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Juan Cole Trump-Taliban Talks Like Those With N. Korea—A Photo Op on the Deck of the Titanic The Taliban don’t think they are losing, because they are not. Read more |
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Nick Turse How to Read a Broken Body: Literature in an Era of Endless War "I'm never going to be well. I still have pain." Read more |
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Michael Winship Is Labor Coming Back to Life? A conversation with author Steven Greenhouse on history and reviving American unions Read more |
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Chris Hedges The Capitalists Are Afraid They know the reigning ideology of neoliberalism no longer has any credibility. Its lies have been exposed. They also know they are to blame. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Why a DNC Vice Chair Bawled Me Out for Sharing Critical, Accurate Information About Joe Biden For the bulk of the party leadership who remain in sync with the current frontrunner, self-critical assessments are essentially off-limits. Read more |
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James A. Haught Prodding the Irreligious Left to Vote If atheists and agnosticis could be induced to participate more strongly in elections, America's moral climate would improve Read more |
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Sam Knight The Jack Lew Problem Jack Lew was the sort of knife-by-spreadsheet wonk that Warren campaigned to confront during her 2012 run for senate in Massachusetts—so why did she vote to confirm him? Read more |
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Jorge Majfud The Slow Suicide of the West What is more Western than democracy and concentration camps? Read more |
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Heather Price From Scientist to Activist A personal journey to the climate strike Read more |
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Reese Erlich Foreign Correspondent: Will Trump Bring Peace to Afghanistan? Don't hold your breath Read more |
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Esha Krishnaswamy Climate Minimizers Don't Deny Climate Change—But Find Endless Reasons to Reject Sanders' Plan to Stop It Instead of consulting obviously conflicted think tank experts to speculate about hypotheticals, these pieces could have looked at the polls: 69% of registered voters, including 44% of Republican voters would support the Green New Deal, according to a recent study by Yale University Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Betsy DeVos, Redux It's a win-win for everyone but the defrauded students Read more |
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Karen Dolan US Kids Shouldn't Go to School Hungry One might wonder why politicians would want to literally take healthy food out of the mouths of hungry school children Read more |
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Julie Hollar CNN Town Hall Went Deep on Climate Crisis—But Was Anyone Listening? The moments in which CNN hosts tried to be "tough" on candidates were largely based on Republican talking points, like how much their plans would cost (ignoring how much inaction would cost), and whether Americans would be "forced" to drive electric cars or give up meat Read more |
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Scott Goodstein Democratic Candidates Must Communicate Differently to Impress a New Generation of Voters And they need to start now Read more |
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David Klein Boycotts, Benjamins, and America’s University Leaders The current boycott is not a denial of academic freedom, but rather an exercise of it by scholars from around the world who choose not to collaborate with Israeli state institutions complicit in Israel’s apartheid policies. Read more |
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Olivia Rosane As Dorian Lashes the Carolinas, the Bahamas Grapple With 'Unimaginable' Losses Hurricanes are becoming more extreme and destructive because of the climate crisis. Read more |
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Don Anair Trump Administration Goes After States for Protecting the Environment The Trump administration is launching a direct attack on California’s long held authority to clean up vehicle pollution. Read more |
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Donald McCarthy The Tough Guy Presidencies If Trump is the current iteration of the tough guy president, then what would the next iteration be? Some would have you believe it cannot be any worse than Trump. Those people would be wrong. Read more |
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David Suzuki, Ian Hanington Fracked Gas Heats the Planet, But Supporters Say It’s a Solution The best way to address climate disruption is… burn more fossil fuels? It doesn’t make sense, but that’s what industry, media and governments want us to believe. Read more |
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Olivia Riggio NYT Remembers David Koch More as 'Philanthropist' Than Polluter Rather than detailing the toxic legacy Koch left behind, the obituary quickly went back to describing Koch’s extroverted personality, his reputation as "a playboy whose penthouse parties were attended by models," and his relative success running for president as a Libertarian candidate in 1980. Read more |
