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Jim Warren Solar With Storage Surges as Gas Falls All the economics and technology are available to rapidly replace coal and “natural” gas, save billions and create thousands of jobs across rural and urban North Carolina Read more |
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John Feffer The Case for Imposing Sanctions on Donald Trump and His US-Based Business Empire It's time for Americans to get a taste of their own medicine. The world should blacklist Trump, his associates, and his businesses. Read more |
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Lucy Goodchild van Hilten Why We Need More Women Involved in Creating Environmental Policy A new study shows female economists are more likely to support environmental policies than their male counterparts Read more |
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Jim Hightower Monopoly or Democracy? Generation after generation of moneyed elites have persisted in trying to take wealth and power from the workaday majority and concentrate both of those things in their wealthy hands to establish a de facto American aristocracy Read more |
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Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap, Greg Coleridge Confirming Kavanaugh Is Not Affirming Democracy Based on Kavanaugh’s own past decisions, of affirming, and likely expanding, constitutional rights of corporations at the expense of human rights, and limiting our ability to protect our ecosystem from further plunder and outright collapse Read more |
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Ralph Nader Apple’s CEO Tim Cook— Serf Labor, Overpriced iPhones, and Wasted Burning Profits Apple’s business model rests on low wage-labor in China and gouging iPhone consumers in the U.S. The federal cops on the corporate antitrust beat have been asleep for years— a somnolence well recognized by Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Google. Read more |
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Andy Rowell Are We Descending Into Hothouse Earth? The new normal could become a whole lot worse Read more |
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Eugene Robinson Trump’s Rally Rhetoric Is Going to Get Somebody Killed The GOP has lost its mind Read more |
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Jeffrey D. Sachs Medicare for All Makes A Lot of Sense The current system is an outrage, and Americans express less satisfaction with the health care system than do their counterparts abroad. Read more |
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Madeline Peltz Watching Tucker Carlson Eats At My Soul. Here’s Why I Do It Anyway Fox News is still the highest-viewed news network in the country, which means the stories it focuses on and the language it uses to report them holds a tremendous amount of sway Read more |
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy Encouraging Progress in Prying Open Trump’s Finances A judge has defined the Constitution’s anti-corruption clauses for the first time. And it’s not good news for the president Read more |
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Emilie K. Clark What Do We Teach Our Students About Hiroshima and Nagasaki? I have worked in four different high schools in New York City, and have hardly heard these nuclear disasters mentioned Read more |
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Sajjad Hussain Drifting Away from Peace According to a new study, peaceful countries are getting more peaceful while the violent are getting more violent Read more |
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Charles P. Pierce This Was as Grave an Attack on Our Democracy as the Russian Meddling Except it was waged by the vice president and Kris Kobach Read more |
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Dr. Hakim Can Afghans Convince Us That the Method of War Isn’t Effective? For them, war not only doesn’t work, it results in more war, verifying a report that in the ongoing ‘global war against terrorism’ from 2001 to 2015, terrorism increased nine fold Read more |
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Rev. John Dear Breaking Through the Normalcy of Los Alamos on Hiroshima Day The normalcy of Los Alamos is so inhumanly, grotesquely, demonically abnormal as to seem perfectly reasonable Read more |
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Paul Street The American Sea of Deception While we’ve never seen anything on Trump’s psychotic scale, the problem of U.S. presidential deception goes way back in American history Read more |
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Nick Turse The Legacy of Infinite War Special Ops, Generational Struggle, and the Cooperstown of Commandos Read more |
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Naomi Klein Capitalism Killed Our Climate Momentum, Not “Human Nature” We humans really were on the brink of saving ourselves in the ’80s, but were swamped by a tide of elite, free-market fanaticism — one that was opposed by millions of people around the world Read more |
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Nathan J. Robinson Abdul El-Sayed’s Campaign Is a Test for Leftism in the Midwest He’s not quite like anyone else in American politics Read more |
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Robert Dodge Hibakusha and Hope in the Nuclear Age The renewed arms race threatens us and everything we care about every moment of every day Read more |
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Ryan Cooper America in Peril This is just a tiny taste of our coming future if climate change is not halted Read more |
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Norah Vawter A Letter to My Child on a Changing Planet Lots of big stuff is at stake as the climate changes. But so are everyday pleasures we take for granted — like hikes in the woods, days on the beach, and lazy summer days. Read more |
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Tom Valovic Humanity’s Pickle: A Penchant for Undeserving Leaders Strongmen and other unworthy leaders who have historically risen to power have done so largely by becoming masters of manipulating fear. Read more |
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Karen Feridun Justice Mocked in Pennsylvania Ellen Gerhart was sentenced for her protest against Energy Transfer Partners' pipeline Read more |
