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Guillermo Torres Indigenous People Demand an End to Detention on Stolen Lands "As the original caretakers of these lands and territories, we have inherent authority over migration and demand an end to these barbaric acts." Read more |
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Lawrence Wittner Dear Moderators of the Presidential Debates: How About Raising the Issue of How to Avert Nuclear War? Don’t you―as stand-ins for the American people―think it might be worthwhile to ask the candidates some questions about how best to avert a global catastrophe of unprecedented magnitude? Read more |
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Joan Martinez Alier , Nick Meynen Never-Ending Growth? The fatal flaw in the plan to end poverty and save the planet. Read more |
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Katherine Newman Retirement Shouldn’t Mean Poverty Social security helps, but growing inequality means millions of elders are just barely making it. Read more |
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Tom Matthews Heatwave: Think It’s Hot in Europe? The Human Body Is Already Close to Thermal Limits Elsewhere Spare a thought for less fortunate communities who are routinely experiencing extraordinary temperatures. Read more |
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Miles Mogulescu Nadler to the Rescue? While Nadler and his Judiciary Committee colleagues may have saved Democrats from having nothing to say to their constituents about impeachment during the recess, the question remains whether they're being too clever by half Read more |
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Danny Sjursen How America's Wars End (Messily) And the Afghan war will be no exception Read more |
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Linda McQuaig Animals Protected from Sexual Abuse, But Not Factory Farm Abuse In a real head-scratcher, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in June 2016 that sexual contact with an animal was legal, as long as there was no penetration. Whatever uncertainty that created for... Read more |
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John Atcheson Trump is Sucking the Air Out of the Political Debate - And Democrats and the Media Are Enabling Him Another Monday, another day devoted to Trump’s insane tweets, racist rants, and faux outrage . Just as he wants it. Trump is a puppet master, his tweets, rants, and outright insanity are the strings... Read more |
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Arthur Haberman The American Version of Fascism is Alive and Prospering The United States, as a whole, is not a fascist country. There are many places in states and localities where democracy thrives. The federal Republican Party, however, has become a fascist... Read more |
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Christopher Teel America Gone Rogue If America goes to war in Iran, it will be because we are a rogue state, not because they are. Iran’s government is a vicious theocracy which supports bloodthirsty regimes, but the current crisis... Read more |
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Ronnie Cummins The 9% Lie: Industrial Food and Climate Change The Climate Emergency is finally getting the attention of the media and the U.S. (and world) body politic, as well as a growing number of politicians, activists and even U.S. farmers. This great... Read more |
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Jeffrey D. Sachs The Crisis of Anglo-American Democracy There is an obvious answer to the question of how the world's two oldest and most venerable democracies installed disordered minds in power and enabled them to pursue unpopular policies. But there is also a deeper explanation. Read more |
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Eric Margolis New Captain for a Sinking Britain Britain’s new prime minister, Boris Johnson, is being called by many ‘the British Trump.’ It’s an easy comparison, given their quirky, confrontational styles, prominent blond hair, tribal politics... Read more |
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Katie Halper MSNBC’s Anti-Sanders Bias Makes It Forget How to Do Math When MSNBC legal analyst Mimi Rocah ( 7/21/19 ) said that Bernie Sanders “made [her] skin crawl,” though she “can’t even identify for you what exactly it is,” she was just expressing more overtly the... Read more |
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Nnimmo Bassey We Must Wake the World From Slumber to Tackle the Existential Crises of Our Days The classroom of life has no graduation. Read more |
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Danielle Allen We Are in Our Articles of Confederation Moment Our national legislature no longer functions. Read more |
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Reese Erlich Elizabeth Warren on War and Peace Warren’s troubling foreign policy history includes uncritical support of Israel, supporting sanctions on Venezuela, and vilifying Russia and China as national security threats. But her views are also evolving. Read more |
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Richard Falk Geopolitical Crimes: A Revolutionary Proposal We can no longer afford the occurrence of deliberate choices by representatives of leading governments that pose grave harm to the human interest in achieving humane societies and a sustainable future for the species Read more |
