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Cynthia Kaufman Building Democracy to Fight the Nativist Attack: A Review of 'The People vs. Democracy' If we want to protect society from the rise of illiberal democracy, we need to take very seriously what it would mean to make society democratic in ways that give people control over their lives. Read more |
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Fran Korten Rejection of Gerrymandering in Ohio Suggests the US Wants Fairer Elections In both red states and blue states, steps are underway to limit how much districts can be drawn for partisan advantage. Read more |
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John Atcheson Ready, Fire, Aim: Idiocy in Action When something isn't broken, you have to create the illusion of failure so you can "fix" it and so Trump endeavored create one. Read more |
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Juan Cole Kelly's "Family Separation" Recalls Slave Era Practice of Selling Parents Down the River Kelly's doctrine of "deterrence" of undocumented immigration into the U.S. through family separation is undergirded by a special kind of sadism and ignorance combined. Read more |
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Gregory Shupak Media Debate Best Way to Dominate Iran Rarely allowed into the debate is the notion that Iranians have the right to chart their own course free of U.S. interference. Read more |
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Eric Margolis Trump's War Against Iran Many of the same war party crowd that engineered the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq are now running the Trump administration. Their goal is to cripple Iran and leave the Mideast to joint Saudi-Egyptian-Israeli control. Read more |
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Stephen Kinzer The Deal That Puerto Rico Didn't Ask for and Didn't Want Puerto Rico remains devastated, but few in Congress or the White House seem to consider its reconstruction a priority. Read more |
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John Washington ICE Is Terrorizing Immigrants. Now Some Communities Are Putting It On Trial. Though ICE has been a scourge on immigrant communities for years, the past year may have been the agency's most brutal. Read more |
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Joseph Stiglitz How Costa Rica Gets It Right How has a country of under five million people become a world leader in developing holistic policies that promote democratic, sustainable, and inclusive economic growth? The answer lies in its people's belief that focusing on the welfare of all citizens not only enhances wellbeing, but also... Read more |
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Robert Reich Trump's Drug Pricing Scam If Trump were serious about lowering drug prices he'd have to take on the U.S. drug manufacturers. Read more |
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Richard Eskow Primary Day: Lessons for Democrats If they are willing to propose bold electoral reform, as well as new rules that "un-rig" the economy for middle-class voters, they’re more likely to turn opportunity into victory in November. Read more |
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Katherine Krueger WaPo Positions Support for Torturer as Vote for Feminism "It should be the role of the media to draw attention to Haspel—and the CIA at large—for their work perpetuating the country's long, bloody campaigns around the world, rather than cheerleading her as some kind of feminist hero." Read more |
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Brian Terrell Two Interrogations, Gina Haspel and Adolf Eichmann Not to compare the evil of the holocaust with the CIA rendition and torture (as if evil could be measured by quantity), but the evasions and obfuscations of these two willing technicians of state terror are chillingly similar Read more |
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Chuck Collins, Josh Hoxie Restoring Opportunity: Taxing Wealth to Fund College For All in CA New report finds initiative to restore the California state estate tax could make college accessible for millions of students in the state. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Let the Prayer Continue Let sanity — please, oh Lord — prevail, and the re-empowered voices of war and dominance return to shame and silence. Read more |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan How the White House Curbed the U.S. Teacher of the Year "I am here for refugee and immigrant students, for the kids in the gay-straight alliance, and for all the girls." Read more |
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Maureen Clare Murphy Nightmares Rise Among Gaza’s Children The impact of Israel’s terrible violence towards civilian protesters is not only limited to physical harm. Read more |
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Jim Naureckas Who’s Reacting to Iran Deal Pull-Out? Why, It’s Women in Chadors, Walking Past Anti-US Mural We’re once again seeing a raft of news reports illustrated with photos whose essential visual message is that Iran hates freedom. Read more |
