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Bill Blum Unequal Justice: Why Trump Picked Kavanaugh The Trump Administration lauded Kavanaugh as a judge who “protects American businesses from illegal job-killing regulation.” Read more |
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Chuck Idelson How to Fully Protect People with Pre-Existing Conditions: It's Called Medicare for All While Democratic candidates have rightfully exposed the outlandish lies by Trump and numerous Republicans suddenly acting as defenders of the sick, the inconvenient truth is that even with the ACA, insurance companies have found numerous ways to skirt the law, part of their business goals which... Read more |
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Robin Carver Being Trans in America Was Already Scary. Now It’s Terrifying. A new federal order wouldn't just deny civil rights protections to trans people. It would deny we exist altogether. Read more |
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Alex Lawson Republicans Will Cut Your Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid Benefits Democrats will expand them Read more |
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Chip Gibbons The Left Is Warming Up to the FBI. That’s a Mistake. The FBI has always targeted dissent Read more |
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Jefferson Morley Surgical Strikes: What the Attack on Yemen and Khashoggi Have in Common The Saudi-led way of war is anything but indiscriminate Read more |
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Katelyn Burns Corporate Media Enabled Trump’s Anti-Trans Policies Media coverage of marginalized groups targeted by Trump should recognize the humanity of those communities Read more |
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Ryan Cooper The White House's Laughably Bad Attack on Medicare-for-all If this is the best attack on Medicare-for-all American conservatives can come up with, we may safely conclude the policy debate is settled Read more |
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Michael Winship In Berlin, Turkish Newsman and Pussy Riot Risk It All for Freedom of Speech Dictators crush dissent and honest reporting with the gun, the sword, the noose and the bone saw. Read more |
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James Esseks The Trump Administration Is Trying to Erase Trans People, But the Law Clearly Protects Them The good news here is that this administration doesn’t get the last word on trans people’s rights Read more |
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Henry Giroux The Fascist Threat Our Political Establishment Won't Acknowledge We need individuals and social movements willing to disturb the normalization of a fascist politics, oppose racist, sexist, and neoliberal orthodoxy Read more |
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Dan Plesch Progressives Need a New Internationalist Policy Progressives need to look to U.S. allies and U.S. history for inspiration Read more |
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Domenica Ghanem Journalists Say Trump’s Caravan Claims Are ‘Evidence-Free.’ It’s Worse Than That. Reporters know the president is telling racist lies to rile up his base. Why won’t they just say that? Read more |
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Adam Johnson Blaming Saudis for Corrupting Otherwise Human Rights–Loving US While it’s refreshing that some are starting to challenge the United States’ grotesque alliance with the Saudi theocratic monarchy, it’s important to note that it’s not a product of a foreign boogeyman, but core to the US imperial project Read more |
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Juan Cole "I Am a Nationalist": Donald Trump Apes Mussolini in Drive to Destroy America It is important that everyone understand how dangerous what Trump said is. Read more |
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Tom Gallagher Sorry Willie Brown, the Democratic Socialists Aren’t Leaving "Your" Party And if you really think someone's got to go, how about you go? Read more |
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Ursula Wolfe-Rocca Downplaying Deportations: How Textbooks Hide the Mass Expulsion of Mexican Americans During the Great Depression What happened is that men, women, and children — immigrant and U.S.-born, citizen and noncitizen, long-time residents and temporary workers — all became the targets of a massive campaign of forced relocation, based solely on their perceived status as “Mexican.” Read more |
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Vijay Prashad There’s a Growing International Alliance of Right-Wing Demagogues From Brazil’s Bolsonaro to the Philippines’ Duterte to the leader of them all, Trump Read more |
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Ro Khanna Congress Must End U.S. Military Aid to Saudi War in Yemen Today’s leaders owe it to all those who have sacrificed for a fairer world to bring an end to the worst humanitarian crisis on Earth Read more |
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Alan Zibel This Is Not What Democracy Looks Like: Big Money Floods Midterm Election Races “This is the world Citizens United made.” Read more |
