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Craig K. Comstock Can China Save the Planet? It now appears that China—while still leading the world in both coal consumption and carbon emissions—is also leading the way forward to the clean energy future Read more |
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Kerri Kennedy This Holiday Season, I’m Standing With Migrants Mary and Joseph fled their country to keep their child alive. We should embrace families making the same difficult choice today Read more |
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Alycee Lane Climate Activists Must Organize Like It’s 2099 The environmental policies of the Trump administration–as well as those championed by many state governments—are policies at war with all life on earth Read more |
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Alison Grass Petrochemical Booster Rick Perry Rides to the Rescue of the Fracking Industry Trump’s Energy Department is backing a dirty petrochemical plan Read more |
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Moé Yonamine Stand with Okinawa The Henoko base construction is framed by the history of colonization and racism against Okinawans, as well as by our ongoing resistance as we attempt to end the long era of U.S. occupation Read more |
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Alison Rose Levy How Regenerative Agriculture Could Be Key to the Green New Deal Both the Green New Deal and the New Food Deal can reorient the basics— and put Americans, our democracy, and the earth on the path to health Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Alice Slater Why Green New Deal Advocates Must Address Militarism Where is the call for the New Peace Deal that would free up hundreds of billions from the overblown military budget to invest in green infrastructure? Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati If Democrats Fracture, This Will Be the Fault Line Will those who worry—intensely—about wealth’s concentration gain the upper hand within the Democratic Party’s leadership? Read more |
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Rick Salutin I’m With Progressives Against Impeachment The raging crescendo in the U.S. to impeach Trump or convict him of crimes is offensive Read more |
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Lucy Duncan I Walked Right Up to Militarized Police at the Border Behind the agents, we could see our brothers and sisters watching from the Mexico side of the wall. We could hear them singing Read more |
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Jane McAlevey How To Elect Democrats Who Actually Answer To Workers To hold policy makers accountable, workers must be able to build fighting organizations in which workers, not full-time staffs in sealed-off political departments, call the endorsement shots Read more |
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James McEnteer On Being Breathless in the Age of Trump “I can’t breathe” is the perfect t-shirt or gimme cap retort to MAGA, the last gasp of a nation striving to regain its integrity in the face of a president and a party that has none Read more |
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Vijay Prashad Imagine a World Without War, Where Migrants Are Welcomed, Where Women Are Not Targets Fighting indifference with justice on International Human Rights Day Read more |
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John Buell The Yellow Vests Rise Up Against the Elites and Neoliberal Austerity What this movement started out as is not necessarily what it will become Read more |
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Frances Moore Lappé Courage Is Contagious Civil courage is the capacity to do what serves the common good, even if one must stand alone Read more |
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Subhankar Banerjee Biological Annihilation: A Planet in Loss Mode On the great vanishing happening before our eyes Read more |
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James Zogby Turning a Corner in Public Opinion Toward Israeli Occupation These cases—the decision of a major company to respect international law and a mainstream commentator speaking out for justice—are but two examples of the changing political landscape in the US Read more |
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Mike Lofgren The Bad Ideas-Industrial Complex Why must taxpayers subsidize rabidly partisan think tanks? Read more |
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Ryan Cooper Democrats' 2020 Battle Royale Is Going to Be Brutal, Dirty, and Totally Worthwhile Since there is no avoiding policy and ideology, let's have that fight — in every state and over every inch of political ground Read more |
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Kate Ruane Congress Is Trying to Use the Spending Bill to Criminalize Boycotts of Israel and Other Countries If the First Amendment means anything, it’s that the government cannot suppress political expression it doesn’t like Read more |
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Michelle Chen Trump's Caravan Problem Isn't Which People Are Coming, But What Kind of Country America Will Choose to Be The plight of asylum seekers in Tijuana reflects the dying promise of this country as a land of refuge from suffering Read more |
