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Norman Solomon Solidarity Includes Wearing a Mask at Protests The life you save may not be your own. Those who wear a mask at protests are making clear that they're willing to undergo some discomfort to protect people they don't even know. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler The Knee for Change In a country founded on racism, real change must be deeply structural. Read more |
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Mike Lofgren Beware Donald Trump's Electoral Cleansing Is U.S. President actually using a calculated strategy that COVID-19 is not an equal-opportunity killer? Read more |
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Sister Karen M. Donahue I’m Outraged By Trump’s Church Photo-Op As a Catholic sister, I think Trump should read his Bible, not pose with it. Read more |
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Julie Hollar Proposals to Ease Covid’s Blow on the Hardest Hit All But Ignored by Corporate Media By sidelining those voices, media sideline real solutions to the inequality they feign to care about. Read more |
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Jim Hightower The Militarization of 'Officer Friendly' Militarization is a dangerous and ultimately deadly perversion of the honorable purpose of policing—and it is out of control. Read more |
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Brian Hauss The US Is Facing a Full-Scale Assault on the Press As police continue to attack reporters covering protests nationwide, this is why the ACLU is filing this class-action lawsuit today. Read more |
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Tracey L. Rogers In Trump's America, Gun-Toting Anti-Quarantine Activists Called "Very Good People," But Unarmed Protesters Denouncing Police Brutality Are "Thugs" What the president and others don't realize is that we're not just protesting the death of George Floyd (or Breonna Taylor, or Ahmaud Arbery, or Eric Garner, or Alton Sterling, or Philando Castile). We are also protesting the racist culture embedded in police precincts throughout the nation—and the... Read more |
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Elise Gould Public Education Job Losses in April Are Already Greater Than in All of the Great Recession Not only are these job losses devastating to those no longer getting a paycheck, but they negatively impact the education students receive. Read more |
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Juan Cole From Fallujah to Minneapolis: Trump Brings the US Military 'Battlespace' Home A significant part of the American elite was shaped by Bush’s wars to think about dissidence as the equivalent of insurgency and to see challenges to the status quo as illegitimate. Read more |
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Robert Reich Donald Trump Is No Longer President The sooner we stop treating him as if he were, the better. Read more |
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Randall Amster We Interrupt This Pandemic... With Demands for Justice and Healing The call to "reopen" society isn't just about stores and bars; it's about reopening ourselves to the reality of a system that is built on racism, violence, and injustice. Read more |
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Chris Hedges The Treason of the Ruling Class They have destroyed our capitalist democracy and replaced it with a mafia state. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson "I Can't Breathe": The Murder of George Floyd Was a Lynching in Broad Daylight The signs say Black Lives Matter. Yet the very people who are supposed to protect us too often, in too many places, don’t seem to agree. Read more |
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Thomas Hanna The Oligopoly That Controls Our Digital Infrastructure Has Deepened Economic and Racial Divides As we rebuild, let's remove control of wireless spectrum, cloud infrastructure, and broadband internet from corporate hands and put it under public, democratic control. Read more |
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Rebecca Gordon How the Credibility Gap Became a Chasm in the Age of Trump ...and a new generation gap grew wider. Read more |
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Will Bunch Donald Trump Needs to Go. And No, We Can’t Wait Until November The president of the United States declared war on America on Monday night. Read more |
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Michael Winship No Justice, No Peace, No Leader at the Top At a time for healing, Donald Trump pokes at the wound. Read more |
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Shailly Gupta Barnes Even Now, Our Leaders Are Still Putting Their Faith in the Rich It has become crystal clear during this pandemic that working people fuel this economy, but they’re the ones bearing the cost. Read more |
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Andy Piascik Save the US Postal Service Before It’s Too Late A publicly-funded, national postal service is one of our country’s great achievements. Read more |
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Isiah Holmes Days of Rage in Milwaukee City rocked by weekend of protests and clashes. Read more |
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Thom Hartmann Yes, the Looting Must Stop African Americans and Hispanics have been looted of trillions in reduced pay by racist employers and giant corporations, while their safety, lives and peace of mind have been looted by racist police. Read more |