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Nicolas J. S. Davies, Medea Benjamin Peacemakers, Warmongers and Fence Sitters: Who Represents You? In lifetime voting records tabulated by Peace Action, the average House Democrat has a 72% peace voting record, while the average House Republican scores only 10%. In the Senate, the difference is 69% to 14% Read more |
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Alexandra Billings Dear Mr. Trump: I’m Transgender And I Have A Few Things I Want You To Know You stand for nothing. You believe in nothing. Read more |
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Robert Reich Democrats: Don’t Go High or Low. Go Big and Bold Of course Democrats have to fight Trump. But they also have to lift America beyond him Read more |
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Robert Lipsyte Trump and Kavanaugh Win One for the Pack How frats, teams, and gangs divide, conquer, and now judge America Read more |
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Tim Koechlin You Have Nothing to Apologize For! The Defense of White Male Privilege This declaration is rooted in arrogance and entitlement, not innocence. It means that no one has the right to take this virtually unlimited privilege from me Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Why Do Only Some Lives Matter? Where is the outrage for the innocent civilians of Yemen? Read more |
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Belén Fernández The West Enabled Khashoggi's Demise - Not To Mention All the Other Saudi Crimes Enamoured Western media coverage catapulted 'Crown Prince charming' and other notorious regional human rights abusers into the role of 'modernising reformers' Read more |
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Jim Naureckas USA Today Says Climate Apocalypse Promises a Balmy Winter The takeaway from this year's weather patterns is nothing to celebrate Read more |
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Luísa Abbott Galvão Inequality: A Feature and Driver of Bolsonaro’s Rise in Brazil Brazil's right-wing presidential candidate aligned himself with financial interests, attracting support from the moderates willing to overlook his fascist nature and lean into his free-market agenda Read more |
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Frances Moore Lappé Are Humans Actually Capable of Democracy? Elsewhere I’ve made the case that democracy isn’t a choice. It’s our only pathway forward, but my claim can provoke some pretty charged challenges. I can hear the fears of the discouraged asking, “Is... Read more |
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Thom Hartmann Stop GOP Voter Suppression—Or Else! Most American voters generally don’t like billionaires and corporations running politics, so the GOP is simply not letting them vote. Read more |
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Chris Hedges The Rule of the Uber-Rich Means Either Tyranny or Revolution Corporate capitalism, which has destroyed our democracy, has given unchecked power to the uber-rich. Read more |
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Alex Lenferna No, the US Is Not Upholding Its Paris Climate Agreement Commitments Despite some encouraging climate action at the sub-national level, the U.S. is not "upholding its commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement," as it is failing to address the issue of international climate finance and is far from meetings its fair share of emissions reductions Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt (Un)Happy Anniversary! 17 Years of US War (and More to Come) If you consider this the anniversary of a marriage made in hell, then you would also have to think of the war on terror that started in Afghanistan as having had a brood of demon children -- the invasion of Iraq being the first of them -- and by now possibly even grandchildren. Read more |
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Paul Buchheit An Arena Full of the Richest Americans Would Own as Much Wealth as 70% of the World For 35 years Americans have been duped into believing that well-positioned individuals should be allowed to do whatever they want, and the result is the perverse level of inequality we now have Read more |
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Jeff Bryant Education May Propel the Blue Wave in DeVos Country Should Democrats retake the Rust Belt, it may not only snuff out the DeVos legacy but also change the course of education policy in the nation Read more |
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Daniel Ross Carbon Capture: What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Climate Change Here's a harsh climate reality: Extracting carbon already emitted is as important as reaching zero output Read more |
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Max Feldman How North Dakota's Voter ID Law Will Disenfranchise Native Americans The burden will fall most heavily on communities that already have historically seen their voices marginalized Read more |
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Matt Taibbi Three Colliding Problems Leading to a New Economic Disaster Last week's stock sell-off was merely the beginning of what's to come Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli The Elevation of Brett Kavanaugh What effect will the presence of two known liars sitting as justices on the U.S. Supreme Court have on decisions made by that court, especially, but not exclusively, in criminal cases? Read more |