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William Nee Google CEO Has Serious Questions to Answer on China Censored Search If Google decides to go ahead with Dragonfly, it will signal a massive capitulation on human rights and the company’s own AI principles Read more |
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Negin Owliaei Inequality at the Center of Chicago Charter School Strikes Teachers won the first charter school strike in the U.S. by demanding everything from pay raises to sanctuary for students Read more |
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Dan Derozier Beto O’Rourke Is Like Obama. That’s Not Necessarily a Good Thing Before choosing O’Rourke as their next presidential nominee, Democrats would do well to reflect on the perils of preferring style over substance Read more |
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Debi Smith By Accident of Fate: The Fires in Paradise We cannot sit idly by hoping government will save us from ourselves (or them). Read more |
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Thom Hartmann With an Impeachable Trump and Pence, Are You Ready for President Pelosi? It seems like a remote possibility now, but the twists and turns of a major federal investigation could land us with a very different kind of president Read more |
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Chris Hedges The Heresy of White Christianity “Those who have lived in the cultures of the oppressed know something about freedom that the oppressors will never know.” Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt In the Shadow of Donald Trump: A World Unnoticed News from the far side of nowhere Read more |
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Juan Cole Is Kushner Covering for Bin Salman Murder Charge so Israel can Usurp Palestinian West Bank? Kushner is a big backer of Israeli Apartheid and the Israeli squatter settlements, and for people with his commitments, Muhammed Bin Salman is a godsend Read more |
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Paul Buchheit The Inequality to Be Suffered by Our Children Greater equality of wealth and opportunity can only be achieved through progressive policies, now and in 2020 Read more |
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Michael Winship Joe Kennedy and the Precarious Promise of "Moral Capitalism" Kennedy may not be the messiah Democrats seek for 2020. But he could make a good John the Baptist Read more |
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Deonna Anderson Europe's History With Refugees Has Something to Tell the US Germany, Serbia, and Sweden hosted tens of thousands of migrants three years ago. Can the U.S. take a page from the E.U. as caravans mass at our border? Read more |
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Lawrence Wittner Reviving the Nuclear Disarmament Movement: A Practical Proposal Although a widespread movement has developed to fight climate change, no counterpart has emerged to take on the rising danger of nuclear disaster—yet Read more |
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Consortium News READ: Karen Kwiatkowski Delivers Speech After Receiving 17th Annual Sam Adams Award To tell the truth is simple, honorable, and good for the health of the republic. The fact that it drives the security apparatus and the government crazy is just icing on the cake Read more |
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Tim Lau William Barr Is Out of Step on Criminal Justice Reform Trump's nominee for attorney general would continue Jeff Sessions's hardline approach, his record suggests Read more |
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Stewart Phillip, Serge 'Otsi' Simon Alberta Tar Sands Production Cuts Here to Stay: Indigenous-Led Movement Will Make Sure of It We need a rapid but just transition away from the tar sands that supports workers, communities, and First Nations Read more |
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Niki Ashton After Weekend With Bernie, Niki Ashton Talks Progressive International: 'Our Movement Is a Global Movement. It Must Be.' No longer can progressives afford to work only in silos Read more |
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Juan Cole Top 8 Ways John Kelly Was an Embarrassment as White House Chief of Staff What the administration needed was a moral voice, someone who would push back against the conspiracy theories that guide so much of Trump's policy. Kelly was not that man Read more |
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Neil J. Young Paul Ryan Was Always More Political Hack Than Policy Genius Ryan has presented himself as a serious policy wonk and a devoted disciple of Reaganomics—but he rolled over for Trump, allowing and protecting abuses of office in order to get his treasured tax cut package Read more |
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Jeff Biggers Climate Storytellers Inspire Roadmap to Action "How can you be a catalyst for this regenerative city?...What is your role—and the role of artists, innovators, engineers, teachers, preachers, and entrepreneurs? What is growing in your garden? And can I walk there?" Read more |
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Verner Wilson III I Went Dungeness Crabbing in Washington. Here's Why I'm Concerned About Increased Shipping From Trans Mountain Pipeline Risking our abundant natural resources to fossil fuel shipping is reckless to coastal economies Read more |
