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Hassan El-Tayyab Khashoggi Disappearance Is an Opening for Referendum on U.S.-Saudi Alliance With no leadership coming from the White House, the onus falls on Congress to impose swift and concrete consequences on the Saudis Read more |
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Pete Vernon If the President Writes It, Should USA Today Publish? On Wednesday, USA Today handed over a section of its opinion pages to the president, allowing him to publish a piece “In which almost every sentence contained a misleading statement or a falsehood.” Read more |
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Diana Stuart, Ryan Gunderson Stop Misdiagnosing Climate Change So what's the real source of our planetary self-destruction? It's growth-dependent capitalism. Read more |
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John Atcheson Justifiable Anger Fuels Trump's Hold on Power and Democrats Still Don't Seem to Get It People are either angry or cynical and they’ve a right to be. The angry show up to vote and they vote for nihilists and cranks, and many of the cynical, believing that voting doesn’t matter, stay home. Read more |
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Jeremy Lent We Need an Ecological Civilization Before It’s Too Late In the face of climate breakdown and ecological overshoot, alluring promises of “green growth” are no more than magical thinking. We need to restructure the fundamentals of our global cultural/economic system to cultivate an “ecological civilization”: one that prioritizes the health of living... Read more |
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Laura Flanders A Progressive Organic Farmer's Fighting Chance in Virginia Having more real, rural progressives in Congress could fundamentally take the country back, but not if Democrats don’t start taking a chance on real change-makers like Flaccavento Read more |
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Steven Rosenfeld With Such High Stakes This November, Here’s How to Make Sure Your Vote Is Properly Counted And what to do if something goes wrong on Election Day Read more |
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Nancy Altman Seniors Are Getting Slowly Strangled by Social Security’s Flawed Math—Here’s How to Fix It 2019 Social Security benefits will rise, but checks may not Read more |
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Justin Anderson WaPo Picks a Side in Maryland Race—the Side That’s Offering Billions to Amazon Looming over the Post’s coverage of the governor’s race is Hogan’s ingratiating support for Amazon, the e-commerce giant owned by the world’s richest person, Jeff Bezos, who also happens to own the Washington Post Read more |
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Bill Moyers The Bold Bravery of 'Beautiful Country Burn Again' On the most bracing book about politics that I have read this year and a discussion with its author Read more |
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Henry Giroux Trump, Kavanaugh and the Path to Neoliberal Fascism We need an impassioned international social movement with a vision, organization and set of strategies to challenge the neoliberal nightmare engulfing the planet Read more |
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John Buell After Mitch McConnell’s Coup: Democratizing the Court, Democratizing America The Court can inflict its damage only if the many of us who will be injured by its actions fail to collaborate and organize against its destructive pursuits Read more |
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Jeff Biggers We Need Cities of Resistance: Climate Adaptation Is No Longer an Option The old adage that a crisis is never a crisis until it is validated by disaster has become a reality for seventy percent of our cities already dealing with flooding, drought, fire and environmental decay Read more |
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Cameron Harsh How to Combat Climate Change with What You Eat With this resource CFS is demonstrating that avoiding factory-raised meat is not only possible, but necessary for our health and the health of our planet Read more |
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Bernie Sanders Trump Lies About 'Medicare for All' and He's Made Health Care Worse Medicare for All is popular because it would save people money and assure them the health care they need. Trump's only defense is to lie about my bill Read more |
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Shaye Wolf If We Don’t Stop Digging Up Fossil Fuels, Who Will Die? Report details brutal cost of climate inaction Read more |
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Dr. Carol Paris Mr. Trump, If You Love Medicare, Improve It and Expand It to All Can the U.S. afford to expand Medicare to all? The real question is, can we afford not to? Read more |
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Frances Moore Lappé Why We Can’t Give Up on Democracy Only democracy can meet essential human needs, even beyond the physical Read more |
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Adam Eichen Why Aren’t Young People More Involved in Politics? Instead of complaining about younger people being politically apathetic, older generations need to show empathy and provide mentorship Read more |
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Rebecca Gordon All Eyes on Nevada: A Chance to Swing the Senate Cooks and casino workers take on Trump Read more |
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Josh Hoxie No One In The United States Should Be Poor, Period Amazon's wage hike is welcome news, but nobody's well-being should depend on the whims of billionaire CEOs Read more |