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Conn Hallinan Climate Catastrophe Comes for Europe This year’s floods and heat waves are but a fraction of what awaits the continent—unless a growing climate mobilization succeeds. Read more |
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Heidi Shierholz The Future of U.S. Jobs Looks Bleak. Unions Are the Answer. Labor Statistics project that six of the ten occupations expected to have the most total job growth over the next decade pay less than $27,000 a year. Read more |
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Karen Kinney At the Dividing Line Between the U.S. and Mexico, Two Very Different Visions of God Meet It would seem that "the God who blesses America," at least the one called upon by politicians in recent years, comes with many strings attached and a well-entrenched belief system designed to protect those who already possess the most. Read more |
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Nancy J. Altman Joni Ernst Wants to Cut Social Security Behind Closed Doors Republicans, Democrats and Independents, of all ages, races and genders, overwhelmingly agree. We understand that Social Security is more important than ever. We overwhelmingly reject any cuts to its modest benefits. Read more |
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Mark Schlosberg Confronting the Climate Crisis—Why We Need Bernie Sanders' Green New Deal We cannot confront the climate emergency—we cannot avoid the worst of rapidly unfolding climate chaos—if we do not stop our headlong rush to expand fossil fuel extraction and burning. Read more |
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Sarah Lahm Why 2020 Dems Should Target the Nonprofit Charter School Industry A battle over a beloved church building in the Twin Cities reveals how money can be made from charter school real estate deals. Read more |
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Brian Mier As Brazil Burns, Northern Media Deploy a Strategy of Deflection Instead of handwringing about the tragedy while trying to shift the blame, or acting like these devastating fires will somehow fight poverty, journalists should work harder to explain the role Northern business groups have in the process, and encourage boycotts against companies like Cargill. Read more |
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John Atcheson Neoliberal Democrats Need to Stop Blaming the Internet and Take Some Responsibility for 2016 Perhaps we could let go of past failures more easily if it didn't look like many powerful forces were so eager to repeat them Read more |
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William Minter Corporations Getting to Zero With GOP's Inside Help on Tax Avoidance The GOP has made it easier than ever for companies to pay $0 in taxes. A Connecticut-based airplane company shows it was already too easy. Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt Invasion! When Donald Trump Attacks Planet Earth Who are the real invaders in these troubled times? Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Defying the Nuclear Sword National policy, especially for the world’s dominant superpower, is based on the threat of unrelenting force. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Chuck Todd, Labor Day, and Getting Serious Todd has allowed his hands to be tied with golden handcuffs. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin Should We Feed Hungry Children, or the War Machine? Every dollar of public money financing US militarism abroad is a dollar that could fight hunger, homelessness, or climate change. Read more |
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Diane Ravitch The Walton Family Plot to Privatize the Public Schools of Arkansas Have they no shame? Read more |
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Norman Solomon To Win Power, Progressives Must Embrace 'Primary' as a Verb Insurgent progressives need a lot more allies elected to Congress as well as colleagues who feel rising heat from the left in their districts. Read more |
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John Feffer Burning Down the House Far-right governments in the U.S., UK, and Brazil are laying bare their nihilistic roots and full destructive potential. Read more |
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Chuck Collins Tax the Rich Before the Rest Candidates should pledge that the middle class won't pay $1 more in new taxes until billionaires put up at least $1 trillion. Read more |
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Chris Winters What If We Made the Electoral College Moot? Twice in 20 years, a president has won office without winning the popular vote. A new movement is looking to change that. Read more |
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Timothy Karr A Pivot to Digital Shouldn't Spell the End of Local News By vowing to increase support for public media and dedicate funds to newsgathering, a proposal put forth by Bernie Sanders is raising a question that's rarely come up in political debates: How can policymakers intervene to help revitalize local news and put journalists back to work? Read more |
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Jill Richardson Get Ready for Unnatural Disasters This Hurricane Season The Trump administration is moving money away from disaster relief to lock up more immigrants. Read more |
