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Jeffrey C. Isaac Is It Really Smart to Narrow the Impeachment to Just Ukraine? Simple is sometimes simplistic. And stupid. Read more |
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Jen Moore Abusive North American Companies Pay Off Latin American Police to Harass Critics In countries like Peru, extractive industries contract police to suppress Indigenous protesters and detain international observers—including me. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson How Politics Threatens the 2020 Census If Hispanics, blacks, the poor and other hard-to-count groups go undercounted, seats in Congress and federal funding will be in jeopardy. Read more |
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Diana Ohlbaum How (Not) To End Endless Wars The goal is to end the war, not just our participation. Read more |
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Jesse Hagopian The Chicago Teachers Strike: 'Until We Get What Our Students Deserve' "The ball is in Mayor Lightfoot’s court now. She’s got a decision to make. I know that we will remain in the streets until we get what we deserve." Read more |
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Wenonah Hauter Trump Seeks to Frack the 2020 Election While Donald Trump will run as the champion of a disastrous addiction to fossil fuels and fracking, Democrats should proudly champion a different vision. Read more |
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Donald M. Berwick Stop Fearmongering About 'Medicare for All.' Most Families Would Pay Less for Better Care. The case for Medicare for All is simple. It would cover everyone, period. Done right, it would lower costs. And it would ease paperwork and confusion. Read more |
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Mike Ervin The GOP and the Zombie Medicaid Block Grants Here they are again, back from the dead, like zombies. Read more |
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Gretchen Goldman The Experts Have Spoken: Disbanded Particulate Pollution Panel Finds EPA Standards Don’t Protect Public Health The Independent Panel’s deliberations, demands for further research, and unanswered questions highlight how broken the EPA process is. Read more |
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Tom Gallagher A Modest Goal: #usoutofafghanistan The hashtag is as relevant today as it has ever been these last eighteen years. Read more |
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Arnold R. Isaacs Making America Crueler Again: Trump's Ugly New Anti-Immigrant Wave The White House targets refugees, green card applicants, and poor immigrants. Read more |
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Gary Engler Climate Change Deniers Become Extinct in Canadian Election The four parties that do offer climate action plans (of varying seriousness) collected almost 65 percent of the vote. Read more |
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Thom Hartmann Is War on the Menu for 2020 Elections? When democracy fails, history tells us that violence and conflict usually follows. Read more |
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Boaventura de Sousa Santos Ecuador: From The Middle of the World to the End of the World Ecuadorian people are teaching the world a lesson: unjust power, no matter how strong, always comes with a vulnerable spot, a measure of injustice, and peaceful and organized resistance against it. Read more |
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Tamaryn Nelson Trump Found a Different Way to Build His Wall The Trump administration is using a wide range of cruel policies to stop people in need from seeking safety in the US. Read more |
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John Feffer The Far Right's War on the World It's time to flip the script. We are indeed in the fight of our lives. Read more |
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Chris Hedges Pity the Kurds And curse the United States which has once again turned the Kurdish people into cannon fodder. Read more |
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Juan Cole No, Trump Isn't Bringing US Troops Home Not those in Syria and not any of the 60,000 soldiers spread across the Mideast Read more |
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José Antonio Ocampo International Tax Emergency. A Critical Time for Developing Nations to Speak Up! Developing countries lose at least $100 billion hidden away each year by multinationals in the world's tax havens. This must end. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Beware, Pete Buttigieg Is a Sharp Corporate Tool With the mutual alignment of Buttigieg and his corporate healthcare-industry donors, Mayor Pete's approach seems to be a case of a flimflamming candidate who poses as a forthright leader. Read more |
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David R. Montgomery The Key to Saving Family Farms Is in the Soil Farmers adopting regenerative agricultural practices across the Midwest are restoring the health of the soil and of their rural economies. Read more |
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Jessica Taft A UN Treaty Guarantees Youth Rights Everywhere on Earth—Except the United States One notable children’s rights violation in the United States today is the separation of migrant children from their parents Read more |
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Kathy Kelly Taking Next Steps Toward Nuclear Abolition Marianne Goldscheider worries that, similar to the 1930s, citizens of countries possessing nuclear weapons sleepwalk toward utter disaster. Read more |
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Karl Evers-Hillstrom Trump Was Outraised by Hundreds of Millions in 2016. That Won’t Happen Again in 2020 The Republican incumbent is approaching 2020 with a massive cash advantage. Read more |
