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Doug Morris Pete Seeger Lives! On Folk Legend's 100th Birthday, Remembering How Music and Love Conquers Hate The folk musician and legendary social justice activist was loved by people across the world because Pete actively loved people across the world. Read more |
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Angela Godfrey-Goldstein In Occupied Territory, Reality Check at Ground Zero The fate of a Bedouin village spotlights the cruelty of the Israeli occupation Read more |
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Steven Singer The Best School Innovation Would Be More People We need teachers, counselors, aides and administrators promoted from within and not functionaries from some think tank’s management program Read more |
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Suzanne Nossel The Alarming Assault on the Free Press This year on World Press Freedom Day, it is time to remind ourselves and our governments about this essential liberty, and to recommit ourselves to the steps necessary to protect it Read more |
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Ralph Nader Donald Trump Is the Most Impeachable President in American History The sitting president vs. Congress and the U.S. Constitution Read more |
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Jesse Jackson GOP, Not Russia, Is Greater Threat to Free Elections The right to vote—the most basic right of a democracy—is still contested in too many states—and must be fought, state by state, by citizens of conscience Read more |
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Max Moran Wall Street Money Buys Silence on Big Bank Abuses The financial industry used $2 billion in political spending during the last election cycle to head off meaningful change and preserve its ability to rip off consumers Read more |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan Ilhan Omar Won't Be Cowed by Trump Whether Trump likes it or not, “our country” is also Omar’s country Read more |
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Charles P. Pierce William Barr Is Orchestrating a Slow-Rolling Coup Against the Constitutional Order Jerry Nadler threw down the gauntlet after the attorney general flouted congressional subpoenas, but he's dead wrong about what the future might hold Read more |
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Curt Ries Bernie Sanders Is Running an Unprecedented Campaign We need nothing less than a political revolution made up of hundreds of thousands of volunteers and millions of supporters. So that's what we're doing. Read more |
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Rebecca Gordon Autocrats and Uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa Spring stirrings and misgivings Read more |
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John Feffer A Farewell to Arms Control? With Trump and Bolton at the helm, the international arms control regime is effectively dead. But could that spark a new movement for disarmament? Read more |
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Connie Huynh #PeoplesWave Rises Up For #MedicareForAll The forces working against us are very strong, so we must keep growing our movement Read more |
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Ryan Cooper 'Electability' Is a Terrible Reason to Pick a Candidate Being timid and going with the "safe" choice backfired horribly in 2016 Read more |
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Alan MacLeod Venezuela: It’s Only a Coup if the US Government Says So Media side with Trump cronies rather than common sense in labeling coup a 'protest' Read more |
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Robert Reich Congress Should Be Ready to Arrest Attorney General Barr if He Defies Subpoena Trump's contempt for the inherent power of Congress cannot stand, and lawmakers should not tolerate an Attorney General who refuses to submit to oversight Read more |
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Norman Solomon Why So Many Journalists Are Clueless About the Bernie 2020 Campaign The elite-oriented atmosphere of media aversion to his campaign is in sync with media disregard for the power of community-based activism that could result in a Sanders presidency Read more |
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Dave Lindorff It’s Looking Like Another Failed Coup Attempt by the US and Its Puppet Guaidó in Venezuela The US cannot understand how loathed it is south of the border Read more |
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Hallie Templeton Your Tax Dollars at Work The Trump administration just created a map showing mega-corporations where they should industrialize the ocean next Read more |
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Carmen Scurato Why the Demise of the T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Would Be Good News for You T-Mobile buying Sprint would consolidate the wholesale market, drying up competition and driving up prices Read more |
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Miranda Spencer Establishment Media and the Green New Deal: New Wine in Old Bottles While the resolution was a radical departure from politics as usual, most corporate media filtered coverage of the “Green New Deal” through the lens of conventional expectations Read more |