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Maya Evans Marching for Peace: From Helmand to Hiroshima Perhaps the silver lining of the Trump cloud is that people are finally starting to wake up and see the complete lack of wisdom behind the U.S. and its hostile foreign and domestic policies Read more |
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John Vandermeer, Ivette Perfecto Coffee and the Shock Doctrine in Puerto Rico Hurricane Maria quickly became an unprecedented human disaster because the destruction of Puerto Rican economy and society had long been underway . Read more |
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Esteban Suárez Biodiversity and the Society of Superlatives We must move beyond the mercantile mindset of perceiving everything only in terms of numbers, where “more” or “bigger” necessarily mean “better.” Read more |
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Mel Gurtov While Rome (and Most Everywhere Else) Burns The Trump administration is taking action, but in precisely the wrong direction . Read more |
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Meena Miriam Yust Why Treaty Protection Is Needed for Migratory Pollinators Butterflies are not protected under any treaty, and consequently their populations are in danger. Read more |
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Juan Cole Jared Kushner Tries to Strip Refugee Status, Aid from Millions of Displaced Palestinians Trump's son-in-law and senior advisor is reportedly pushing to close UNRWA Read more |
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Patty Lovera Trump’s Farmer "Bailout," Explained And what we really need to do to get agriculture back on track Read more |
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Amrit Cheng 3 Reasons Why Immigration Detention Centers Are Not Like ‘Summer Camp’ It’s a ludicrous statement, entirely disconnected from reality or any semblance of humanity Read more |
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Vernon Haltom Witnessing Coal's Death March "Whether it's coal to Asia, coal waste to oil, coal to plastics, or coal to rainbows and unicorns, that coal is mined from the bones and the lungs of people who can never be fairly compensated for their injuries or their lives." Read more |
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Tim Koechlin Unholy Trinity: Trumpism, Racism and Profits Blaming the hard times suffered by struggling whites on “undeserving” people of color – is as old as America Read more |
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Dean Baker The Trump Administration's Giant F**k You to Working People: Playing Games with Capital Gains Tax Rates As the Republican motto goes, "tax cuts are for rich people." Read more |
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Ben Lilliston Stop Meat Companies from Rigging the Grass-fed Market The deceptive use of “Product of U.S.A” in labeling imported beef hurts ranchers, consumers, and the environment Read more |
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Mike Lofgren C’mon, Just Say It! Why can’t journalists state the obvious? Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Border Security: Wall vs. Principles Is it possible that what makes America great isn’t its separation from, and power over, the rest of the world, but its connection to it? Read more |
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Ryan Cooper Ban Share Buybacks The most immediately objectionable consequence of share buybacks is they come at the expense of wages Read more |
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Michael Winship Mayhem Is Our President A manchild at the wheel, a raccoon gnawing at the nation’s wires, a walking calamity that lurks around every corner Read more |
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Nomi Prins We Will Have to Face the Consequences of Donald Trump Getting His Hands on the Economy Each arbitrary bit of presidential pique, each tweet and insult, is a predecessor to yet more possible economic upheavals and displacements Read more |
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Vijay Prashad Empire in Decline, Really? The American War Machine Continues to Grow Everything the Trump administration does is geared toward intimidation and war. Read more |
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John Feffer The War Before the Iran War Division in the ranks of the conservative movement is a critical sign that a war with Iran isn't inevitable. Read more |
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Lawrence Wittner Trump's Foreign Policy Is Awful, But There's a Better Alternative Than the Establishment's Version It would be a mistake to yearn for undisputed U.S. "leadership," or for U.S.-led military alliances. A better alternative is global governance. Read more |
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Robert Reich Why Wages Are Going Nowhere America doesn’t have a jobs crisis. It has a good jobs crisis Read more |
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Katie Parker Amazon’s Worst Bargain Yet The retail behemoth wants your local government's business, but there's a hidden cost to low prices: Local businesses get shut out Read more |
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Justin Anderson Reporting on Medicare for All Makes Media Forget How Math Works A single study by a think tank with an anti-tax agenda eaten up like candy by many corporate and mainstream news outlet who missed the real story the analysis showed Read more |
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Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity VIPS to Trump: Intel on Iran Could be Catastrophic As drums beat again for war — this time on Iran—-the VIPS’ warning is again being disregarded as it was before the Iraq debacle and this time VIPS fear the consequences will be CATASTROPHIC Read more |
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Astrid Dominguez, Mike Seifert At US Ports of Entry, the Government Is Denying Asylum to Those Seeking Refuge One supervisor, when confronted about a mother and child who had been sitting on the bridge for days, candidly admitted, “I don’t really care.” Read more |
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Miles Mogulescu Memo to Rudy: Collusion Isn’t a Crime, But Conspiracy Is They know full well, collusion can be a crime, and the legal term for it is “conspiracy.” Read more |
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Haley Hinkle, Rachel Levinson-Waldman The Abolish ICE Movement Explained Behind the growing chorus calling for eliminating U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Read more |