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Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet Narrative on Iran Defective at Its Core The Iran nuclear deal was perhaps the best hope for allaying Iran’s territorial fears and convincing a skeptical international community that Iran has no intention of commencing a nuclear arms race despite being subjected to repeated hostilities. Read more |
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Sophia Cope Fourth Circuit Rules That Suspicionless Forensic Searches of Electronic Devices at the Border Are Unconstitutional EFF has long argued that border agents need a warrant from a judge, based on probable cause of criminality, to conduct electronic device searches of any kind. Read more |
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Kristine Mattis The Game Never Named, the Addendum Never Spoken The preservation of capitalism. Read more |
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Rick Wilson If Extreme Inequality Harms Our Whole Society, What is a Conscientious Person to Do? If this keeps up, things don’t look good for the human race. Read more |
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Ben Freeman , William Hartung Arms and Influence: How the Saudis Took Donald Trump for a Ride The Saudi royals, who clearly grasp the nature of The Donald, have offered him the one thing he seems to love most: flattery, flattery, and more flattery Read more |
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Stephen Zunes Trump’s Dangerous Abrogation of the Iran Deal The “threat” from Iran is that it is a regional power that has dared to challenge the United States’ hegemonic ambitions in the greater Middle East. Read more |
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Juan Cole Costa Rica’s New President Promises 100% Green Energy, Aims to Be 1st Such Nation “We must impel decisive and coordinated action by all sectors of society to initiate and speed up this process permanently." Read more |
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Eli Clifton Follow the Money: Three Billionaires Paved Way for Trump’s Iran Deal Withdrawal Trump and the GOP are deeply indebted to anti-Iran deal billionaires who aren’t afraid to advocate for policies that push the country closer to another war in the Middle East. Read more |
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Jeff Bryant Charter Schools Threaten the Existence of Public Education Privately-run, mostly taxpayer-funded schools financially harm public education. Read more |
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Trita Parsi Who Ordered Black Cube’s Dirty Tricks? If a foreign private intelligence agency was hired to help change a vital aspect of US foreign policy, with global consequences, it is a matter of urgent public interest to discover who ordered the operation. Read more |
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Norman Solomon New Polls Show Anti-Trump Isn’t Enough to Beat GOP Recent survey data bolsters concerns that Democrats' feeble partisan maneuvers are ill-suited to ousting the Republicans from power Read more |
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Adam Johnson CNN’s Iran Fearmongering Would Make More Sense Coming Directly From Pentagon Barbara Starr has a long, storied career of acting—in effect if not in name—as a Department of Defense spokesperson Read more |
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William Hartung Make No Mistake: Trump Is Paving the Way For War with Iran The decision to violate and withdraw from the Iran anti-nuclear deal is one of the most dangerous foreign policy blunders in recent memory. Read more |
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John Feffer The Banality of Haspel It would be hard to find someone with more experience to run the CIA. And that’s why she’s a terrible choice. Read more |
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Tim Karr Red Alert for Net Neutrality: What You Need to Know Now is the time! Get your lawmakers to speak up for real Net Neutrality — and to stand on the right side of history Read more |
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César Chelala Trump’s Decision on Iran Deal Spells Disaster for the Middle East While Iran has not invaded another country in centuries, both the U.S. and Israel, Iran’s enemies, have led brutal wars against other countries and peoples. Read more |
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Frances Moore Lappé Hope Hides in the Cracks of Our Faltering Democracy All is not well, but that does not mean that all is lost Read more |
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Lena Moffitt Raising the Flag on Ryan Zinke’s Corruption The man charged with protecting our public lands is handing them over to fossil fuel companies. Read more |
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Trita Parsi, Ryan Costello Trump Vindicates Iranian Hardliners And Victimizes Ordinary Citizens Iranian people are once again those who will suffer most. Read more |
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Hannah McKinnon When You Are In a Hole… Tackling fossil fuel production at the UN. Read more |