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Jill Richardson Republicans Don't Want Your Vote to Count They're trying to overturn the will of voters in Wisconsin, Michigan, and maybe a state near you Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli We and the Uighurs Chinese detention camps sound not unlike the ones the Trump has created in the United States Read more |
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John Atcheson Climate Change Is Likely to Come Sooner and Be Worse Than Latest Worst-Case Forecasts Suggest We have no time to act—that's why a Green New Deal is absolutely necessary Read more |
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Christopher D. Cook The Democrats Need a Clear Economic Vision. Here's Where to Start The rising left wing of the party is leading the way, and the People’s Budget and Green New Deal show how Democrats can transform the economy Read more |
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Steven Singer Charter School Lobby Silent as Charter Teachers Continue Strike If the operators of Acero charter schools in Chicago agree to a living wage for teachers and lower class sizes, it sets a standard for the industry Read more |
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Michael Sisitzky, Simon McCormack New NYPD Drone Policy Represents a Serious Threat to Privacy One of our biggest fears is that these devices could be used to spy on protesters legally exercising their constitutional rights Read more |
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Laura Flanders HUD Official to Move Into Public Housing? Patton moving in for a month on her $161,000 salary won’t shed a spotlight on inhumanity as much as on herself and on the Trump agenda, which, like that of most Republicans, is about promoting the private at the expense of the public Read more |
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Michael Lighty $3.5 Trillion on Healthcare Each Year and We’re Still Uninsured, Underinsured, and Unhappy Our health is not a commodity to profit from, nor is it a welfare program to be minimized or privatized Read more |
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Miranda Spencer Don’t Do Anything About Climate Disaster, USA Today Warns Dems By continually harping on the challenges the Democratic climate hawks face, based on a questionable, unsubstantiated analysis of the political risks, USA Today’s article seems designed to push back on a Democratic push to do anything at all about the climate catastrophe Read more |
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David Suzuki, Ian Hanington Politicians Who Deny Reality Aren’t Fit to Lead When faced with conclusive evidence of a major threat to citizens, a true leader would do everything possible to confront it Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar The GOP's Plot to Destroy Our Democracy Is Coming Into View What is happening in Wisconsin symbolizes the latest tactics of a party that has set itself up for minority rule at the expense of democracy Read more |
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Reed Richardson Trump, Ocasio-Cortez, and Factcheck False Equivalence WaPo rates Ocasio-Cortez's misconstrued Pentagon study as bad as Trump's biggest lies Read more |
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Steven Rosenfeld Sanders and DNC Level Playing Field for 2020 Presidential Debates Details as small as the debate schedule matter, as was shown by the 2016 election Read more |
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Allison Corkery What Does Eleanor Roosevelt Have to Do with Black Lives Matter? Socioeconomic rights enshrined internationally in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 70 years ago are increasingly animating U.S. campaigns against inequality Read more |
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Christopher D. Cook The Mean, Rough Legacy of George H.W. Bush The brutal realities of Bush’s “kinder, gentler” America Read more |
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Mary Bottari Wisconsin Schools the Nation on Hypocrisy and Partisan Power Grabs "This is just not the process we should have in an advanced democracy." Read more |
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Alvaro Sanchez Why Don’t We Riot Over Wealth Inequality? Because we feel the economic pain from a gas tax increase more intensely and immediately than structural systems that help a very small set of people to accumulate wealth Read more |
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Aleta Sprague In Los Angeles, the Poor People’s Campaign Makes a Powerful Case for Housing as a Human Right From skyrocketing rents to the lack of public toilets on Skid Row, women who’ve experienced poverty and homelessness offer valuable insights for policymakers--but are they listening? Read more |
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Chuck Idelson Democrats Will Ignore Broad Progressive Reforms at Their Peril After a decade in which it lost more than 900 federal and state elections, the Wall Street-dominated wing of the Democratic Party continues to insist on adherence to a political path that landed them in wilderness in Washington and most state capitols Read more |