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Sahar Halaimzai The Afghan 'Peace' Deal Will Not Bring Peace to the Afghan People While rushing to strike an agreement with the Taliban ahead of the 2020 election, Washington is ignoring Afghan demands. Read more |
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Ryan Cooper This Is Joe Biden's Emails Problem Is Joe Biden mentally unsound? Read more |
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Laurie Laybourn-Langton The G7 Was a Joke. Three Degrees Warming Isn’t We need a European Green New Deal that delivers justice on a scale to match the threat of environmental breakdown. Here's how we do it. Read more |
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Jim Hightower Here's the Real Deal on 'Medicare for All' The power of the establishment's money and lies wilts in the face of the moral imperative that is at the heart of Medicare for All: Everyone deserves, as a human right, affordable access to quality health care. Read more |
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Juan Cole Failing Breitbart Comes for Juan Cole on Climate History and It Won’t Go Well I don't demean myself by reading Breitbart. I'd rather lie naked in my garden during a rainstorm and let slugs traverse me, leaving trails of slime. But I know who they are are. Read more |
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Bill McKibben Bill McKibben: This Climate Strike Is Part of the Disruption We Need "It can’t just be young people. It needs to be all of us." Read more |
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Daniel Willis Amazonian Communities Need Solidarity, Not Saviours The Amazon is not ours to save with prayers and clicktivism; it is their homeland to defend (with our solidarity) against the global corporations and free trade deals which would open up the Amazon to more risk. Read more |
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Steven Singer Inside Bill Gates’ Hubris: Propaganda to Make America Neoliberal Again New Gates documentary is a cry for oligarchy in an age of idiocracy; a love letter to neoliberalism in a time of neofascism. Read more |
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Gretchen E. Ely When Religious Ideology Drives Abortion Policy, Poor Women Suffer the Consequences Studies show that abortion rates across countries are similar regardless of legality. Read more |
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Bill Blum If Ruth Bader Ginsburg Can't Hold On The weight of the Constitution in no small sense rests upon Ginsburg’s slender shoulders. Read more |
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Michael Winship Please Shut Up, Mr. President, and Read Some Books EB White and James Thurber could teach Trump—and us—a thing or two. Read more |
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Mathew Lawrence The Financial Times Is Right—Labour’s Ownership Funds Will Transfer Wealth and Power Democratising the corporation and empowering workers is an essential part of moving beyond neoliberalism. Read more |
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Sophie Yeo The Rise and Rise of the Global Climate Movement Climate activism isn’t new, but the last year has seen a resurgence in attention devoted to the subject. Read more |
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Robert Reich 5 Biggest Corporate Lies About Unions Don’t believe the corporate lies. Today’s unions are growing, expanding, and boosting the wages and economic prospects of those who need them most. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson As Climate Crisis Thrashes Planet, Never a Leader So Divorced From Reality as Trump President Donald Trump not only denies the threat posed by manmade climate change, he consciously, purposefully and perversely works to accelerate it. Read more |
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James Zogby Addressing Those Who Have Been Fooled All of the Time What don't we understand about Trump supporters? How have the political experts continuously been so wrong about this president and those who believe in him? Read more |
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Lindsay Koshgarian Remembering Frances Crowe (1919-2019) Celebrating a life dedicated to ending war Read more |
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Chloe Zilliac Will Antarctic Ice Doom Us All? A new study arrives at some disturbing numbers Read more |
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Andrew Mitrovica On the Malicious and Scientifically Illiterate Bullies Afraid of Greta Thunberg As the world starts to take note of the teen climate activist, her critics have launched increasingly personal attacks. Read more |
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Kelly Candaele, Peter Dreier Which Side Are You On? A Question for Labor Day—and Every Day A stronger union movement would not only mean better lives for working families but also provide support for progressive goals like universal health insurance, tuition-free college, and paid family leave. Read more |
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Juan Cole This Labor Day, US Workers One-Third Poorer Than in 2003—While Top 1% Now Two-Times Richer The poor got significantly poorer in the past two decades, and the rich got significantly richer Read more |