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Janet Gunter Why Taking Responsibility for Our Carbon Emissions Means Promoting the Right to Repair Using products for longer is one of the simplest actions we can take towards climate justice. Read more |
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Derrick Z. Jackson Natural Gas vs. Renewable Energy: Beware the Latest Gas Industry Talking Points The natural gas industry is on an aggressive public relations tear to convince Americans that for decades to come, it is the “bridge” between coal and renewable energy. The campaign is loaded with... Read more |
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Udi Ofer Unveiling a State-by-State Plan to End our Mass Incarceration Crisis The Smart Justice 50 State Blueprints are the product of over two years collecting data, analyzing policies, and learning from people impacted by our criminal legal system. This is how we can end the mass incarceration crisis. Read more |
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Harvey Wasserman Ohio’s Fascist Pro-Nuke Attack on Democracy Comes Due on Monday The unprecedented assault threatens the referendum process in Ohio and across the nation. Read more |
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Reese Erlich Trump Blows It Big Time in Syria Trump Dumps Kurds as the Empire Crumbles Read more |
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Frances Moore Lappé We're Not "Polarized" Everywhere. In Maine, Democracy and Green Energy Win Big How often I hear that in “polarized” America rural voters will reject a green agenda out of hand. For them, green means liberal, tree-hugging snobs, unconcerned about the struggles of real working... Read more |
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Gregory Shupak Media Alarmed by Imaginary US Pullout From Syria Influential sectors in corporate media clearly believe that US policy in Syria should be tailored toward assuring worldwide US hegemony. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Where Are the Influentials Who Find Trump Despicable? "Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing." Read more |
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Clarissa Beretz Bolsonaro Helping to Fuel Explosion of Violence Against Indigenous Peoples in Brazil "It is the worst it has been since the redemocratization of Brazil." Read more |
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Charlie Simmons Our Tax System Rewards Polluters Last year, the biggest fossil fuel companies paid zero dollars in taxes — and actually received billions in rebates. Read more |
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Trita Parsi, Stephen Wertheim America’s Syria Debacle Is Not Trump’s Alone By going along with the myth that the president is pulling out of the Middle East, his critics are helping make U.S. wars there worse. Read more |
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Brian Terrell The United States Air Force at Incirlik, Our National "Black Eye" There is no lie that can cover the black eye of US complicity in genocide. Read more |
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Robert Weissman The Antidote to Trump's Corrupt G7 Deal? Impeachment and Conviction This is a president who believes the powers of the presidency are bestowed on him to advance his own personal interests—political and profit-seeking—rather than those of the American people. Read more |
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Siddak Ahújá Obama’s Endorsement of Trudeau Highlights Class Unity of the 1 Percent If Barack Obama truly cared about endorsing a progressive economic leader, or even a leader of colour just like him, he could have chosen Jagmeet Singh of the left-wing New Democratic Party. But he didn’t. Read more |
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Michael Galant The World Bank Must Put People Before Profit The World Bank's Maximizing Finance for Development (MFD) agenda is a coup for global capital—steamrolling the poor and vulnerable to pave the way for private profit. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J S Davies Trump’s Fake Withdrawal From Endless War Despite his endless promises to end these wars, Trump has instead been dropping more bombs and missiles on other countries than Bush II and Obama put together—a terrifying feat. Read more |
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Hannah Gurman, Kaeten Mistry The Ukraine Whistleblowers and the Rise of Partisan Whistleblowing This moment should spark a conversation about the place of national security whistleblowing in a democratic society. Read more |
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Steve Fraser The Greening of the New Deal The great depression and the climate crisis, new deals then and now. Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar No, Warren and Sanders Are Not the Same Do progressives want the candidate who may be feeling pressured to move to the left or the person whose candidacy is setting the progressive standard? Read more |
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John Feffer Trump’s Endless Wars Trump’s not bringing the troops home. He’s been haphazardly deploying more troops, drones, and dollars abroad, while waging a shadow foreign policy for his own benefit. Read more |
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John Atcheson Reminder: Trump Didn't Win, Democrats Lost And if the party nominates another centrist candidate, they will likely lose again. Read more |
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Olivia Alperstein Don’t Forget: Nuclear Weapons Are an Existential Threat A new study shows just how bad a nuclear war could get. We need a plan to eliminate this risk permanently. Read more |
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Donna Smith Post-Debate Musings: Bernie’s Heart and His Courage Just Fine with Me It will be nice when all of the candidates stop lying about how badly we Americans want to keep our private coverage. Are you kidding? Read more |
