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Amrit Cheng Undocumented and Seeking Safety During a Natural Disaster Hurricane Harvey has already resulted in at least 10 deaths and dozens of injuries. Unfortunately, immediate relief is not in sight for Texas residents. As individuals, families, and entire... Read more |
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Glenn Greenwald In Europe, Hate Speech Laws are Often Used to Suppress and Punish Left-Wing Viewpoints Terrorist attacks, and the emotions they spawn, almost always prompt calls for fundamental legal rights to be curtailed in the name of preventing future attacks. The formula by now is routine: The... Read more |
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Chye-Ching Huang How President Trump’s Tax Plan Would Really Affect the Middle Class President Trump is set to speak in Missouri today where he will reportedly continue to tout his tax plan’s benefits for the middle class even though it would actually concentrate its tax cuts at the... Read more |
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Michael Winship Trump Hides Behind the Storm As Hurricane Harvey raged, the president tried to use the disaster as cover. It may have worked. Read more |
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Margaret Klein Salamon Heroism in the Age of Crisis The flood waters are still rising in Texas, swallowing up homes and whole communities. Rain is predicted to continue for days. Our hearts go out to those who have lost lives, family members, homes... Read more |
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Vernon Loeb Harvey Should Be The Turning Point in Fighting Climate Change I’ve covered the news in Houston for 3½ years and have already seen two devastating floods and now what is being described as a one-in-800-years flood brought on by Hurricane Harvey. That suggests to... Read more |
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Andy Rowell Houston, We Have a Climate Problem Texas has never seen rain like it. Some forty to sixty inches of rain in some places. Over 9 trillion gallons of water or maybe even more. There has been so much rain that the National Weather... Read more |
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Robert Reich What Do Democrats Stand For? The Democratic Party can lead the country in a new direction, but will it? Millions of Americans who are politically engaged for the first time in their lives are crying out for a bold alternative to... Read more |
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Hannah McKinnon A Nobel Appeal to Norway On one country's historic opportunity to redefine climate leadership Read more |
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Paul Watson The Whale Wars Continue Japan is now employing military surveillance to watch Sea Shepherd ship movements in real time by satellite and if they know where our ships are at any given moment, they can easily avoid us. Read more |
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Adam Sanchez Taking the Fight Against White Supremacy Into Schools As a history teacher, there are times when the past reasserts itself with such force that you have to put aside your plans and address the moment. Charlottesville is one of those times. The image of... Read more |
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Tom Sullivan Arpaio Pardon: The First Verifiable Impeachable Offense? Reaction to Donald Trump’s pardon of the controversial ex-sheriff from Arizona has been swift and severe, with some calling for the president’s impeachment. Read more |
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Ryan Cooper How Harvey Exposes America's Dangerously Dilapidated Infrastructure Hurricane Harvey is wreaking devastation on Houston and other parts of southern Texas. Rebuilding will cost many tens or perhaps even hundreds of billions of dollars. But what then? Climate disasters... Read more |
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Steven Singer After Hurricane Harvey, Will Houston Public Schools Be Charterized? It’s an all too familiar scene in America. A natural disaster devastates a major metropolitan city. And then the forces of profit and privatization use the chaos and uncertainty as cover to steal... Read more |
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Naomi Klein Harvey Didn’t Come Out of the Blue. Now Is The Time to Talk About Climate Change. Now is exactly the time to talk about climate change, and all the other systemic injustices — from racial profiling to economic austerity — that turn disasters like Harvey into human catastrophes... Read more |
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William Cohn 'Of Men, Not Law': To Make America Hate Again To pardon a public official who refuses to obey the law (especially a direct court order) is to give the finger to the judiciary, and thus our constitutional order Read more |
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Isaiah Poole The Destruction Left By Hurricane Trump President Trump has planned a visit to the Texas Gulf Coast on Tuesday to survey some of the devastation done by Hurricane Harvey since it hit landfall on Friday. As he is doing that, let’s survey... Read more |
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Brian Terrell Trump's Call for More War in Afghanistan Was a Vicious Racist Rant President's speech on August 21 promising more war is hate speech, pure and simple Read more |
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Sarita Gupta 54 Years After the March on Washington, We're Far From Racial Pay Equity Fifty-four years ago this week, on Aug. 28, 1963, hundreds of thousands of people gathered for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The event marked a turning point in our society in... Read more |
