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Ted Morgan 50 Years Later, What Can We Learn From the My Lai Massacre? A half-century after this horrific example of American brutality, it is time for the nation to confront this history Read more |
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Bill Bigelow The Real Irish-American History Not Taught in Schools Sadly, today's corporate textbook-producers are no more interested in feeding student curiosity about the poverty and inequality that drove the famine than were British landlords interested in feeding Irish peasants Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J S Davies The Iraq Death Toll 15 Years After the US Invasion Numbers are numbing, especially numbers that rise into the millions. But please remember that each person killed represents someone's loved one. Read more |
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Dean Baker In Defense of Larry Kudlow (Sort of) Of course he was wrong about a host of key economic events. However, let's not forget that so were most business-page economists Read more |
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Russell Mokhiber Elizabeth Warren Unveils Legislation to Hold Wall Street Executives Criminally Accountable Wall Street scams and risk-taking were a main driver of the 2008 crisis, but no senior executive from a Wall Street bank went to jail Read more |
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Stephen Kinzer Trump Is Gutting the National Endowment for Democracy, and That’s a Good Thing Though he's probably doing it for none of the right reasons, it may just be the best foreign policy decision he's ever made Read more |
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Negin Owliaei Teachers Deserve a Raise. Here’s How to Fund It. Huge tax cuts for energy corporations have left state school budgets broke. Read more |
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Michael Lighty A Labor-Based Movement For Medicare for All A defensive posture and incremental demands have not worked. Let’s play offense instead. Read more |
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William Astore The Fog of America's Phony War Blitzkrieg overseas, but Sitzkrieg in the homeland Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Breaking the ICE How far will this go? Read more |
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Jeff Bryant Betsy DeVos Has Visited One ‘Underperforming’ School – A DC Charter When DeVos said to Stahl, “It all comes down to individual kids,” what she really means is that there is no place in her worldview for the communal enterprise we know as public education. Read more |
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Richard Silverstein With Mike Pompeo, Trump Is Heading into Dangerous Waters Pompeo's promotion means a more hawkish, muscular American foreign policy in which force is used more readily and confrontation with Iran is likely Read more |
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Pramila Jayapal Democrats Are Missing An Enormous Opportunity To Lead On Sexual Harassment We lose all moral authority to call out the abominable behavior of Moore and Trump if we refuse to call it out on our own side. Read more |
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Jim Lobe, Eli Clifton Pompeo: Springtime for Irano/Islamophobes When it comes to the Middle East, Islamophobes and Iranophobes must be elated over the nomination of Mike Pompeo Read more |
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Christopher Anders What the Senate Needs to Know About Gina Haspel With this nomination, Trump forces the CIA’s shameful past of torture yet again into the present Read more |
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Charles P. Pierce Conor Lamb's Victory Matters, and Paul Ryan Should Be Scared Republicans had the money. They had the gerrymandering. They still couldn't do it. Read more |
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Kaamil Ahmed Gaza's Water Problems Continue to Compound Locked between increasingly-polluted seascape and the borders of one of the most tightly-controlled enclaves in the world, Gaza City residents say the water has become so polluted they can no longer go swimming. Read more |
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Russell Mokhiber Don Blankenship, Dead Miners, Humility, and the Limits of Free Speech in West Virginia A call came in and there was a man who wanted to know if I had any questions for the former coal CEO and convict now running for U.S. Senate. Turns out I did have one. Read more |
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Will Bunch This Shamefully Ignored School Shooting Is Why Kids Should Walk Out for 18 Minutes, Not 17 All one can say with 100 percent certainty is that America should be ashamed for not paying more attention to the loss of such a beautiful life. Read more |
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Azadeh Shahshahani, Maha Hilal If We Want to Support Refugees, We Need To End the Wars That Create Them The sanctuary movement needs an anti-war voice. Read more |
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Eric Eikenberry, Kate Kizer The Lesson the Trump Administration has Failed to Learn about Yemen Three years of stalemate on the battlefield, mounting civilian casualties, and a blockade on humanitarian assistance for starving Yemeni civilians has finally brought this contradictory policy out into the open. Read more |
