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Aniqa Raihan One No-Brainer Way to Bring Gun Deaths Down Closing the "boyfriend loophole" would save lives without putting guns in classrooms or taking them off store shelves. Read more |
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Peter Certo Get Ready for Bush 2.0 The president once distanced himself from the Bush legacy. Now he's brought back the architects of its darkest moments. Read more |
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Will Bunch America Pays Steep Price For Ignoring Crimes of George W. Bush Era How did America get to this state of amnesia? Read more |
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Claudia Lefko It’s About Children Just as it is shocking to see how little has happened in the wake of school shootings in the US, it is shocking to read the current statistics about dead and injured children in war zones. Read more |
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Rebecca Vallas Tennessee Wants to Use Funding Meant for Poor Families to Kick People Off Medicaid One would be hard-pressed to cook up a more twisted irony. Read more |
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Wendy Weiser, Thomas Wolf Why The Census Asking About Citizenship Is Such A Problem The move raises serious concerns that the upcoming census will be a major failure, harming our democracy, communities and businesses and painting an inaccurate picture of America’s population. Read more |
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Fran Shor Spiritual Death/Spiritual Awakening “I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government.” Read more |
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Dr. Celine Gounder Gun Violence and Mental Health Are Connected—But Not In The Way You’d Think. The impulsive nature of teenage suicidality, coupled with the uniquely American easy access to guns, makes it much more likely that suicidal thoughts and behaviors will culminate in death. Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt Donald Trump and the White Ford Bronco Presidency Because Big Brother isn't watching you... you are watching him. Read more |
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Heather Dockray The Largest Protests In American History Are Happening Now. Expect Them To Get Bigger. A combustible array of variables, including the rise in authoritarianism and anti-authoritarianism worldwide and technology that makes it easier to organize sibling marches, have contributed to historic turnouts. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin 10 Reasons to Fear John Bolton And this is just for starters... Read more |
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Bill Law John Bolton’s War: A Question Of When, Not If? A self-confessed fan of regime change, the latest US national security advisor looks to be itching for a new conflict in the Middle East. Read more |
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Steven Singer Testing Corporations Rake in Cash While Teachers Sell Plasma to Survive Keep in mind, both teachers and test makers are being paid with public tax dollars. Read more |
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Robert Reich How Trump is Preparing for War This has required purging naysayers from his Cabinet and White House staff, and replacing them with bomb-throwing advocates like Bolton and Kudlow. Read more |
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Krystal Ball Stormy Daniels Is a Feminist Heroine She is a woman who stood up to tell her story on TV, to take on the powerful, the consequences be damned. Read more |
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Negin Owliaei Tipped Workers Win with Spending Bill A provision nestled deep in the spending bill prevents employers from taking the tips their employees earn. Read more |
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Noah Berlatsky 12 Rules for Spitting on the Poor Collective action to right wrongs or help the suffering under neoliberal ideology is wrong, unfeasible, or some combination of the two. Read more |
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Ken Reed Minor League Baseball Players Shouldn’t Be Paid Less Than Walmart Greeters Given the huge salaries players at the Major League level enjoy, most people have no idea how poorly compensated minor league baseball players are. Read more |
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Natasha Ezrow In John Bolton, Donald Trump Has An Adviser Who’s Radical Even by Neocon Standards With his foreign policy terminally mired in chaos, Trump has almost fully surrounded himself with a mixture of yes-men and warmongers. Read more |
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Rev. John Dear For a Global Nonviolent Revolution, We Need to Connect the Dots Thoughts on the inspiring March for Our Lives. Read more |
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Jeff Cohen Same Old Media Parade: Why Are Liberals Cheering? Just as they did in the lead-up to the Iraq invasion, MSNBC and CNN now serve up a steady parade of war-hawks, spies and liars, presenting them as credible and almost heroic as long as they criticize the despicable man in the White House Read more |
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John Feffer Trump to the International Community: Drop Dead Washington takes on the world. Read more |
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Chris Hedges 'The Gig Economy' Is the New Term for Serfdom The corporate architects of the new economy have no intention of halting the assault. Read more |
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Richard Eskow This Is What Makes John Bolton So Dangerous The establishment has already shown its willingness to absorb Bolton, no matter how is extreme his ideas. Read more |
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Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity Trump Should Withdraw Nomination of Gina Haspel From what is already known of her leading role in CIA torture 16 years ago, she has disqualified herself. Read more |
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Alyssa Wetherbee Living in Terror "At eleven years old, I was taught what to do if someone decided to shoot up my school." Read more |
