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Roger Bybee An Undemocratic GOP Enshrines Zombie Laws via Midwest Coups What do the Michigan and Wisconsin power grab bills mean for the future? Read more |
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Eric Holt-Giménez The Green New Deal: Fulcrum for the Farm and Food Justice Movement? It's time for the U.S. farm and food justice movement to step up. Read more |
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Siona Peterous How Activists Are Moving the Dial on Student Loan Debt As student debt grows, grassroots organizations keep pushing for sweeping change on a national level Read more |
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Davide Castro Austerity Is Stupid, and Why the Powerful Don't Like to Admit It We need a Progressive International whose narrative deeply penetrates this warped version of reality. Read more |
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Danny Sjursen The World According to the 'Adults in the Room' A year of Forever War in review Read more |
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Dean Baker No, Donald Trump Is Not Leaving Us Poorly Prepared for the Next Recession The basic story is that high deficits and debt will leave us less room to have a large stimulus when the next recession hits. This is wrong Read more |
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Sara LaWall Showing Up at the Border for Our Shared Humanity Two thousand years ago, a young mother and father fled for their lives and left everything behind for the safety of their child. Their names were Mary and Joseph Read more |
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Leslie Watson Malachi We're Learning the Truth About Voter Fraud There's no moral difference between suppressing the vote through the law and literally stealing ballots. Both may have happened in North Carolina. Read more |
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Katharine Trendacosta, Ernesto Falcon The Year Without the Open Internet Order: 2018 Year in Review It started the court battles that will decide the future of the free and open Internet Read more |
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Chris Hedges Banishing Truth "The editor urged me to do nothing. It would be my word versus that of all the cops involved, and all would accuse me of lying. The message was clear: I did not have a story. But of course I did." Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies Bring the Troops Home, But Also Stop the Bombing In this "war on terror," the U.S. and its allies have dropped a staggering 291,880 bombs and missiles on other countries Read more |
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David Atkins The United States Didn’t Lose the Cold War. Racist Plutocrats Won It. Watching the way that Vladimir Putin has bent the American government through his agents in the White House and the conservative movement, it is unsurprising that many leading thinkers recoil at the... Read more |
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Pierre Tristam Flashback: Democrats’ Arafat Complex I’ve been looking at lists of 2020 prospects for Democratic hopefuls to unseat Donald Trump in 2020 and getting flashbacks to pre-internet antiquity when those same Tussaud Museum pieces wagged... Read more |
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Adolph Reed Jr. Which Side Are You On? The Democratic Socialists of America are openly debating internal tensions regarding identity and class, but there are important lessons the broader left needs to learn. If Trump is to be defeated, the learning needs to come fast. Read more |
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Steve Klinger The Meaner Trump Gets, the More Kindness We Feel "When someone stands up to violence a force for change is released. Every action for peace requires someone to exhibit the courage to challenge violence and inspire love." — Thich Nhat Hanh In this... Read more |
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Carolyn Coe Afghanistan: Where Can the Anger Go? KABUL—At a busy four-way intersection in the northwestern part of Kabul, traffic is stuck. There is no traffic signal, and cars are threaded through one another like a woven rug. A passenger car is... Read more |
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Jim Goodman Dairy Farming is Dying. After 40 Years, I’m Done. Now, organic dairying is dominated by large operations that are more factory than farm. Read more |
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Eric Margolis Time to Get Out of Syria The US has no strategic interest in Syria and no business at all being militarily involved there. Read more |
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Linda McQuaig Canada’s Huawei Arrest Lending Support to Rogue U.S. Behavior The phrase “rule of law” has a nice, lofty ring to it, so it’s not surprising that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is invoking it to defend Canada’s detention of a Chinese business executive. But while... Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli An Angel and an Orphan She could not have imagined how it would all turn out thanks to the monstrously evil policies of the Trump administration. Read more |
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Celina della Croce Why Argentina’s New Loans From the IMF Are Spurring Unrest and a Deepening Social and Economic Crisis The IMF has a long history of strong-arming the direction of Argentina’s policies and economy. Read more |
