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Joe Brewer Some Ways to Frame 'Regeneration' "How we relate to the world (and to ourselves) can either be regenerative or damaging." Read more |
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Kathleen Rogers, Ingmar Rentzhog Earth Day 2019: We Don't Have Time "Although our planet faces major tipping points on climate change, the environment is not a top-tier political issue. Anywhere!" Read more |
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Frida Berrigan Nuclear Weapons Ruined My Life, and I Wouldn't Have It Any Other Way As someone deeply embedded in a life of anti-nuclear resistance, I know the only way to get rid of these weapons is to never stop thinking about them Read more |
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César Chelala Yemen: The Triumph of Barbarism "The war in Yemen has reached a level of barbarism as few wars in recent history." Read more |
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Romy Haber How Women Are Leading the Sudanese Revolution "Women are front, left, and center of the revolution." Read more |
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Gary John Adler, Jr. Bringing the Border Closer to Home, One Immersion Trip at a Time This unfamiliarity most Americans have with immigrants at the southern border makes it easy for politicians to distort what's going on there Read more |
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Will Bunch Trump Thought Mueller Would Be 'the End of My Presidency.' It Should Be. "Rather than working to prevent foreign election interference from happening again, the new president labored to prevent a true investigation into what happened." Read more |
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Jacqueline Keeler Notre Dame and the Fight for Sacred Lands An Indigenous journalist reflects on the 800-year-old cathedral and what "sacred" means to her Read more |
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Leo Gerard Amazon—and 56 Other Corporations—Took Your Tax Dollars They claim to hate socialism if it means Medicare for All, but they sure as hell love socialism when it’s welfare for them. Read more |
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Jill Richardson Why Is Going Green So Hard? Because Our System Isn’t If environmental solutions aren’t systemic, living green will always mean going against the grain — and usually failing. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Hell Mixed With Futility Maybe the problem is the lack of courage among those in control to challenge the insanity not simply of the military budget but of militarism itself. Read more |
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Paul Rogers We Already Know Who Will Win the War in Libya – Western Arms Dealers They armed Gadaffi and the forces that ousted him alike – now they’re repeating that profitable trick. Read more |
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Joshua Cho Outlets Denounced as ‘Enemies of People’ Still Promote Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Narratives Establishment outlets have helped spread the Trump administration’s message Read more |
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Michael Arria The Stop & Shop Strike Is Showing There’s Still Power in a Union Workers say that Stop & Shop is attempting to cut employee pensions, raise the cost of healthcare and roll back overtime pay Read more |
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Andrea Woods, Alex Rate Armed Bounty Hunters Raided Our Clients’ Home to Prevent Private Companies from Losing $1,670 Predatory and exploitative behavior on the part of bail bonds agents is not only widespread throughout the country, but is directly incentivized because of how the for-profit bail industry operates Read more |
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Kalena Thomhave Democrats Battle Over How to Raise the Minimum Wage The overwhelming majority of House Democrats support a $15 federal minimum wage. But a centrist bill to institute regional minimum wages is standing in the way Read more |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan The Horrors of Israeli Occupation Have Been Laid Bare Stifling speech, blocking travel, and violating human rights won't bring peace—a negotiated settlement will Read more |
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Michael Winship Barr Lies Down With Trump, Wakes Up With Fleas Marooned in a blizzard of lies. Read more |
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Kate Aronoff Ways to Save the World If we really want to make a difference this Earth Day, we have to confront the problem of climate change at its source. Read more |
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Lee Camp Nearly 100,000 Pentagon Whistleblower Complaints Have Been Silenced There is a giant sucking sound in the center of the Pentagon, and whatever’s down there feeds on trillions of secretive dollars, then shits out incalculable death and destruction Read more |
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Ellen Brown The Public Banking Revolution Is Upon Us Banks now create most of our money supply and need to be made public utilities, following the stellar precedent of the Bank of North Dakota, which makes below-market loans for local communities and businesses while turning a profit for the state. Read more |