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Caitlin Cawley Americans Have Long Ignored Iraqis—Now Is the Perfect Time to Connect With Their Stories The coronavirus pandemic has made brilliant Iraqi occupation literature relatable for the first time to a wider American public living in quarantine. Read more |
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Kathy Kelly Our Disaster: Why the United States Bears Responsibility for Yemen’s Humanitarian Crisis The policies of the United States are deeply implicated in Yemen’s suffering, including the sale of billions of dollars in munitions to Saudi Arabia and other countries that have intervened in the civil war. Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt Donald Trump May Not Be Herbert Hoover A graduation speech for an age of collapse. Read more |
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Emily Peterson-Cassin Why Trump's Social Media Executive Order Is Troubling, Bizarre, and Dangerous Here’s the social media accountability we actually need. Read more |
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Danielle K. Kilgo Riot or Resistance? How Media Frames Unrest in Minneapolis Will Shape Public’s View of Protest Too often journalists contribute to a troubling hierarchy by adhering to industry norms that work against protest movements that aggressively challenge the status quo. Read more |
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Anna Jacobs A Warning to Joe Biden: Trump Is Winning the Covid-19 Spin Game The Republican president is finding a way to turn the coronavirus into something that will rally his base. Can the Democrat say the same? Read more |
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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II May the Screams and Tears and Protests Shake the Very Conscience of This Nation If we want to reach a better place on the other side of this, we must refuse to be comforted too quickly. Read more |
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Robert Shetterly The Murder of George Floyd: The Longest Running Play in America To strangle George Floyd with his hands, officer Derek Chauvin would have had to look him in the face... The knee was a brutal coward's knee. Read more |
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Zenobia Jeffries Warfield Another Uprising Was Inevitable This epidemic of racism is more prevalent, more real, more tangible than even a virus that is taking lives seemingly overnight. When do Black people get to rest, to be safe, to breathe? Read more |
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Jim Naureckas Newsweek Fails to Note That White House Reopening Guidelines Make Absolutely No Sense It's critically important that media provide accurate reporting on what our governments are choosing to do, and what price we are likely to pay for their choices. Read more |
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Kathy Kelly The Glory and Duty of Beating Swords to Plowshares "The question isn't: did the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 have a lawful excuse to do what they did. The question is, what's our excuse not to do more? What will rise us?" Read more |
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Erwin Chemerinsky Trump's Authoritarian Executive Order Is an Assault on Free Speech—Not a Defense of It It may be tempting to shrug off the president's spat with a social media platform, but we ignore such chilling conduct at our peril. Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati America Bravely Marches Towards 'Failed State' Status Societies that tolerate deep divides in income and wealth, new research suggests, invite pandemic disasters. And while President Donald Trump makes an obvious and deserving target, the real failures of our ruling order predate his troubled and reckless administration. Read more |
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Jeneé Osterheldt It’s Bigger Than Buildings. America Is Burning We didn’t start the fire. America was founded by firestarters. The thieves of land who also stole people and raped and killed and brutalized their way into power. This country was built on the backs of Black folk it didn’t perceive as human and even today it tries to pillage our souls. Read more |
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Dan Froomkin Reminder to the Press: Trump's Deadly Covid-19 Failures Are Still Happening It’s almost as if the D.C. media has forgotten what Trump and the federal government urgently need to do—and could be doing—to save people’s lives. Read more |
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Ari Paul Coverage of School Reopening Needs to Include School Workers The eagerness to reopen schools is understandable, but given the intensity of this crisis, the decision must come after a comprehensive review of all factors, which includes the voices of the workers who will be taking on the most risk. Read more |
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Manuel Pérez Rocha Corporate Lawsuits Could Devastate Poor Countries Grappling With COVID-19 Wealthy corporations may use trade courts to keep public health measures from cutting into their profits. Read more |
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Kevin Funk The Class Politics of Coronavirus Responses in the Americas Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is rapidly losing public support, while Donald Trump remains entirely capable of triumphing in November despite his relative unpopularity. Read more |
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Juan Cole Saying Quiet Part Very Loud, Netanyahu Calls Palestinians Future "Subjects" as Annexation Looms You can’t keep 5 million people stateless forever, that this is monstrous. But apparently, you can do so for many decades, maybe a century or more. Read more |