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Susan H. Bragdon, Jennifer Clapp, Olivier De Schutter The Wrong Conversation about Trump’s Tariffs The just passed Farm Bill awarded millions of dollars to wealthy agribusiness and factory farms Read more |
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John Atcheson Communities Without Consequences: Demographics and the Destruction of Democracy Even after more than two years, the notion that America elected an ignorant, racist, profane, incompetent, reality show buffoon as President still seems incomprehensible to the rational, reality-... Read more |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan The Tragic Lives of the Children Trump's Policies Target Immigration policy is a matter of life and death, most tragically impacting the most vulnerable among us Read more |
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Belén Fernández 'Barbed Wire-Plus': Borders Know No Love Across Europe and North America , governments have gone to great cruelty to stop migration Read more |
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Neil deMause Der Spiegel Shows Danger of Liking Good Stories More Than True Stories The job of journalists and editors alike is to tell stories, absolutely—but to tell them in service to the truth, even when it goes against preconceptions or conventional wisdom Read more |
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Tom Gallagher Nancy Pelosi Represents House Democrats, but San Francisco? Not So Much Pelosi’s response to President Trump’s recently announced intention to withdraw American troops from Syria is just the latest instance of the House Democrats’ leader taking a foreign policy stance out of sync with the expressed views of her base Read more |
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Mark Weisbrot “Fort Trump” in Poland Is Another Dangerous, Delusional Idea Even talking about a new military base in Poland shows how far US foreign policy toward Russia has descended into stupidity and recklessness Read more |
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Peter Certo Paul Ryan Was a Villain And No One Will Miss Him The outgoing House speaker’s entire career was a cash grab for billionaires, capped off by a low trick to literally starve children in Yemen Read more |
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Michael Winship In One Wretched Day, All You Need to Know About Donald J. Trump Until Republicans renounce their putrescent Piped Piper, we are all in for it. Read more |
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Karen Greenberg America’s Mixed Messages: On Board the USS Detention Prisoners at sea Read more |
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Reed Richardson ‘Trump Says…’: The Journalistic Scourge of Echo-Chamber Headlines Deferential social media framing spreads White House propaganda and betrays public trust Read more |
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Ryan Cooper Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Gets It Nothing short of an all-out political struggle will topple the centrist Democrats—or perhaps convince them to start taking these problems seriously Read more |
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Dana Brown At Last, a Good First Step Toward Public Pharmaceuticals The Warren/Schakowsky bill would create the Office of Drug Manufacturing Read more |
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Ruth Conniff Trump’s Wall Crumbles, Government Stays Open The Congressional showdown over the $5 billion wall boondoggle and the exposure of dirty dealing by Trump associates, are directly related Read more |
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Naomi LaChance Bernie Sanders Is a 2020 Favorite “For those of us who believe in radically transformative political change, the choice is already clear—Bernie Sanders is the only viable option.” Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Is Yemen Our Future? The word “war” may be the most powerful word in human history, because it creates a mask of respectability for—that is, it conceals—the dehumanization and mass slaughter of a designated enemy, along with limitless environmental contamination Read more |
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Anja Lyngbaek Groomed to Consume Rampant consumerism doesn’t happen by itself: it is encouraged by an economic system that requires perpetual economic growth. Read more |
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Mary O’Connor Mack Do You Have a Heart? On Organ Donation, Poverty, and For-Profit Healthcare Despite the efforts encouraging Americans to be organ donors and to “Give the Gift of Life,” we rarely hear about those who don't meet the financial criteria Read more |
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Rebecca Burns, David Dayen Steve Mnuchin’s Path of Destruction Leads From Wall Street to Trump’s Treasury There’s a reason he’s been called “ the Forrest Gump of the financial crisis.” Read more |
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Negin Owliaei Paul Ryan Only Ever Cared About the Rich The outgoing House speaker was once celebrated as a 'serious' wonk. Now it's clear his politics are just as cruel as Trump's Read more |
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Nicole Braun Lame-Duck Republicans Are Waging War on Heartland Democracy I teach sociology. Believe me — nothing good will come of what they're trying to pull here in Michigan and beyond Read more |