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Kim Wehle The Question Isn't Whether Trump Obstructed Justice, But Whether Congress Even Cares What’s at stake is not Trump the man, but the very nature of the institution of the U.S. presidency. Read more |
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Jim Naureckas The NYT’s Six Percent Solution for Student Debt Why are Democratic candidates going on about student loan debt? Why, the problem is practically solved already! That’s the message of a piece in The Upshot ( 7/24/19 )—the New York Times ‘ project... Read more |
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Paul Waldman Mitch McConnell Is Right. Secure, Open Elections Would Elect More Democrats. Legislation to secure our elections is partisan. And the fact that it’s partisan shows just how pathological the Republican Party has become in its determination to hold on to power. Read more |
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Andy Rowell Meet Boris, the UK’s Climate-Denying New Prime Minister & "Donald Trump of Britain" No wonder the Republicans are excited, as Boris Johnson is one of their own. He is cut from the same cloth. Read more |
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Tom Conway Trump Promised Massive Infrastructure Projects—Instead We’ve Gotten Nothing That contract Trump signed with American voters to produce an infrastructure plan in the first 100 days: worthless. It never happened. Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Puerto Ricans Demonstrate How to Oust a Corrupt Leader What's happened in Puerto Rico provides important lessons for all Americans fed up with our deeply corrupt, racist, misogynist and hateful commander in chief Read more |
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Robert Reich Why Impeach Trump? It's the Right Thing to Do The Constitution mandates that the House undertake an impeachment inquiry and present evidence to the Senate Read more |
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Ryan Cooper Hey, Democrats: Robert Mueller Still Isn't Going to Do Your Job For You Instead of using the Mueller report to build a general case against Trump, and satisfy their base's demand to at least try to provide a check on his accelerating abuses, they hauled Mueller before the House to summarize his own report back to them like it's kindergarten story hour Read more |
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Michael Winship Mueller at the Congressional Ramparts Trying to protect us from the rude tyranny at 1600 Pennsylvania. Read more |
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Nancy J. Altman Today's Congressional Hearing Is A Huge Milestone In The Fight To Expand Social Security Social Security is unquestionably the most important source of retirement annuities, life insurance, and disability insurance for the nation’s working families, even for those fortunate to have other assets Read more |
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Matt McGrath 12 Years to Save the Planet? Make That 18 Months "The climate math is brutally clear: While the world can't be healed within the next few years, it may be fatally wounded by negligence until 2020." Read more |
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Tara Lohan A Climate-resilient Los Angeles Must First Address Its Polluted Past To meet ambitious climate goals, L.A. needs more local water. A critical step is battling the ghosts of industry past—polluted groundwater that dates back to World War II. Read more |
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Karen Greenberg No Fairy Tale: The Trump Administration’s Declaration of Inhuman Rights What the child detentions at the border really tell us. Read more |
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John Feffer Boris Johnson and the New Battle of Britain As hard Brexiteer Boris Johnson takes over, Labour is finally coming down on the side of Remain. Will it be too late? Read more |
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James Goodman American Gulags Communities across the country push back on immigration prisons Read more |
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David Dayen Trump’s Antitrust Cops Fail to Police Big Business—Again The day after one regulator announces an investigation into Big Tech, another gives Facebook a wet kiss. It’s all part of a pattern. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler The Strongest People on the Planet A refugee's plight: A mother and daughter's two year journey to the United States Read more |
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Juan Cole Mueller's Testimony Exposes Trump for What He Really Is The Trump campaign team actively welcomed Russian interference in the election Read more |
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Steven Singer America’s New School Lunch Policy: Punishing Hungry Students for Their Parents’ Poverty Will America continue to prioritize late-stage capitalism over ethical treatment of children? Read more |
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Julie Hollar Media Can’t Quit 'Trump Supporters Support Trump' Stories It’s hard to escape the conclusion that the point of these person-in-the-street interviews was to give Trump supporters a platform, rather than to take a real look at what "Michigan voters" think Read more |
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Gwynne Dyer James Lovelock at 100 James Lovelock has changed our contemporary perspectives on life on this planet as much as Charles Darwin did for the 19th century Read more |
