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Frances Moore Lappé Democracy as Dignity Dispersions of power, transparency, and mutual accountability. Read more |
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Joseph Gerson A New Day for Human Survivial: On the Promise of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons "Human beings and nuclear weapons cannot coexist." Read more |
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Sarah Anderson American Workers Need Paid Sick Leave Right This Minute Congress let mandatory paid leave end on Dec. 31. Lawmakers—and employers—need to restore them immediately. Read more |
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Michael Winship GOP Tickles the Dragon's Tail After years of flirting with America’s right wing and egging on a growing rage, the GOP establishment is "shocked" by Trump's success—and scrambling to save face. Read more |
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Christian Christensen "He's Better Than Trump!" Is No Defense of Biden. Citizens Deserve More. If Democrats cannot critically engage with Obama policies that saw large numbers of innocent civilians in Yemen or Pakistan killed by drones, or an uncomfortably close relationship with Wall St., then the lessons of Trumpism are lost. Read more |
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Robert Reich Ten Ways Biden Can Be Transformational (Even Without Congress) Biden can and must wield his presidential powers through Executive Orders and regulations. The problems America is facing demand it. Read more |
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Andrew Bacevich Curb Your Presidentialism: Some Post-Trump Advice for a Biden Administration Presidentialism is American Exceptionalism transferred to the arena of politics. It is a vast and dangerous delusion. The sooner we wake up to that fact the better for our democracy. Read more |
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Julie Hollar Even After an Insurrection, Corporate Media Can't Let Go of False Balance If editors learn anything from the events of the last four years, it should be that "balance" is a dangerous substitute for fairness and accuracy. Read more |
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Judith Butler Donald Trump and the Danger of a Loser Who Cannot Admit Defeat Whether it is deaths from Covid-19 or his own election defeat, admitting loss is something Trump finds impossible to do. Read more |
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Bernie Sanders We Must Act With Unprecedented Boldness to Meet These Historical Crises The job of Congress now is to listen to the American people, move our country boldly forward on a path to economic success and show voters that Democrats are prepared to do everything possible to improve their lives. Read more |
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Jeffrey D. Sachs It Is Biden's Historic Task to Reverse Reagan's—and Trump's—Reckless Radicalism Reagan's failed radicalism has now run its course, and the United States, while culturally as divided as ever, is at an economic and environmental precipice. Read more |
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US Civil Society Groups Focused on Central America Biden Must Go Beyond Simply Ending Trump's Barbaric Border Policies—We Need Deeper Change An open letter to President-Elect Biden on Central America policy. Read more |
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Kathy Kelly About Suffering: A Massacre of the Innocents in Yemen The United Nations estimates the war has already caused 233,000 deaths, including 131,000 deaths from indirect causes such as lack of food, health services and infrastructure. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson Biden's Inauguration Gives Us New Hope, but the Movement for Justice Must Continue to Build on Its Own Agenda There should be no reluctance to work with Biden to help pass critical reforms, but at the same time, the pressure for outside must continue to build for there to be any hope of change. Read more |
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Rebecca Gordon The Rubble of Empire: A Fine Time To Begin Thinking About What Might Be Built in Its Place Doctrines of disaster and dreams of security as the Biden years begin. Read more |
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Ben Price 'It Is Like Satire': Prince Charles' Terra Carta Is a Manifesto for the Status Quo The ecological crisis demands we protect the Rights of Nature from being watered down. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Don't Let President Biden 'Make Us the Dupes of Our Hopes' More than being a time of hope—or fatalism—the inauguration of President Joe Biden should be a time of skeptical realism and determination. Read more |
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Robert Reich Biden Must Drive a Stake Through the Heart of Dead-End "Centrism" There is no middle ground between lies and facts. There is no halfway point between civil discourse and violence. There is no midrange between democracy and fascism. Read more |
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Juan Cole Israel Was Designated an Apartheid State by B'Tselem. What Martin Luther King Jr. Would Have Thought of That. Those who argue that Dr. King would have had no problem with Israel’s policies in the Occupied Palestinian territories of Gaza and the West Bank after 1967 are being illogical. Read more |