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Tracey L. Rogers Politics in 2019 Will Have a Lot More Backbone As Democratic leaders sharpen their challenge to President Trump, movement leaders are stepping up to challenge the party leadership Read more |
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Jesse Jackson Donald Trump’s Border Wall Demand Is Dressed Up With More Lies About Immigrants This isn’t a crisis; it’s a political ploy designed to fan fear and division. Read more |
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Andy Rowell “Green New Deal” in US “Must Be Mirrored by a Global Green Deal” “Right now, the economy is controlled by big corporations whose profits are dependent on the continuation of climate change. This arrangement benefits few, but comes at the detriment of our planet and all its inhabitants." Read more |
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David A. Love Cyntoia Brown Shows Us That Justice Is Not Blind Is a system broken when it works as designed? Read more |
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Tim Lau Senate Passes Historic Criminal Justice Reform Legislation The FIRST STEP Act marks progress toward reducing mass incarceration Read more |
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Kristine Mattis An Economy That Does Not Consider Ecology Is Not Sustainable As long as economics always takes precedence, ecology will inevitably come back to bite us in the ass Read more |
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Russell Mokhiber Advocates Call on Jayapal to Release Draft Text of House Single Payer Bill "We are being asked to mobilize support for the new HR 676, but we cannot support a bill we have not seen." Read more |
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Manuel Pérez Rocha AMLO Goes Full Throttle Against Neoliberalism—But What About NAFTA? Mexico’s first left-wing president gave a fiery inaugural speech against neoliberalism in Mexico. But he barely mentioned NAFTA. Read more |
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Natalie Shure Why Are These Labor Unions Opposing Medicare for All? As long as credible action toward Medicare for All remains scarce among elected Democrats, advancing the policy demands a confrontation with the party establishment—something most labor leaders so far seem unwilling to do Read more |
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Louise Melling Will the Supreme Court Overturn Roe v. Wade After All? Reading the tea leaves on abortion rights Read more |
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Josh Bivens The Bad Economics of PAYGO Swamp Any Strategic Gain From Adopting It It is terrible economics to view federal budget deficits as always and everywhere bad Read more |
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Marshall Auerback An Economy Built Around a Stock Market Is Certain to End Up Looking Like the Mess We Call America The doctrine of shareholder value has created multiple economic crises, long recessions, growing inequality and decades of stagnant incomes for the average American worker Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt In Praise of a Military Budget That Ensures Our Destruction If we are this committed to destroying life and the planet that sustains it, perhaps the Pentagon does need more money Read more |
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Michael T. Klare The Coming of Hyperwar: "Alexa, Launch Our Nukes!" Artificial intelligence and the future of war Read more |
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Mark Engler, Sam Pizzigati Jeff Bezos Has Enough! It’s Time for a Maximum Wage A Q&A with author Sam Pizzigati Read more |
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Jackie Smith, Caitlin Schroering Global Peasant Declaration Represents Huge Advance for Human Rights Seventy percent of the world’s population is fed by small-scale producers. These producers, however, face an onslaught of threats related to economic globalization Read more |
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Vijay Prashad Yemen Remains on the Precipice of a Large-Scale Famine The UN and U.S. Senate weigh in, but will their actions be enough to bring peace? Read more |
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Norman Solomon Beto, We Hardly Knew Ye The Texas Democrat's actual political record deserves scrutiny, and it's not what progressives might expect from the overheated adulation that has sent his presidential balloon aloft Read more |
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Katie Halper How Come So Many Bernie Bros Are Women and People of Color? Despite data to the contrary, the media continues to distort Sanders' politics and the diversity of his supporters Read more |
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Jim Naureckas William Blum, US Policy Critic Derided by NYT, Dies at 85 You know you’ve lived well—well enough to rattle the establishment—when the New York Times smears you in the obituary it runs about you Read more |
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Max Moran Wall Street Thrives and Working People Struggle as GOP Tax Cut Turns One Last year's tax cut legislation was a barely-cloaked present to the same financiers who crashed the world economy in 2008 Read more |