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Belle Chesler Defunding Children, A National Crisis of the Soul Making American schools less great again Read more |
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Charles P. Pierce William Barr Is a Complete Tool. It's Time for Robert Mueller to Testify The parallels with Watergate abound. Read more |
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Holly Miller Fox Never Expected This—The Medicare for All Moment Fox executives, despite months of stoking panic about "socialized medicine," have badly underestimated how much people are suffering and how willing people are to radically change the broken system that is hurting them Read more |
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Brett Wilkins Jimmy Carter: US 'Most Warlike Nation in History of the World' Former president says peaceful China 'ahead of us in almost every way.' Read more |
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Ramzy Baroud War Versus Peace: Israel Has Decided and So Should We It is now incumbent on the international community to break this vicious Israeli cycle and support the Palestinian people in their ongoing struggle against Israeli occupation, racism and apartheid Read more |
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Jessicah Pierre A Revolutionary Idea to Close the Racial Wealth Divide “Baby bond” accounts for all American kids would bridge the racial wealth gap while providing security to Americans of every color. Read more |
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Alan MacLeod ‘Purity Tests’: How Corporate Media Describe Progressives Standing Up for Principles The phrase is code for elites being pressured in ways they don’t like, and is often a shield against legitimate criticism of corruption or dependence on corporate power Read more |
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Mallika Khanna This Earth Day, Beware of Greenwashing Big polluters may not care much about the environment, but they’ll still try to fool customers who do Read more |
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Lauren Lluveras A Political Stalemate Over Puerto Rican Aid Is Leaving All US Disaster Funding in Limbo Within two weeks of that storm, which killed an estimated 3,000 people, Trump accused Puerto Ricans in a series of tweets of wanting "everything to be done for them." Read more |
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Sharon Anglin Treat Food Standards on the Menu at U.S.-EU Talks Bottom line: The U.S. won’t be able to guarantee European consumers that imported food products meet EU standards Read more |
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Ralph Nader Children’s Moral Power Can Challenge Corporate Power on Climate Crisis Students taking to the streets and taking on legislators will advance the fight for a safer planet and a more just society Read more |
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Caroline Fredrickson Getting Serious About Power Can we learn something about the right’s strategic coherence without emulating either their ideas or their contempt for democracy? Read more |
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Shaye Wolf Walruses Are Jumping Off Cliffs to Their Deaths—Yes, Because of Climate Change Animal lovers of the world must bear witness to the walrus’s peril. Read more |
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Jim Goodman Don’t Fall for the Hype of Free Trade Agreements NAFTA 2.0 is not about feeding people or doing right by American farmers or Canadian farmers or Mexican farmers—it is about furthering corporate profit. Read more |
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Arnold R. Isaacs Looking Back at 1919: Immigration, Race, and Women’s Rights, Then and Now The 100-Year-Old Echoes of 2019 Read more |
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Adam Johnson Maybe Rich Liberals Don’t Hate Sanders Because They Fear He Can’t Win, But Because They’re Rich That a network of multi-millionaire and billionaire donors would dislike a candidate who not only rejects their funding, but is actively trying to tax them at rates not seen since 1960, would surely be enough reason to explain why these wealthy elites would want to “stop” his nomination. Read more |
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Yanis Varoufakis First They Came for Assange Mike Pompeo, Trump’s first CIA director and now US Secretary of State, once described WikiLeaks as “a non-state hostile intelligence service.” That is exactly right, and it is an equally accurate description of what every self-respecting news outlet ought to be. Read more |
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Jeffrey D. Sachs Oil and Gas Industry Has Way Too Much Control Over Congress Either we escape from the malign grip of the oil and gas industry, or humanity will suffer climate wreckage for generations to come Read more |
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Patti Lynn Corporations Need to Pay More As we talk about taxing the ultra-wealthy, let’s not forget the source of their wealth: transnational corporations Read more |