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Dave Lindorff Hong Kong and Puerto Rico: Two Colonies Doomed to Second-Class Status by Remote Central Government Control We can expect more unrest in both places as time goes by, as the citizens of both Hong Kong and Puerto Rico endure the continued humiliation of colonial or quasi-colonial status under the thumb of remote central governments a thousand miles away Read more |
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Ramzy Baroud Killing Tariq: Why We Must Rethink the Roots of Jewish Settlers Violence This violence will only stop with the end of racist ideology that rationalizes murder Read more |
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Tracey L. Rogers Can the Party of Lincoln Be Racist? Absolutely The Great Emancipator was also an open white supremacist who wanted to send freed black people “back to Africa.” Read more |
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Lucas Koerner, Ricardo Vaz Western Media Losing Enthusiasm for Failing Coup in Venezuela Disappointed by Guaído’s fading star, Western reporters have labored to mint new pro-Washington heroes worthy of their regime change fantasies Read more |
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Ethan Earle, Manuel Pérez Rocha What Kind of Trade Policy Should Progressives Support? NAFTA 2.0 simply locks in existing drives toward ecological collapse and social inequality. A better deal would put people—and nature—first Read more |
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Flo Stuart-Leach Why We Just Blocked Boris Johnson on His Way to See the Queen It will be Boris Johnson’s job to help tackle the climate emergency that’s dangerously heating our planet and threatening the lives of hundreds of millions of people around the world Read more |
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Lorenzo Marsili The Rise of Corporate Nations Multinational corporations are increasingly encroaching on the functions of sovereign states Read more |
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Manar Waheed, Kate Ruane With the Right to Boycott Under Attack, Some Members of Congress Are Pushing Back Exercising one’s right to boycott is quintessentially American, and that reminder was clearly due Read more |
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Frances Moore Lappé Blood on Our Hands: How We Help Drive Immigration North Where are the calls to stop the massive illegal transfer of U.S. weapons fueling the very violence that drives innocent people to leave their homes? Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac We Must Defeat Trump This does not mean that "centrist" strategies ought to be embraced, but it does mean that Democrats need to argue with a sense of proportion and in a way that underscores their unity against Trump Read more |
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Timothy Wise World Hunger Is on the Rise Let’s face it: The U.S. is not feeding the world Read more |
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Vijay Prashad The U.S.-Iran Standoff Can Only End When the U.S. Accepts Iran’s Right to Have a Nuclear Energy Program The United States, however isolated, refuses to accept that Iran has the right—under international law—to a nuclear energy program (which includes enrichment). Read more |
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Andrew Bacevich The Great Reckoning: A Look Back from Mid-Century "Even today, it remains difficult to understand why, given mounting evidence of a grave crisis, passivity persisted for so long across most sectors of society." Read more |
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Kathy Kelly The Ongoing Dread in Gaza: So Many Names, So Many Lives "Free Gaza Chicago River Flotilla," three days of action calling for an end to Israeli attacks and blockades in Palestine Read more |
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Andy Rowell A Letter to the Future From a Glacier That Is No More "Okjökull was the first named Icelandic glacier to melt because of how humans have transformed the planet’s atmosphere. Its fate will be shared by all of Iceland’s glaciers unless we act now to radically curtail greenhouse gas emissions." Read more |
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Tom Gallagher The US Needs a Marshall Plan for Central America How much longer will we watch the suffering and inhumanity before we agree that we need to do something big? Read more |
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Alison Bodine, Tamara Hansen Imperialist Made Crisis of Migrants and Refugees For the last 18 years, since the new era of war and occupation began, there has been no end to the war, violence, and economic devastation imposed on people around the world by imperialist governments like the U.S., Canada, and the countries of the European Union Read more |
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Ruth Conniff Crisis in Journalism Is a Crisis for Democracy 'We need journalism to expose this dumbing down and bartering off of policy making' Read more |
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Eugene Robinson We Can’t Pretend This Is a Normal Election This is nothing less than a fight for the soul of the nation. Everyone needs to take a stand. Read more |
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Juan Cole How John Bolton Tricked Clueless UK Tories Into Confrontation With Iran Trump's national security advisor has succeeded in putting the Brits in a headlock Read more |