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Jeremy Brecher, Joe Uehlein 12 Reasons Labor Should Demand a Green New Deal Only protecting humanity from climate catastrophe can unify the political forces needed to meet labor’s demands for jobs, union rights, economic security, full employment, and worker empowerment Read more |
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Ellen Brown This Radical Plan to Fund the ‘Green New Deal’ Just Might Work A network of public banks could fund the Green New Deal in the same way President Franklin Roosevelt funded the original New Deal Read more |
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Robert Reich Why Trump’s Private Transactions Are Terrifying After two years of Trump we may have overlooked the essence of his insanity: His brain sees only private interests transacting. It doesn’t comprehend the public interest. Read more |
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Jonathan Cook American Public’s Backing for One-State Solution Falls on Deaf Ears A growing number understand that it is time for a new, single state model, one that ends Israel’s treatment of Jews as separate from and superior to Palestinians, and instead offers freedom and equality for all Read more |
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John Feffer The New World Order Is Here Globalists really are ruining your life Read more |
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Chris Hedges Trump, the Quintessential American We live in an age when the fake, the fraudulent, the fabricated and the theatrical supplant reality Read more |
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Mike Lofgren The End of Rolling Thunder? We Can Only Hope So! How a Nixon campaign dirty trick turned into a full-blown psychosis among America's paranoid fringe. Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati Can an Unequal Earth Beat Climate Change? Some 250 million years ago, life on Earth survived an existential climate crisis. But that Earth had a distinct advantage. No rich. Read more |
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Crystal Vance Guerra Why Hondurans See Migration as an Act of Civil Disobedience In walking out of their country en masse, Hondurans are making a loud, bold statement about the extreme injustices they face at home. Read more |
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Juan Cole Despite US, Russian & Saudi Opposition, Climate Summit Reaffirms Paris Goals "The agreements reached are wholly inadequate and do not reflect the urgency of the climate crisis we are in. But they might have a positive psychological effect, in keeping the Paris goals alive and encouraging governments to encourage companies and consumers to take action." Read more |
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Elizabeth Bruenig My Advice to Progressives: Don't Back Down "If all the Democrats can manage is to hark back to the past and focus on winning for its own sake, they're missing an opportunity to lay out a blueprint for the future." Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Holiday Detention "Trump has now discovered another group of people he can indefinitely detain in what seems an obvious violation of the constitutional right of all who are in the United States, to not spend lengthy periods in prison without due process of law." Read more |
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Will Bunch Is France Showing Us What America’s Next Civil War Will Look Like? "Everything I've seen so far out of France is singing loudly that, yes, it's a small world, after all – and that what's happening on the barricades is both a reflection of what's going on in much of the developed world and a screaming alarm for what could come next." Read more |
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Sarah Kastner Why Do We Revere Malala But Not Ahed Tamimi? "The point isn't that Malala doesn't deserve the platform she’s been given, but that while we celebrate Malala's advocacy for girls' education, we must ask why that platform is not extended to children like Ahed." Read more |
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Lindsay Koshgarian Nine Things to Buy with $5 Billion Instead of a Border Wall Five billion dollars is not huge in a federal discretionary budget of more than $1 trillion. But it's an incredibly meaningful sum to any number of smaller federal government programs. Read more |
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Wendell Potter Take It From Me: Tweaks Won't Fix Healthcare Democrats should focus on for Medicare for All—health insurance companies are interested in profits, not playing fair. I should know. I used to be a vice president at Cigna. Read more |
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Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Alfred Brownell Attacks on Indigenous Rights Defenders Should Not Be Ignored Dozens of indigenous rights defenders have been killed this year but the world has looked the other way Read more |
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Ryan Cooper The Impossibility of Bipartisan Healthcare Compromise Democrats should write a health-care reform bill so aggressive that it drastically weakens the profitability of Big Medical, and drives many of them out of business entirely. If you cannot join them, beat them Read more |