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Adam Parsons A Global People’s Bailout for the Coming Crash When the global financial crisis resurfaces, we the people will have to fill the vacuum in political leadership. It will call for a monumental mobilisation of citizens from below, focused on a single and unifying demand for a people’s bailout across the world Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Climate Change and Collective Salvation Facing up to climate change requires human cooperation at an unprecedented level Read more |
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John Feffer Why Is the Radical Right Still Winning? What that Protestant Reformation can teach us about the durability of far-right movements — and the order they seek to replace Read more |
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Murshed Zaheed Journalists and Media: Stop Feeding the Right-Wing Spin Machine Reporters and pundits in corporate media act less like journalists and more like right-wing megaphones. This needs to stop. Read more |
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Robert Weissman Fact Check: Trump Is Dead Wrong on Medicare-for-All Lies from Trump are nothing new, but these outright falsehoods about our healthcare system must not go unchallenged Read more |
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Richard Silverstein What Will Trump Do About Jamal Khashoggi's Disappearance? All that the US president cares about is making deals and that does not include human rights or democracy Read more |
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Ben Armbruster Trump Has Put US On Path To War With Iran While Nobody is Paying Attention “If the president of the United States wants to take this nation to war, he can take this nation to war. And stopping that is incredibly difficult.” Read more |
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Anny Martinez The GOP’s Kavanaugh Playbook Was Textbook Abusive Behavior Psychologists call it DARVO: deny, attack, reverse victim and offender Read more |
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Chuck Collins, Emma de Goede Towering Excess: The Perils of the Luxury Real Estate Boom for Bostonians Boston’s luxury boom figures to accelerate the city's already troubling disparities of income, wealth and opportunity Read more |
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Derek Davison Nikki Haley’s Mission Accomplished Moment By all rights, Haley’s lasting legacy as U.S. ambassador to the UN should be the damage she caused to the institution to which she was assigned Read more |
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Ralph Nader Let’s Start a Kavanaugh Watch to Check All Five Corporate Judges Their unjust decisions, hiding behind stylized plausibility and casuistry, need to be unmasked and regularly relayed to the American people Read more |
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Stacy Bannerman If You Forget About a War, It's Time to End It Saying 'Enough folded flags,' military families speak out against the Afghanistan War Read more |
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Vijay Prashad How Disaster Capitalism Has Ruined Puerto Rico And what Cuba can teach the world about going a different route Read more |
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Ben Norton ‘Fahrenheit 11/9’ Aims Straight for Trumpism’s Dark, Neoliberal Heart This film is precisely what is needed: an enlightening and entertaining cinematic diagnosis of the rapid decay of the United States of America in the age of Trumpism, delivered from an uncompromising left-wing perspective, one that is willing to tear down liberal idols when necessary Read more |
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Juan Cole How Muslims Became the Enemy The new Islamophobia looks like the old McCarthyism Read more |
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Robert Lowes How Voter Suppression Imperils the Midterms Blue wavers may find it harder to cast a ballot this fall, due to a counter-wave of policies meant to suppress the Democratic-leaning votes of the poor, the young, and minorities Read more |
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Bill Law Jamal Khashoggi: A Red Line Has Been Crossed Jamal Khashoggi's disappearance and suspected death is a grave assault on the freedom of expression worldwide Read more |
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Gordon Adams Trump’s Velvet Coup: Kavanaugh Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg I am watching my country going through a slow motion disintegration into civil war, conflict, and the rise of authoritarianism Read more |
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Avi Lewis Time to Use Our Fear as Fuel: Three Takeaways from the IPCC's New Report More and more people are coming to the conclusion that this escalating crisis, ever-harder to deny, can galvanize change on the scale that is really needed. Nothing less will do. Read more |
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Michael Hardt, Sandro Mezzadra We’ve Launched a Migrant Rescue Ship to Resist the Racist Right in Italy This mission is not only about providing humanitarian aid but protesting against the toxic politics of Italy, Europe and the US Read more |
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Jane O'Meara Sanders How to Fix Western Democracy We need to set the bar higher for our elected officials, candidates, the media and ourselves. Read more |
