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Nozomi Hayase Assange’s US Extradition Hearing Resumes Monday; Public Needs to Step up to Fight this War on Journalism Only through our courage to truly confront injustice and act in solidarity with truthtellers, can we end this illegal prosecution of free press and reclaim our own democracy. Read more |
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Juan Cole What Was the Battle of Belleau Wood, the Slain Marines at Which Trump Called "Losers" and "Suckers"? Trump again proves he cannot imagine self-sacrifice for a cause greater than oneself. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Is There Life Beyond Plastic? Our long-term future seems to matter far less than...short-term profit for some. Read more |
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Kathleen Rogers, Dr. Anne Bowser World Honey Bee Day–Another Reminder that 40% of Insect Species Now Threatened With Extinction Researchers need our help to advocate for policies that will protect insect populations. Read more |
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Fran Quigley Medicare for All Advocate Finds Universal Healthcare Mandates in Islam "We were always taught...that the foundation of Islam is an obligation to ensure that everyone’s basic needs are met.” Read more |
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Stephen Kinzer Obama’s ‘Biggest Mistake’ Is Still Wreaking Havoc The bombing of Libya scattered weapons across Africa and worsened instability in the region. Read more |
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Lorah Steichen 15 Years After Hurricane Katrina, It’s Time to Demilitarize Disaster Relief Instead of funneling hundreds of billions of dollars each year into militarism, we can invest in the infrastructure of care we need to keep each other safe. Read more |
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Heidi Shierholz Total Initial UI Claims Have Risen in Each of the Last Four Weeks Congress must act. Read more |
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Jonathan Cook For Years, Journalists Cheered Assange’s Abuse. Now They’ve Paved His Path To a US Gulag Journalists had a chance to join Assange in his struggle to rebuild journalism. Instead, they fled the battlefield, leaving him as a sacrificial offering to their corporate masters. Read more |
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Tom Goldtooth A Message to Senate Democrats: Tribal Lands Are Not Carbon Dumping Grounds Targeting Native nations with carbon pricing projects that would disproportionately increase wealth and accumulation for the largest petroleum and mineral polluters at the expense of Native lives is unforgivable and horrifying. Read more |
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Mitch Jones What 2020 Politicians and Pundits Get Wrong About Fracking Too many Democrats continue to fundamentally misunderstand the politics of fracking as much as they misunderstand the necessity of banning fracking to stop the worsening effects of climate chaos. Read more |
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Tom Gallagher Joe Biden, Don’t Let Donald Trump Run as the Antiwar Candidate! As it is with so many issues, Trump has not really walked the walk on ending wars or bringing our troops home, but, he continues to talk the talk. And so must Joe Biden. Read more |
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Nancy J. Altman Social Security Could Come To a Screeching Halt Donald Trump may kill Social Security through the deferral of payroll taxes, the backbone of the program. Read more |
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Susan M. Akram US Punishes International Criminal Court for Investigating Potential War Crimes in Afghanistan The Trump administration is taking aim at yet another international agency. Read more |
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Carl Gibson Trump’s Fascist Signaling Is Going to Create More Kyle Rittenhouses The president's re-election depends on fence-sitting Americans in swing states excusing fascist-inspired violence in order to feel safe. That's a strategy straight out of the fascist playbook. Read more |
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Warren Alan Tidwell We Need More Than Disaster Recovery—We Need Green Jobs Across the South, many workers rely on industries whose pollution causes devastating storms. Let’s rebuild with sustainable jobs. Read more |
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Fran Quigley "Break Glass in Case of Emergency": We Must Break Pharma Monopolies to Lower Drug Prices Existing law is crystal clear that the government can step in to lower drug prices in order to serve the public interest. Read more |
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Andrew McCormick The Sitting President Has No Climate Plan. Why Isn’t That Headline News? The climate crisis is not some far-away threat. It’s here now, and it demands a swift and comprehensive political response, no matter your political allegiances. Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac We Need to Prepare for an Election Crisis By Proactively Seeking Assurances from Responsible Local Authorities That They Will Protect Our Constitutional Rights The time for analysis has passed, and in the next few months what is needed is relentless action, and careful preparation for the crisis to come. Read more |