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Josh Balk The Case for a New Technology to Help Slaughterhouse Workers While the meat industry is receiving its massive $16 billion federal COVID-19 bailout, the USDA and Congress should also enact policies and allocate funds that would phase out archaic electrical slaughter methods in favor of CAS. Read more |
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Ralph Nader S. David Freeman: Seven Decades of Participating in Power for All of Us Freeman mocked the foolish embrace of fossil fuels and warned all who would listen about the deadly impact of coal, oil, and natural gas consumption on our environment. Read more |
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Benjamin Dangl Bibles at the Barricades: How the Right Seized Power in Bolivia Following Áñez’s seizure of power, Bolivia has endured the worst state violence and political persecution it has seen in decades. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies Who Are the Secret Puppet-Masters Behind Trump’s War on Iran? As with George W. Bush's false WMD claims about Iraq in 2003, Trump's real goal is not nuclear non-proliferation but regime change. Read more |
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Nathan Freed Wessler We’re Taking Clearview AI to Court to End its Privacy-Destroying Face Surveillance Activities The company’s surveillance activities are a threat to privacy, safety, and security. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Amy Klobuchar, Minneapolis Police and Her VP Quest When Amy Klobuchar was running for president, corporate media served as her biggest political base. Read more |
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Yanis Varoufakis A Chronicle of a Lost Decade Foretold Many on the left still cling to the hope that the COVID-19 crisis will translate into the use of state power on behalf of the powerless. But those in authority have never hesitated to harness government intervention to the preservation of oligarchy, and a pandemic alone won't change that. Read more |
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Nomi Prins Here Comes the Great Coronavirus Depression Crashes, then and now. Read more |
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John Feffer Is It Time to Boycott the United States? The G7 kicked Russia out over its invasion of Crimea. Does the U.S. assault on international laws, treaties, and democracy itself warrant the same treatment? Read more |
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Raúl Carrillo We Need a Public Option for Banking As families struggle to get stimulus checks, it's time to fix the rusty pipes of our inequitable financial system. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Policing and the Sanctity of Life Compassionate policing exists right now and simply needs to expand beyond the reach of militarism and racism, which invade policework like a virus. Read more |
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Juan Cole Top 6 Reasons Authorities Are Cracking Down Hard on Black Protesters While Treating White Supremacist Reopeners With Kid Gloves The establishment, of systematic racism, in everything from school resegregation to residential segregation to employment discrimination, needs to be addressed through a second generation of civil rights legislation. Read more |
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Jamie Henn Big Oil Is Pretending It Doesn’t Want a Bailout. That's Bullshit. Despite fossil fuel industry efforts to spin a fairytale about oil companies tightening their belts and lifting themselves up by their bootstraps, corporate socialism is exactly what these climate villains want. Read more |
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Julia Kaye The FDA Is Making Needless COVID-19 Risks a Condition of Abortion and Miscarriage Care. We’re Suing. Against a nationwide medical consensus, the FDA is forcing patients to endure life-threatening risks to access medication to end an early pregnancy or treat a miscarriage. Read more |
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Russell Weaver Can the COVID War Become a Fight for Health Care Democracy? Americans must make it known that we can’t fight a war and then simply go on to live flourishing lives without a basic guarantee to quality medical care. Read more |
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Anthony Zenkus Joe Biden, Rape Culture, and Living in the Dark It's hard when someone you like, someone you think is a good man or woman, is accused of rape. Our first instinct is to not believe it. That's normal. But that cannot be the end. Read more |
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Bronwen Tucker , Kate DeAngelis Why $77 Billion a Year in Public Finance for Oil, Gas, and Coal Is Even Worse Than It Sounds Right after the mostly-rich and powerful G2O countries signed the Paris Agreement with the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5ºC, they went home and continued with the business-as-usual public finance policies that directly undermined this goal. Read more |
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Celine McNicholas, Margaret Poydock Republicans and Corporate Interests Exploit Coronavirus Crisis to Erase Companies' Liability Any effort to immunize corporations from responsibility to ensure workers a safe workplace will only lead to fewer protections for working people. Read more |
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Pauline Muchina, Kennedy Akolo Leaders Must Act to Protect Refugees and Internally Displaced People in Africa The window of opportunity for containment is shutting fast. We must work together quickly to stop the spread of Covid-19 among the continent's most vulnerable populations. Read more |