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Porter McConnell, Rion Dennis No Labels and the ‘Problem Solvers’ are Wolves of Wall Street in Sheep’s Clothing Political organizations hide their pro-finance politics under the cloak of bipartisanship while they rake in funding from corporate interests Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Taking French Lessons: The Power of the 'Yellow Vests' Through weeks of mass direct action, the French have shown their government who is boss, and elected officials have been forced to accept and acquiesce—at least to an extent. It is a dynamic we can only dream of here in the U.S. Read more |
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Reese Erlich Sex, Russia and Impeachment Democrats should stop braying about the Trump-Putin conspiracy and focus on the White House's real crimes Read more |
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Carolyn Coyne Trump Administration Ban on NIH Use of Fetal Tissue Should Worry All Scientists Banning or restricting research with human fetal tissue derived from elective terminations has no moral or ethical purpose and serves only to fit a political agenda Read more |
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Timothy Karr How We're Getting Net Neutrality Back “The public can plainly see that a soon-to-be-toothless FCC is handing the keys to the internet — the internet, one of the most remarkable, empowering, enabling inventions of our lifetime — over to a handful of multibillion-dollar corporations.” Read more |
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Steven Singer What Happened to 2018 As The Year of the Teacher? I don’t care what corporate journalists are being forced to report by their billionaire owners. These accomplishments should not be minimized. Read more |
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Juan Cole Senate Fingers Saudi Bin Salman as Murderer, Demands End of Yemen War Thursday was a historic day, and these bipartisan resolutions will go down in history for their moral clarity and jealous guarding of constitutional prerogatives, as well as for their remarkably frank designation of a de facto head of state with whom the US is allied as a murderer Read more |
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Robert Reich The Truth About Privatization When the primary goal is to serve the public, rather than shareholders, we need to be careful not to sacrifice the public interest to private profits Read more |
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Ralph Nader Are the New Congressional Progressives Real? Use These Yardsticks to Find Out Adopting these suggestions will liberate new members to challenge the taboos entrenched in Congress regarding the corporate crime wave, military budgets, foreign policy, massive corporate welfare giveaways or crony capitalism Read more |
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Michael Winship Where There's Smoke, There's Boehner The former speaker's cannabis pitch symbolizes how low too many of our craven, so-called public servants are willing to stoop for an almighty buck. Read more |
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Theo Horesh Can Socialism Save Democracy? If socialism is going to save democracy, it needs to bring about equality without snuffing out freedom, and it needs to respect the role of markets without letting them dominate society Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt A Bad World for Migrants (and I Don’t Even Mean Human Ones) Bird populations of many sorts are dropping across the planet Read more |
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Nomi Prins A World That Is the Property of the 1%: Wall Street, Banks, and Angry Citizens The inequality gap on a planet growing more extreme Read more |
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Beatrice Tulagan Coal in, Activists Kept Out at Katowice Climate Talks All progress made during the first week of climate negotiations in Katowice, Poland was overshadowed by the deportation of at least 12 civil society representatives and the no-holds-barred promotion of the coal industry at the official conference venue Read more |
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Jacob Snow Amazon’s Disturbing Plan to Add Face Surveillance to Your Front Door It is doing so without regard for how the technology will be exploited by law enforcement, ICE, and other government agencies prone to violence and racial discrimination Read more |
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Frank Clemente The GOP Tax Bill Is Creating Jobs—Just Not in the U.S. Thanks to the GOP tax law, corporations get huge breaks for outsourcing jobs. And workers? They get pink slips. Read more |
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Héctor Figueroa For the Future of Our Communities, Labor Support for The Green New Deal As a union representing 163,000 doormen, security officers, cleaners, and airport workers up and down the east coast, we support this bold vision to reduce greenhouse gasses, switch to renewable energies, and create good jobs Read more |
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Kathy Toler I’m a Postal Worker. If You Get Mail in a Small Town or Suburb, Listen Up! A Trump administration plan could mean reduced service and higher postage for at least half of all ZIP codes Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler The Phrase “Border Security” Freezes My Soul Every Time Are the borders we protect so rigorously (by which I mean that one border on our southern edge) somehow divinely ordained? How were they determined? An even more taboo question is: How respectful has this country been of other countries’ borders? Read more |