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Peter Bloom The Divisive Center vs. The Unifying Left Bernie Sanders did more than just win the Fox News Town Hall, he revealed a different way of bringing the country together Read more |
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Michele Naar-Obed Taking Nonviolent Action in Defense of Mother Earth Our case will be tried before a twelve-person jury, who will decide whether ours was an act of criminality or one of necessity. But the last word will not come from the jury, the judge, or the lawmakers. Read more |
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Thea N. Riofrancos A Path to Democratic Socialism Means a Path To Climate Justice Through ecosocialism, we can fight climate change and extreme inequality at the same time Read more |
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Thomas Neuburger Sanders Takes the Campaign Against the Center for American Progress to Eleven Unlike 2016, this will be a battle with the enemy named out loud and its deeds detailed Read more |
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James Zogby Protecting Americans’ Right to Hear from the Leader of BDS, the Palestinian Non-Violent Campaign for Human Rights It is an unacceptable outrage for anyone to term the Palestinian call to support their efforts for justice, equality, and human rights as anti-Semitic Read more |
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Ben Cohen There’s Nothing Wrong With Being Successful. Bernie Never Said There Was. Bernie recognizes that the issue is not how much money you have. The issue is greed—using your money to enrich yourself at the expense of others. Read more |
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Michael Winship Michael Copps Thinks Trump Is Trying to Put FCC Out of Business Former commissioner says there's no democracy without honest news and an open Internet. Read more |
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Jeffrey D. Sachs Our Zero Emission Future A low-cost shift to clean energy is now feasible for every region of the world, owing to the plummeting costs of solar and wind power, and breakthroughs in energy storage. The total system costs of renewable energy, including transmission and storage, are now roughly on par with fossil fuels. Read more |
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John Atcheson Why the US Elected a Despot, and Why It's Poised To Do It Again Chasing the center and ignoring the real electoral prize Read more |
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Miles Mogulescu AOC Smashes The Overton Window Support for big and bold proposals like The Green New Deal, Medicare-For-All, and higher taxes on the wealthy has expanded at astounding speed Read more |
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Ruth Conniff Bernie Barnstorms the Midwest “I can understand why people voted for Trump based on what he said. For too long the political establishment did not listen to the needs of working families.” Read more |
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Michael Lighty Nothing Less Than Improved Medicare for All Now that we have the historic force of a united front in national Medicare for All legislation—HR 1384 and S. 1129—let’s review the bottom line Read more |
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George Monbiot Only Rebellion Will Prevent an Ecological Apocalypse No one is coming to save us. Mass civil disobedience is essential to force a political response Read more |
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Norman Solomon The Toxic Lure of “Guns and Butter” Top Democrats keep aiding and abetting what Dr. King called “the madness of militarism.” Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt American War Is Off the Charts How the U.S. military feeds at the terror trough Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati How Progressives Can Fix the Progressive Income Tax Taxes on the wealthy should be linked not just to the top of the income ladder, but also to the bottom. Read more |
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Tara Lohan Why Every City Needs a Climate Storyteller The Climate Narrative Project, started by author Jeff Biggers, is training a new generation of storytellers to help us meet the challenges of climate change. Read more |
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Conn Hallinan Diego Garcia: The “Unsinkable Carrier” Springs a Leak A court ruling against colonial exploitation could threaten a strategic U.S. military base in the Indian Ocean. Indigenous advocates say it’s about time. Read more |
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Sue Sturgis Who Will Pay to Clean Up Duke Energy's Coal Ash Pits? North Carolina recently ordered the company to excavate the ash at Cliffside and five other power plants in the state and move it into lined landfills. Read more |
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Jackson Koeppel Organizing for Energy Democracy in the Face of Austerity Soulardarity envisions a world in which thriving local communities are powered by clean energy Read more |
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Linda McQuaig Prospect of Nuclear War Highest in Decades, Yet Media Ignores While it’s true that there’s no way to un-invent nuclear weapons, the most dangerous threat they pose could be eliminated Read more |