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Michael Winship COVID-19 and the Unmasking of Donald Trump The pandemic proves once and for all that this president is the enemy of the people. Read more |
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Thom Hartmann There's Only One Reason Trump and the GOP Don't Want Mail-in Voting Vote-by-mail makes voting easier. And when voting is easier, Republicans have a much harder time suppressing the vote. Read more |
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Michael Flynn, Katie Welsford COVID-19 Reveals the Inherent Vindictiveness of Migration Detention The COVID-19 pandemic is exposing the glaring injustices of the immigration detention system. Read more |
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Janis Petzel Let’s Pay Attention to What COVID-19 Is Trying to Tell Us About Climate Change It’s pointing us to a healthier and more resilient world if we chose to listen. We have no time to lose. Read more |
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Shahid Buttar A Whistleblowing Visionary Offers a Ticket to Our Future—If We Take It Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has a reputation for legislative mastery. She frequently uses it on behalf of corporate interests, however, not the invisible workers making less than minimum wage. Read more |
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Deborah Toler Is Stacey Abrams Progressive? The Georgia Democrat, while clearly forward-thinking on voting rights and other key issues, has repeatedly thrown her lot in with the corporate wing of the party. Read more |
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John Buell Is Mitch McConnell Blocking State Aid to Enrich Vulture Funds and Bolster Corporate Control of the Economy? Without further assistance from the Federal government, all states will be obliged to make draconian cuts in their budgets. Read more |
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Danny Sjursen The Coming of a Social-Distancing Version of War The future of forever war, American-style. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson Americans Have United Before to Defeat an External Enemy and We Can Again This is a time when leaders must emerge, move beyond their comfort zone, and offer bold responses to a stark crisis. This is not a moment for posturing. Read more |
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Richard Falk Arms Control & Disarmament: A Failed Marriage As with the climate crisis, the linkages between contagious disease and nuclear weapons are too evident to ignore. Read more |
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Andrew Bacevich US Public Remain the Tacit Accomplice in America's Dead End Wars Honor the fallen, but not every war they were sent to fight Read more |
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Kenneth Peres Murderer in Chief (Part Two): Trump's Gutting of Environmental Rules Will Lead to Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths The Trump administration—not state governors, not Congress, and not past presidents—is directly responsible for the hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths heading our way. Read more |
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Michelle Chen A Spontaneous Rebellion of Low-Wage Workers Is Rising Up Amid Pandemic Workers are fighting for their lives—even as they save ours. Read more |
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Matthew Rothschild Remembering Slain Peace and Justice Activists on This—and Every—Memorial Day Let us remember those who died fighting for human rights and a better world. Read more |
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Richard Eskow Let's Honor Fallen Workers on Memorial Day, Too Covid-19 has shown us how many different kinds of workers are needed to keep us safe, housed, and fed. Many of them face danger every day, just as soldiers do. Read more |
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Mirna Wabi-Sabi A History of News and Justice in the Americas Why hasn’t Social Media been more effective in bringing forth Social Justice? Some would argue that it has, by connecting people, trending the resistance against racism, and being useful in court —... Read more |
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Meena Miriam Yust, Arshad M. Khan Sea-Level Rise Could Sink the US Southeast: How to Fight It as Individuals The latest news on rising sea levels can be described as another example of human folly. The Anthropocene has seen plant extinctions, animal extinctions, both at an unforeseen pace, and now there is... Read more |
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Laura Flanders A Memorial Day For Lies? So which will it be? Will this disaster spark a shift for the better? Or will the deadly myths white Americans tell ourselves survive Covid-19? Memorial Day messaging bodes ill. I want to believe... Read more |
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Anthony Pahnke, Jim Goodman Make a Resilient, Localized Food System Part of the Next Stimulus From wasted food to the exploitation of farmworkers, the COVID-19 pandemic has made it painfully clear that this country’s food system must be changed. Politicians must pass further stimulus... Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli The Pandemic and the Trumps That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in, and the best of me is diligence. —Shakespeare, King Lear They were revelations. And they were revealed in the space of three days. And both... Read more |