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Dana Brown A Nobel Prize-Winning Cancer Therapy Will Be Unaffordable for Most Americans. Public Pharmaceuticals Can Help Change That. If biologics really are the future of medicine, we must change the way prescription drugs are priced in the United States, or millions of patients will be left behind Read more |
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Edo Konrad Over 100 Academics, Jewish Leaders Demand Israel Release U.S. Student Lara Alqasem got permission from the Israeli consulate to study at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University. Upon landing, she was detained and ordered deported. She has been held for six days. Read more |
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Stephen Palumbi, Mary Roberts Why Baby Boomers Should Vote Like Their Kids This November The middle of this century will be theirs to navigate. We can give them a boost. Read more |
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Glenn Greenwald Brazil’s Bolsonaro-Led Far Right Wins a Victory Far More Sweeping and Dangerous Than Anyone Predicted. Its Lessons Are Global. Jair Bolsonaro has been instantly transformed from marginalized clown into the overwhelmingly dominant force in the country’s political life Read more |
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Suzanne Garment Trump Family's Massive Tax Con Job Has Been Hiding in Plain Sight for Years. And It Could Cost Them Millions The Trumps may soon wish they had sought their real estate fortunes anywhere except the liberal precincts of New York Read more |
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Kevin Anderson What Does Science Demand? A Global Energy Transformation With Focus on Inequality of Consumption Until human society is prepared to acknowledge the huge asymmetry in consumption and hence emissions, temperatures will continue to rise beyond 1.5 and 2°C Read more |
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Elizabeth Warren, Ro Khanna End US Complicity in Yemen's Humanitarian Disaster The Yemeni people are suffering. Instead of supporting more bombing, the United States can help bring peace to the region. Read more |
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Jade Begay, Dallas Goldtooth Letter From Indigenous Activists Essential reading on, and beyond, Indigenous Peoples Day Read more |
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Chris Hedges Homeless America These men and women, and increasingly children, are the collateral damage of the corporate state, their dignity and lives destroyed by the massive transference of wealth upward, deindustrialization and the slashing of federal investment in affordable housing begun during the Reagan administration Read more |
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John O'Day Trump Admin Follows Corporate Media Playbook for War With Iran Iranian leaders have repeatedly said they do not want war with the US, but US corporate media, despite frequently characterizing Trump as a “mad king," continue to play an instrumental role in rationalizing a future war with Iran Read more |
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Hannah McKinnon Breaking the 2 Degree Habit: Why 1.5 Is Critical The alarm bells for climate have been ringing for decades, but as we come face-to-face with the horrific impacts scientists warned of, the excuses for inaction really are up Read more |
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Bill Blum 5 Truths Exposed by Kavanaugh's Rise to the Supreme Court Kavanaugh’s confirmation represents the culmination of a multi-decade effort by the most revanchist sectors of the right to seize control of the justice system Read more |
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Lawrence Wittner What’s Happened to the Big Wage Increases Promised By Republicans? Although it appears that some workers (a reported 4 percent) did receive pay raises thanks to the tax cuts, it’s estimated that corporations spent 88 times more on stock buybacks than on pay increases for workers Read more |
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Miles Mogulescu Red Alert: Georgia Voters Must Check Today To See If They've Been Purged From Voting Georgia has purged nearly 10% of its registered voters –nearly 750,000 people from the voting rolls without their even knowing Read more |
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Michael Winship In Germany and America, Invisible Walls Donald Trump would build a wall to squelch immigration but Berlin is a city that knows the horror of what such a barrier's really like Read more |
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Lisa Graves By Honoring Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's Request for Privacy, Sen. Feinstein Did Exactly the Right and Moral Thing The #MeToo movement has united millions of women—and men—to stand up for survivors. That includes honoring their privacy and standing with them, if and when they speak out. Read more |
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Rachel Cleetus Seven Things You Should Know About the IPCC 1.5°C Special Report and its Policy Implications Our children and grandchildren’s futures depend on the choices we make today. Read more |
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Eric Margolis 'No More Torture,' Says France. Not So the United States It will be hard for Washington to keep holding itself up to be the world champion of human rights when its torturers are hard at work inflicting unspeakable punishments on suspects. Read more |