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Ramzy Baroud By 'Force and Fraud': Is This the End of the US Democracy Doctrine? The storming of US Congress will have global repercussions, not least among them the weakening of US hegemonic and self-serving definition of what constitutes a democracy. Read more |
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Gerry Condon Veteran Celebrates Nuclear Ban Treaty The United States can be a leader in the peace race, but only if our leaders hear a loud message from the people: nuclear weapons are an unacceptable threat to all of humanity and they are also now illegal. Read more |
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Michael Winship When Trump's Out the Door, Biden Tackles the Winter of Our Discontent He and America’s "better angels" have their work cut out for them. Read more |
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Rohit Anand It's Time to End Abhorrent Medical Debt That Consumes Families With the current challenges of millions of people losing their jobs, losing their source of income, and becoming ill with COVID-19, medical debt will increase even further from the 56% of adults who struggle with it prior to the pandemic. Read more |
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Rev Dr Liz Theoharis The Nation Must Have the Moral Courage To Carry on the Work of Martin Luther King Jr. The Earth does not belong to Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, or the white supremacists of the world. Read more |
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Jim Goodman After Four Years, Accountability Is Long Overdue There must be a reckoning for Trump and for all those who were complicit with Trump. Read more |
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Rajko Kolundzic Despite Pain and Record Death, Why Is the Stock Market So High? How did rich corporations and finance capitalists come out of the pandemic in very good health in contrast to the general population? Read more |
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Alan MacLeod Trump’s Social Media Ban May Be Justified, But That Doesn’t Mean Power of Big Tech Isn’t Dangerous Silicon Valley corporations are far from neutral moral arbiters, and have a history of abusing their power. Trump was and remains a menace, but we further empower these corporate giants at our peril. Read more |
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Bandy X. Lee, Jeffrey D. Sachs One Group Who Knew All Along How Dangerous Trump Was: Mental Health Experts From the perspective of his psychopathology, Trump's coup attempt last week was wholly predictable. Read more |
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Zoltán Grossman Denial of American Fascism Has Cost Us Dearly The inconvenient truths about fascism, like learning about the climate and health crises, could lead us to actually shift our beliefs and lives. Read more |
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Robert Freeman Four Insurgencies that Counsel Vigilance at the Trump Revolt If we are to save the country, we must find the wisdom to think anew and the courage to act anew. Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Ted Cruzifictions Being in the United States Senate does not imbue a person with wisdom, common sense, or integrity. If you doubt that, just look at the junior Republican Senator from Texas. Read more |
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Jonathan Cook Trump May Be on Trial, But You Can Bet the System That Produced Him Will Be Acquitted Trump is too small and limited of a target to be considered the true and deepest enemy we face. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Will Trump's Grand Finale Be Conviction by the US Senate? Congressional Republicans have aided and abetted, for four years, Trump's assertion that "With Article II, I can do whatever I want as president." Dangerous Donald did just that. Read more |
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Sue Sturgis Meet the GOP State AGs Who Spread Election Lies That Fueled an Insurrection Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) never acknowledged its role in fueling Trump supporters' ire by sharing repeatedly debunked lies about the outcome of the presidential election. Read more |
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Pierre Tristam No, Open Sedition Is Not a First Amendment Right The right to protest is not in dispute. If that's all the mob had done, its rights would certainly be defensible and protected. Read more |
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Adam Federman Turns Out That the Oil Industry Wasn’t Interested in the Arctic Refuge After All The Trump administration’s Arctic Refuge oil lease auction was a total bust. Read more |
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David Orr Questions "Too Puny" for Our Dire Circumstances The unanswered question is whether we have the political will to do what is required to prevent Earth’s climate from spiraling out of control. Read more |
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Alvaro Sanchez How the Biden-Harris Administration Can Fight Climate Change and Structural Racism Addressing the root causes of climate change and structural racism means equity must be core to the framework for action. Read more |
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Laura Flanders We Should Learn From Georgia to Show Us the Way Forward Over slow generations, they built a broad enough "we" and an effective bottom up force that formed not just a victorious voting block this year, but a caring community dedicated explicitly to dismantling white supremacy. Read more |