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John Lindsay-Poland The U.S. Is Flooding the World With Guns. Congress Can Stop That. Gun exports reached record levels in 2017 and again in 2018. Can Congress stop Trump from loosening the rules even further? Read more |
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Michael Winship Trump, Go Back Where You Came From Don't let this presidential pickpocket use cruel verbal assaults to distract you from the truth Read more |
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Juan Cole It's Just Good Business: Even Red States Are Dumping Coal for Solar Arizona, despite being GOP-dominated, is number 3 in the US for residential solar power production. In the first quarter of 2019 alone, Arizona homeowners put in 52.83 megawatts of new solar... Read more |
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Santiago Zabala Trump's Brand of Fascism Is Distinct But No Less Dangerous Than Last Century's Fascism While there are indeed substantial differences between the fascism of the past and what we see today, the general historical trajectory will inevitably remain the same Read more |
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Sarah Jaffe The Real Trouble with Ilhan Omar While others on the left waffle on questions of imperial power and foreign relations, the freshman Democrat takes on American hegemony. Read more |
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Sarah Anderson, Negin Owliaei ‘The Squad’ Keeps the Focus on Bold, Inequality-Busting Policies Reps. Omar, Tlaib, Pressley, and Ocasio-Cortez fight hard for their constituents in the face of racist attacks Read more |
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Juan Cole Is Trump Setting the US Up for Further al-Qaeda Attacks by Putting Troops in Saudi Arabia? Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump is sending US troops to be based in Saudi Arabia , and King Salman has signed off on the paperwork. Several hundred US military personnel will be at Prince Sultan... Read more |
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Laura Basu An Agenda for a New Internationalism The Labour Party's International Social Forum kickstarted a much needed debate about global justice. Read more |
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Alan MacLeod Media Just Can’t Stop Presenting Horrifying Stories as ‘Uplifting’ Perseverance Porn Out-of-touch corporate media give us supposedly charming, wholesome and positive news that actually, upon even minimal retrospection, reveals the dire conditions of late capitalism so many Americans now live under. Read more |
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Peter Bloom, Pasi Ahonen The Dangerous Truth about Trump’s Racism: White Power, Elite Rule, and Justified Privilege “The Squad” threaten his very elite existence and the eugenicist convictions that underpin its legitimacy Read more |
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Karl Evers-Hillstrom, Jessica Piper Which 2020 Democrats Are Taking Money From the Healthcare Industry? No Democratic candidate has pulled in more from the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries than Biden Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati A Tale of Two Druglords One gets life behind bars, the other retires into luxury. Guess which one reaked more havoc. Read more |
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Amahia Mallea As Flood Risks Increase Across the US, It’s Time to Recognize the Limits of Levees What does a healthy river of the future look like? Read more |
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Ernest A. Canning Why We Must Restore the Title, “War Department” Just like the change in nomenclature from "War Department" to "Defense Department", the use of the phrase, "war on terror", has been nothing short of Orwellian. Read more |
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Sue Sturgis Institute Index: $15 Wage Bill in Hands of Senator Opposed to Minimum Wage The boost could lift 1.3 million people out of poverty Read more |
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Preeti Vissa Kristipati ICE Raids, Asylum Seekers and the Othering of People of Color An agenda lies behind all of this Read more |
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Lauren Gambill It’s Time to Stop Arguing Whether Gun Laws Work We need to think critically about how “protecting guns” is harming our children. Read more |
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Monica Hopkins Washington, DC Residents Deserve the Full Benefits of Citizenship Equal representation is fundamental to American democracy Read more |
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Michael Sainato The Billionaires v. Bernie The democratic socialist candidate is under attack from the super rich, their corporations, lobbyists, and think tanks. Some are even backing his 2020 Democratic primary rivals. Read more |
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Ben Lilliston Did Obama's Trade Legacy Just Hammer the Green New Deal? The path towards achieving climate goals must address the revamping of trade rules Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt Planet of the Surreal: Turning 75 in the Age of Trump You don’t have to be a scientist anymore to grasp the nature of the new planet we’re on. Read more |