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Ayanna Pressley I Believe Survivors. I Believe Christine Blasey Ford. And I Still Believe Anita Hill We must rally around one another, to support survivors and to refocus our efforts and our energy on Nov. 6, because change can’t wait, especially not now. Read more |
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Robert Reich 'November Is Coming': On Containing the Catastrophe The only remedy is for voters to flip the House or Senate, or ideally both. Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli L'amour and Nuclear War If it was such "a very great moment in the history of the world," why is the world still so terrified? Read more |
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Pierre Tristam Saint Kavanaugh Of course, in the end, it wouldn’t matter if he were a liar, a lout, a lecher, a drunk and a goon. The president is all those things, minus the drunk part, and he got elected to an office substantially more powerful than a supreme court seat. Read more |
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Sam Husseini Young and Professional Kavanaugh: "It's All Part of the Same Scummy Guy" Who showed fire in their belly and articulated Kavanaugh's lying under oath? Who went for the jugular? Read more |
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Mark Weisbrot Presidential Election Is About a Fight for Democracy in Brazil For the first time in decades, the threat of a military dictatorship is surfacing in Brazil. No responsible journalism should ignore this threat, nor legitimize the extremism that strengthens it. Read more |
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Donna McKay Mukwege and Murad Nobel Win Amplifies Voices of Sexual Violence Survivors in Era of Kavanaugh and Blasey Ford The importance of this win cannot be overstated Read more |
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Ezekiel Edwards San Francisco Is a Hotbed of Illegal Race-Based Policing Race-based policing is not just a problem in San Francisco — it is nationwide calamity Read more |
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John McMurtry, Matthew Stanton Above the Law and Below the Belt: High Crimes and Misdemeanors of Kavanaugh and the Senate-Trump Faction What has happened in Washington DC with the Kavanaugh hearings is of grave concern to anyone who believes in the democratic rule of law over a moneyed faction fixing all legal process Read more |
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Mirka Estrada Trump Is Rewriting Our Immigration Law To Come After Families Like Mine It feels like they’re using children as chess pieces in a twisted political contest to force immigrants into the shadows of a nation we helped build Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Here’s a Reality-Based Battle Plan for the Midterms and Beyond It is imperative that Democrats win, and win big, in order to bring the Trump agenda to a screeching halt Read more |
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Gary Zuckett West Virginia Survivors Say NO To Kavanaugh For the sake of every survivor, and for and every one of us who will be harmed by the anti-democratic decisions Kavanaugh will make if he gets a lifetime appointment to the Court, it’s time for your conscience to be heard loud and clear Read more |
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Charles P. Pierce Ben Sasse Is Sad. Ben Sasse Is a Hypocrite. The Nebraska senator's "cautious prudence" on Brett Kavanaugh might be worse than Mitch McConnell's bulldozer politics Read more |
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Julie Bates It's Your Post Office. Keep It. Take it from a postal worker: If the U.S. sells its public mail service, consumers will lose big time Read more |
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Nathan J. Robinson If The Rule Of Law Means Anything, Kavanaugh Must Be Impeached If a federal judge can get away with lying to Congress, why do we even have sworn oaths? Read more |
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Ben Freeman How Saudi Money Keeps Washington at War in Yemen The royal touch Read more |
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Tim Dickinson Why the FBI’s Kavanaugh Investigation Is So Troubling The feds did not interview key witnesses — including former classmates who claim they can corroborate sexual misconduct allegations and lies under oath Read more |
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Steven Rosenfeld A Voter’s Guide to Registering for the 2018 Election—Beat the Deadline! You can’t vote without registering—and it’s easier than you might think Read more |
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Tom Andrews This Is Susan Collins' "Declaration of Conscience" Moment This is Sen. Susan Collins’ “Declaration of Conscience” moment. She can have no better guide — or source of inspiration — than Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, who described her moment to me when I was a... Read more |
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Ralph Nader The Root of the Internet’s Disrepute: Online Advertising! "The central problem is that the entire industry is built to leverage sophisticated technology to aggregate user attention and sell advertising." Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler From Carswell to Kavanaugh This moment transcends politics. Women are fighting for their humanity. Read more |
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John de Graaf The Year That Changed Everything: A Personal Memory of 1968 No other year has left such vivid memories for me, though it may be that this year, 2018, will be even more decisive for the future of America Read more |