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Andy Rowell Impeached Twice, Trump's Presidency Was a Climate Disaster The world burned on Trump’s watch, leaving behind a horrendous lasting environmental legacy. Read more |
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Fred Wertheimer Republican State Officials Are Already Using Trump’s Big Lie as Cover To Pursue New Laws To Make It Harder To Vote Congress must move quickly to enact H.R. 1, the For The People Act, and H.R. 4, the Voting Rights Advancement Act. Read more |
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Belén Fernández Here We Go Again, But Now the Target Is Iran Two decades after invading Iraq for alleged links to al-Qaeda, the US now says Iran is the armed group's 'new home.' Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Lynching Political Correctness Are we in a state of national emergency? Read more |
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Emily Galvin-Almanza, Sean McElwee If Lawmakers Really Care About "Unity" They Should Support Policies Voters Actually Want Americans largely support progressive policies—despite objections from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. Now is the time to pass them. Read more |
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Sheila Rawat, Elisa Devlin How We Came to Build A Progressive Ground Game After Bernie's campaign ended, we were determined to stay in the fight. We built our own structure which was key in the freedom and guidance in making our actions effective. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies Will the Senate Confirm Coup Plotter Victoria Nuland? Nuland would be a ticking time-bomb in Biden’s State Department, waiting to sabotage his better angels much as she undermined Obama’s second-term diplomacy. Read more |
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Mike Lofgren A Layman’s Guide to Spotting Sedition, Treason, and Lunacy in General The words people speak have consequences—but maybe not what you think. Read more |
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Jason Pramas We Must Defeat the Far-Right Insurrectionist Movement. Here's How We need to mobilize like never before. Read more |
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Mary Miller There's Nothing Vegan About War As more and more people rethink their consumption of animal products, it is inevitable that the world’s military forces will increasingly use veganism to appear progressive, trendy, and virtuous. My plea to my fellow vegans: don’t fall for it. Read more |
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Richard Heinberg Insurrection, Pandemic, and Censorship Democracy requires an informed citizenry and reliably informative media. Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac A Second Trump Impeachment Has Not Lessened the Current Danger This move by House Democrat is insufficient to forestall the possibility of further Trumpist-incited violence. Read more |
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Michael T. Klare Can Biden Achieve Progress Where It Matters While Avoiding a New Cold (or Hot) War? President Biden’s China conundrum. Read more |
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Jeff Hauser Impeaching Trump Is Only the Beginning Biden must rid the government of Trump holdovers wherever possible and reverse Trump’s attacks as quickly as possible. Read more |
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Mark Hertsgaard Trump's Attacks on Democracy Threatens Climate Survival Only a democracy that works can defuse the climate crisis. Without that expression of grassroots democracy, the world would likely be entering the climate nightmare of four more years of Trump. Read more |
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Sharon Squassoni Biden Must Retire the Illogical Great Power Competition Paradigm There is no winning a nuclear arms race and no winning a nuclear war. The use of any nuclear weapon in conflict is a loss for humanity. Read more |
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Alexander Langlois The Houthi Designation: Tone-Deaf Foreign Policy for a Tone-Deaf Administration This public health crisis and the coinciding crisis surrounding basic resources constitute the humanitarian situation in Yemen today—a conflict that is completely manmade and caused by the poor decisions of non-democratic leaders in Yemen, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and the United... Read more |
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Joseph Nevins The Irony Of Calling America A 'Banana Republic' The history of the banana republic reminds us that the notion of the United States as a beacon of human rights and democracy is, for all too many across the globe, a lie. Read more |
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Bill Moyers, Heather Cox Richardson The Day the Confederate Flag Flew in the United States Capitol What happened in the 1850s and what happened in the present are very similar in a number of ways, though the symbol of the insurrectionist Confederate army never flew in that nation's capitol—not once—until January 6, 2021. Read more |
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Mahad Dirieh The Case For Course Correction in Yemen's Endless War The crisis in Yemen is largely America's making. America needs to fix it now. Read more |
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Faramarz Farbod Let's Burn All Illusions in 2021 Expect nothing transformative from the governing class. The future depends on what We the People will choose to do. Read more |