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Richard Wolff Yes, We Can do Better Than Capitalism By democratizing our workplaces, we can supplant the dominant ecomomic system which cannot escape its intrinsic exploitation of labor Read more |
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Jean Stokan A Border Crisis of Our Own Making For 30 years I've led faith delegations to Central America, seeing firsthand how U.S. policies displaced the people now arriving at our border Read more |
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Juan Cole Does Mueller's Angry Letter Prove Barr Lied to Congress? Mueller’s vehemence that Barr not disregard the possibility that Trump committed obstruction shows exactly what is on his mind Read more |
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Jim Hightower Where the Money Is As most Americans now realize, the tax cut was not for them but instead was a disgraceful trillion-dollar-a-year giveaway to corporate giants and their wealthiest shareholders Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac The New "Infrastructure Deal" Is a Political Disaster Why legislative tacticians make bad political leaders Read more |
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Gerry Condon This US-Backed Rightwing Coup Attempt in Venezuela Must Be Condemned We must do all we can to join this historic struggle for peace, justice and self-determination in our hemisphere. Read more |
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William Astore How the Pentagon Took Ownership of Con Man Donald Trump When it comes to raising money based on false claims, this president has nothing on the Pentagon. And worse yet, like America's wars, the Pentagon's long con shows no sign of ending. Read more |
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Teddy Ostrow Zero Percent of Elite Commentators Oppose Regime Change in Venezuela That elite media didn’t find a single person to vouch for Maduro or Chavismo, and that almost all the opinions explicitly or implicitly expressed support for the ouster of Venezuela’s elected president, demonstrates a firm editorial line, eerily obedient to the US government’s regime change policy. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin Social Movements Under Intense Attack Despite Colombia 'Peace Plan' The U.S. government has interfered with the internal affairs of Colombia since the nation's founding as a nation in 1810 Read more |
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Tim Lau How Congress Can Help Fix the Federal Election Commission There is growing momentum for major FEC reforms Read more |
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Eugene Robinson Trump's Rhetoric Stokes Hate and Never Thinks of the Consequences. Trump's theory of politics is based on division, not unity. Read more |
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Larry Willis Another Bad Idea Brought to You by the Koch Brothers It is a bad idea. It is such a bad idea that it does not deserve a response. But here I am, giving it one. Read more |
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Ady Barkan I'm Dying From ALS and Here's My Message: No More Half Measures. Only Medicare for All "Some people argue that although Medicare for All is a great idea, we need to move slowly to get there. But I needed Medicare for All yesterday. Millions of people need it today. The time to pass this law is now." Read more |
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Robert Reich 5 Responses to Climate Change Deniers At this point, there are no good-faith deniers of the planetary emergency before us Read more |
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Richard Kogan 5 Reasons to Reject Any Constitutional Balanced Budget Amendment Another bad idea that seems to go away Read more |
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Alan MacLeod Corporate Media Are Here to Warn You: Medicare for All Is a Very Bad Idea Despite all the concern trolling, reading the financial press highlights the fact that corporate media oppose Medicare for All not because of legitimate queries and concerns about its implementation, but because they are owned by investors with stakes in maintaining the for-profit status quo Read more |
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Nada Elia Indivisible Justice: Why Supporters of Palestine Must Stand With Other Oppressed Communities Intersectional struggles and solidarity hinge on the understanding that we are enmeshed in a global web Read more |
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Michael Winship Impeach His Sorry Ass Now The GOP is the party of overlook; Democrats must be the party of oversight. Read more |
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Allegra Harpootlian , Emily Manna The End of War Is Just a Beginning Will technology stamp a "Forever" on America's wars? Read more |
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Juan Cole Hatred of One, Hatred of All: The Undeniable Link Between Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia The alleged shooter in this attack offers an object lesson in the intersection of white nationalist and racist violence Read more |
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Chris Hedges The Last Battle of the Cree Nation The Canadian tar sands, perhaps the largest such project in the world, is rapidly accelerating the release of the carbon emissions that will, if left unchecked, soon render the planet uninhabitable for humans Read more |