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Norman Solomon, Jeff Cohen, Pia Gallegos, Sam McCann, and Donna Smith Democratic Autopsy: One Year Later Progressive momentum could lead to historic breakthroughs in the midterms and beyond. Realizing such potential will require transforming and energizing the Democratic Party Read more |
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Bill McKibben I Was Used to Social Media Abuse. Then Someone Suggested Shooting Me What does it say about a society when people just routinely call for the killing of those they disagree with? Read more |
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Jorge Majfud Brazil: The Eternal Country of the Future Trapped in Its Colonial Past Those who oppose Bolsonaro in Brazil, like those who oppose Trump in the United States, do not understand the new cowangry mentality Read more |
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Glenn Greenwald In Bolsonaro's New Brazil, Far-Right Evangelical Billionaire's Media Empire Is Being Exploited to Investigate Journalists Edir Macedo, known as The Bishop, is now an explicit supporter of far-right extremist and presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro Read more |
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Kelly Trout Three Key Takeaways From the IPCC Report on 1.5 Degrees of Warming There is no time to lose in rapidly reducing emissions Read more |
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Ryan Cooper Tribalism Is Not the Problem Tribes do not behave as moronically as described, and the problem with American politics has more to do with modernity Read more |
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Juan Cole The Top Five Ways Trump Enabled Murder of Journalist Jamal Khashoggi The lawless and fascist discourse of the U.S. president is not without consequences in world affairs Read more |
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Ahmed Abu Artema Gaza’s Great March of Return: Six Months On, We Are Still Struggling Against Israeli Oppression Despite the bloody fallout, all indications point to the continued momentum of the Palestinian protest movement Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Have Democrats Forgotten About This Summer's Immigration Debacle? Because the liberal party is once again unable or unwilling to articulate a critical issue and effectively lay cruel immigration policies at the feet of Trump and the Republicans, the GOP’s anti-immigrant hysteria may reign supreme Read more |
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Michael Molitch-Hou Climate Activists Occupy Greenpeace UK Headquarters—Wait, That Can't Be Right British environmental activist group says Greenpeace is not radical enough to meet the dire climate situation Read more |
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Sam Husseini The Most Strategic Midterm Race: A Progressive Challenges Steny Hoyer Pat Elder's challenge to Hoyer not only pushes back against corporate domination, but also tangibly for peace and against militarism around the world Read more |
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Jack Holmes The President of the United States Just Explicitly Endorsed Political Violence We've been heading towards this moment for a long time, but the president has now put the bloody icy on the cake Read more |
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John Feffer The Americans, the Saudis, and the Israelis: Assassins Without Borders Saudi Arabia's apparent assassination of Jamal Khashoggi might have taken inspiration from Russia and North Korea — or Israel and the United States. Read more |
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Robert Weissman 'Tough on Crime' Jeff Sessions Touts Plummeting Corporate Crime Enforcement Like It's an Achievement Attorney General's time at the Justice Department has resulted in near-record low white-collar crime prosecutions Read more |
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Daniel David Why Coverage of Indigenous Issues Is So Lousy Indigenous perspectives, plural because there are many, have always been missing to our understanding, whether it’s about pipelines, land rights, racism or music Read more |
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Belle Chesler The Kavanaugh Hearings Just Won't Leave Me Alone The media’s moving on, but I’m not Read more |
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Steven Rosenfeld Voter Data Suppression Is GOP’s Latest Anti-Voter Tactic Arizona and Georgia are leading examples Read more |
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Dr. Hakim Nonviolent Afghans Bring a Breath of Fresh Air We have all been smoking the cigarette of war, despite the evidence on its cancer-causing nature. What we should do is to quit smoking. Quit the human behavior of war! Read more |
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Peter Thacher We Need To Inspire Courage to Stop Climate Change—Not Fatalism There is no other important social issue where we tolerate defeatism— climate change should be no exception. The only acceptable response is to work to fix it Read more |
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Ruth Conniff The Republicans’ Long, Negative Campaign Among a slew of attacks on voters, the GOP’s longstanding effort to simply turn them off remains among the most effective Read more |