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Ramzy Baroud Covid-19 Under Apartheid: How Israel Manipulates Suffering of Palestinians Long after the deadly pandemic is contained, the tragedy of occupied Palestine will, sadly, continue unhindered, until the day that Israel is forced to end its military occupation of Palestine and the Palestinians. Read more |
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Karen Dolan A Winning Strategy for Joe Biden: Raise the Wage and Tax the Rich Despite our sharp divisions, a majority of Americans are united behind many policies to combat poverty and reduce inequality. Read more |
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Joseph Stiglitz Small Tweaks Won't Be Enough to Save American Democracy Fortunately, Joe Biden will assume the US presidency on January 20. But, as the shocking events of January 6 showed, it will take more than one person—and more than one presidential term—to overcome America’s longstanding challenges. Read more |
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Christopher D. Cook We Must Not Allow Violent Pro-Trump Insurrection to Usher in New Anti-Protest Laws The tools we create in response to the January 6 insurrection will be used to tamp down mass protest from the left. Read more |
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William Astore We're All Prisoners of War Now When will America free itself from war? Read more |
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Katrina Eiland Biden Must Follow Through With Promise to Restore US Asylum A reversal of Trump's asylum system is simply not enough—we must build our asylum system back better. Read more |
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Sarah Jones Republicans Want Clemency, and With It, a Return to the Status Quo The public deserves something better: a true champion of the poor and vulnerable. Read more |
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Sarah Lazare Biden Must Reject Trump's WTO Policy That Could Lead to "Vaccine Apartheid" in Global South The president-elect pledged to combat racism. But he’s been mum about a racial injustice taking place on a global scale. Read more |
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Joe Lowndes, Daniel Martinez HoSang Will a More Dangerous Far Right Spring From the Corpse of Trumpism? Deferring to the economic and political elites that have set the stage for this carnage will only the embolden the far right to continue to provide a kind of reactionary framing to the feelings of abandonment, isolation and betrayal. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Leonardo Flores The Trump Administration's Parting Outrage Against Cuba "Perpetuating the myth that Cuba is a threat to the American people—while minimizing the threat posed by far-right extremists at home—is an embarrassment to our country on the world stage." Read more |
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David McWilliams Capitol Rioters Can’t Stop the Economic Forces Undermining Their Tribe If we fail to appreciate what's going on in the world, we will all suffer from the curse of the entitled, who rail against change rather than embracing it. Read more |
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Jonathan Cook Twitter's Ban on Trump Will Deepen the US Tribal Divide This is a perfect illustration of why curbs on political speech—even of the most irresponsible kind—invariably backfire. Read more |
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Chuck Collins, Omar Ocampo Trump's Top Ten Billionaire Enablers Trump didn’t get here on his own. Many have enabled him, especially the billionaires who funneled money his way and then stood by as he damaged our democracy. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Denouncing Republican Evils Can’t Do Much for the Biden Presidency Without Demanding Progressive Policies The Sanders prescriptions for antidotes to right-wing poisons are absolutely correct. Read more |
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Ted Lieu We Have a Constitutional Duty To Defend Our Democracy in Making Trump the First President in History To Be Impeached Twice For justice and to heal our nation, we need to hold those involved in the insurrection accountable. That includes the president. Read more |
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Jonathan Rich The Bipartisan Neoliberal Regime Is No Alternative to Trumpism and the Far-Right The first reason for this crisis is that the US political system is not a "democracy" at all, but rather an oligarchy run by the unchecked power of corporate bribery. Read more |
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Bill Quigley Past Time to Remember Thousands Displaced and Left Behind by Hurricanes Laura and Delta As 2020 ended some people were still living in tents. Read more |
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Bill Blum 25th Amendment or Impeachment? The Answer: Both The punishment would fit the crime, and he’d be stripped of unwarranted perks. Read more |
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Nomi Prins The Martians of Wall Street Have Invaded As Covid-19 grew ever worse while 2020 ended, the stock market reached heights that hadn’t been seen before. Ever. Read more |
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Robert Reich Impeach Trump. Then Arrest Trump. Then Prosecute Him for Sedition Unless all who participated in or abetted the attempted overthrow of the United States government are held accountable, it will happen again. Next time it may succeed. Read more |