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Andy Rowell “Humiliation”: Exxon Dumped Out Dow Jones Industrial Index After Nearly 100 Years Make no mistake, it really is yet another significant milestone in the demise of Big Oil. Read more |
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Robert Reich How Big Money Corrupts Our Politics (And How to Fix It) It’s difficult to do anything when big money controls our politics and dictates what policies are and aren’t enacted. Read more |
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Dana Floberg On September 1, Struggling Families Face Evictions Both Online and Off To survive this pandemic, struggling families must be able to stay in their homes and connect to affordable internet, without evictions or shutoffs. Read more |
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Jim Hightower Six Ways the Right Is Shredding the Vote In more and more races, the GOP doesn’t have broad enough appeal to fairly produce an election majority, so it has resorted to rigging the system so a minority prevails. Read more |
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Thom Hartmann Why Are So Many Americans Willing to Support Hate and Division? Is this the kind of country the majority of U.S. voters actually want to live in? Read more |
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Miles Mogulescu A United Front Is the Right Strategy to Defeat Authoritarianism Americans from the center to the left, and even sane conservatives cannot afford to make the same mistakes as their German counterparts in the early ‘30s. Read more |
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Dean Baker Are Corporate CEOs Worth $20 Million? Does the typical CEO of a major company add $20 million of value to the company that employs them or could they hire someone at one-tenth of this price who would do just as much for the company’s bottom line? Read more |
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Jesse Jackson America’s Greatest Athletes Are Standing Up, Calling This Country To Change Despite unprecedented, multiracial demonstrations across the country protesting police violence against African Americans, the horrors keep on coming. Read more |
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Jeff Cohen, Norman Solomon Four Years Ago, We Warned That Trump Could Win. Now, We’re Warning Again. Trump really could win again—and progressives must do everything in our power to stop that from happening. Read more |
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Christopher D. Cook New People’s Party Rises Amid Grim Election Options Facing an election between a centrist Democrat and a fascist, the new Movement for a People’s Party aims to prevent such sparse electoral choices in the future. Read more |
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Ann Klosinski In the Age of Covid, Elder Care Should Be an Election Issue The pandemic has made it clearer than ever that we need better care that honors everyone's humanity. Read more |
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Sarah Anderson All the Latest on Trump’s War on Our Public Postal Service The House passed legislation to defend the Postal Service, but unless the Senate takes action, the Postmaster General will be free to continue policies that have slowed the mail and raised concerns about mail-in voting. Read more |
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Yanis Varoufakis The Post-Capitalist Hit of the Summer Ever since COVID-19 collided with the enormous bubble governments have been using to re-float the financial sector since 2008, booming equity markets became compatible with wholesale economic implosion. That became clear on August 12 in London and New York. Read more |
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Mark Green, Ralph Nader The F-Word: No Other Way to Describe Trump’s Fascism 2.0 If Trump’s lengthy rap sheet of lies, threats, obstruction, and incitement doesn’t add up to fascism, then what would? Read more |
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Fred Wertheimer How a Biden Win Can Sink One of Mcconnell's Top Priorities A President Biden could make public financing of elections happen early next year—and end the quest he began almost five decades ago. Read more |
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Paul Buchheit How Big Corporations are Draining the Life out of a Sick America Our richest corporations are much to blame for the free-market "winner take all" philosophy that has caused over half of our nation to try to survive without adequate health care and life savings. Read more |
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Hana Kiros A Tale of Two Teens: When White Killers Are Treated Better Than Black Victims Trayvon Martin, a Black teenager, was killed for walking home at night—Kyle Rittenhouse, a white teenager, is being defended by Republicans after murdering two BLM protesters. Read more |
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Juan Cole 6 Million Stricken With COVID-19: Trump Has Turned the US Into a Sh*thole Country It is hard to explain just how bad the US death rate under Trump from the novel coronavirus is. Read more |