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John Buell On False Alarms and Nuclear Realism No mathematical model can tell us the likelihood of World War III, but we can say that a genuine realism would suggest negotiations to take weapons off hair-trigger alert. Read more |
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Aviva Chomsky Talking Sense About Immigration On the necessity of rejecting the president's Manichaean worldview Read more |
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Richard Eskow The $24 Million Reasons Dems Back America’s Worst Banks In a world where Republicans have already been bought and paid for, there is no room for Democrats who act in bad faith. Read more |
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Steven Singer 21 Reasons People Hate, Hate, HATE Betsy DeVos She is deeply unpopular, but not because she's misunderstood. It's actually the opposite of that. People know exactly who she is. Read more |
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Danielle Conrad Nebraska Is Illegally Obtaining and Storing Execution Drugs in Defiance of Federal Law "W e all have one more reason to conclude that the state has no business executing human beings." Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati A Media Mogul’s Noble Challenge to Moguldom The newspaper publishing giant E.W. Scripps would be deeply distressed to se what has become of his namesake company—and beloved country. Read more |
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César Chelala Afghanistan's Dire Health Situation To continue sending troops to try to win an unwinnable war will only increase the suffering of the Afghan people. Read more |
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Elizabeth Hadly Making America Great Again Requires Acting on Scientific Knowledge The mantra these days is “to make America great again.” But a key feature of bygone days was listening to the lessons that science taught and acting upon them to make a better planet. Read more |
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Kenneth Glasgow Marching Backwards for Freedom The truth is, we need a powerful movement for voting rights, economic and racial justice, just as much today as we did fifty-three years ago. Read more |
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Nomi Prins Trade Wars and Diminished Credibility The U.S. remains in a precarious economic situation, as does the world, and that means Trump's trade war and nationalism, coupled with bank deregulation, could inflict more risk on depleted economies. Read more |
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Lawrence Wittner Although 2 Out of 3 Americans Oppose Increasing US Military Spending, the US Government Is Boosting It to Record Levels Americans might want to ponder the fact that, with $700 billion per year now being pumped into the Pentagon by U.S. taxpayers, military spending consumes 54 percent of the federal discretionary budget. Read more |
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Nick Dearden Could Britain's Labour Party Under Corbyn Hold the Answer to Europe's Woes? If it commits to reversing Brexit, British Labour Party could play an important role in making Europe fairer Read more |
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Jeff Bryant West Virginia Teachers Tell Us Why Public Schools And Unions Matter The West Virginia teachers’ strike is not only a startling victory for labor rights; it’s also a reminder of the important role public schools and public school educators can and should play in progressive populism. Read more |
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Diane Ravitch On Charter Schools, Is Mayor De Blasio Turning into Mayor Bloomberg Sadly, like Bloomberg, he has closed many public schools in New York City. Unlike Bloomberg, he does not boast about it. There’s that. Read more |
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Donna Smith From One Mass Shooting Survivor's Mother to the Parents of Student Survivors in Florida: An Open Letter My son witnessed your children rising up and being heard, he uttered words and feelings I never dreamed I would hear from him. "Finally," he said. "Finally, I have hope." Read more |
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Stacy Bannerman The 15th Anniversary of "Original Sin" When it comes to mourning the invasion of Iraq, please do not cry for those who supported it. Cry for those whose lives it took and whose lives it ruined. Read more |
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Matt Taibbi Trump Is a Dangerous Idiot. So Why Are We Pushing Him Toward War? We have the dumbest, least competent White House in history. Whatever else anyone in America has as a goal for Trump's remaining time in office, the single most important priority must to be keeping this guy away from the nuclear button. Read more |
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David Dayen One Thing Democrats and Republicans Apparently Agree On: Deregulating Wall Street There is no constituency for bank deregulation outside of executive boardrooms and K Street lobby shops. And yet here we are... Read more |