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Jesse Jackson The Politics Behind Donald Trump’s Empty Threats on Mexico Border It’s increasingly clear Trump wants a crisis that he can use politically, not a solution that can ease human suffering. Read more |
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Andrew Moss Immigration and the Shock Doctrine As the crisis grows, so does the danger and potential for more harm—but also the possibility for positive change. Read more |
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Alexandra Ellerbeck, Avi Asher-Schapiro Why the Prosecution of Julian Assange Is Troubling for Press Freedom His indictment is worrying, say press freedom advocates Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Trump and High Level Intelligence Occasionally we are surprised by Mr. Trump when he makes pronouncements that none of us thought to be within his realm of expertise. But we should not be. Read more |
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Greg Grandin, Noam Chomsky 'It Is Not Enough to Simply Oppose US Military Intervention': A Response to WOLA on Venezuela The Washington Office on Latin America has yet to offer any explanation for why they do not oppose the Trump administration's illegal regime change effort in Venezuela, nor do they recognize the enormous damage that the president and his allies have done and continue to do Read more |
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Joe Emersberger Assange’s ‘Conspiracy’ to Expose War Crimes Has Already Been Punished If the law should have protected Manning, who was at the very heart of the "conspiracy" to expose gruesome crimes, then it obviously should protect Assange Read more |
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Diane Ravitch Florida: The Graveyard of American Public Education Remember that Betsy DeVos points to Florida as a model. Read more |
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Chandra Bozelko Bernie Sanders Wants Incarcerated People to Vote. Here's Why He's Right. Voting is the most basic right in a democracy and denying it to people in prisons has never been universal or required. Read more |
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Krystal Ball The Case for Stacey Abrams Maybe, just maybe, Abrams’s identity as a black woman and Christian, a working-class American and a Southerner, a misfit and an outsider, can birth an alliance of America’s working class Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar In Trump's America, Even Nielsen Wasn't Cruel Enough We cannot allow Trump’s slippery slope into hell to distort our moral compasses Read more |
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Glenn Greenwald, Micah Lee The U.S. Government’s Indictment of Julian Assange Poses Grave Threats to Press Freedom "Journalists around the world should be deeply troubled by these unprecedented criminal charges." Read more |
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Ryan Cooper Why Conservative Attacks on an Out-of-Context Ilhan Omar Quote Are Dangerous What you can't quibble with is that right-wing terrorists are getting the subtext of these conservative messages loud and clear Read more |
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Chris Hedges The Martyrdom of Julian Assange We must, in every way possible, put pressure on the British government to halt the judicial lynching of Assange Read more |
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Susan Abulhawa How the Left Also Dehumanises Palestinians in Gaza By imbuing Gazans with mythical bravery, the left is failing the task of recognising Palestinian humanity Read more |
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Ralph Nader Bully Donald’s Firings: Why Do They Slink Away & Stay Silent? They have serious fears about Trump’s impulsiveness, his indifference to pressing realities, his weaknesses for flatterers and Donald Trump’s dangerous agenda for our country Read more |
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Jonathan Cook After 7 Years of Deceptions About Assange, the US Readies for Its First Media Rendition Where is the fury at the most basic press freedom—the right to publish—being trashed to silence Assange? Read more |
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Dr. Sanjeev K. Sriram Why Does the American Medical Association Have Such a Feeble Response to Our Health Care Crisis? AMA and their corporate friends at PAHCF are determined to protect every single ill-gotten dollar of their profits, even at the expense of patients’ lives Read more |
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Nozomi Hayase Why Julian Assange’s Extradition Must Be Opposed at All Costs This is a prosecution of our democracy that stifles freedom of expression of anyone in the world. Read more |
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Saree Makdisi Benjamin Netanyahu’s Reelection Underlines Israel’s Apartheid Reality The takeaway from Israel’s election is simple: The two-state solution is dead. Read more |
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David Suzuki, Ian Hanington Rapid Warming Deserves More Than a Lukewarm Response You’d think this would elicit a response at least on the scale of a global threat like we saw with the Second World War Read more |