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Randy Baker Not Impeaching Trump Is Riskier than Impeaching Him Based on what we know, impeachment is the Democrats’ best option politically, as well as legally Read more |
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Roy Morrison J'accuse Donald J.Trump On this day, April 28 in 1898, Emile Zola's open letter “ J'accuse ” (I accuse) was published, accusing the French government and military of making a Jewish officer, Captain Alfred Dreyfus a... Read more |
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Justin Anderson Comcast-Owned MSNBC in the Tank for Joe Biden’s Presidential Run Joe Biden finally announced on Thursday what everyone already knew. With the release of a three-and-a-half minute promotional video , the former vice president officially threw his name in the ever-... Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac Trump and the San Diego Synagogue Shooting The President Plays with Fire, and The Rest of Us Get Burned Read more |
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Ruth Conniff Operation Take Down Bernie Sanders’s socialism is scary for a Democratic establishment that worries a lot about electability. Cue the media hit pieces. Read more |
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Connie Jenkins Another Shameful "Christening" at Bath Iron Works We Must Be Out in the Streets Read more |
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Thomas Meisenhelder Making America Great There is a lot of talk around about how to “make America great.” It seems to me common sense that if we really want to “make America great”, then we must be prepared to learn from societies that are... Read more |
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Eric Margolis Trump's Crusaders March to War on Iran Welcome back to 19th-century gunboat diplomacy. Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Lucky Siblings: Donald & Maryanne Happy families are all alike. . . . — Leo Tolstoi, Anna Karenina I’m sure Maryanne and Donald have enjoyed some good laughs over it while contemplating how different the outcome would be had their... Read more |
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Stefan Simanowitz I Witnessed How Close South Africa Came to Civil War, 25 Years Ago Today Twenty-five years after South Africa’s miraculous first democratic elections, it’s easy to forget just how close the county came to civil war. I was working for the ANC (Western Cape) from 1992-4 and... Read more |
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Pat Elder Disrupting Elliott Abrams Elliott Abrams, the U.S. State Department Special Representative for Venezuela, delivered the keynote speech at the Atlantic Council's event "Venezuela After Maduro: A Vision for the Country's Future... Read more |
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Robert Freeman How Bad Does It Have to Get? It’s bad enough that he lost the election by 3,000,000 popular votes. It’s bad enough that the Russians helped him get elected by manipulating social media in critical electoral college states. It’s... Read more |
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Adam Ramsay, Claire Provost A Trump-Linked Super PAC Is Trying to Push Europe’s Voters to the Far Right An undercover investigation by openDemocracy reveals “explosive” evidence of “extraordinary coordination” between a controversial Madrid campaign group and far-right parties across Europe. Read more |
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Frances Moore Lappé "I'm a Capitalist," Says Warren…But Why? Let's drop the dead-end debate of capitalism versus socialism and focus on choosing terms that capture what we really mean—an open, fair, and accountable market essential to real democracy. Read more |
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Lawrence Wittner Most Americans Actually Reject Trump’s ‘America First’ Policy Large majorities support arms control, curbs on military spending, and international institutions. The question is what they’re willing to do about it. Read more |
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Will Bunch Climate Denier Trump Can’t Handle the Tuth About Why Central Americans Flock to U.S. Climate change-driven migration—and the famines, wars and other crises created by this—are only going to get worse Read more |
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Bill Blum Unequal Justice: As the Next Census Approaches, Will the Supreme Court Side with Trump in his War on Immigrants? The idea for reinstating the citizenship question came from discussions including White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, both of whom have long histories as proponents of anti-immigrant policies. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Forfeit Your Pay and Resign: An Open Letter to Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg You are on the highest level of notice not to add to your already extraordinary record of criminally negligent decisions and inactions. Result – 346 innocent people lost their lives. Read more |
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Anny Martinez A Green New Deal Town Hall: Paving the Way for a Just Transition A truly effective climate policy will require 'a cultural shift that is bigger than legislation' Read more |