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Reed Richardson West Virginia Strike Highlights Corporate Media’s Atrophied Labor Coverage In a media system structurally designed to be "enthusiastically supportive" of business, the failure of outlets to provide insightful coverage of workers' struggles is glaring Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Poverty, Poor Ben Carson, and a $31,000 Table What a little bit of office furniture exposes about the profligates now running things Read more |
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Robert Reich America’s Martin Shkreli Problem Is Not Just Martin Shkreli Though his story ultimately tragic and pathetic, How different is this one person from other figures who dominate American life today, even at the highest rungs? Read more |
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H. Patricia Hynes Youth, Gun Control and the Pentagon A nation which spends endlessly on guns and militarism, is starving programs designed to help our kids have healthier and more vibrant childhoods Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar For the Love of Their Country or Money? Kushner and the entire Trump dynasty should be required to answer this crucial question Read more |
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Adam Sanchez What the Koch Brothers Want Students to Learn About Slavery The history-teaching wing of the Koch brothers empire is seeking to promote an alternate narrative to slavery Read more |
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Elizabeth Warren I Call It Like I See It on the #BankLobbyistAct Saying Democrats are helping to roll back rules on big banks doesn’t make me the most popular kid on the team. But Massachusetts didn’t send me here to fight for big banks. The people of Massachusetts sent me here to fight for them. Read more |
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John Atcheson Did You Hear the One About the Party That Self-Destructed? On the importance of what we do and don't know about the Democrat's Unity Reform Commission Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Something’s Gotta Give: Time To Disarm the Gun Debate With an issue so clearly reliant on the issue of empowerment and safety, ignoring the fears of those on both sides of the debate means little is ever likely to change Read more |
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Russell Mokhiber Watching Labor History in Real Time Lessons from the West Virginia teachers’ strike Read more |
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Pat LaMarche Can You Keep a Secret on International Women's Day? Some pretty mighty men fell this last year... Except one Read more |
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James Carroll When 'God Wills It!': An American Reckoning The 'War on Terror' as the launching of an 'American Crusade' Read more |
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Jared Bernstein New Evidence of the Minimum Wage Doing What It’s Supposed to Do: Help Low-Wage Workers Recent wage growth has been best in states where minimums were raised Read more |
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Elliot Harmon Stop SESTA/FOSTA: Don’t Let Congress Censor the Internet This bill might sound appealing, but it would do nothing to fight sex traffickers. What it would do is silence a lot of legitimate speech online, shutting some voices out of online spaces. Read more |
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Mark Weisbrot Congress Must Act Now to End America's Atrocities in Yemen What does the US government have to do with this suffering, which has created the worst humanitarian crisis in the world today? Unfortunately, a lot. Read more |
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J.M. Kirby Afro-Colombian Women Mobilize for Justice and Healing on International Women’s Day In Colombia, women are demanding an end to the impunity, silence and invisibility that fuel attacks on female human rights defenders Read more |
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Robert Weissman Wall Street Deregulation Is All About the Money The financial sector is the most lucrative source of campaign contributions for nine of the 13 Democrats co-sponsoring the deregulatory bill making its way through the Senate. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Those Who Controlled the Past Should Not Control the Future If you don’t know who Katharine Gun is or what she did, chalk that up to the media power of the war system Read more |
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Rebecca Solnit Feminists Have Slowly Shifted Power. There’s No Going Back The #TimesUp and #MeToo movements are a revolution that could not have taken place without decades of quiet, painstaking groundwork Read more |
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Christian Christensen Time For Action: Seven Proposals From Sweden For Reducing Sexism and Sexual Violence in the Midst of #MeToo "OK…now what?" Read more |
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Andy Rowell Coast Guard Responders 'Harmed by Chemicals Used to Clean Up BP’s Spill' Nearly one million gallons of the dispersant was dropped by air and a further 770,000 gallons injected into the well head to try and disperse in excess of 200 million gallons of oil that was spilt by BP in the Gulf of Mexico. Read more |