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Ryan Cooper Republicans' Saudi Arabia Derangement It's a good demonstration of how deep the moral corruption has gone in the GOP under Trump, and the extent to which their foreign policy "thinking" is dictated by foreign lobbying Read more |
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Chris Hedges The Rats Revolt There is no American who has fought with more tenacity, courage and integrity to expose the crimes of corporate power and to thwart the corporate coup d’état that has destroyed our democracy than Ralph Nader. Read more |
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Frances Moore Lappé What Is Democracy, Anyway? Let’s Talk Above all, democracy is a cultural journey—not an end stage—headed towards widely dispersed power and away from concentrated control Read more |
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Richard Heinberg When It Comes to Sustainability, We’re a Society of Distracted Drivers We human beings are all, in effect, driving this planet Read more |
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Thom Hartmann The Fascists Are Coming for Your Social Security and Medicare The warning signs are already here. Read more |
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Norah Vawter Progressives Need to Be Brave Enough to Fail I don’t believe that we’re going to create real change through the compromises and decorum of so-called moderates Read more |
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John Tharp, Maria Foscarinis All Laws That Make It a Crime to be Homeless Should Be Repealed Here's what should replace them Read more |
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Sam Wang, Ben Williams, & Rick Ober How Gerrymandering Reform Can Win in the States Through local action, Democrats this November have a chance to untilt the playing field in every state that now has an extreme partisan gerrymander Read more |
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Sandra Park How America Systematically Fails Survivors of Sexual Violence The multiple layers of discrimination that survivors experience, and the network of systems that foster it, could leave one feeling hopeless Read more |
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Tim Lau The Trump Administration Wants to Drastically Limit the Right to Protest in the Nation’s Capital The National Park Service could charge a “protest tax” and block off 80 percent of the White House sidewalk to demonstrations Read more |
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Robert Reich Trump Is America's Most Dangerous Export Donald Trump is not only undermining democracy here at home, but he’s also emboldening dangerous authoritarian movements around the world Read more |
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Nancy J. Altman The Future of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid Is on the Ballot This November Right-wing extremists have never been subtle about their goal to eliminate all three programs Read more |
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Christopher D. Cook To Address the Climate Crisis, We Must Completely Rethink How We Produce and Consume Food Market-driven solutions won’t cut it Read more |
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Michael Winship Doubt It Can Happen Here? Tell It to Berlin A note to those who think it unfair to compare the Trump White House and the GOP to what happened in Germany 85 years ago. Read more |
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Daniela Manuschevich, Nick Meynen Chilean Union Leader Found Dead One Day After Anti-Pollution Demo One day after protesting massive chemical pollution, Alejandro Castro was found, hanging. The artisanal fisherman union leader had just pulled off a mass mobilization against acute chemical... Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Mary Miller Khashoggi Is The Tip Of The Bloody Iceberg: 10 More Reasons to Cut the US-Saudi Alliance Despite its history of thuggery, the United States has been cozy with the kingdom for decades. Read more |
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Chuck Idelson Behind Trump’s Attack on Medicare for All – a Fear of Losing Political Power Most revealing in Trump’s campaign invective and universally rebuked op ed are not the fabrications littering nearly every word, but the motivation behind it Read more |
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John Nichols, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ‘I Want Us to Be That Party Again’ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez talks about her win and what inspires her going forward Read more |
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Anna Attie Students Across the Nation Fight for #FreeCollege4All Student Action will continue this fight until we win a world where college need never be considered a luxury Read more |
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Chris Winters Voter Registration Is Inherently Racist And several other reasons that the midterm elections are testing how far some states can go in disenfranchising certain voters Read more |
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Andrew Bacevich Rethinking National Security: Some Unsolicited Advice for an Undeclared Presidential Candidate A letter to Sen. Elizabeth Warren Read more |