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Michael Galant What the UK’s Labour Party Can Teach Democrats About Internationalism In the fight for the future of the Democratic Party, progressives must not let their critique of the status quo end at the nation’s borders Read more |
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Roger Kimmel Smith With Biden Now Officially in the Running, A Look at the Democrats' Do-Si-Do With elbows sharpening as the second round begins, look for candidates to square off and Warren to break through Read more |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan Trump's Crusade Against Women Goes Global The president and vice president have become a worldwide menace to women's rights Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Thank These Climate Activists for Resisting Our Extinction Nothing matters anymore except for action and that is what thousands of people, young and old, have expressed in London over the past several days Read more |
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Andy Rowell The Climate Rebellion May Be Growing, But Big Oil Keeps on Drilling Even though the science says we cannot carry on drilling, the oil industry capital investment over the next decade is forecast to rise over 85%, reaching over $1 trillion a year. Read more |
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Noah Greenwald Endangered Species Act Saves Vast Majority of Species Under Its Protection Species are being saved from extinction, but the landmark protections are under attack by the Trump administration Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac Impeachment as Political Strategy Beyond the imperatives associated with rule of law imperatives, the process would be valuable to expose and weaken Trump and the Republicans for 2020 Read more |
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Thomas J. Adams Bernie Sanders and the Song of America Unlike any other politician in modern U.S. history, Sanders has revived a language of social and democratic rights Read more |
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Fran Quigley American Healthcare Horror Stories: An Incomplete Inventory What should be unthinkable in a healthcare system are everyday occurences in the United States Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt Plenty of 'Collusion' for The Ultimate Crime: Lighting the Earth on Fire Despite knowing the flames were rising, the arsonists all got together Read more |
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Sean McElwee Promising Signs That America Is Waking Up to the Student Debt Crisis New data reveals the issue of crushing student debt has the potential to help Democrats to make inroads with a broad array of voters Read more |
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Max Richtman Don’t Believe Misleading Coverage of Social Security Trustees’ Report Do some mainstream media outlets truly not realize that members of Congress are working to avert shortfalls in Social Security and Medicare without cutting benefits? Or do they simply believe that the "no action in Washington" narrative is more compelling than the truth? Read more |
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Martha Burk The Most Dangerous Time for Women’s Rights in Decades Merely banning abortion isn't enough for some on the rabid right — a few are even threatening women with the death penalty. Read more |
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John Atcheson Just How Many Times Are Establishment Democrats Willing to Make the Same Mistakes? Is it possible that once again powerful forces within the party will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in 2020 Read more |
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David Cole The Mueller Report: An Indictment in All But Name One would think that any American president, regardless of ideology, would support a full-scale investigation to understand the extent of such interference and to help ward off future threats to our national sovereignty and security. Instead, Mueller's report shows that Trump's concern was not for... Read more |
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Leonard Pitts Jr. So I Am Done Being Wishy-Washy. Impeach Trump. Now There is a moral imperative here, a stark question of right and wrong. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Joe Biden Reality Check: The Puffery vs. the Record Biden has a media image that exudes down-to-earth caring and advocacy for regular folks. But his actual record is a very different story. Read more |
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Jim Hightower What Is the 'AI Agenda,' Who's Pushing It and Why? Executives try to skate by the human toll by saying that the machine takeover is a natural process, the inevitable march of technological progress. That's hogwash. It's all about profit. Read more |
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Jen Marlowe The Palestine Marathon A window into occupation and survival in a less than holy land Read more |
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Vijay Prashad Nothing to See Here: The U.S. Government Prevents Investigations Into War Crimes in Afghanistan The U.S. war on Afghanistan, which has been ongoing since 2001, has produced an unknown death count with unknown numbers of war crimes Read more |