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Juan Cole Chadwick Boseman’s Wakanda: Afro-Futurism Is in the Present "Of all the world regions, Africa and the Middle East most suffer from stereotypes in the U.S. media." Read more |
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Jamon Jordan Rebellions Work We all stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. Read more |
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Raúl Carrillo Postal Banking: Brought to You by JPMorgan Chase? The largest Wall Street bank is reportedly in discussions with the U.S. Postal Service for the exclusive right to solicit postal banking customers. Read more |
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Eva Galanes-Rosenbaum Progressive Foreign Policy and Ending Endless War: What Democrats Want "The center of gravity in the Democratic Party has shifted considerably to the left on foreign policy and national security in a short span of time." Read more |
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Michael Winship For Trump and GOP, No Hope, Just the Audacity of Lies They have nothing to sell but fear itself. Read more |
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Miles Kampf-Lassin The RNC’s Puzzling Obsession with Socialism With a pandemic ravaging the country, a historically unpopular president and no platform to run on, the Republican Party has set its sights on attacking socialism. It doesn’t seem to be working. Read more |
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Janine Jackson Press Normalizes Trump's Lawlessness as Use of 'Tools of Presidency' to 'Broaden Appeal' "Elite journalists are no doubt clearing their shelves for the awards they expect to win for the fearless and high-minded excoriations of the Trump presidency they will write…when it's over." Read more |
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Sue Sturgis Saving the U.S. Postal Service is a Civil Rights Issue President Donald Trump and Postmaster General Louis DeJoy have undermined the USPS by removing mailboxes and mail sorting machines the months before an election in which many Americans will vote by mail. Read more |
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Tim Koechlin Keep Your Filthy Hands Off of Leonard Cohen "Trump and his posse of sycophants and enablers think that everything belongs to them." Read more |
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Ralph Nader Democrats Must Demolish Trump’s Delusional Law-Breaking Dystopia "The Democrats are not matching Trump’s own or his party's propaganda." Read more |
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Dayton Martindale The Strategic Case for Animal Liberation Ecosocialists view animal rights as the third rail of climate politics. The opposite is true. Read more |
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Phyllis Bennis The Israel-UAE Deal Isn’t About Peace at All The U.S.-brokered pact makes no pretense of peace for Palestinians. Instead, it sharpens a regional coalition against Iran. Read more |
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Peter Gowan Small Towns Don’t Need Military Helicopters A little-known federal program dumps military equipment on local police forces. We need to end it. Read more |
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Reese Erlich Biden’s Troubling Foreign Policy An important behind-the-scenes battle is being fought over the Democratic nominee’s conservative positions. Read more |
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Hank Edson "Business as Usual! Business as Usual!" Chants the Oligarchy as the World Burns On this fire season, the last one, and the fire seasons to come. Read more |
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Archie Henderson The Many Faces of the Radical Right and How To Counter Their Threat We should not assume that the radical right will collapse under the weight of its many internal conflicts and contradictions. Read more |
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Jennifer Selin Mail-In Voting’s Potential Problems Only Begin at the Post Office—an Underfunded, Underprepared Decentralized System Could Be Trouble The November election is a little over two months away. Will states be able to bear the burden? Read more |
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Alexi Jenkins Patronizing Evil: The Nonprofit Sector Perpetuates the Worst Legacies of Capitalism The nonprofit and for-profit sectors operate in tandem in the furtherance of the brutal concentration of wealth in the hands of the few, at the expense of the many. Read more |
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Bianca Mugyenyi Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Slams Canadian Actions In his thorough critique, Jorge Arreaza detailed the Trudeau government’s support for Donald Trump’s aggression against Venezuela. Read more |
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Thom Hartmann Is the Trump Death Cult Growing or Shrinking? Will Americans who have fallen sway to this cult begin to wake up, or will the Trump cultists be able, using Facebook and lies on Fox News and the media, to get even more Americans into their cult? Read more |