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Chris Hedges The Messiahs of Hope Assure Us Everything Will Be OK in the End. But It Won't Justice cannot be fought for in the abstract. It must be grounded in a concrete confrontation with power Read more |
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Natasha Hakimi Zapata Pia Klemp Is the Hero the World Desperately Needs Right Now It is more important than ever to find meaningful ways to celebrate people like her who refuse to be intimidated by the rise of xenophobia across the Western world Read more |
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Robert Freeman Re-Reflections on the Start of World War II It is worth our while to try to disentangle some of the realities of the war from the mythologies we so love to worship Read more |
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Ed Rampell A New Film Blows the Whistle on War If the press is the "fourth estate," the cinema is arguably the fifth. Official Secrets indicts Blair, Bush, and other mass murderers in the court of public opinion—at a theater near you Read more |
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Karen Dolan Our Kids Shouldn't Go to School Hungry At the very least they deserve access to hot and nutritious meals. It's a moral imperative. Read more |
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Eric Margolis It's Time to Liberate Afghanistan The sooner America ends this shameful colonial war the better Read more |
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Dana Drugmand Could Rights of Nature Laws Help Save Endangered Orcas? In the face of the climate crisis imperiling endangered species, some activists and governments are turning to a radical, rights-based approach to protect nature Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Health Risks to Immigrants in Trump Administration's Custody Prompt Comparisons to Nazi Camps Just as immigrants in the custody of ICE are denied vaccines, those in the concentration camps were denied vaccines Read more |
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John Atcheson Neoliberals' Attack on Sanders' GND Plan Is a Clear and Present Danger Democratic Party leaders, the mainstream press, and many in the paid punditocracy are still asking if we can "afford" to implement a program that is—quite literally—necessary Read more |
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Juan Cole As Hurricane Dorian Threatens Florida, Gov. DeSantis and Trump—Who Haven't Curbed CO2 Emissions—Should Resign Florida emits 227,000,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide every year Read more |
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César Chelala The NRA Versus American Children Children and teens in the United States experience much higher rates of gun deaths and injuries than in any other industrialized country Read more |
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Jane Fonda Here's What Happened When I Knocked on Doors in Pennsylvania All working people, no matter their race, ethnicity, gender, faith, or sexual orientation, or gender identity, need a stake and a say in our society—and they all need to hear that they're part of "We the People." Read more |
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Linda McQuaig Tax on Super-Rich a Popular Idea, Except in the Media A new poll shows that 67 percent of Canadians support or somewhat support a wealth tax Read more |
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Timothy A. Wise Big Ag Is a Major Obstacle to Combating the Climate Crisis Grim as the recent U.N.'s climate report is, it doesn't go far enough to confront the dangerous government-hijacking power of agribusiness Read more |
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Ralph Nader From Trump Tower to Dictatorial Power If Trump wins, America loses. The outcome is up to you in November 2020. Read more |
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Craig Holman A Category 6 'Big Money' Hurricane Is Coming. But With FEC Gutted, the First Responders Aren’t. We're facing now is a perfect storm of corruption and criminality on a scale that's almost impossible to fathom. Read more |
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Rebecca Burns From Victories to Union Militancy, 5 Reasons for Workers to Celebrate This Labor Day The U.S. labor movement may still be under siege, thanks to powerful anti-union forces, including the Trump administration. But with approval of unions at a 15-year high, and a wave of labor militancy on the rise, working people have plenty to celebrate this Labor Day. Read more |
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Sarah Jaffe As the World Burns Catastrophes in the Amazon and elsewhere are flash points for the larger, ongoing crisis that claims lives in less spectacular fashion—one that sees life itself as expendable. Read more |
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Jim Naureckas NYT Steers Dems Away From the Obvious Formula for Defeating Trump Edsall, it seems, has the task of providing the intellectual arguments for why the Democrats should not adopt the progressive economic agenda that would benefit them electorally. Read more |
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Will Bunch The Constitution’s 3 Ways to Stop a Demagogue Like Trump Haven’t Worked. Now What? The only thing that could end Trump’s presidency—and the threat of a nuclear first strike on hurricanes or whatever—before January 20, 2021, is a powerful demonstration that a strong majority of the American people find the current state of affairs intolerable. Read more |