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Mark Weisbrot Trump's New Venezuela Sanctions Will Do More Harm Than Good The Trump administration announced new, unprecedented sanctions against Venezuela on Friday that are designed to cut off financing to Venezuela. The Trump team pretends that the sanctions are only... Read more |
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Robert Reich Trump’s Anti-Worker Labor Day This will be the first Labor Day of the presidency of Donald J. Trump, who came to office riding a wave of anti-establishment anger from average working people. No one can say they didn’t see it... Read more |
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Dean Baker Houston, Bangladesh, and Global Warming We are seeing many terrible pictures from Houston as a result of Hurricane Harvey. People with young children and pets are wading through high water in the hope of being rescued by boat or helicopter... Read more |
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Bernard Weisberger A Fire Bell in the Night Contemplating the grave ramifications of the Arpaio pardon. Read more |
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Jeffrey D. Sachs Afghanistan and the Collapse of American Governance For years Donald Trump called for an end to America’s war in Afghanistan. Yet as president he has quickly decided to expand the war. Since Trump’s presidency fails daily on so many levels, it’s easy... Read more |
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Mark Decena Not Without Us – Organizing Our Way to Solve the Climate Crisis On December 12 th , 2015, when the halls of the Bourget erupted in applause with the signing of the United Nations Climate Change Accords in Paris, climate justice activists recognized a different... Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati Wisconsin’s Foxconn Deal Enriches Billionaires With Taxpayer Cash Taiwanese billionaire Terry Gou every once in a while likes to think “outside the box.” Back in 2010, for instance, the giant electronics manufacturer that Gou runs — Foxconn — was facing what... Read more |
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Juan Cole Top 5 Ways Man-Made Climate Change Made Hurricane Harvey Much Worse The images from Houston and its environs are heart-breaking and we at IC wish all those affected a speedy and safe return to normality. Extreme weather events are associated with climate change, and... Read more |
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Charles Kaiser Arpaio Pardon May Be Opening Act of a Constitutional Crisis Trump's move Friday night shows the same disregard for the rule of law with which he's trying to quash the Russia probe. Read more |
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Sarita Gupta Happy Women’s Equality Day. Now Let’s Get to Work. It has been almost half a century since the Women's Strike for Equality March. Forty-seven years ago, 50,000 women marched down Fifth Avenue in New York City, calling for equity in education and... Read more |
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Leonard Pitts Jr. Think Innocent People Are Never Wrongly Convicted? Think again—then ask Marcellus Williams. Read more |
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Eric Margolis Get Trump's Finger Off the Nuke Trigger President Trump's ability to trigger a nuclear war is "pretty damn scary" said former U.S. intelligence director James Clapper this week. Remember when Trump vowed to "bomb the shit" out of his... Read more |
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Steven Singer Closing Schools Doesn’t Increase Test Scores You might be tempted to file this under 'No Shit, Sherlock.' But a new study found that closing schools where students achieve low test scores doesn't end up helping them learn . Moreover, such... Read more |
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Juan Cole Trump Exploits Harvey Victims in Stealth Pardon of Arpaio Eminent climate scientist Michael Mann of Penn State noticed not one but two horrible things about Friday evening. You never want to see a Hurricane that looks like this at landfall. I fear #Harvey... Read more |
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Greg Huffman A Window Into the Horrors of Our History I am a child of the South. I was born in North Carolina, grew up in Catawba County, and have never lived outside the state as an adult. My sister and I joke that we never had a real vacation. Our... Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli In Alabama, You Can't Keep a Good Man Down... The run-off, however, suggests you may have trouble finding good men. Read more |
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Sarah Freeman-Woolpert Why Nazis Are So Afraid of These Clowns Trolls chanted in the streets the day of a planned neo-Nazi rally in the small ski town of Whitefish, Montana earlier this year. But they were not the trolls that residents had been expecting—namely... Read more |
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Bob Burnett Game of Trump: The Battle of Charlottesville We're more than half way through season 1 of "Game of Trump" and each week's episode brings new surprises. The aftermath of the battle of Charlottesville caused Emperor Trump to reveal his true... Read more |
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Katherine Webb-Hehn Meet Randall Woodfin, the Mayoral Challenger Bringing the Political Revolution to Birmingham The 36-year-old city attorney is proposing debt-free community college and reinvestment in black neighborhoods. Read more |
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Larry Beinhart The Spectre of 'Pre-Emptive' War The US could be heading for another 'pre-emptive' war and another overwhelming disaster. Read more |
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David Suzuki When Times Get Dark, We Must Shine Brighter Are we entering a new Dark Age? Lately it seems so. News reports are enough to make anyone want to crawl into bed and hide under the covers. But it's time to rise and shine. To resolve the crises... Read more |