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Jeff Bryant How Billionaire Charter School Funders Corrupted the School Leadership Pipeline Charter school funders like Eli Broad turned school leadership into a cartel system focused on advancing careers and enriching businesses. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler The Collusion Of Church and State Where are the values—religious or otherwise—that can save this recklessly careening, war-addicted, carbon-spewing state from participating both in its own and the whole planet's destruction? Read more |
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Nathan Williams Experiencing Firsthand Failures of UN Climate Politics, I Realized Civil Disobedience Only Route Left I was arrested at London City Airport because only a mass uprising in defence of life can counter mass death Read more |
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Kathy Kelly Death, Bloodshed, and Misery in Yemen "Strike with creativity!" proclaims Raytheon. Read more |
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Jill Richardson Why Are LGBTQ Rights Even a Debate? Before I came out, I thought it was normal to "debate" our right to marry or hold a job. Now I know it’s not—at all. Read more |
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Robert Reich Should the Supreme Court Be Reformed? In an era of increasing political polarization, we should rethink how the Court is organized in order to rebuild public trust. Read more |
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Sarah Anderson Where Is 'Line Worker Barbie'? CEO-worker pay gaps are the clearest proof that corporations like Mattel and many others don't respect their employees. Read more |
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Bill Blum The Supreme Court Could Spell the End of American Democracy The nine justices who constitute our most powerful judicial body are set to decide a bevy of politically charged cases that could impact the 2020 elections and profoundly affect the lives of each and every American. Read more |
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Ryan Cooper Pete Buttigieg's Disingenuous Attack on Medicare-For-All Mayor Pete's plan would be more expensive than Medicare-for-all. He would "pay for that" by keeping more of the cost burden on the shoulders of individual Americans. Read more |
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Eric Levitz Bernie Sanders’ Campaign Is Alive and Well Sanders was better, crisper, and funnier than ever before. Read more |
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Timothy Karr Can Anyone Stop Facebook from Poisoning Democracy? While the social media giant wraps itself in the banner of free expression and political speech, it serves more as a scrim to hide its continued spread of political disinformation to tens of millions of voters in advance of the 2020 elections. Read more |
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Michael Winship Our Mad Dog President—and His Bible-Thumping Kennel Pals The White House theocrats may be the biggest danger of all. Read more |
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Yanis Varoufakis, David Adler A Recession Is Coming. When It Does, We Need to Demand a Green New Deal. Having squandered the last crisis, we cannot make the same mistakes again. A Green New Deal is the only reasonable response. Read more |
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Zenobia Jeffries Warfield It’s Time for Effective Oversight of Police Violence Would the possibility of mandatory sentencing make a police officer think twice before pulling the trigger? What about them having to forego their pensions, or pay victims’ families from their 401Ks? Read more |
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Rebecca Gordon The True High Crimes and Misdemeanors of Donald J. Trump Extorting Ukraine is bad enough, but the president has done much worse. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson What I Learn When I Have Lunch at Cook County Jail These are not serial murderers or rapists. They are overwhelmingly people who erred or did wrong but are not bad people. Read more |
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Lee Camp Just 100 Companies Will Sign Humanity’s Death Warrant Basically, a tiny number of sociopaths make the decisions that are currently dooming us all, and as much as I’d like to tell you otherwise, those people don’t even notice if we all march outside in colorful hats. Read more |
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Vijay Prashad The IMF Convenes in Washington, Deaf to the Suffering It Causes Across the Planet What the people of the world want it clear: democratic control of their economies. The International Monetary Fund continues to stand in their way. Read more |
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Robert McChesney Means Testing: Sanders vs. Warren on the Single Most Important Policy Idea for Progressive Success Basing eligibility on wealth or income level is phony progressivism and a crucial tactic promoted by the right to eliminate social welfare programs that could benefit the entire population and the common good. Read more |
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Kenneth Peres Legalized Political Corruption Is So Much Bigger Than Trump: A Journey in 7 Charts It's time for a democracy movement that directly attacks systemic corruption by depending not on specific leaders but on a grassroots movement that both produces leaders and holds them accountable. Read more |
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Karen Stillerman As Presidential Candidates Prepare for Ohio Debate, Farmers Need a New Vision Tell the debate moderators that climate solutions, including soil health, are topics of critical importance to Ohio and the nation, and must be addressed in this presidential debate. Read more |
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Khury Petersen-Smith Trump’s Betrayal of the Kurds Is Terrible, But the Answer Is Not Endless War Like millions of others, the Kurds are victims of disastrous U.S. interventions in the region. Read more |