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Heidi Shierholz UI Claims Remain Historically High and the President’s Executive Memorandum Is Doing More Harm Than Good Congress must reinstate the extra $600. Read more |
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Stuart Schuffman I’m a Lifelong Progressive Voting for Joe Biden—Here’s Why A Trump win threatens democracy not just in the U.S., but across the world. Read more |
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Joe Lowndes Murdering Democracy in Kenosha No other president or presidential candidate than Donald Trump has so openly courted far-right violence. Read more |
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Cassandra Stubbs Not Even a Global Pandemic Could Stop the Federal Government from Pursuing a String of Back-to-Back Executions This Summer The Justice Department's eagerness to rush through federal executions is grotesque—as is its willingness to expose hundreds of individuals to COVID-19 in the process. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Twin Imperatives: Defeat President Trump This Fall, Challenge President Biden from Day One This is our political crossroads. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler This Looks Like the Beginning of a Civil War Some of the participants are police and some are vigilantes. They are armed and desperate for enemies. Read more |
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John Feffer COVID-19 and the End of Autocrats The outbreak of COVID-19 initially looked like a gift to autocrats around the world—until they botched it. Read more |
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James E. Varner Trump’s Postmaster General Should Be Returned To Sender I’ve been a postal driver for over 20 years. I’ve never seen an attack on the service like this one. Read more |
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Ramzy Baroud Netanyahu vs Gantz: Gaza Escalation as Reflection of Israel’s Political Rivalry For as long as Israeli leaders continue to see a war on Gaza as a political opportunity and a platform for their own electoral games, the siege will carry on, relentlessly. Read more |
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Joseph Gerson Nightmare of an October Surprise The preservation of constitutional democracy in the United States could depend on our preparing for a possible—if very unlikely—October Surprise. Read more |
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Ira Allen Voting for Biden Without Lying to Yourself Voting for Biden is worthwhile because it's a vote against somebody who's actively trying to destroy all the good or even semi-okay parts of the government. Including voting itself. And we'll need those bits to still exist, including voting, if we ever hope to have a real democracy. That's it. That... Read more |
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Chris Hedges How Corporate Tyranny Works Those, like environmental lawyer Steven Donziger, who fight the corporate control of our society on behalf of the vulnerable find the institutions of power unite to crucify them. Read more |
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Mel Gurtov The Israel-UAE Agreement: Good for a Few, Bad for Most Goodbye peace plan and any prospect of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations over a two-state solution. Read more |
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Dana Brown It's Time to Take on Big Pharma and Reclaim Medicines for Public Health: We Need A Public Option in Pharmaceuticals Now is the time to support and expand the public production of pharmaceuticals and ensure that medicines are available to all who need them. Read more |
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Michael Winship Don’t Let This Mad, Manic President Wear You Down The GOP convention reminds us that this freakshow of mayhem can exhaust and distract from the mission at hand. Read more |
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Scott Remer The Only Real Leftist Argument for Voting for Joe Biden in November If we get another four years of Trump, genuine leftism on a federal level is dead in the water until 2024. Read more |
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Morris Pearl Why the DNC's Platform Will Guarantee a Loss If Democrats Don't Do More Democrats are simply not going to win votes if they see a crisis of this scale and respond with laughably small, do-nothing policy ideas. Read more |
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Carl Rhodes Don't Be Fooled by a Wolf in Woke Clothing: How the World's Billionaires Are Cashing in on Covid-19 Woke capitalists are not socialists in disguise, they represent a very real and dangerous side of contemporary capitalism. Read more |
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Michael T. Klare Robot Generals Will They Make Better Decisions Than Humans—Or Worse? Read more |
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Ramzy Baroud ‘People of the Cave’: Palestinians Take Their Fight for Justice to the Mountains The war for Palestinian survival rages on. Read more |