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Bill McKibben How The Iconic 1968 Earthrise Photo Changed Our Relationship To The Planet "At least on a human timescale, we’ll never have a planet as intact and full of life as that one we glimpsed from space. Our trajectory is definitely downward. But there was so, so much beauty there, and there’s still so much left ― for now." Read more |
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Rebecca Gordon Life at Trump Speed: On Mental Whiplash and Forgotten Outrages Unlike the speed of earlier days, which sharpened the attention, Trump speed makes it impossible to focus on anything for very long, not when the next outrage is already heading for you at full tilt Read more |
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Max Richtman New Legislation Would Clamp Down On Social Security Field Office Closing Congress should pass it, the president who promised to protect Social Security should sign it, and SSA’s budget should be increased to implement it Read more |
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Elizabeth Bruenig Why This Progressive Texan Can't Get Excited About Beto O'Rourke I'm not sure we need another Obama, or another of any Democrat we've had recently: I think the times both call for and allow for a left-populist candidate with uncompromising progressive principles. I don't see that in O'Rourke. Read more |
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Naomi LaChance NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio Defends Amazon Deal at Sanders Event “Every day it’s something else. This Amazon deal took the cake for me. … You give away $3 billion? $3 billion? To the richest man in America? For a company that will most likely come here anyway?” Read more |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan How Would Mother Jones Eulogize George H.W. Bush? Mother Jones would have us pray for George H.W. Bush, who died at age 94, but also for his victims, many of whom, children included, were buried without pomp, or were simply disappeared Read more |
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Peter Certo It’s Good to Argue About Dead Presidents New debates, especially on overlooked subjects, bring new vibrancy to our civic life. In death, even flawed politicians can do us that final service Read more |
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Diane Archer, Richard Eskow Don’t Let the Trump Administration Corporatize Medicare Medicare Advantage plans force enrollees to gamble with their health and their savings Read more |
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Ann Wright Nominee for US Ambassador to Yemen is No Friend of the Yemeni People Confirming Christopher Henzel as the US Ambassador to Yemen will continue the US role in the starvation and deaths of millions of Yemenis Read more |
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Vijay Prashad G20: You Can Smell Tear Gas in the Streets as the Oil Industry Squabbles What the G20 and OPEC meetings mean for the political relations, economies, and people of the world Read more |
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Trita Parsi Trump's International Anti-Iran Coalition Looks Like It's Falling Apart. He Doesn't Have a Back-Up Plan. The president upended diplomatic relations based on support from the leaders from Saudi Arabia and Israel. Now our position is rather precarious. Read more |
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Domenica Ghanem Is Bush’s Legacy So Different From Trump’s? Some may mourn Bush's more “respectable” presidency. But looking back, one sees the very same race-baiting and cruelty Read more |
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Avi Lewis The November Crisis We are living in a state of planetary emergency Read more |
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Steve Minkin A Climate of Violence: Refugees and Global Warming While we need to focus on climate change and cutting emissions of greenhouse gases we must not ignore the compelling issues of injustice and violence driving people out of Central America and elsewhere Read more |
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Jeremy Brecher Climate Jobs for All: A Key Building Block for the Green New Deal The climate crisis confronts us with a critical need that may help lift the idea of jobs for all from an idle speculation to a realistic possibility Read more |
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Jim Hightower Putting the Trump Stamp on the Public The USPS is an unmatched bargain, a civic treasure, a genuine public good that links all of America's people and communities into one. And that's why the right wing is so dead set on offing it. Read more |
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Steven Rosenfeld The GOP’s Power Grabs Are a Measure of Political Despair Produced by the 2018 Election Clobbering Even with voting rights victories, partisan ambushes may lie ahead Read more |
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Helena Norberg-Hodge Unlike a Globalized Food System, Local Food Won’t Destroy the Environment Our food system is linked to an economic system that is fundamentally biased against what’s good for people and the planet. Read more |