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Diane Abbott This Is an Anti-Parliamentary Coup—and An Internationally–Organised One For Trump, No Deal is imperative; a key step towards a vassal Britain, subject to his rules on everything from health to cars to food. Read more |
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TJ Chuah Battle for Amulsar: UK Mining Giant Using Corporate Courts to Attack Community Opposed to Massive Gold Mine This is the sinister mechanism known as ISDS in action—holding a sovereign government to ransom until it betrays the desires and rights of its own people Read more |
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Devin Beaulieu No Refuge for the Amazon in Evo Morales' Bolivia Evo Morales has carefully cultivated his image on the world stage as an indigenous defender of the "Pachamama (Mother Earth)," but his domestic policies belie another reality. Read more |
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Ronnie Cummins Bernie Sanders' Green New Deal is a Game-Changer for Food and Farming Finally, we have a true Declaration of War against fossil fuel pollution and global warming, a radical legislative program that can head off climate catastrophe and supercharge a just transition to a 21st Century Green Commonwealth Read more |
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Jennifer Morgan Tackling the Climate Emergency and Protecting Our Oceans Go Hand-in-Hand Scientists are clear that we need to protect at least 30% of our global oceans by 2030 if we are to safeguard wildlife and to help mitigate the impacts of climate change Read more |
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Rebecca Solnit Welcome to the US, Greta. With Your Help We Can Save the Planet and Ourselves Even in such a divided and troubled country, there is hope. Between us we can beat the climate destroyers. Read more |
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Eloise Todd A Pro-Democracy Movement Against Boris Johnson Has Been Born—Are You With Us? Throughout the land people are sharing stories of why democracy is important to them. Together we can bring down Johnson and end this farce. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler We Are All Indigenous How can indigenous wisdom—the understanding that everything is connected—transcend the power to exploit this planet and continue to shrug off the consequences of doing so, pushing them off on future generations? Read more |
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Robert Reich 9 Ways to Stay Sane During the Primaries We’ve been through dark times before, but we have come out stronger on the other side. We will do so again. Read more |
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Juan Cole The Saudi Axis and Israel’s Drone War on the Shiite Crescent The new drone war is largely symbolic. Read more |
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Christine Owens Democracy Needs Unions When workers don’t have a voice in their workplace, they eventually lose their voice at the ballot box, too. Read more |
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Carlos Figueroa The Puerto Rico Crisis: A Reflection of a Flawed US Democracy The recent resignation of Governor Rosselló should be understood within the larger framework of a flawed US democratic state that continues its economic stranglehold over Puerto Rico. Read more |
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Norman Solomon With Sanders and Warren Surging, Is Wall Street's 2020 Nightmare Coming True? The very biggest fear among corporate elites is that Warren or Sanders could win—and then use the presidency to push back against oligarchy. Read more |
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Osprey Orielle Lake Indigenous Women of the Amazon Send a Call: The Fight for Mother Earth Is the Mother of All Fights The lives of every future generation and our species as humans depends on the collective effort to generate new development models. Humanity has no Plan B for the Earth. Our fight is so urgent that we must all get together right now. The fight for Mother Earth is the mother of all fights. Read more |
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Ryan Cooper Donald Trump Is Picking Your Pocket Donald Trump using the presidency to line his pockets is perhaps the most viscerally compelling piece of evidence against him. It is baldly unconstitutional, practically the dictionary definition of corruption, and simply gross . Read more |
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Alexander Sammon David Koch’s Heirs Will Enjoy the Biggest Tax Loophole Nobody Talks About It’s called step-up in basis, and it wipes away all capital gains in his $50 billion estate. Read more |
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Francesc Badia i Dalmases The Open Amazon and Its Enemies: A Call for Action and Optimism The Amazon, now on fire, has become the central political and geopolitical hot spot for humanity's right to its own future. Optimism is the gasoline that must feed the fight. Read more |
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Basav Sen Name and Shame Big Political Contributors Donors don’t like it, but using this publicly available information is one of the best ways to fight corruption. Read more |