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Madeline Buxton Why You'll See Red Alerts Across The Web This Week Net neutrality rules have existed since 2015 to ensure that all online content loads at the same speed and has an equal chance of being seen. Read more |
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Sondra Crosby, Brock Chisholm We Have Evaluated Torture Survivors. Gina Haspel Cannot Head the CIA. Confirming Haspel would be unconscionable. Read more |
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Narges Bajoghli Iran Will Never Trust America Again "We were naive to think the Americans would stick to their promises in this deal, but are the American people and the rest of the world really that naive to fall for the same lies again?” Read more |
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Trita Parsi Trump’s Reckless Decision Puts US on Path to War with Iran Trump has taken a functioning arms control deal that prevented an Iranian nuclear bomb and turned it into a crisis that can lead to war Read more |
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Belén Fernández A Nicaraguan Spring or Imperial Spring Cleaning? Nicaragua in its current state is hardly a revolutionary paradise - but US involvement is not the answer. Read more |
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Karen Greenberg The Hearings for Trump’s CIA Pick Should Prompt a Reckoning With Torture Her nomination is a slap in the face to those who embrace the rule of law. Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt The Caliphate of Trump And a planet in ruins. Read more |
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Shireen Al-Adeimi What the Deployment of Green Berets to the Saudi-Yemen Border Tells Us About America’s Dirty War The U.S. tries to distance itself from Saudi war crimes in Yemen—but it’s always been America’s war too. Read more |
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Antonio Roman-Alcalá Agroecology is Becoming A Global Movement. But Where Does the U.S. Fit In? If there’s one thing the American food movement could learn from the global movement for agroecology, it’s that movements move government policy, not the other way around. Read more |
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Bill Blum History Lesson for Democrats: Think Winning Elections, Not Impeaching Trump Given the two-thirds rule and the paucity of presidential impeachments, it’s difficult to discern a reliable impeachment template for the Democrats to follow that would conclude with Trump’s conviction and removal. Read more |
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Ryan Cooper The Dishonest Case Against the Iran Deal The Iran deal is working perfectly well. Read more |
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Steven Singer Facebook is Censoring Your Favorite Bloggers Facebook has employed a new algorithm to determine exactly what you’re allowed to see on your news feed. Read more |
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Adam Johnson What Do US Pundits Know About North Korea That 88% of South Koreans Don’t? When 88 percent of the subject of a news story think something is good, and 95 percent of US media say that thing is bad, one should ask why that is. Read more |
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Danny O'Brien Why Am I Getting All These Terms of Service Update Emails? Most companies that have users in Europe are scrambling to update their privacy policies and terms of service to avoid breaking this new EU law. Read more |
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Leslie Cooper Children in Oklahoma and Kansas Need Love and Stability — Not Discrimination Against Good Families These bills are part of a broader effort by opponents of LGBT equality to use religious freedom arguments to establish a license to discriminate against LGBT people. Read more |
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Laura Flanders What If Ida B. Wells Depended on Facebook? We need a tax-dollars-funded, just-for-journalism's-sake, public commitment to public media. Read more |
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Robert Freeman Michelle Wolf Didn’t Even Get Started As members of a mass society, we can only know what we are told by its mass media. And they have methodically, systematically bred a nation of confused, timid, neutered sheep. Read more |
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Jesse Hagopian Teachers and Parents of Puerto Rico Launch Historic Strike & Boycott Against Standardized Testing Spread the word: “We want a just, equitable world for our children.” Read more |
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Michael Winship Rudy G and Bubble Boy Trump: Call It Implausible Deniability Personally, I wouldn’t let Rudolph Giuliani represent me in traffic court. Read more |
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Richard Eskow Mnuchin Flips Tax-Scam Grift, Hopes Nobody Notices When the final taxonomy of these Trump Era swamp creatures is conducted, a special category will be reserved for Mnuchin. Read more |
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Robert Reich The Monopolization of America The biggest economic problem you’re hearing almost nothing about. Read more |