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Jay Riestenberg Lame Duck Power Grabs in The Midwest What do Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, and North Carolina all have in common? Extreme partisan gerrymandering. Read more |
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Richard Smith An Ecosocialist Path to Limiting Global Temperature Rise to 1.5°C An emergency plan to meet the climate emergency Read more |
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Ben Fountain Midterm America A blue wave from another universe Read more |
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Scott Klinger Why Do Our Schools Seem Broke? New report shows that subsidies handed out to corporations cost U.S. school districts more than $1.8 billion last year Read more |
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David McWilliams Sanders Is Building a New Political Movement and Could Run Again Building a movement means organizing something that goes on and on and on—and there is no "winning" in a finite sense. But to succeed it must have one crucial component: a cause. Read more |
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Robert Reich Trump Takes on General Motors (And Guess Who Wins?) American corporations exist to advance the interests of their shareholders, who aren’t prepared to sacrifice profits for more and better jobs for Americans Read more |
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Chris Hedges The Film the Israel Lobby Does Not Want You to See The series is an inside look over five months by an undercover reporter, at how the government and intelligence agencies of Israel work with U.S. domestic Jewish groups to spy on, smear and attack critics who support the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement Read more |
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Juan Cole Congressional Noose May Tighten Around Saudi Crown Prince as Haspel Testifies This deep divide in the Trump administration probably will prevent it from implementing an effective anti-Iran boycott Read more |
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Andy Rowell “Since Our Leaders Are Behaving Like Children, We Will Have to Take Responsibility” Children from Canada, Australia and Sweden are taking the lead on climate change Read more |
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Jud Lounsbury Wisconsin’s GOP Scheme to Keep Scott Walker as Zombie Governor Republicans are using their gerrymandered control of the state to push through a slew of power-grabbing bills before the newly elected Democratic governor and attorney general can take office Read more |
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Kathy Kelly Seeing Yemen from Jeju Island As wars rage on, every voice crying out in affliction should be heard. Read more |
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Norman Solomon What It Means That Hillary Clinton Might Run for President in 2020 The only way to overcome the corporatism that ultimately delivered the nation to Donald Trump, is for social movements to fight more resolutely and effectively for progressive change, including in the Democratic Party Read more |
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Bill Blum 5 Reasons Trump Won’t Fire Mueller Despite all you've heard about the commander-in-chief's unfettered authority to discharge any member of the executive branch with impunity, Mueller isn't going anywhere any time soon Read more |
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Jacy Reese Emptying the Cages A new book envisions the end of animal factory farming and all the suffering it causes. Read more |
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Kirk Freudenburg Why We Need to Go Back to Fascism 101 Donald Trump and the Tiberian lie Read more |
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Alfred W. McCoy Trump’s Trade Czar, The Latest Architect of Imperial Disaster Five Academics Who Unleashed the “Demon” of Geopolitical Power Read more |
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Jack Esler Who Are the Extremists? Who Are the Rational Ones? The logic of neoliberal reason gives us liberal leaders who lie to our faces telling us we can extract and pump out tarsand bitumen and still make a safe energy transition. Read more |
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Barry Lando Trump's Enablers—An Appalling Parallel Why should we not compare Nazi officials with the leaders of the Republican Party, most of whom denounced and derided Donald Trump when he was running for office, but now seem eager to join his wrecking-ball attacks on America’s most hallowed democratic principles? Read more |
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Frances Moore Lappé The Opposite of Evil Is No Longer Goodness My point is simple. It's now time to focus on courage. Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati GM, Jobs, and Corporate America’s Incentive to Exploit Executive pay excess is driving decisions that are turning workers—and their communities—into sacrificial lambs. Read more |
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Madhuri Grewal How Trump Weaponized the Government’s Refugee Resettlement Agency The cruelty of the Trump administration knows no bounds. Read more |
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Anna Massoglia, Kaitlin Washburn 2017 Financials of the Koch’s Dark Money Network The Koch network: as powerful as ever Read more |