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Ari Paul Media Praise Biden’s ‘Centrist Coalition’ for Steering Clear of ‘Progressive Demands’ Media have to redirect the discussion back to the genuine calamities facing the nation. Read more |
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Juan Cole As Party of Climate Denial Meets, Wildfires Rage and Hurricanes Target Gulf Coast Their insistence on making a bonfire of the environment means their convention has to compete with disaster scenarios in California and the Gulf of Mexico. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson Democrats Must Ace the Agenda Test They need to argue the case for the bold agenda that this country desperately needs, and challenge Donald Trump for his policy failures. Read more |
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Robert Reich Four Things We Must Do to Save the Post Office From Trump-GOP Attack The stakes could not be higher. Read more |
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Penny M. Venetis Mail-In Voting Does Not Cause Fraud, but Judges Are Buying the GOP’s Argument That It Does Faulty legal decisions have tremendous power to impact how Americans vote this November, regardless of the strength of the COVID-19 virus. Read more |
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Joel Bleifuss Stop Blaming Individuals for the Spread of Covid and Start Blaming the Government Response By presenting collective, structural crises as separate, individual problems with separate, individualized solutions, the government abdicates its responsibility to meaningfully intervene. Read more |
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John Ripton Politicizing a Pandemic and Rigging an Election—Trump's 2020 Re-election Campaign Trump is leveraging the pandemic to destroy any semblance of democracy left in presidential elections. Read more |
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Chuck Collins, Frank Clemente It Is Time for a One-Time Pandemic Wealth Tax on Billionaires’ Windfall Gains Will we enable billionaires to further concentrate wealth and power during a pandemic, or will we tax their gains to improve the health and welfare of our country? Read more |
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John Buell The Triumph of Monopoly Capitalism is Hurting American Workers’ Life Expectancy We have returned to Franklin Roosevelt’s one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. Read more |
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Erin L. Thompson The Banality of Evocation How to Remember a Feminist Movement That Hasn’t Ended Read more |
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Michael Kelly University Administrations Should Take Responsibility for Potential Campus Outbreaks Focusing on individual students deflects blame from the context, policy, and institutional priorities that allow student gatherings to occur. Read more |
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Jill Richardson Colleges are Still in Uncharted Territority We’ve had the summer to prepare, but there are just no easy answers for teaching during a global pandemic. Read more |
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John Nichols Ron Johnson's Ready to Wreck the Postal Service Johnson is playing the fool on Trump’s behalf. Read more |
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Jamie Henn Stop Adding (Fossil) Fuels to the Fire This November, we need to vote as if our house is on fire. Read more |
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Max Elbaum Trump 2020: 'Get Your Guns, The Blacks Are Coming' Political messaging doesn't get any clearer than this. Read more |
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Robert Freeman Two Cheers for Biden/Harris But they are not the long-term solution the country needs. Read more |
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Mike Lofgren A Commission to Investigate Presidential Crimes is a Terrible Idea History shows Rep. Swalwell’s proposal would hinder justice rather than render it. Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac We Must Be Prepared to Nonviolently Defend a Democratic Election in the Streets Trump must go. And then the real work of democratic politics can continue. Read more |
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Jack Payden-Travers Respecting the Dignity of Every Human Being: Reflections on John Lewis "Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble." Read more |
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Ralph Nader Democratic Convention: New Faces, Similar Policies but Sharp Contrast with Trumpism The Democratic Party avoided the issue of what to do about the gross maldistribution of power between the tiny few and the rest of the people in America. Read more |
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Linda McQuaig NDP Should Use Its Clout to Push Vulnerable Liberals to Take Urgent Climate Action Trudeau has showboated as a climate champion even as his government bought the Transmountain pipeline. Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli The Pejorative and the Trump It seems like an endless four years. Read more |
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Gary Olson Which Black Voices Should Their White Supporters Heed? Black Lives Matter: Three times as many whites as blacks participated. Read more |