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Bill Bigelow Whose History Matters? Students Can Name Columbus, But Most Have Never Heard of the Taíno People Columbus’s treatment of the Taíno people meets the UN definition of genocide. But there has also been a curricular genocide — erasing the memory of the Taíno from our nation’s classrooms Read more |
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Chuck Collins Trump and the Wealth Dynasty Defense Industry These professional enablers of inequality are part of national and global associations Read more |
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Susan N. Herman Why the ACLU Opposes Brett Kavanaugh's Nomination to the Supreme Court This decision was based on unique circumstances presented by credible allegations of sexual assault and a display of partisan rancor, leading us to doubt Judge Kavanaugh’s fitness to serve on the Supreme Court, a job that demands the highest integrity because of the finality of the court’s rulings... Read more |
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Jill Richardson We Need to Talk About Masculinity If we taught men better ways of "being a man," we wouldn't have to teach women to cover their drinks Read more |
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Michael Sainato, Chelsea Skojec Police Arrest 58 Activists After Factory Conditions Exposed at 'Free Range' Perdue Supplier The animals rights organization, Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) provided exclusive undercover footage of visibly sick and starving birds at a Petaluma, California based Lakeville Growers’ Petaluma Poultry Farm, dispelling the company’s claims of raising organic and free range chickens Read more |
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Gowri Ramachandran, James Sample Brett Kavanaugh Lied Brazenly and Repeatedly Under Oath. Any Law Student Knows He Cannot Sit on the Supreme Court It feels self-evident, but a judge who cannot obey the law cannot be expected to apply it. Read more |
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Martha Burk The Mean Drunk and the Mendacity I fear the Senate will conclude that boys will be boys — and sometimes sexual predators — but they can still grow up to be Supreme Court justices Read more |
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Frank Clemente Under Cover of Kavanaugh, Republicans Passed Huge Tax Cuts for the Wealthy While Americans watched the Senate, House Republicans passed an extra $3 trillion tax cut for rich people and corporations Read more |
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Noam Chomsky, Celso Amorim, et al. A Warning Regarding the Blow to Brazilian Democracy and Its Global Consequences We are profoundly concerned about the consequences of illegitimately facilitating the Brazilian presidential victory of a fascist candidate Read more |
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Heather Digby Parton Daddy’s Boy: New York Times Investigation Exposes the Breadth of Trump’s Lies and Corruption Donald Trump’s image as a self-made billionaire was always a lie. New Times exposé makes clear it was a whopper Read more |
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Anthony Pahnke, Jim Goodman Bad Farm Policy Contributes to Natural Disasters Unfortunately, the Washington power structure cares little for the environment or working families Read more |
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Michael Sainato A Progressive Tide The centrist strategy of trying to win over moderate Republicans backfired miserably for Democrats. A blue wave is now pulling the party to the left Read more |
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Jeff Schuhrke Today Amazon, Tomorrow the Railroad Industry: The Fight for $15 Rolls On “I join your voices in saying to these railroad companies that they should adopt responsible contractor policies to ensure that the prosperity that they are experiencing is shared with all of the workers in the industry.” Read more |
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T.S. Mendola Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Bad Character Has Nothing to Do With His Bad Politics The same argument that connects the accusations against Judge Brett Kavanaugh to his record implicitly admits the converse: that good politics are a sign of good character Read more |
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Jim Hightower Poverty Is Over! So Why Are Republicans So Quiet About Their Chief Economic Accomplishment? They told us they did it not for the rich, but to help middle-class and poor families. But here we are in the thick of the 2018 congressional elections, and — shhhhh — silence. Not a single lawmaker who voted for this grand ideological promise is mentioning it, much less running ads touting their... Read more |
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Erwin Chemerinsky A Very Tarnished Court Kavanaugh, or his replacement, will be the fifth Republican justice sitting illegitimately Read more |
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Daniel S. Goldman, Mimi Rocah Kavanaugh Hearing Prosecutor Rachel Mitchell’s Critique of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford Is Incomplete and Deeply Flawed It’s one thing to misleadingly frame Dr. Ford’s allegations as a case of “he said, she said.” It’s something else to ignore what “he” actually said Read more |
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Olivia Alperstein Don’t Arm This President With These Nukes As President Trump gave a belligerent address at the UN, lawmakers rolled out legislation to ban “low-yield” nukes that raise the risk of conflict Read more |