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Frank Clemente Check Your Wallet: Can You Find the $4,000 Trump Promised You? The GOP tax cuts have also added almost $2 trillion to the deficit. Now Republicans are trying to cover the hole they created by cutting critical public services that are important to working families. Read more |
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Chris Hedges The Slaves Rebel You might not know it, but there is a major revolt happening right now in the United States Read more |
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Paul Buchheit What Just Happened? $30 Trillion to the Richest White Americans Since 2008 While wealth continues to rush, not trickle, upwards, low-income families are going backwards as the average net worth for the poorest half of America decreased from $11,000 to $8,000 since the 2008 financial crash Read more |
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Jonathan Cook US Cuts to UNRWA Point to the Dark Future Being Readied for the Palestinians There is a deeper and darker agenda afoot than simply reviving failed negotiations or pandering to the Trump administration’s well-known antipathy towards international institutions. Read more |
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Héctor Figueroa Why Unions Still Matter, on Labor Day and Always With strong membership this year, unions promise improved wages and working conditions. Read more |
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James Zogby Mr. Trump, You Cannot Erase the Palestinian Refugees At stake is: the lives and fortunes of innocent Palestinians and their families; the rule of law; simple human justice; and the possibility of peace Read more |
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Katharine Trendacosta Victory! California Passes Net Neutrality Bill California's fight is a microcosm of the nation's. Net neutrality is popular across the country. Read more |
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Elliott Negin Why Is ExxonMobil Still Funding Climate Science Denier Groups? The company's money trail, however, clearly shows that it is still financing climate science denier groups that denigrate any and all climate policy options Read more |
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Robert Reich The Next Crash Trump and his Republican enablers are now reversing regulations put in place to stop Wall Street's excessively risky lending Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Trumping the Flag Trump has exploited the murder of Mollie Tibbetts to bellow yet again about the need for a wall, despite her family's objections to his "racist fear-mongering" Read more |
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Tyler Cullis Creating the Conditions for War U.S. hawks are signaling their intent to attack more directly the very foundations of the nuclear accord Read more |
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Ryan Cooper How to Pay for Medicare-for-All The way to make the legislation work is to isolate the sources of the most hideous and immoral waste in the healthcare system and concentrate the pain on them. Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati Taxpayers Are Footing the Bill for Sky-High CEO Salaries Billions in taxpayer funds go to CEOs who pay their workers peanuts. We can change that. Read more |
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Nancy Altman This Labor Day, Gear Up to Stop Trump and GOP War on Workers The ballot box looms for unpopular politicians Read more |
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Shannan Stoll First Nations Celebrate Win Against Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Here’s how indigenous leaders pulled together a grassroots movement to resist the pipeline expansion Read more |
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David Dayen The Good and the (Potentially Very) Bad in Trump’s NAFTA Renegotiation All in all, it’s a good heuristic to judge trade deals by how mad business lobbyists are about them, and judging from the Business Roundtable’s grumblings, the renegotiation has the potential to be decent Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar How One Deportee Is Helping Other Exiled Immigrants in Mexico “My story is just one of thousands of such stories.” Read more |
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Matt Taibbi The Cuomo-Nixon Debate Was a Preview of Democrat-DSA Battles to Come Democrat Sith Lord Gov. Andrew Cuomo slimed his way past the corporate money issue and attacked Cynthia Nixon’s celebrity Read more |
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Will Bunch Is Delaware’s Kerri Evelyn Harris the Next Explosion to Rock the Democrats? Harris says her campaign isn't anti-Trump, anti-GOP or even anti-Carper, but all about how to accomplish positive things such as raising the minimum wage to $15 without hurting small businesses, achieving true universal health care, and wiping out college debt Read more |
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Bob Burnett It’s the Corruption, Stupid Donald Trump has only enabled "the swamp." Read more |
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Lidy Nacpil, May Boeve, Patti Lynn Writing a New Chapter, Not an Obituary, for the Planet A recent New York Times Magazine article suggests action to address climate change is futile Read more |