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Joseph Cirincione, Mary Kaszynski The Path to War with Iran Is Paved With Sanctions Trump officials will cherry-pick information, package it, and amplify it across a willing echo chamber—exactly as the Bush administration did in the lead up to the Iraq war Read more |
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Les Leopold America’s Biggest Lie: We Can’t Afford Medicare for All Think about how much your income would go up if you didn't have to pay for healthcare at all. That would begin to close the gap between productivity and wages for the first time in a generation. Read more |
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Kat Legier Sen. Warren Just Stepped Up On Free College For All Under Senator Warren’s plan, three-quarters of all households will see their federal student loans forgiven, which she says will help reduce the racial wealth gap Read more |
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Dennis Bernstein Daniel Ellsberg Speaks Out on the Arrest of Julian Assange "Without whistleblowers we would not have a democracy. And there have to be people to distribute work and publish it." Read more |
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Raul A. Reyes The U.S.-Mexico Border Isn't Protected by Militias, It's Patrolled by Domestic Terrorists The United Constitutional Patriots are just one in a long line of anti-immigrant groups who try to terrorize the border areas Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac A Trump Impeachment Has Risks, But They Are Worth Taking The case for impeachment cannot be made unequivocally. But I believe it is a strong case. Read more |
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Mike Lofgren Two-and-a-Half Cheers for the Mainstream Media For all their flaws, the Mueller Report largely vindicates the reporters who treated the investigation seriously Read more |
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Robert Dodge Earth Day 2019: Our Planet in Peril The science is real and the people are making their voices heard and demanding action. There is no longer time to wish it were not so, alter the facts or to declare that it is too expensive to fix. Read more |
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Ann Larson Academia, Grassroots Organizations, and Debt Forming a genuine collaboration Read more |
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Robert Walker Earth Day Under Trump: Nearly 50 Years Later, an Environment Movement Under Attack At the White House, the UN’s latest call for “bold, urgent” action was dead on arrival. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Kevin Zeese Activists Protect DC Venezuelan Embassy from US-Supported Coup The Trump-orchestrated plan of creating a parallel government in Venezuela and then simply taking over diplomatic premises is totally illegal Read more |
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Jeff Bryant Things Didn’t Go Well When Betsy DeVos Was Confronted With Her Department’s Charter School Fraud One billion awarded by the federal government’s Charter Schools Program (CSP) went to charter schools that never opened or opened for only brief periods Read more |
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Richard Stallman The Christchurch Terrorist's Manifesto Is a Hideous Document, But Banning Possession of It Is Not the Solution In the end, I feel more endangered by laws authorizing censorship than by right-wing fanatics Read more |
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Leonard Pitts Jr. Face It, Repubs, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Way Smarter Than You Guys Not to treat her like the Second Coming—she is, again, just a neophyte lawmaker—but in her passion, her preparedness and her pugnacity, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is conducting a master class on the power of light and air, using the notoriety you gave her to do so Read more |
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Rhea Suh Three Earth Day Lessons for Green New Deal Activists We must bridge racial, economic and political chasms and spark a renewed national effort to save the planet and leave our children a livable world Read more |
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Nick Turse No Need to Whisper, AFRICOM Isn't Listening In AFRICOM calls for my “elimination” (from their daily media reports) Read more |
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Juan Cole "The Nearest in Love": On How the Sri Lankan Death Cult Betrayed the Islamic Values of the Qur’an These small, fringe groups are frustrated that 99.999 % of Muslims are not interested in their extremism Read more |
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Robert Reich Mueller Report Makes It Official: Trump a Morally Despicable Human Being Even though Mueller apparently doesn't believe a sitting president can be indicted, he provides a devastating indictment of Trump's character. Read more |
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James Zogby Why I’m Glad Netanyahu Won "With Netanyahu back for his fifth term as prime minister, liberals must now face reality. They can no longer see Israel as a romanticized 'idea' of a progressive state governed by liberal values." Read more |