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Juan Cole Yes It Was Attempted by Wingnuts, But It Was a Coup Attempt Just the Same Over 140 Republican congressmen and 8 senators joined the attempt to overturn the election even after the mob tried to kill or kidnap them. Read more |
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Christian Christensen Trump, Social Media and “Orwellian” Bullshit After a relentless and unbroken 40-year fight to hand informational control and power over to a small number of corporate actors, the political right is now wetting their collective pants over Trump being banned by a privately-owned company. Read more |
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Chuck Idelson Confederates in the Capitol: The Re-enactment of a Lost Cause The lesson we must learn from the crushing of Reconstruction is that escorting Trump out the door must not be the end of this story. Read more |
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Mark Schlosberg Trump Lit the Match for an Attempted Coup, But Decades of Misinformation Supplied Fuel The dangerous attempt at a coup of the Capitol didn't happen in a vacuum. A culture of misinformation — even from those who should know better — has played a role in distancing too many people from the realities our country faces, including climate change. Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati Our Post-Trump Democratic Prospects: What the Ming Dynasty Can Tell Us 'Good government' has always rested on equitable distributions of wealth and power. Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac Trump, the Coup, and the Collusion That Made It Possible It will be hard to disentangle the levels of causal, moral, and legal responsibility, and harder still to repair the damage. Read more |
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Christina Warner How We Respond to Threats Against Democracy The U.S. is bearing the fruit of decades of cruelty — breaking up unions, cutting public services and siphoning public resources and wealth into the hands of the very elite — also seen in Canada. Read more |
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Steven Singer What I Told My Students About Wednesday’s Attempted Trump Coup The day after domestic terrorists try to steal our system of government isn’t the time to hold back. Read more |
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Alan MacLeod Billionaire-Owned Media Look Out for Neediest by Demanding They Get No More Money “How to pay for it” is the question they perennially ask when the prospect of helping ordinary people is raised. Read more |
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Alex Newhouse Far-Right Activists on Social Media Telegraphed Violence Weeks in Advance of the Attack on the US Capitol The siege was consistent with their openly expressed hopes and plans. Read more |
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Judy Rohrer New “Day of Infamy,” Centuries Old White Supremacy Were Wednesday's events really that "unbelievable"? Read more |
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Ralph Nader Can Justice Finally Overtake Trump, Its Most Defiant Fugitive? Despite the many crimes Donald Trump regularly committed over four years, it took his blatant incitement of the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, to put him on the road to prison... Read more |
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Timothy Karr Facebook, Twitter and YouTube: Ban Trump or Face Another Mass Boycott These powerful tech giants and their top executives must decide: Are they on the side of democracy or in favor of profiting from the spread of bigotry and lies? Read more |
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Jeffrey D. Sachs The Truth About Trump’s Mob The storming of the US Capitol by predominantly white supporters of President Donald Trump was in keeping with a long tradition of mob violence directed by white elites in the service of their own interests. The difference this time is that the rioters turned on their own. Read more |
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Tiffany Duong Amazon Rainforest Will Collapse by 2064, New Study Predicts The forest could lose its ability to store the world's excess carbon which helps to regulate the climate and planetary temperature. Read more |
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Daniel Ellsberg Will Unprovoked War With Iran Be Trump's Parting Gift to the World? I will always regret that I did not do more to stop war with Vietnam. Now, I am calling on whistleblowers to step up and expose Trump’s plans Read more |
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Dave Inder Comar Mob Violence in the Capitol A Logical Completion to Trumpian Politics It is no longer hyperbole to conclude that the rule of law in the United States is now under grave threat. Read more |
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John Ripton Biden-Harris and the Progressive Movement in an Uncertain World "A lukewarm Biden-Harris presidency—even one that eventually brings the pandemic under control—will not achieve the populist policy objectives necessary to win in 2024." Read more |
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Juan Cole From Mulvaney to DeVos, GOP Rats Are Deserting Trump's Sinking Ship All the times they didn’t resign or even criticize his monstrous deeds in the last four years. Read more |
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Simon Davis-Cohen Civil Society Groups Warn Against Anti-Protest Legislation Following Siege of US Capital "We have to make sure this moment is not used to further anti-protest legislation." Read more |