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Brian Terrell Catholic Support for War: Another Child Abuse Scandal The Church cannot condemn child abuse by pedophiles and yet bless the government's murder of children in its wars, if it wants to be consistent and faithful to Christ Read more |
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Ryan Cooper Republicans Will Let Florida Drown For the Miami community, it is quite literally a matter of whether it will be allowed to exist in the future Read more |
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Ruchi Shroff Monsanto-Bayer: Eliminating the Name Will Not Erase the History We will continue to reclaim citizens’ rights, as well as those of small and medium producers, who, despite being crushed by the current market mechanisms, are the only ones providing us with healthy and nutritious food Read more |
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Vijay Prashad Dissent Is Being Muzzled Across Our Planet The arrests of five activists in India is part of a dangerous trend that demands more attention and public outcry Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Reviving the Spirit of ’68 I fear the forces the antiwar protesters were confronting fifty years ago have made a shift in keeping with their deepest interests: not to “win” the wars but simply to make sure they continue Read more |
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Hina Shamsi On National Security, Kavanaugh Has a History of Extreme Deference to the President Kavanaugh’s record shows he would likely defer to — and not even scrutinize — a president's push for war or abuses in the name of "national security" Read more |
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Marshall Auerback Trump’s NAFTA Deal Simply Can’t Solve America’s Manufacturing Problems A few additional crumbs for labor at a time when most U.S. manufacturing capacity has already been offshored or destroyed by militarization Read more |
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Larry Elliott Ten Years After the Financial Crash, the Timid Left Should be Full of Regrets Capitalism’s near-death experience with the banking crisis was a golden opportunity for progressives. But they blew it Read more |
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Basav Sen Trump Puts Forth an Actual Plan to Kill People for Coal Shocking as this sounds, the U.S. government is — by its own admission — willing to murder up to 1,600 Americans a year to enrich a few coal billionaires Read more |
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Steven Rosenfeld DNC Superdelegates Have Been Tamed—But Millions of Democratic Primary Votes Are Still Vulnerable If Berniecrats want millions of new voters, they need to win big in state primaries like New York’s upcoming September 13 vote Read more |
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Dennis Parker More Than 60 Years After His Brutal Murder, Emmett Till Deserves Justice The reopening of the Till case matters as we continue to confront racism in all its insidiousness Read more |
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Daniela Aspiazu This School Year, Let’s Keep Kids in Classrooms There are better ways to help students learn from their behavior than suspension and expulsion Read more |
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Ralph Nader 15 Ways the Democrats Can Lose the November Elections If the party cannot get its act together and put their focus where it belongs, Republicans will continue to enjoy their control of the federal branches of our captured government and many state houses Read more |
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Marshall Auerback The Failure to Punish White-Collar Crime After the 2008 Financial Crisis Helped Produce President Donald Trump Ten years later, Trump’s rise to power is a consequence of poor governance Read more |
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Justin Anderson Media Continues Writing Premature Obituaries for the Democratic Left When one takes a historical look at socialism in the United States, Sanders’ insurgency seems to be doing remarkably well Read more |
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Juan Cole Storm Death Toll in Puerto Rico Rivals 9/11: But Where Is War on Climate Change? Apparently we can see a large US territory flattened and nearly 3000 citizens killed, and yawn and pretend it did not happen or we don’t know why hurricanes are becoming more destructive Read more |
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Bob Lord The Arithmetic of the CEO-Worker Pay Divide Sometimes percentages alone don't do justice to the injustice of corporate compensation Read more |
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Larry Cohen Voters—and Nobody Else—Will Pick the 2020 Democratic Presidential Nominee This past weekend, the party changed its rules, and became more democratic Read more |
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Will Bunch John McCain and the 29-Second ‘Rashomon’ Moment That Defined America’s Coming Crisis "I genuinely don’t understand what is so inspiring about this moment. 'He’s not Arab, he is a decent man' is not shutting down racism — it is racism." Read more |