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Charles P. Pierce Trump May Pardon Joe Arpaio, But History Will Not The Arizona sheriff deserves to go to jail. Read more |
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David Cole Why We Must Defend Free Speech Does the First Amendment need a rewrite in the era of Donald Trump? Should the rise of white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups lead us to cut back the protection afforded to speech that expresses... Read more |
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Alejandra Gomez Don’t Let Arpaio’s Arizona Become Trump’s America Here in Phoenix, we’ve got a pretty good idea of what lies ahead for America under Donald Trump. It will look less and less like a nation of laws, and more like Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s lawless Arizona,... Read more |
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Ben Norton Trump ‘Presidential’ Again—for Ramping Up War in Afghanistan Donald Trump is finally “presidential” again, pundits insist, now that he is ratcheting up another US war. In a speech on August 21, the far-right US president did an about-face, announcing that the... Read more |
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Alfred W. McCoy The CIA and Me (Or How I Learned Not to Love Big Brother) Note from TomDispatch: This piece has been adapted and expanded from the introduction to Alfred W. McCoy’s new book, In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power... Read more |
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Melissa Byrne I Was Detained for Protesting Trump. Here’s What the Secret Service Asked Me. Like many events that end up with a person in handcuffs, my story begins in a bar. I was in Atlanta earlier this month for Netroots Nation, the annual meeting of progressive organizers and writers,... Read more |
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Jeffrey Lewis I’m a Nuclear Weapons Expert. Trump’s Presidency Is My Personal Nightmare My greatest fear is a reality: A lunatic has gained control of nuclear-armed missiles that could reach halfway around the globe. And, to make matters worse, Kim Jong Un has them, too. I jest, of... Read more |
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Amanda Abrams What A Revived Poor People’s Campaign Needs To Do In The Trump Era For the new movement to gain national traction, it will need to draw in poor and working-class Whites. Read more |
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Jenavieve Hatch The Problem With Shutting Down Abortion Clinics In Rural And Low-Income Areas Forcing women to travel long distances to access abortions is bad for both the woman and the state Read more |
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Tom Gallagher If You Hate Donald Trump, Hate This War, Too If all of those people absolutely fed up and appalled with President Trump's antics would turn their attention toward the disastrous military policy over which he now presides, we'd have the makings of a major antiwar movement Read more |
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John Atcheson The Long Game For Progressives Resistance, while necessary, is merely reactive. Progressives need to start being proactive. Read more |
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Richard Eskow Open Letter to Louise Linton About Angels and Humanity Dear Ms. Linton, This has undoubtedly been a difficult couple of days for you, both as a person and as the wife of the United States Treasury Secretary. Nobody enjoys the sudden onrush of hostile... Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Facing History in the Age of Trump Tempting as it is to isolate Donald Trump as the worst president in history (and “worst” is putting it mildly . . . more like the most narcissistically infantile, the most Nazi-friendly), doing so... Read more |
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Ezra Rosser Louise Linton and the "Sacrifices" of the Very Rich and Incredibly Obnoxious Why what Louise Linton doesn't understand about taxation is so endlessly damaging to the common good Read more |
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Adam Johnson Reporting on Trump’s Afghan Escalation Omits Dead Afghan Civilians As President Donald Trump tries to make the case for staying indefinitely in Afghanistan, the stakes for those actually living there are rarely broached by US corporate media. In dozens of write-ups... Read more |
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Adil E. Shamoo, Bonnie Bricker It’s Time to Take the Nazi-Trump Comparisons Seriously The slide towards bleak historical periods can be difficult to recognize in the moment. But in this moment, it's glaringly obvious. Read more |
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Reese Erlich Is Trump Planning Permanent Occupation of Afghanistan? What will 4,000 more US troops do that 100,000 troops couldn't do before? Read more |
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Libero Della Piana Trump Says ‘Love’ But Spews Hate The rabid, racial-nationalist Trump was on full display in Phoenix Tuesday night, in a speech CNN’s Don Lemon called “A total eclipse of the facts.” The Phoenix Trump stood in sharp contrast to the... Read more |
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Brandon Friedman Our Afghanistan Repetition is a Form of National Madness A vet who served there on Trump's 'new' strategy Read more |
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Steven Harper Follow the Money: They Say It Was About Russian Orphans. They’re Lying. Repealing the Magnitsky Act has become one of Putin’s top foreign policy objectives. Why? Money. Steven Harper digs in. Read more |