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Jefferson Morley The Khashoggi Affair Won’t Stop Trump’s Drive for War With Iran Symbolic punishment will be designed to protect the policy of provocation. Read more |
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Kali Holloway Descendant of Racist Confederate Leader Voices Support for Anti-Racist Activists A UNC-Chapel Hill student faces criminal charges for protesting a Confederate statue on campus Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati Confronting Climate Change in a Deeply Unequal World The global reaction to two new landmark reports suggests the world could well lose that confrontation Read more |
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Deborah Burger, Zenei Cortez The American People Will No Longer Buy the Trump-GOP Lies About Medicare for All Americans have increasingly concluded that market approaches are failing their health and their economic security. They want real change—and 70 percent now favor Medicare for all. Read more |
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Will Bunch Trump Is Clamping Down on White House Protest. Be Very Afraid of What Comes Next The big question about the National Park Service rules is: Why now? Read more |
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Jeff Cohen Few Democrats Offer Alternatives to War-Weary Voters The party's failure to challenge US foreign policy is both a moral and strategic failure Read more |
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William Hartung Jobs Are No Excuse for Arming a Murderous Regime There are other ways to promote jobs in the United States that do not involve accepting blood money from the Saudi regime. Read more |
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Karen Greenberg How Guantanamo Set the Stage for the Kavanaugh Hearings Justice derailed and the echoes of Gitmo Read more |
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Jeff Bryant How the Wealthy Destroy Public Schools, One Gift at a Time "What billionaire donors all have in common...is their devotion to blaming schools and educators for problems posed by educating low-income children." Read more |
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Matt Taibbi Trump Is Just One Player in a Much, Much Larger Tax Story That big 'New York Times' expose should most of all remind us that upper-class tax evasion has been the norm for a generation Read more |
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Peter Dreier The #MeToo Movement's Roots in Women Workers' Rights An unsung shero of the early 20th century, Rose Schneiderman organized women to fight for laws to protect them from sexual harassment and assault in the workplace Read more |
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Charles P. Pierce There's a Lot of Talk About 'Mobs' These Days. Let Me Refer You to the Constitutional Convention The notion that large, emotional mobs have always been dismissed out-of-hand in America is ahistorical Read more |
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Juan Cole On Not Writing Recommendation Letters for the Occupiers in Palestinian Territories "The political atmosphere of the United States is powerfully shaped by persons who are essentially honorary members of the proto-fascist and colonial Likud Party in Israel, whether Evangelical Christians, or Jewish magnates like Sheldon Adelson, or erratic opportunists like Lindsay Graham." Read more |
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Ro Khanna Facebook's and Google’s Breaches Show It’s Time for an Internet Bill of Rights The American people can no longer wait while their data is being collected, shared and stolen on the web. The Internet can be a tool for more freedom and prosperity, but only if proper rules and guidelines exist. Read more |
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Robert Reich Living in the New Guilded Age We’re now in a new Gilded Age of wealth and power similar to the first Gilded Age of the late nineteenth century when the nation’s antitrust laws were enacted. But unlike then, today’s biggest corporations have enough political clout to neuter antitrust. Read more |
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Chris Kromm How the 2018 'Blue Wave' Could Shake Up Southern Politics A new round of Democratic victories in the South in 2018 could give progressives an opportunity to capitalize on demographic changes and gain a political foothold to begin shifting the balance of power in Southern states Read more |
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Brett Wilkins Pope to Declare Slain Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Romero a Saint It was Romero’s life and deeds, not any purported supernatural powers, that have earned him worldwide recognition and renown as a champion of oppressed people throughout Latin America and beyond. Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Immigrants... Once More The children were abducted – abducted by the U.S. government Read more |
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Robert Freeman The Market Weighs in on Trump’s Economic Policies The whole of Trump’s economic policy has been a massive injection of debt into an already healthy economy Read more |