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Peter Certo The Iraq War Should Be a Much Bigger Part of McCain’s Legacy Than His ‘Civility’ The “straight talk” people praise McCain for is actually what most of them can’t stand about politicians: They say noble words but cast ignoble votes. Read more |
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Juan Ortiz Freuler Facebook Will Fail to Solve #FakeNews Zuckerberg needs to step back for his company to succeed Read more |
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Nan Aron ‘Justice Kavanaugh’ Is Not Inevitable The controversial judge’s confirmation would represent a tremendous threat to millions of Americans—and we can easily prevent it Read more |
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Peniel Joseph Chicago '68: The 50-Year Lessons America Still Hasn't Learned The internecine war for the soul of American democracy continues in our own time, as the rage and fear tapped almost 50 years apart by Richard Nixon and Donald Trump have continued to mesmerize successive generations of Americans Read more |
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Robert Reich Don’t Just Impeach Trump. Annul His Presidency Annulment would repeal all of it – recognizing that such appointments, orders, rules, and records were made without constitutional authority Read more |
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Tom Emswiler, Will Isenberg Your Government Has a Secret Kill List. Is that OK With You? Kareem’s story neatly captures the havoc that the war on terror has wreaked on the legal system and the dangers of abandoning legal traditions that have served us well for centuries Read more |
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Andy Rowell Jerry Brown Warns of “Apocalyptic Threat” of Climate Change, But Carries on Drilling Brown’s hypocrisy is plain to see Read more |
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Ryan Cooper What on Earth Is Obama Doing? What's been most striking about his political re-entry is its profound worthlessness Read more |
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Norman Solomon Victory in Superdelegates Fight Means: Grassroots Can Win The Democratic Party has not made such a historic reform to its presidential nominating process in decades. So, how did it happen? Read more |
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Miles Mogulescu Kavanaugh Threatens the Supreme Court’s Legitimacy Confirming such a Justice would be a travesty to American democracy Read more |
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Pia Eberhardt, Cecilia Olivet The Trade Deal Which Fines Governments for Acting on Climate Change An obscure agreement – the Energy Charter Treaty – allows energy firms to sue countries who take action to stop climate breakdown Read more |
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Stephanie Van Hook Why Mister Rogers Is the Role Model We Need Right Now The unconventional children’s television pioneer celebrated dignity and kindness in the age of mass media Read more |
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Sue Sturgis The Unequal Health Impacts of Trump's Coal Plant Rule It could cause up to 1,400 premature deaths per year Read more |
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Junia Howell Hurricane Season Not Only Brings Destruction and Death But Rising Inequality Too Populations that are privileged in terms of education, race or homeownership gain wealth in the aftermath of natural disasters, exacerbating already wide economic inequities Read more |
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Chris Hedges Becoming Serfs Income inequality in the United States has not been this pronounced in over a century Read more |
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Steven Singer No One Ever Remembered a Teacher for Raising Standardized Test Scores "I just wanted you to know that you taught me how to write. If it wasn’t for you I never would have made it anywhere. I just wanted to thank you so much for everything you did for me.” Read more |
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Jonathan Cook Corbyn Is Being Destroyed – Like Blowing Up a Bridge to Stop an Advancing Army The truth is the ruling elite are exploiting British Jews and fueling their fears as part of a much larger power game in which all of us – the 99 per cent – are expendable Read more |
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Judith Coburn A Private Investigator on Living in a Surveillance Culture Can we be forgotten anymore? Read more |
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Reese Erlich What Fifteen Years of U.S. Occupation Has Produced? Angry Iraqis As militant protests roil the city of Basra in Iraq, two summer films give a fuller sense of what U.S. occupation there has wrought Read more |
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David Suzuki Hot Enough for You? 2018 is shaping up to be a record-breaker. But as the old saying goes, "You ain’t seen nothing yet!" Read more |
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Briahna Gray Beware the Race Reductionist If you’re #online, like I am, you’re probably already familiar with the main argument. It goes something like this: If a policy doesn’t resolve racism “first,” it’s at worst racist, and at best, not worth pursuing. Read more |