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Pat LaMarche Is That a White House Advisor in Your Pocket, or Are You Just Helping Him Fleece Me It's time to evict the slumlords taking up residence in the Trump White House Read more |
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Will Bunch Before They Marched, They Sat In: The 'Good Trouble' of the Pennridge 225 "What could have been mostly over 10 days ago, in 17 short minutes, has instead become a running civics lesson for the Pennridge kids—on the meaning of civil disobedience and how to best celebrate the First Amendment and the rights of free speech and free assembly." Read more |
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Lornet Turnbull Two-Thirds of Americans Live in the 'Constitution-Free Zone' Recent Greyhound bus raids have revealed an obscure law that gives Border Patrol authority 100 miles inside borders, across the entire perimeter of the country Read more |
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Shahed Ghoreishi Trump’s New War Cabinet Putting Mike Pompeo and John Bolton in major positions of power suggests that Trump and his gang of evil are preparing for the very conflicts that he promised to avoid Read more |
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Basav Sen The State Department Drama Shows Just How Far Trump Will Go for Big Oil In this White House, the most dangerous industry on earth has a stranglehold on U.S. foreign policy Read more |
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Peter Bloom The March for Change Represents the Chance to Build an Intersectional Progressive Movement The impact of the March for Our Lives has the potential to be much more widespread than just changing U.S. gun policy—it represents perhaps the beginnings of a intersectional movement for broader social transformation Read more |
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Kristy Dahl How Do Big Oil Companies Talk about Climate Science? Four Takeaways from a Day in Court While scientists are clear on the effects of fossil fuel emissions on the growing climate crisis, Big Oil continues to downplay the connection and rely on outdated information to argue its case Read more |
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Reed Richardson Journalism of, by and for the Elite How the New York Times and Wall Street Journal mirror the one percent they cover Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli The Secretary and the Lord Mike Pompeo's confirmation as Secretary of State would bring a new level of religiosity to the State Department Read more |
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Mara Pellittieri Teacher Strikes Are About More Than Salaries. And They’re Not Over. "For the first time in a generation, schools are being closed with a series of wildcat strikes. Because of course they are. Teaching has always been difficult, but years of funding cuts are making it impossible." Read more |
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Jon Rainwater John Bolton: A Drum Major for Regime Change Gains Inside Influence "To describe John Bolton as a 'hawk' or 'hard-liner' is to praise him with faint damnation. Bolton is an ideologue of rare pedigree even for a George W. Bush vintage neoconservative." Read more |
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Phyllis Bennis Trump’s Quiet Meeting with Saudi Arabia and Israel Portends a Dangerous Collision Course with Iran An under-the radar gathering at the White House exposes troubling new drifts in U.S. foreign policy. Read more |
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Nancy Altman Lesson From Special Election: Run on Social Security, Medicare and Lower Drug Prices The roadmap to victory. Read more |
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Danielle Beavers Has “Diversity” Failed? What It Needs to Succeed To take off and truly transform American institutions, diversity needs a more compelling narrative than we’ve managed to give it so far. Read more |
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Tulsi Gabbard The Gun Control Debate: What Debate? By focusing on the love and care that we have for one another, we can bring about real change. Read more |
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Jeremy Lent Culture Shift: Redirecting Humanity’s Path to a Flourishing Future It’s time to build a new worldview around a deeper sense of connectedness. Read more |
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CJ Werleman Dangerous and Reckless: John Bolton, Trump's New National Security Adviser John Bolton has demonstrated he is a dangerous and reckless neoconservative ideologue who believes diplomacy should be replaced with ultimatum. Read more |
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Esfandyar Batmanghelidj The Iran Deal is Dead, Long Live the Iran Deal What conventional analysis fails to recognize is that the Iran deal cannot be killed. Read more |
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Mitchell Plitnick John Bolton: The Essential Profile "This appointment isn’t just unwise. It’s disastrous." Read more |
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Ralph Nader Ten Million Americans Could Bring H.R. 676 into Reality Land—Relief for Anxiety, Dread and Fear Medicare for all is what the Pentagon does. It is what President Harry Truman wanted from Congress back in the nineteen forties. It is time. Read more |
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Juan Cole Let's Call Bolton What He Is: A War Criminal with Terrorist Ties, Not Just "Hawkish" In a sane society, people like Bolton wouldn’t be allowed on television, much less put in charge of American security. Read more |
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Katherine Paul From 'Sea to Shining Sea,' Industrial Ag Fouls America's Waterways Given agriculture’s role in destroying our most precious natural resource, you’d think the U.S. Congress would do everything in its power to protect your water. Read more |
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Jill Filipovic What the Death of a White Rhino Really Tells Us The response to poaching has to be holistic and global — addressing, among other things, economic need and lack of opportunity. Read more |