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Will Bunch Dying From ALS, Ady Barkan Will Save U.S. Democracy if It's the Last Thing He Does “We’re on the verge of a political revolution.” Read more |
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Richard Rodriguez, Joy Moses Lawyering Up on Immigration in the Trump Era Immigrants are uniquely vulnerable to efforts to undermine the rule of law Read more |
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Jamie Longazel Trump Bringing Familiar Politics of Division to Pennsylvania Coal Country At Thursday's rally, Republican senate candidate Lou Barletta and Trump will do their best to emphasize the differences of those who live in this region. Like the coal barons before them, they’ll look working class Pennsylvanians in the eye and tell them economic policies that favor the rich are... Read more |
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Chuck Collins, Helen Flannery If You Take a Charitable Tax Deduction, You Should Actually Give to Charity Wealthy donors are hoarding money in shady "charity" accounts in the face of urgent community needs Read more |
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Thom Hartmann Trump Is in Major Legal and Political Trouble—His Desperate Attempts to Escape It Could Lead America to Catastrophe We should talk about and prepare against any drastic measures from war to martial law Trump may undertake to escape his crises. Read more |
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Hannah McKinnon As California Burns, Nobel Peace Laureates Call on Governor Brown to Phase Out Fossil Fuel Production Like many self-identified “climate leaders,” California is dangerously ignoring the reality that in order to meaningfully tackle climate change we have to address fossil fuel production Read more |
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Arnold R. Isaacs American Islamophobia’s Fake Facts The con game of anti-Muslims Read more |
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Bill Blum Paul Manafort and the Five Stages of 'Mueller Derangement Syndrome' The syndrome is most prevalent among Trump supporters, whose ranks range from off-the-hinge zealots like Alex Jones to the hacks on Fox News and, of course, the president’s biggest cheerleader—himself Read more |
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Stacy Bannerman Is Climate the Worst Casualty of War? The money misspent on the Iraq War—a war for oil, let’s not forget— could have purchased the planetary conversion to renewable energy. Just sit with that a moment. Read more |
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Trita Parsi Trump's Offer to Meet With Iran's President Rouhani Won't Get Us a Better Deal. We Had Our Chance and Lost It. Iran has offered American deals to end their nuclear programs before, but we preferred belligerency to diplomacy Read more |
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Negin Owliaei Lancaster Shows How to Say No to Geo Group A Pennsylvania county goes up against a giant of the private prison industry, and comes out victorious Read more |
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Andy Rowell California Wildfires Are “Climate Change, for Real and in Real Time” As climate change creates its own weather, how many more people have to die, how many of our children do we have to bury or how many brave fire-fighters put their lives in danger, before society acts decisively? Read more |
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Laura Flanders Ominous Silence on the Anniversary of the ADA The first two years of the Trump administration marked the first time that this landmark civil rights anniversary passed without official anything Read more |
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Nancy Altman It’s Medicare’s 53rd Birthday—It’s Time Everyone Had It Medicare for All is coming. It is coming because it is profoundly wise policy and profoundly winning politics. Read more |
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Hamid Yazdan Panah ICE Policies Hurt Our Communities Beyond the Border The United States detains more immigrants than any other country in the world, and ICE’s ballooning budget and expansive detention policies run the risk of reshaping the character of our country Read more |
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Valerie Strauss No, Private Schools Aren’t Better at Educating Kids Than Public Schools. Why This New Study Matters The results confirm what earlier research found but are especially important amid a movement to privatize public education Read more |
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James Zogby Foolish Wars Have Consequences Countless civilan deaths, millions displaced, decimation of entire cities and the spread of extremism Read more |
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Richard Eskow An Economy in the Fast Lane – With No Brakes When the next recession hits, the working people of the United States will pay the steepest price Read more |
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Robert Reich 6 Reasons for Hope in Trump Times The fate of this nation depends on every one of us becoming an activist, joining with others, and reclaiming this land from those bent on destroying it Read more |
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Sina Toossi Why Trump's Iran Policy is Bound to Fail The administration's aggressive policies evokes past destructive foreign interventions against Iran. Read more |
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Robert Epstein What's Going On With Donald Trump's Mental State? No Principles, Just Gusts of Wind Trump's lies and reversals are not due to mental illness but because he reacts to people and situations in the moment, with no thought of future or past. Read more |
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Peter Dreier The Right-Wing Firestorm That Rages On A new documentary reveals how the right-wing attack on the national, grassroots anti-poverty group ACORN was a dress rehearsal for our current toxic political culture. Read more |
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Peter Bloom Strong Progressives Vs. Weak Conservatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez isn’t moving to the Right, She is Shifting What is considered right to the Left Read more |