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Khulood Badawi The Israeli Election Put the Bigotry of Its Political Class Front and Center Israel’s two leading parties spent the campaign jostling over who can carry out war crimes against Palestinians more aggressively. Read more |
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Kevin Gosztola Justice Department Charges Julian Assange With Computer Crime But Alleges Conspiracy To Abet Espionage The world will see who stands up for freedom of the press and who stands with President Donald Trump’s administration in their dangerous assertion of U.S. power Read more |
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Bill McKibben Glaciers and Arctic Ice Are Vanishing. Time to Get Radical Before It's Too Late No one should be annoyed when schoolkids start leaving class en masse or surprised that Green New Deal advocates call for dramatic overhaul of American society. We should be grateful. Read more |
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Adam Eichen Anti-Corruption Bill #HR1 Can Fix the US’ Broken Democracy With democracy reform front and center, voters will have confidence in the sincerity of candidates’ promises, fostering more voter engagement and enthusiasm in the election and beyond Read more |
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Laura Kaplan-Weisman Medicare For All Is The Care Every Family Needs I could tell stories for hours about patients I know whose health has worsened because they can’t afford to see physicians like me, fill their prescriptions, or get essential tests Read more |
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Robert Reich Socialism for the Rich, Capitalism for the Rest While the weathly and powerful are coddled with public largesse, the rest of us are thrown into the jaws of an unforgiving economic system Read more |
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Ann Jones The Man Who Saw Trump Coming A Century Ago A reader’s guide for the distraught Read more |
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Robert P. Alvarez Abolish the Electoral College, Empower the People Republicans don't respect Americans enough to let them pick their own president Read more |
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Manar Waheed Congressional Action to End the Bans—Now and Into the Future With the NO Ban Act, Congress has the opportunity to correct a wrong perpetrated by the Trump administration and exacerbated by the Supreme Court Read more |
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Diana Stuart Will You Rise Up for Climate Justice Next Week? Don’t Let Fatalism and Cynicism Hold You Back Extinction Rebellion claims that when just 3.5 % of the population demands change, governments will cave to the pressure Read more |
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Richard Eskow Medicare For All: Accept No Substitutes Intentionally or not, the "frenemies" of Medicare for All are sowing confusion about what that really means Read more |
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Jill Richardson Do Women Get to Be Experts? Any woman professional is familiar with a nagging doubt: Am I being taken seriously? Read more |
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Negin Owliaei It’s Time for $15 and a Union A minimum wage hike would boost earnings for 40 million workers Read more |
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Joseph Stiglitz Trump’s Most Worrisome Legacy As corporate giants capture the institutions that are supposed to protect ordinary citizens, a dystopia once imagined only by science fiction writers is emerging before our eyes Read more |
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Frank Clemente Tax Day 2019 Finds A Tax System Skewed to the Rich and Powerful Congress can begin by repealing the tax cuts for the rich and corporations in the recent GOP tax law. Then it can start closing all the other special loopholes inserted in our tax code over the years by the wealthy and well-connected. Read more |
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César Chelala Edward Said: Remembering a Palestinian Patriot Edward Said was perhaps one of the most profound analysts of the situation of the Palestinians, and one of the most vocal critics of the Israeli government’s policies towards them Read more |
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Jessica Bram Murphy My Father Was Killed on 9/11 When I Was Five, But What I Experienced at Guantánamo Bay Did Not Feel Like Justice On life and the pursuit of death at America's offshore prison where my outrage coexists with a yearning to understand Read more |
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Adam Johnson Bill to End Yemen Siege Passes—No Thanks to MSNBC After Khashoggi outrage passes, cable network goes back to ignoring US-backed humanitarian disaster Read more |
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Adam Eichen Behind the Electoral College Debate, a Flourishing Effort to Advance Democracy Elizabeth Warren, by taking a stand for a democracy solution, sparked a much-needed debate and spread the word about a concrete policy that Americans can immediately act on Read more |