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John Atcheson Trump's a Racist—But We Knew That. Now What? Victory in 2020 will be all about turnout, and turnout will be determined by whether or not Democrats address voters' real concerns Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Why I'm Glad About Trump's Latest Twitter Tirade The clarity of his racism is a useful tool to measure where America stands Read more |
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Greta Thunberg & Daniel Hunter Until Emissions Drop, Nothing Has Been Accomplished: The Climate Resistance Handbook Is Here. A new guide to activism aims to inform and inspire a new generation of global climate campaigners Read more |
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Ralph Nader Will Even One Disgusted Republican Mount a Serious Primary Challenge to Trump? Is their moral courage totally AWOL? Read more |
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Bonnie Castillo Nurses Stand in Solidarity With Congressional Women of Color We are proud of Reps. Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Tlaib and Pressley for their outspoken advocacy. We could not be more appreciative of their activism and voice on behalf of all of us. Read more |
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Robert Kuttner At Last, Legislation to Stop Private Equity Abuses The bill to break the back of the worst thieves on Wall Street is sponsored by—no surprise—Elizabeth Warren Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Fighting Climate Change Means Ending War This is not a mere moral abstraction, something to do because it’s right and good. We will disappear as a species if we don’t—no matter how much money we have Read more |
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Robert Weissman Beware Facebook's Libra: A Corporate Surveillance Leviathan With No Precedent Outside the Realm of Science Fiction It would be foolish to trust Facebook about anything. It would be equally foolish to trust any giant corporation with the mission of creating a private global currency. Read more |
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Gareth Porter How Corporate Media Are Fueling a New Iran Nuclear Crisis The Trump administration and the media have, to date, successfully made the Iranian government the focus of scrutiny that the public would be well-served to turn on them as well Read more |
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Lauren Markham, Thi Bui Get Children Out of Cages at the Border and Into School We have the means to welcome them into stable living situations, as our own rules demand, and into quality schools Read more |
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Alan MacLeod To Corporate Media, No Democrat Can Possibly Be Right-Wing If there is a "left wing" of the Democratic Party, there must, logically, be a "right wing." That so many outlets refuse to frame the ideological division that way speaks volumes. Read more |
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Thea M. Lee Elizabeth Warren Means Business: A Letter in Support of the 'Stop Wall Street Looting Act of 2019' "This bill addresses serious problems with the private equity business model, without getting in the way of firms that actually do produce allocative or operational efficiencies that strengthen the U.S. economy." Read more |
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Stephen Zunes, Medea Benjamin Trump’s Threats Towards Iran Aren’t Working. Here’s Why. By treating the Iranian regime as a monolith the Trump Administration risks closing one of the few remaining avenues for defusing the crisis Read more |
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Kelsey Kruger The Green New Deal Must Include Regenerative Agriculture and an End to Factory Farming A millennial perspective on why the way we farm and how we consume food must be part of the conversation when it comes to the climate crisis Read more |
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David Steil This Republican's Case for Medicare for All It's time to accept that the free market doesn't work for health care. Patients can't do comparison shopping from the back of an ambulance. Read more |
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Thom Hartmann How a Trojan Horse Project to Rewrite Our Constitution Could Actually Happen if Trump Wins in 2020 It’s looking more and more like the endgame here for Trump—and the right-wing billionaires who support him and the GOP—is not just to get reelected, but to actually rewrite our Constitution and end the American experiment Read more |
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Peter Certo Washington vs. The Squad Trump’s not the only one terrified of these four congresswomen—leading Democrats apparently are, too. Read more |
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Sarah Lazare The Media Uses Coal Miners To Attack the Green New Deal—Then Ignores Their Pension Fight In 34 stories about coal miners, the New York Times, Washington Post and Politico did not once cover miners’ pension and healthcare demands Read more |
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Jayati Ghosh The Exploitation Time Bomb Worsening economic inequality in recent years is largely the result of policy choices that reflect the political influence and lobbying power of the rich. There is now a self-reinforcing pattern of high profits, low investment, and rising inequality—posing a threat not only to economic growth, but... Read more |