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Russell Mokhiber Study Finds Single Payer Viable in 2018 Elections New report finds that of the 561 Democratic candidates running for the House of Representatives in 2018, 271 of them support Medicare for All or single payer Read more |
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Ken Levy The (Current) Gun-Control Debate Is Not Really About Gun Control The Second Amendment got us into this mess. So we can hardly expect it to get us out of it. Read more |
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Jeff Bryant Betsy DeVos Wants To Cut Public Education to The Bone It’s hard to imagine a worse secretary of education. Read more |
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Nate Terani Donald Trump’s America: Already Hell Enough for This Muslim-American Why I can't help but wonder, at least in my bleaker moments, whether there will be any coming back from the dark destination we seem headed toward Read more |
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Andy Rowell “I’m Taking This Action To Protect My Grandchildren’s Future” As opposition against the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline grows daily, fifty people have been arrested thus far. Read more |
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Will Bunch Vulture Hedge-Fund Capitalism Still Devouring U.S. Jobs. Will We Ever Do Something? In a perfect world, our politicians in Washington would rein in the abuses of vulture capitalism. Read more |
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Gennie Gebhart How To Change Your Facebook Settings To Opt Out of Platform API Sharing Tech companies can and should do more to protect users, including giving users far more control over what data is collected and how that data is used. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Normalizing Violence Killings happen just like wars happen. Read more |
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John Feffer Trump, Terrorism, and the Politics of Witch Hunts It's ironic that the most powerful man on earth would protest that he's the subject of a "witch hunt," especially given his enthusiasm for bombing and torturing people. Read more |
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Elliot Harmon How Congress Censored the Internet In passing SESTA/FOSTA, lawmakers failed to separate their good intentions from bad law Read more |
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Lisa Davis Survivors Need Shelter, But Shelters Need Legal Protection In Iraq Despite the unprecedented security crisis, it remains against public policy for Iraqi NGOs to provide shelter for those escaping gender-based violence. Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati Billionaires Won’t Save the World — Just Look at Elon Musk The "playboy genius" is essentially squandering taxpayer money on pet projects like Mars trips and flamethrowers. Read more |
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Stephanie Savell We Have Spent $32 Million Per Hour on War Since 2001 15 years after the invasion of Iraq, what are the costs? Read more |
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Elizabeth West Love And Loss In The Anthropocene As a species, we have been unable to meet the challenges posed by our own misguided attachment to growth. Read more |
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Charles P. Pierce Nothing to See Here, Just Freedom Deregulation kills more people in this country than ISIS ever will. Read more |
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Brock McIntosh It’s Time to Transform the War Economy The Poor People's Campaign offers an antidote to a poisoned and militarized culture that has perverted the national agenda. Read more |
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David Korten Tariffs Aren’t a Terrible Idea—If They’re About Well-Being of People Not Corporations Tariffs on imports could be part of reorienting the global economy. Now is a good time to talk about it. Read more |
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Richard Eskow There’s Fake News on Your Television, Too Sinclair Broadcast Group is a hard-right corporation that imposes its views on the local television stations it owns. Read more |
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Juan Ortiz Freuler The Cambridge Analytica Scandal Is a Drop of Water Trickling Down the Visible Top of an Iceberg Most coverage of Cambridge Analytica story is missing out on the big picture. The scale of the operation was only possible because Facebook has too much data about too many people. Read more |
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Gretchen Goldman Scott Pruitt Will Restrict EPA's Use of Legitimate Science The Administrator's “transparency” proposal is a fundamentally flawed Trojan Horse Read more |
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Moazzam Begg Donald Trump's New CIA Chief Can't Hide Her Role in Torture Cover-Up Trump's nominee for CIA director was a great supporter of getting rid of the evidence of torture, although it seems she has nothing to worry about now Read more |
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Claudia Lefko For These Children of Iraq, Help Did Not Arrive The unseen cost of three decades of war in Iraq Read more |
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Juan Cole Cambridge Analytica as the Matrix: Information Dominance and the Next Level of Fake News The sci-fi film appears to have inadvertently predicted the rise of the data mining firm Read more |
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Nick Meynen It’s Not Just Drug Dealers That Need to Worry About Inspiration Trump Took From Duterte The battle between autocratic leaders and the global movement for environmental justice heats up Read more |
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Andrew Bacevich On Seeing America's Whole Wars: A Memo to the Publisher of the New York Times Six questions for A.G. Sulzberger Read more |
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Sinan Antoon 15 Years Ago, America Destroyed My Country I never thought that Iraq could ever be worse than it was during Saddam's reign, but the 2003 US invasion changed that Read more |
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Danny Sjursen Unmitigated Failure: Operation Iraqi Freedom, 15 Years Later After waging an ill-advised war of choice in Iraq, the U.S. military remains ensnared in Greater Mesopotamia Read more |