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Alexandra Tempus Randy Bryce is More Than A Mustache It was a friendly audience, but Randy Bryce’s voice shook anyway. This speech was among his first to a national crowd of this size—over 1500 people passionate about progressive politics packed into a... Read more |
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Robert Reich Dear Trump Voter: He Lied to You If you voted for Donald Trump, I get it. Maybe you feel you’ve been so badly shafted by the system that you didn’t want to go back to politics as usual, and Trump seemed like he’d topple that corrupt... Read more |
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Jen Psaki Trump Can Stay Sane for Approximately 24 Hours Donald Trump has shown he is capable of temporary moments of sanity. They typically include scripted remarks, and they last for about 24 hours -- or less. Just a few minutes into his speech at a... Read more |
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Jayati Ghosh 150 Years of 'Das Kapital': How Relevant Is Marx Today? The seminal work of the 19th century economist still provides a framework for understanding contemporary capitalism. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Barack Obama: What’s He Waiting For? The most popular Democratic leader by far is still former President Barack Obama. Despite this popularity, many of the signature accomplishments of his modest legacy are being brutishly unraveled –... Read more |
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Gerald Epstein Trump And The Infrastructure Of Fascism Infrastructure investment: it’s that economic policy sweet spot that everyone loves to love. Fixing bridges, building roads, modernizing airports, improving mass transportation, keeping lead out of... Read more |
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Dave Zweifel Trump's a Racist — Don't Tell Me Otherwise I have to admit I began loathing Donald Trump the day he accused Barack Obama of being born in Kenya, insinuating he wasn't an American citizen and really was a Muslim. Here was one of the country's... Read more |
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Bernie Sanders Why Medicare-for-All Is Good for Business Despite major improvements made by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), our health care system remains in crisis. Today, we have the most expensive, inefficient, and bureaucratic health care system in the... Read more |
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John Feffer Trump and the Geopolitics of Crazy The Times They Are A-Changin’ in North Korea Read more |
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Eugene Robinson It’s Time to Talk About Trump’s Mental Health How unstable and divorced from reality is President Trump? We’ve reached the point where the nation has the right and the need to know. We’re not accustomed to asking such questions about our... Read more |
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Andrew Bacevich The Conflict in Afghanistan Is Trump's War Now With President Trump’s Monday night speech, prospects for ending the Afghanistan war anytime soon have vanished. Whether that bodes well for U.S. national security is another matter. Nearly 16 years... Read more |
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Robert Reich How to Remove Trump With Republicans controlling both houses of Congress, it’s unlikely Trump will be impeached or thrown out of office on grounds of mental impairment. At least any time soon. Yet there’s another way... Read more |
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Andrew Rosenberg Going in the Wrong Direction: We Need More Advice on the Impacts of Climate Change As of Sunday, the federal Advisory Panel for the Sustained National Climate Assessment is no more. The charter for the panel was not renewed . That makes little sense from any perspective I can... Read more |
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Juan Cole Why No Eclipse Denialists? The Same Science Predicts Global Heating Eminent physicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s tweet pointing out that there are no eclipse denialists the way there are dedicated climate change denialists went viral: Odd. No one is in denial of America’s... Read more |
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Jon Rainwater Why the U.S. Resistance Should Support Protests in Okinawa Last week tens of thousands of people gathered to demonstrate for human rights and against harmful U.S. government policies. At a huge racetrack, they held thousands of identical signs that carried a... Read more |
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Aviva Chomsky How (Not) to Challenge Racist Violence "Protesters are eager to expend extraordinary energy denouncing small-scale racist actors. But what about the large-scale racist actors?" Read more |
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Abeer Ismail Almasri In Gaza, We Get Four Hours of Electricity a Day — If We’re Lucky Some friends threw me a surprise birthday party last month. They placed a chocolate cake lit with candles before me and told me to make a wish for the year ahead. I immediately blurted out, “24-hour... Read more |
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James Zogby Charlottesville and Beyond: The Never-Ending Struggle The tragic and deeply disturbing events in Charlottesville last week provoked a debate as old as America, itself. Our nation watched as a motley collection of bigots descended on that town,... Read more |
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Chris Hedges The Corruption of the Law I drink coffee in the morning on a round, ornate oak table that once belonged to Harlan Fiske Stone, a U.S. Supreme Court justice from 1925 to 1946 and the chief justice for the last five of those... Read more |