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Judy Rohrer COVID-19 Reveals Viral Discrimination, Higher Ed Should Pay Attention People are still saying “the virus doesn’t discriminate.” We know that’s just not true. We are not equally “all in this together.” The virus is hitting vulnerable populations the hardest—our elderly... Read more |
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Tom Gallagher What the Class of ‘70's Old New Left Might Have Talked About at Their Canceled Reunions There’ll be no fiftieth reunions for the class of ‘70, it seems. Abruptly thrust out into the world in the uproar following the National Guard’s killing of four students at a Kent State University... Read more |
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Ralph Nader Donald Trump, Resign Now for America’s Sake: This is No Time for a Dangerous, Law-breaking, Bungling, Ignorant Ship Captain Where are the calls for Trump’s resignation? Since his first months in the White House, Trump has been the most impeachable, most lawless, most self-enriching, most bungling President in U.S. history... Read more |
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Kelly Trout 5 Reasons We Must Act Now to End Oil and Gas Production The world needs a recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic that dispatches with the old subservience to the fossil fuel industry and instead puts health first, provides relief directly to people, centers workers and communities not corporate executives, builds solidarity across borders, and—crucially—... Read more |
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Luciana Tellez-Chavez This Year’s Forest Fire Season Could Be Even Deadlier Countries are using the coronavirus crisis to lift environmental regulations, even as COVID-19 leaves populations more vulnerable to health impacts from fires. Read more |
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Robert P. Alvarez A Simple Solution for the Coronavirus Crisis in Prisons Releasing low-risk inmates would ease the risk that sky-high prison infection rates pose to all of us. Read more |
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Katitza Rodriguez, Svea Windwehr International Proposals for Warrantless Location Surveillance To Fight COVID-19 Location surveillance comes with a host of risks to citizens’ privacy, freedom of expression and data protection rights. Read more |
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Robert Reich A Tale of Two Pandemics We are all weathering the same storm, but we are not all in the same boat. Read more |
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Jules Boykoff Why We Should Commandeer Hotels to House the Homeless Homelessness is a humanitarian crisis in plain sight and a bleak indictment of capitalism. Now the capitalists have a chance—a duty, really—to step up in the clutch. Read more |
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Amber Colón Núñez Covid-19 Profiteers Are Making a Killing Here are some of the most outrageous capitalist responses to the pandemic. Read more |
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Mitchell Plitnick Key Biden Adviser Offers Little Hope for Palestinians Being better than Trump is a very low bar, and hearing Blinken’s words made it clearer than ever that advocates for Palestinian rights will need to mobilize as never before under a Joe Biden administration. Read more |
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Julianne Tveten Trump’s Pick Could Move VOA Further Right—But It’s Never Been an Independent Outlet For decades VOA has enjoyed the best of both worlds for a Western media organization: operating at the government’s behest while masquerading as an exemplar of the free press. Read more |
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Norman Solomon In a Class War—Like It or Not—the System Always Makes a Killing While negative coverage of Donald Trump has been common due to his handling of the pandemic, media outrage has been muted in relation to the magnitude of the dying in our midst. Read more |
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Robert Shetterly Thomas Jefferson: One Man, Two Legacies It’s painful to speculate how different our history might have been, the altered quotient of human suffering in this country, and the world, if Jefferson, Washington and Madison had freed their slaves. Read more |
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Astrid Caldas Dangerous Hurricane Season To Open Amidst COVID-19 Emergency response officials need to develop COVID-19-safe evacuation plans, with safe locations and enforced social distancing, taking into consideration those most vulnerable socially and economically. Read more |
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Stan Karp Getting a Covid-19 Education: From Race to the Top to a Plunge to the Bottom The pandemic and federal education policy. Read more |
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Bob Dreyfuss The Wuhan Hoax Covid-19 and Trump’s war on the U.S. intelligence community. Read more |
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Mark Harris Pandemic Capitalism’s Cruel Absurdity The global pandemic has brought a new urgency to the need for political alternatives to status quo politics, a need for socialist politics, and organization and a vision of a future beyond capitalism. Read more |
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Heidi Shierholz Congress Must Do Much, Much, Much More to Help Tens of Millions Unemployed Nearly one in four workers has applied for unemployment benefits. Read more |
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Sandra Lubarsky Now Is the Time to Practice Beauty Beauty is intimately and evolutionarily connected to the urge to live. It is the value associated most keenly with experiences that affirm our vitality in relation to the vitality of other beings. Read more |