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Chris Hedges Google, Facebook, Algorithms, and the Building of the Iron Wall This totalitarianism is being formed incrementally. It begins by silencing the demonized. It ends by silencing everyone. Read more |
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Robert Dodge Eliminate Nuclear Weapons by Divesting from Them Just as in the recent outcry regarding the financing of the NRA, so to it must be for the companies that fund, develop and manufacture nuclear weapons Read more |
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John Atcheson Some Democrats Drawing All the Wrong Lessons from Conor Lamb's Victory Because you can't criticize a party for being a poodle to the plutocrats when your party is one too Read more |
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Medea Benjamin Don’t Believe the Media Hype About Saudi Prince Mohammed Bin Salman Positive reforms credited to MbS are minor in the larger picture of a kingdom that brooks no dissent internally and is committing war crimes abroad Read more |
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Nomi Prins Jared Kushner, You're Fired! A political obituary for the president’s son-in-law Read more |
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Paul Buchheit A 2% Financial Wealth Tax Would Provide a $12,000 Annual Stipend to Every American Household Careful analysis reveals a number of excellent arguments for the implementation of a Universal Basic Income Read more |
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Michael Winship Trump’s Witch-Hunt Remembering two politicians of conscience as the president dismantles democracy Read more |
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Richard Eskow The Resistance Needs Better Heroes A movement is defined by its heroes. The Resistance can find better heroes than the ones some of its members have chosen – and it should. Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Stormy Weather Current events have given rise to a number of inquiries from readers asking me to explain "confidentiality agreements." Read more |
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Ellen Brown The War on the Post Office The U.S. Postal Service, under attack from a manufactured crisis designed to force its privatization, needs a new source of funding to survive. Postal banking could fill that need. Read more |
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Belén Fernández Iraq, 15 Years On: A Toxic US Legacy Fifteen years ago this month, the United States spearheaded a fantastically bloody war on Iraq as part of its ongoing effort to ensure the Iraqi nation's perpetual misery. Read more |
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Jenni Monet What Standing Rock Gave the World Americans saw the Indigenous struggle—the violence, stolen resources, colluding corporations and governments—that goes hand in hand with protecting the Earth. Read more |
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Juan Cole Trump, McCabe, and Our Permanent Constitutional Crisis If Trump fired Mueller, that really would be obstruction, and could create a huge constitutional crisis of a sort not seen since the days of Reagan’s Iran-Contra or Nixon’s Watergate. Read more |
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Will Bunch Abolishing ICE Is the Radical Idea America Needs to be Talking About The conduct of ICE and its first cousin, the Border Patrol, has been arguably the darkest moral stain on the sometimes comical but too often diabolical Trump era. Read more |
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Robert Reich The Menace of a Mad King Trump has become the Mad King who says or does anything his gut tells him to, while everyone around him genuflects. Read more |
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Don Wiener Koch Compliance: Georgia-Pacific Plants Have Troubling Health and Safety Record Including Seven Deaths Each story is heart wrenching because of the negligence, inadequate training, or failure to remedy an earlier noted problem Read more |
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Barbara Myers Have We Learned Anything From My Lai? While we harbor no doubts that My Lai was a crime, there has been no accountability for the atrocity, or a national reckoning for the wider holocaust that was Vietnam. Read more |
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Gregory Shupak Liberals, Conservatives Worry About Korean Peace Threat Recent commentary on North Korea shows that liberal analysts are every bit as capable of a chest-thumping jingoism as their counterparts on the right. Read more |
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Bobbi Dempsey Martin Shkreli Is Going to Jail Because He Forgot There Are Consequences For Hurting the Rich After four years of earning millions by controlling the supply of certain medications, he was convicted of defrauding hedge fund investors in a Ponzi scheme. Read more |
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Ryan Cooper Can Democrats Think Strategically About Trump Country? If Democrats are going to win in places like western Pennsylvania, they have to formulate an ideological and political stance that reverses the last generation of weak and elitist neoliberal Democratic Party policy. Read more |
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Robert Borosage Opening a New Way for Democrats to Run and Win If anything, the problem is that the progressive efforts are too weak, not too strong. Read more |
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Pat LaMarche In America, You Have a Right to Carry a Gun But Not a Right to Healthcare People need guaranteed access to affordable housing, food, education, healthcare and jobs. But none of that is protected under the U.S. Constitution. Read more |
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Marcy Wheeler Democrats’ Surrender On Torture Is Nearly Complete At key moments, Democrats missed their chance to move the country beyond torture Read more |
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John Kiriakou I Went to Prison for Disclosing CIA Torture. Gina Haspel Helped Cover It Up. Why it's vital that we do not reward the torturers Read more |