk About Our Broken Democracy. Will Tonight's Democratic Debate Moderators Step Up? We need a candidate to push for protecting democracy as fiercely as Jay Inslee did for addressing climate change. Read more |
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Judy Rohrer "The Stakes for Asylum Seekers Could Not Be Higher" Wednesday's ruling by the Supreme Court underscores the need for stories about the experiences of real people at the border. Read more |
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Ryan Cooper Can Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren Dent Biden's Electability Edge? Somebody better lay a glove on him, and soon. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Altruists of the World Unite! We have managed to divide the planet into a bunch of nation-states that, with a very few exceptions, maintain standing armies to protect themselves from other nation-states and view national sovereignty as their highest, and perhaps only, political value. Read more |
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Joshua Cho On 18th Anniversary of 9/11, Media Worry About ‘Premature’ End to Afghan War The Afghans are one of the least happy populations ever recorded. Yet corporate media’s propagandistic coverage discourages the US from doing the one thing that might help change that: get out. Read more |
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Miles Mogulescu Can Debate Moderators Stop Parroting GOP Talking Points? Let’s hope that tonight’s moderators from ABC and Univision for the third debate—this means you, George Stephanopoulos, Jorge Ramos, Linsey Davis, and David Muir—will ask more more honest questions which clarify the issues, instead of ginning up false controversy. Read more |
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Piper Why I'm Currently Blocking the Largest Oil Export Channel in the U.S. "I don't want to see every single corner of this country be exploited for fossil fuels while communities are being torn apart by oil spills, chemical fires, and more extreme floods, fires, droughts, and storms." Read more |
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Michael Klare The Pompeo Doctrine: A Formula for Catastrophe in the Arctic How to seize the Arctic’s resources, now accessible due to climate change (just don’t mention those words!) Read more |
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Rosa Pavanelli Unions: We Must Back the Climate Strike! Now is the time to show the next generation that unions are the force for progressive change in the 21st Century. Read more |
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Deonna Anderson What to Build Instead of Prisons In Oakland, social justice groups are fighting the prison industrial complex through renovated space dedicated to restorative justice and community building. Read more |
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Lauren-Brooke Eisen The 1994 Crime Bill and Beyond: How Federal Funding Shapes the Criminal Justice System The 1994 crime bill has a complicated legacy, dominated by funding incentives blamed for driving mass incarceration. A quarter century later, there are numerous proposals to undo the damage. Read more |
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Tim Butterworth 'Socialism' Made America Great The GOP hopes the S-word will scare you, but great public works projects transformed this country for the better. Read more |
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Kathy Kelly A Morning in Afghanistan Amidst political posturing, aerial terrorism, and street bombings, Afghan citizens pursue their daily work toward peace. Read more |
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Jill Richardson It’s Not About Your Straws or Your Light Bulbs Polluting industries want you to think the climate crisis is your fault, not theirs. Read more |
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Ryan Cooper What It Will Take to Actually Fight Climate Change The technology is very largely there. All that is missing is the energy, commitment, and international coordination. Read more |
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Joseph Cirincione The Catastrophic Tenure of John Bolton Trump created the storm, but Bolton aimed it expertly. An aerial view of the White House post-Bolton would reveal a devastated landscape. Read more |
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Jim Hightower Why Would We Trust Plutocrats to Save Us From Plutocracy? They're still going to plunder your unions, paychecks, jobs, health, environment and overall well-being. The only difference is that they now want you to think they feel bad about it. Read more |
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Thom Hartmann To Save the Republic, Some of Trump’s Allies and Appointees Will Have to Face Federal Prosecution The biggest danger Trump poses to America is normalizing corruption for future administrations. Read more |
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John Atcheson What Corporate Media and the Neoliberal Establishment Can't Admit About the Climate Emergency The crisis is already upon us, but the media refuses to cover it as the clear and present danger it is now, and the virtual apocalypse it will soon be without immediate, urgent, global action. Read more |
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Mary Hladky, Thea Paneth "We Must Learn to Live Together as Brothers or Perish as Fools" By uniting as a common humanity, we can ultimately address the enormous challenges facing us. Read more |
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Prabir Purkayastha White Nationalism and Crony Capitalism Are the Sparks That Started Fires in the Amazon The right only denies global warming because its climate ‘science’ has surrendered to capitalists. Read more |
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Andy Rowell Climate Deniers' Response to Climate Crisis: "There Is No Climate Emergency" Meanwhile there is daily evidence that our climate is spiralling out of control, with unprecedented wildfires in the Arctic, the Amazon, and Africa. Read more |
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Negin Owliaei, Kelsey Hawkins-Johnson Activists Follow the Money Fueling Amazon Fires Protesters around the world are singling out the bad actors profiting off deforestation. Read more |
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Robert Kuttner There’s a Reason Populists Like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders Are Gaining on Joe Biden The problem with a centrist politics of returning America to "normal," as Biden commends, is that normal meant a four-decades slide in the living standards for most Americans. That brand of normal brought us Donald Trump. Read more |
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César Chelala 9/11: A Day that Changed the World One of the lessons to be drawn from that tragedy is that violence begets violence and intolerance breeds intolerance. Read more |
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Andrew Bacevich Trump’s Afghanistan 'Peace' Will Be Vietnam All Over Again: A Mess America Leaves Behind Leaving a misguided war, American-style Read more |
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Joshua Cho Biden Invokes Dead Family Members Against Medicare for All and Corporate Media Plays Along Many outlets uncritically transmitted the ad's message as if it were merely a campaign strategy, instead of explaining what Biden, Sanders and Warren's proposals actually are, and clarifying for voters whether Biden's charges against his primary opponents are accurate. Read more |
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Gretchen Goldman NOAA Leadership Trades Scientific Integrity for Political Appeasement The National Weather Service has worked hard to build its reputation locally and nationally. The administration and NOAA leadership tore that down in one shameful memo. Read more |
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Liam Kennedy Boris Johnson,Voice of the People? Give Me a Break. As the UK moves towards a People vs. Parliament election, the elitist defender of the big banks will need quite a transformation. Read more |
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Patricia Homan New Abortion Laws Contribute to Sexist Environments That Harm Everyone’s Health The key implication of my research on structural sexism is that gender inequality in the U.S. is not only a human rights issue, but also a public health problem. Read more |