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Robert Scheer Trump's Shameful Choice of 'Bloody Gina' Her nomination defines Trump as a fatally callous leader totally contemptuous of basic human rights and the rule of law. Read more |
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Dr. Katherine McKenzie We Should Oppose Gina Haspel's CIA Nomination Because of Her Torture Record "Torture can break or damage the will and coherence of entire communities.” Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Missouri and the Death Penalty Consider the case of Bucklew v. Precythe Read more |
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Steven Singer Grades and Test Scores Don’t Matter. A Love of Learning Does. American education policy analysts would do well to take a cue from countries like Finland Read more |
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Renee Parsons Florida’s Senate Race: Does It Matter? The Nelson-Scott match up is...little more substantive than peas in a pod or birds of a feather who will flock together Read more |
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Pat LaMarche Westworld: A Show That Reveals Killing Is as American as Apple Pie There are many who understand the fear the actors on Westworld are trying to convey. Read more |
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Eric Margolis Nuclear Chutzpah This week's award goes to... Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Read more |
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Latin American experts US Academics and Civic Leaders Call on Congress to Ensure Neutrality and Support for Democratic Norms in Mexican Elections An open letter to members of Congress Read more |
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Hilary Wainwright The Spirit of 1968 Is Inextinguishable —Even 50 Years Later This rebellious era shaped radical activists – and aggressive capitalists. What can we learn from 1968, for democratic change today? Read more |
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Nijmie Dzurinko Fighting Back in the War on the Poor In many ways, things are harder now than they were 50 years ago. Read more |
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Ernesto Falcon The Big Lie ISPs Are Spreading in State Legislatures is That They Don’t Make Enough Money Ultimately, it’s not network neutrality that prevents the large ISPs from upgrading their networks while lowering prices. It is a lack of incentive. Read more |
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John Atcheson Pundits and Pols Still Don't Get It: Trump Didn't Win in 2016, Democrats Lost The real lessons from 2016, have nothing to do with understanding the Trump voters Read more |
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Glenn Greenwald Six Animal Rights Activists Charged With Felonies for Investigation and Rescue That Led to Punishment of a Utah Turkey Farm “In my 20 years of investigating animal abuse, I’ve never seen conditions this horrifying at a corporate farm.” Read more |
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Elizabeth Enochs Steve King Wants to Force States to Hurt Animals—and People King’s amendment, if passed, wouldn’t just affect animal protection laws; it could also preempt countless laws meant to protect consumers. Read more |
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Norman Eisen, Noah Bookbinder We Filed a Complaint About Trump’s Ethics. Giuliani Made it Possible. Lawyers are supposed to help their clients, not put them in jeopardy. Read more |
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David Suzuki Cutting Through Polluted Public Discourse People aren’t terribly good at averting the biggest crisis humanity faces, but we’re masters at concocting excuses to do as little as possible about it. Read more |
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Jim Naureckas How Did Benghazi Become a Ruin? NYT Ignores US Role—in Multiple Media Seven years ago, the United States and its allies used military force to overthrow Libya’s government and its been in almost continual civil war since. Read more |
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Christopher Anders Senators Have a New Plan to Expand Indefinite Detention and Endless Global War Corker and Kaine are working overtime to try to jam through their AUMF— a dumpster fire of bad ideas Read more |
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Basav Sen Impeach Scott Pruitt for Dismantling the EPA, Not His First-Class Flights This is the real Scott Pruitt scandal—the story of a man systematically dismantling the agency he leads to benefit the oil and gas industry Read more |
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Ralph Nader Wake Up to Trump, Distraction and War with Iran Netanyahu knows the U.S. government and the mass media will embrace his expanding push for U.S. militarism in the Middle East. Read more |
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Annie Game It's World Press Freedom Day. What's Wrong With This Picture? We need to support a free and independent media; efforts to undermine them are on the rise, and we need to hear a diversity of voices and opinions more than ever. Our 2018 campaign images underscore the fact that one side of the story is never enough. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Peace and the Nuclear Paradox “The most powerful weapons ever devised serve no other purpose but to prevent their use by others." Read more |