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Tony Norman What an Incompetent Conspiracy Sounds Like Not making any value judgments here, but Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s onetime consigliere, “fixer” and designated punching bag, is turning out to be something of a rat. I say that with... Read more |
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Ray McGovern Ahed Tamimi and Her Mother are Free - Sort Of Ahed Tamimi and her mother were freed from prison on Sunday and Ray McGovern looks back on when he met the Tammy family last year in their West Bank village and reflects on the spirit that drives them. Read more |
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Cici Battle What Do Young People Stand to Lose with Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court? Our Lives. Young people have been on the front lines of so many progressive movements in our country for decades. We’re seeing that trend continue in 2018, as a surge of young people fed up with the growing... Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Peace in Trump's Time It must be a peace without victory. . . only a peace between equals can last. - Woodrow Wilson, Address to the Senate, January 12, 1917 Once again, Mr. Trump has shown the world that he is a... Read more |
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Stephanie Taylor, Alex Lawson We Need a Public Option for Prescription Drugs There is no good reason or justification for continuing with business as usual Read more |
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John de Graaf A California City That’s Taking Beauty Seriously Vallejo is working on conserving open space and beautifying the city as part of a national campaign to unite Americans Read more |
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Reese Erlich US Losing Trade War with China When I first reported from China in 1980, bicycles outnumbered cars on Beijing's major streets, and the tallest building in town was a 25-story hotel. I visited a small village that had one black and... Read more |
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Eric Margolis The Looming War Against Iran President Donald Trump and his neocon advisors have been trying to provoke a war with Iran and Syria for many months. The neocons are echoing Cato the Elder’s cry, ‘delenda est Carthago!’. Iran must... Read more |
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Gaurav Laroia How the AT&T-Time Warner Deal Could Ruin the Open Internet Even in an age of increasing consolidation, the AT&T-Time Warner merger is a big one. Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt Three Failing Experiments? Mine, America’s, and Humanity’s Each of us might, sooner or later, be thought of as a kind of failed experiment that ends in the ultimate failure: death. And in some ways, the same thing might be said of states and empires. Read more |
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Nozomi Hayase Why Americans Need to Defend Julian Assange’s Freedom Criminalizing the act of publishing through the Espionage Act destroys the First Amendment as the guardian of democracy Read more |
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Bob Burnett Trump Supporters, Hiding in Plain Sight A commitment to a white Christian nation, the status quo and an economic model that works for the few Read more |
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Will Bunch That Raise You Were Promised Last Year? Wall Street Took It From You Believe it or not, there are actually things that Congress can do to ensure that working-class people get their raise, which don’t involve throwing wads of cash at a CEO and hoping he won’t blow it all on his fifth vacation home Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati Creating Pension Plan Chaos for Teachers, Firefighters, and Cops Hedge fund billionaires have been feasting off the futures of public employees — and the publics they serve Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler A World Designed by Playground Bullies The money just isn’t there for most social programs, but it’s there for war, surveillance and incarceration Read more |
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Norman Solomon GOP and Corporate Dems Gain When Democrats Run Against Putin Amplifying the anti-Russia din helps to drown out the left’s core messages for economic fairness, equal rights, environmental protection, diplomacy and so much more Read more |
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Jacob Snow Amazon’s Face Recognition Falsely Matched 28 Members of Congress With Mugshots The false matches were disproportionately of people of color Read more |
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Chris Winters Power Grows Closer to Home as Big Government Fails Us It will be up to the states, the cities, the communities, and the people to rebuild a unified state Read more |
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Rebecca Burns How European Workers Coordinated This Month's Massive Amazon Strike—And What Comes Next “We Are Humans, Not Robots.” Read more |
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John Feffer Trump’s Dirty Money Now that Trump has improbably failed all the way up to the White House, Russian money may well be the cause of his political demise Read more |
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Noam Chomsky, Vijay Prashad Chomsky, Prashad, Hedges and Other Leading Intellectuals: Denuclearize the Middle East American political decision makers, as well as Israeli political leaders, need to rethink their political, military, economic, and cultural policies in the region Read more |
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Vijay Prashad Trump Has Found a Way to Make Enemies of Breastfeeding Mothers Trump bends over backward to help profit-hungry infant formula industry Read more |
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Medea Benjamin Who Will Stop Trump From Tweeting Us into War With Iran? The president hopes we’ll break our Russia tunnel vision and set sights on Iran. We should. Read more |
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Lee Camp American Society Would Collapse If It Weren’t for These 8 Myths These myths are accepted and basically never questioned. Read more |
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Thom Hartmann Trump Simply Can’t Pull Anything Off—Even His Most Nefarious Plots Trump will go down as the most dangerously corrupt and tragically incompetent president in America’s history. Read more |