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Matthew Hoh The Lies on Afghanistan Trump Will Now Tell There has never been progress by the U.S. military in Afghanistan, unless you are asking the U.S. military contractors or the Afghan drug barons, of whom an extremely large share are our allies in... Read more |
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Paul Buchheit The Absurdity of Corporate Tax Cuts During the Corporate Pillaging of the Middle Class It could be argued that the greatest American pillaging is the transfer of taxpayer funds into the bloated military, or a greed-driven private health care system that deprives human beings of... Read more |
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Bob Burnett Make America Safe Again "During the next six months, Trump won't change. This six-month period provides a golden opportunity for progressives and Democrats, in general, to tell voters what they stand for." Read more |
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Jeremy Malcolm As First NAFTA Round Opens in Secrecy, Digital Rights Groups Fear Another TPP The opening round of a series of negotiations over a proposed revised North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) began this week in Washington, D.C. between trade representatives from the United... Read more |
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Sarah Anderson The Activists Who Helped Shut Down Trump’s CEO Councils The implosion of these high-level advisory bodies followed a months-long grassroots campaign calling on CEOs to reject the President’s hate-filled agenda. Read more |
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Juan Cole Trump Fires Bannon: Who Are the Winners and Losers Globally? Steve Bannon by his own admission promoted the Breitbart webzine as a mouthpiece of white supremacism, in an attempt to create a new, well-educated and well-dressed version of seedy racism. The... Read more |
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Yohuru Williams No Two Sides About It, Confederate Statues Must Come Down "The president is wrong. You can preserve history without building or preserving monuments to hate." Read more |
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Lynn Sherr Collaboration: Be Careful Who You Work With At a time when precise language has gone missing from the White House, how best to describe those Republicans still loyal to President Trump? Read more |
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Robert Reich Remove Him Now Donald Trump "has given encouragement and legitimacy to the ugliest in America." Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli More Banking Follies A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests . . . and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in... Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Is There a Nazi in the White House? "Donald Trump is trying hard to put a pretty face on racism." Read more |
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John O'Day Net Neutrality Reduced to Mogul vs. Mogul in Corporate Media's Shallow Coverage A common refrain in popular news media is that net neutrality is just too boring and esoteric for ordinary people to be interested in. “Oh my god that is the most boring thing I’ve ever seen,” John... Read more |
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Paul Rogers Arms Bazaar: Needs Wars, Eats lives "Wars and rumors of wars require constant supplies, and this is where that perennial of human activity, the arms bazaar, comes in." Read more |
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Steven Singer Surprised by Charlottesville? You Haven’t Been Paying Attention America is a funny place. On the one hand, we’re one of the first modern Democracies, a product of Enlightenment thinking and unabashed pluralism and cultural diversity. On the other, we’ve built our... Read more |
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Laura Bonham This Is All So 19th Century Instead of serving democracy, the Trump administration seems focused on serving only its destruction Read more |
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Keri Leigh Merritt Charlottesville and the Confederate Legacy The white supremacist violence in Virginia echoed the tactics of antebellum vigilante groups and showed how deep the roots of racism in America are. Read more |
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John Light Can Anyone Stop Trump’s FCC From Approving a Conservative Local News Empire? Progressive media watchdog groups, Rupert Murdoch and conservative news outlets all want to stop a merger between Sinclair Broadcasting and Tribune Media. Read more |
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Andrew Cockburn Don’t Believe the Alarmist Propaganda About North Korea Never underestimate the ability of the national security establishment to believe its own alarmist propaganda—remember those establishment members believed in the fable of Saddam Hussein’s weapons... Read more |
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Catherine Lutz How Did Guam Become a Target of North Korean Missiles? Guam doesn’t feel like a target. When I have visited the island over the course of the past several decades, it has struck me as one of the most wildly beautiful places on earth, with an endless... Read more |
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Isaiah Poole As Trump Hits a New Low, Here’s How We Go High It has, today, come to this: The person holding the title of president of the United States in 2017 decries the loss of “beautiful statues and monuments” to white supremacy, “sad to see the history... Read more |
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Paul Rogers The Barcelona Attack and the Vicious Redundancy of the New Normal After 16 years of the so-called war on terror, people feel no more secure than in the aftermath of 9/11. Read more |