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Eric Margolis The Lion of Judah's Last Roar There would never be peace in the region, warned prophet Uri Avnery, until Israel returned at least some land taken from Palestinians, and created a viable Palestinian state with full democratic rights and freedoms. Read more |
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Moustafa Bayoumi US Bombs Are Killing Children in Yemen. Does Anybody Care? The lack of outrage at the US’s key role in this humanitarian disaster raises troubling questions Read more |
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Pierre Tristam Without Fear Or Favor. Or Whining. If politicians and their sycophants thinks we reporters are the enemy, let’s be proud of it, shut the hell up and do our jobs. If we do it well, that’ll shut them up. Read more |
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Nozomi Hayase Why Democracy Needs Solidarity for Julian Assange's Freedom Efforts to free Julian Assange from his imprisonment challenges us all to uphold the sacred free speech right, even if it also demands the moral courage to love our enemies Read more |
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Andrew Boyle The Free Press Aren’t ‘Enemies of the People’ The phrase has an ignominious history. Why does Trump keep using it? Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Suffer Little Children, We Command You Because of adults, there are so many places on this earth for children to be sad Read more |
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Steven Rosenfeld 'Live Up to Your Name': Are Democrats on the Verge of Trimming Power of Superdelegates? If successful, this will change the contours of the 2020 presidential nomination process. Read more |
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Chandra Bozelko The Prison Strike Is an Overdue Opportunity to End the Slavery of Incarcerated People If criminal justice reform is truly a bipartisan issue, then politicians should accept the demands of those striking Read more |
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John Nichols What to Do When a President Believes He’s Above Justice To protect our democracy, Congress must value the Constitution over partisan politics Read more |
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Timothy Denevi Why American-Made Fascism Puts Democracy at Risk The United States is being led by someone who openly defends white supremacists Read more |
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Scott Remer Butter, Not Guns “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed.” Read more |
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Suzanne Garment Stormy Daniels, Trump and the Power of Telling the Truth In the face of withering personal attacks from men at the highest levels of government, Stormy refused to back down. Because she knew she was right Read more |
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Dilip Hiro Can Donald Trump Unite the World (Against Himself)? The rise of an anti-Trump movement globally – and on his home turf Read more |
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Ryan Cooper Impeach the President. Period. It's worth remembering that if the Constitution was functioning as intended, Trump would be impeached immediately Read more |
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Trevor Timm The Government’s Argument That Reality Winner Harmed National Security Doesn’t Hold Up. Here’s Why. The government did not produce one iota of public evidence to back up its claims Read more |
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Ilyse Hogue Why Defeating Brett Kavanaugh Is the Pivotal Fight of Our Lifetime A letter to America on Brett Kavanaugh: We are an unstoppable force Read more |
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Katie Fitzpatrick Change the World, Not Yourself, or How Arendt Called Out Thoreau Perhaps the most striking difference between Henry David Thoreau and Hannah Arendt is that, while he sees disobedience as necessarily individual, she sees it as, by definition , collective. Read more |
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Jill Richardson Here Out West, ‘Smoke Season’ Keeps Getting Worse Addressing climate change costs money. Wildfires gobbling up our country — and seas swallowing up our shores — costs more Read more |
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Jeff Bryant Progressives May End Education’s ‘Funding Vs. Accountability’ War The whole idea that more intense accountability will produce greater gains in student achievement, regardless of funding and resources, is not only losing its currency in politics; it’s proving to be bad policy Read more |
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Amrit Cheng More Than 500 Children Are Still Separated. Here’s What Comes Next Every additional day that children wait to be with their parents is damaging — it’s simple unacceptable that the government had information that could help reunite them faster but sat on it Read more |