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Ramzy Baroud Ahed’s Generation: Why the Youth in Palestine Must Break Free from Dual Oppression Their collective imprisonment is not only as a result of the perpetual military occupation of their land by Israel, but also by the fact that their leadership has operated for many years in a self-centered fashion. Read more |
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Rachel Levinson-Waldman, Faiza Patel Monitoring Kids' Social Media Accounts Won't Prevent the Next School Shooting Invading students' privacy isn't the solution. Read more |
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Robert Reich Trump's Brand Is Ayn Rand This far-right philosophy is an affront to the idea that we're all in this thing together Read more |
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Karen Dolan Getting Real About School Safety Armed adults don’t make kids safer. They put them at greater risk. Read more |
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Steven Singer When Students Stay Up All Night Playing Fortnite and You’ve got to Teach Them in the Morning Teaching them is like teaching someone in a deep sea diver suit. Read more |
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Leonard Pitts Jr. When it Comes To Honoring Martin Luther King, Maybe Trump Should Skip It Go golfing at Mar-a-Lago. Give Stormy Daniels a ring. Have some cake. Meantime, the rest of us will honor the radical prophet who died calling on America to vindicate its noble promises - something America still struggles to do, 50 years later. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Heritage’s Corporate Lobby Inside Trump’s Government is Not the People’s Heritage Hand it to Heritage, it deals with both abstract conservative principles and corporatist concrete policies. Read more |
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Jim Hightower We're Told the Dow Jones Average... Nearly all stock is owned by the richest 10 percent of Americans, so the Dow Jones Average says nothing about the economic condition of the 90 percent majority of Americans. Read more |
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Camillo Mac Bica "Why I Won't Give Up My AR15" . . . And Why You Should Want to wear camouflage and be a warrior, then join the military. Read more |
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Hamzah Raza Nine Reasons Israel Is Not a ‘Progressive Paradise’ Progressives realizing the realities of the state of Israel are precisely why Democrats are continuing to sympathize more and more with Palestinians. Read more |
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Jim Naureckas Social Media and the Rise of the ‘Consistent Liberal’ A funny thing happened in the 21st century: People began to find ways around corporate media gatekeepers. Read more |
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Tom Gallagher California Democrats Call for End to Seemingly Endless Afghanistan War A war that cannot be won; a war that creates more enemies than it eliminates; a war that according to the U.N., killed more civilians last year than at any time since they started tallying the dead in 2009. Read more |
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Derrick Johnson Gun Safety Is About Freedom In the wake of the Parkland massacre, NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson says that comprehensive, sustainable gun control is achievable. Johnson uses Australia’s gun control policies as an example. Read more |
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Belle Chesler Will an AR-15 Succeed Where the American Dream Failed? High school students: The canaries in the coal mine of American disaster. Read more |
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Ryan Cooper Will Striking Teachers Spark a Labor Revolution? It's time we all paid attention. Read more |
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Matt Taibbi Russiagate and the New Blacklist It may have been aimed at Trump to start, but it's become a way of targeting all dissent. Read more |
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Judith Solomon Arkansas’ Harsh Medicaid Work Requirement Jeopardizes Recent Progress This approach introduces new, burdensome red tape for all enrollees, but electronic reporting will pose a particular challenge for people without Internet access. Read more |
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Michael Winship The "Pure Madness" of Our Vigilante President Trump and the NRA leadership’s disdain for schools as “gun free zones”—as if the idea of an educational safe haven is somehow ludicrous—is equally abhorrent, like an arsonist cynically making fun of a flameproof building and simultaneously passing out lighter fluid to show how to make it burn. Read more |
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Pat Elder Junior Cadet Private First-Class Nik Cruz Where does a 14-year-old boy, who never fired a gun before, get the skill and the desire to kill? Read more |
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Claudia Lefko Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here: Marking the Anniversary of a Disaster in Iraq For my part, I think it’s important to try to remember all of it, to remember as much as we can reasonably hold in our hearts and minds. Read more |