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Jeff Bryant The Right Lashes Out at Uprising Teachers Rightwing politicians and their operatives have already begun to craft ways to strike back against teachers. Read more |
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Danny Sjursen Hail, (Donald) Caesar!: War and the Imperial Presidency Congress offers a bipartisan blank check to Donald Trump. Read more |
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Charles P. Pierce Marco Rubio's Spine Remained Intact for a Grand Total of Two Days Before he walked back his Republican tax bill criticism—then walked back his walkback. Read more |
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John Feffer Two-Faced Trump: Peace in Korea, World War in the Middle East Trump believes he can simultaneously capture a Nobel Peace Prize for North Korea while leaping toward war with Iran. Read more |
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Juan Cole If Giuliani’s Right Trump Lied About Porn Star Hush Money, Why Believe him on Iran? The Washington Post estimates that Trump is up to 6 falsehoods a day. Read more |
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Steven Parfitt The US Teachers Strike in Historical Perspective Unions continue to fund the Democratic Party, but their investment has seen few legislative gains. Read more |
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Nancy Altman Social Security’s Customer Service Budget Finally Got An Increase – But It’s Only a Starting Point All supporters of Social Security should attend upcoming events in their districts and ask all candidates for federal office a simple question: "Will you vote to expand Social Security or cut it?" Read more |
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John Buell Who Is the Real Nuclear Threat? There is a range of acceptable debate inside the beltway, such as whether Iran is clandestinely building nuclear missiles. But too many dare not ask if a close ally has been doing the same for a generation. Read more |
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Olivia Alperstein How Elites Scam Americans Out of Housing The same guy who spent $31,000 of taxpayer money on office furniture wants to triple the rent America's poorest people pay. Read more |
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Jill Richardson Want to Attract Women? Try Not Hating Us. The Toronto attack sheds light on a hateful and disgusting view of women. Read more |
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Norman Solomon The Ghosts of 'New Democrats' Are Haunting Us “Certainly there are some people in the Democratic Party who want to maintain the status quo. They would rather go down with the Titanic so long as they have first-class seats.” Read more |
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Wendi C. Thomas What Ben Carson Doesn’t Get About Poverty The cure is a sizable increase in the federal minimum wage, which remains at $7.25 an hour. Read more |
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Kate Aronoff Yes, a Jobs Guarantee Could Create “Boondoggles.” It also Might Save the Planet There are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of shovel-ready jobs around the country that can help mitigate climate change and prepare for the levels of warming already locked in. Read more |
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Jim Hightower Patience and Secrecy in the Kochs' Complex Conspiracy It's a quiet, multifaceted coup that has been underway for some 40 years and has been astonishingly successful ... and disturbingly legal. Read more |
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Adrienne LaFrance Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Understand Journalism Either that, or he doesn’t care. Read more |
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Melissa Boteach, Rachel West Lawmakers’ Personal Tax Cuts Could Provide 10 Million Meals for Families in Need Instead of listening to American voters, these lawmakers are not only pocketing their six- and seven-figure tax gains, they’re turning around and slashing billions of dollars from families’ nutrition benefits over the next decade. Read more |
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Misha Hill Trump Administration’s Spending Priorities Echo Tax Cut Priorities: Punish the Poor and Lavish the Rich An economy rigged to reward wealth above anything else. Read more |
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Jeff Biggers May Day: Arizona Teachers Have Resistance History on Their Side Today's teachers are calling out the same issues of unfair wages and tax giveaways to corporations that gave rise to Arizona statehood a century ago Read more |
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Ben Armbruster White House Joins Netanyahu In Making Case for Iran Deal All Netanyahu and the White House did yesterday was underscore how vital the Iran deal is. Read more |