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Stephen Zunes Impeach Away! Thoughts on a Possible President Pence Progressives should not hesitate to mobilize in support of the impeachment and conviction of Donald Trump. Here’s why Read more |
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Paul Pillar Has a Diversionary War Just Become More Likely? The likely adversary of any such Trumpian war would be Iran Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Recreating the Wilderness The planet itself is transitioning, to God knows what. There may be no human race on the other side of that transition, but maybe there will be Read more |
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Brett Wilkins Why Trump Can’t Save Coal From the Ash Heap of History This is all indeed very bad news for anyone who cares about the planet we share Read more |
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Robert Reich Will Trump Survive? Be sure of this: this superb conman will not go easily... or quietly Read more |
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Alan MacLeod That Facebook Will Turn to Censoring the Left Isn’t a Worry—It’s a Reality Progressives should not necessarily shed tears for Alex Jones, but they should be aware that their media is next in line, and that Jones’ deplatforming sets a dangerous precedent that is already being used against them. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Calling for Ten Million More Voters, a Few Billionaires, and a Just Congress What is the movement demanding a bold and ambitious progressive agenda missing most? Money. Read more |
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Kayla Kitson Scoring Trump’s Tax Cuts So Far: $280k for Rich Lawmakers, Pennies for Working People Very few businesses have raised wages thanks to corporate tax cuts, but executives and lawmakers are buying new yachts Read more |
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Michael Hiltzik A Koch-Funded Think Tank Tries Hard to Pretend That it Didn't Find Savings From Bernie Sanders' Medicare Plan What’s overlooked in all these cavils about Sanders’ crowing about Blahous’ finding is that the champion cherry-picker in the discussion is Charles Blahous Read more |
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Jesse Meisenhelter The DNC Just Lifted Their Ban on Fossil Fuel Contributions. Who Will Say No to the Tide of “Dark Oily” Money? As the 2020 primary begins, individual Democrats must show climate leadership by taking the #NoFossilFuelMoney pledge Read more |
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Will Bunch What Is the GOP Trying to Hide About Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh? What we do know suggests a man guided less by bedrock principle and more by cutthroat 21st-Century partisan politics Read more |
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Ilana Novick EPA Coal Plan Could Cause Up to 1,400 Premature Deaths Annually (and Trump's EPA Knows It But Doesn't Care) “With the Trump dirty power plan we see again that the Trump administration cares more about extending the lives of coal plants than the American people.” Read more |
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Noah Bookbinder, Barry Berke, Norman Eisen What the Manafort Verdict Means It’s Robert Mueller’s biggest victory yet, in one of the most successful special counsel investigations in history Read more |
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Jacob Bacharach The #Resistance Has a New Grift, and Liberals Are the Perfect Mark Libberals who fall for this sort of thing, who abandon all skepticism of the military and intelligence entities in America as soon as the wrong party gets into the White House, are only partly to blame. They are victims, really, of our deranged national culture of politics as consumer choice, party... Read more |
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Adam Sanchez The Other ’68: Black Power During Reconstruction Recalling a time when the empowerment of the most oppressed in our society paved the way for other social struggles also gives weight to today’s slogan that all lives will matter only when Black lives matter Read more |
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Nash Riggins Donald Trump Is Heading Towards Impeachment – and You Have the Power to Make That Happen The president's cronies are finally turning on their master and burying him in a series of legal predicaments from which not even Paul Ryan can rescue him Read more |
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Charles P. Pierce I Lived Through Watergate. I Lived Through the Saturday Night Massacre. There Never Was Anything Like This The Cohen and Manafort developments could be a mortal blow to the Trump presidency—and Brett Kavanaugh's nomination Read more |
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Stephen Miles The Futility of Failure in Afghanistan The simple truth is that no amount of making war is going to bring peace to a country that has seen four decades of conflict. It’s time to try something different. Read more |
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Josefa Velasquez ALEC Launches Effort to Protect Gerrymandering From Judges Efforts to strip power away from the judiciary or influence the makeup of the courts come as the 2020 census and subsequent redistricting loom Read more |