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Dana Drugmand Time to Hold Petroleum Perpetrators Accountable for Climate Damage The attempt to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable through litigation is gaining momentum. Read more |
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Arnold R. Isaacs Using Fake Facts to Make Us Afraid On immigration and terrorism, the Trump Administration misleads about its own misleading data. Read more |
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Robert Borosage Pushing for Real Change in the Democratic Party If the DNC votes against reform – or the state parties torpedo it – it will feed cynicism about the rigged system and turn activists toward third parties, or away from electoral politics altogether. Read more |
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Russell Mokhiber West Virginia Frontier Communications Workers on Strike “What business wants is to hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.” Read more |
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John Nichols Scott Walker Does Not Respect Democracy And Walker's not alone in denying democracy. Republican governors of the swing states of Michigan and Florida are also refusing to call special elections for legislative seats, and for a U.S. House seat in Michigan Read more |
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Brandy Bochna Tuck I'm a Coal Miner's Daughter and a West Virginia Teacher. Here's Why I'm on Strike We are in this position because education is not a priority to our government Read more |
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Robert Reich Jared Kushner's Unconscionable Conflicts It's as bad for a government official to look as if he's lining his pockets as for him to actually do so, because the appearance of corruption undermines public trust just as readily as the real thing Read more |
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Eric Margolis Putin Trumps Trump With New Nuclear Weapons Arsenal The Russian leader has neatly trumped the U.S. president's nuclear arms buildup and shown up his empty bullying Read more |
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Robert Freeman A Teacher's Take on Arming Teachers Let's fix the systems that are there for a reason, but failed, before we go out and deputize a whole new cadre of reluctant amateurs Read more |
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Nancy Romer How New York City Won Divestment From Fossil Fuels The divestment campaign provides an excellent example of how dedicated organizing, clear demands and strategies, creative tactics, strong coalitions, and good luck can come together for a win Read more |
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David Krieger US Nuclear Posturing Has Adversaries Gearing Up, Not Standing Down The nation's nuclear posture will spur other nuclear-armed countries to do the same, assuring new arms races and increased nuclear dangers ahead Read more |
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Raymond Hogler Collective Action Is Unions' Last Line of Defense. The Supreme Court Is on the Verge of Destroying It A ruling in the Janus case could devastate unions Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli The In-Laws and the President First Lady Melania Trump's parents got into this country under the current immigration rules that the president hopes to change Read more |
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Eric Ruben Are Recently Proposed Gun Regulations Constitutional? Examining firearm reforms and the Second Amendment Read more |
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Rebecca Vallas The Leaked Rule That Could Ban Immigrants Based on Income, Explained by Experts If this policy goes into effect, "no longer would we be the country that serves as a beacon for the world's dreamers and strivers. Instead America's doors would be open only the highest bidder." Read more |
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Mark Trahant The Disruption of White Supremacy The white male-centric colonial system is incapable of the leadership we need, and Indigenous knowledge is essential for the innovation that will follow this disruption Read more |
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Brigitte Amiri Scott Lloyd's Anti-Abortion Ideology Is Harming the People His Agency Is Supposed to Protect The head of the Office of Refugee Resettlement believes that he has the power to override a young woman's decision to have an abortion Read more |
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Maggie Ellinger-Locke We Will Continue to Resist the Assault on Environmental Protest Lawmakers are trying to give corporate interests even more tools to punish people for speaking up for their families and communities Read more |
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Ben Lilliston The High Cost of Trump's Infrastructure Plan The plan is a mess—cutting some critical rural infrastructure programs, while expecting states and investors to pick up most of the tab. Read more |
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Deborah Burger Shocking Aetna Report Shows Why California Needs Single-Payer Californians cannot rely on the giant insurance companies whose profit margins always come first, not our care. Read more |