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Bill Bigelow It's Time to Abolish Columbus Day Just as the climate justice movement is doing with fossil fuels, we can organize our communities and our schools to divest from Columbus. And that would be something to celebrate. Read more |
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Dean Baker The Economics and Politics of Financial Transactions Taxes and Wealth Taxes Imagine that instead of handing money to our billionaires, we are taxing away their wealth at the rate of 3.0 percent annually. Read more |
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Stephen McCloskey What INGOs Can Learn From Greta Thunberg and the Global Climate Strikes Combining analysis, outrage and active citizenship can build and sustain large-scale public engagement. Read more |
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Terri Hansen For Indigenous Peoples Day, Tribes Return to Alcatraz 50 Years Later A new generation of Native activists will take a canoe journey around Alcatraz to mark Indigenous Peoples Day and pay homage to occupation of the island 50 years ago. Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt American Brexit It’s not just Britain headed for the subbasement of imperial history. Read more |
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Christopher D. Cook The Problem With the Blue Angels Local news media celebrate a dangerous, expensive, military PR event without raising a single question or issue. Read more |
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Norman Solomon The More Joe Biden Stumbles, the More Corporate Democrats Freak Out A key problem for the Democratic establishment is that the "electability" argument is vaporizing in the political heat. Read more |
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Gosia Wozniacka A New Bill Could Help Protect the Sacred Seeds of Indigenous People Traditional seed varieties cultivated for generations have far fewer protections than modified or hybrid seeds. Six senators have introduced legislation to level the playing field. Read more |
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Teresa Albano Resisting Anti-Immigrant Hate in the City of Big Shoulders A gaggle of far-right MAGA men showed up at a Chicago church to protest its immigrant rights work. Bad decision. Read more |
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Jon Rainwater Trump Isn't Really Ending Endless Wars, He's Making Them Worse Here's what progressives should support in Syria. Read more |
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Juan Cole Kurds Consider Asking for Russian No-Fly Zone as Moscow Demands Foreign Armies Leave Syria A close reading of the Russian press, however, shows that a Russian no-fly zone against Turkey in northeast Syria is highly unlikely. Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Warren Wants to Close the Loophole Through Which Brett Kavanaugh and Maryanne Trump Barry Crawled Kavanaugh ascended to the U.S. Supreme Court and Trump Barry descended from a federal appeals court—moves which enabled them to escape the consequences of their misconduct. Read more |
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William Cohn The Don Fought the Law... Yes, we may see the law as a tool of the powerful, and it often is, but the law may also be the means to finally hold Trump accountable and to remove him from the office he never rightfully earned. Read more |
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Deborah Taffa Making National Parks Accessible to Native People Again A violent, racist history has kept Native people off their ancestral lands for decades. How can we remove the barriers that still exist today? Read more |
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Joshua Cho Major Media Bury Groundbreaking Studies of Pentagon's Massive Carbon Bootprint Given corporate media's propagandizing for starting and staying in wars and for neverending arms races, one should expect this. Read more |
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Josue De Luna Navarro A 'Red Deal': Why Indigenous Communities Belong at the Center of Climate Action Policies that aren't rooted in Indigenous communities can cause many of the same oppressive outcomes as extraction. Read more |
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Ralph Nader The Ukraine Shakedown Is Important, But Not Sufficient to Let People Realize All the Other Things Trump Is Doing The "abuse of the public trust," in Alexander Hamilton's phrase is overflowing. Read more |
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Jill Richardson What Life on the Margins Feels Like A recent uproar on my campus reveals the pain young people of color feel at being treated like "others." Read more |
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Matt Cagle California Just Blocked Police Body Cam Use of Face Recognition The rise of face and other biometric surveillance technologies gives governments an unprecedented power to track, classify, and discriminate against people based on their most personal, innate features. Read more |
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Vassilis K. Fouskas, Bulent Gokay Trump's Bankrupt Syria Policy: Civilians Will Pay the Price Trump's decision confirms the decline of US power in the Middle East and globally. Read more |
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Brett Wilkins Mainstream Media Suddenly Care About Syrian Civilian Casualties United States military has killed more foreign civilians than any other armed force on the planet since dropping two nuclear bombs on Japan in 1945. Read more |
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Malinda Maynor Lowery Why More Places Are Abandoning Columbus Day in Favor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day The growing recognition and celebration of Indigenous Peoples' Day actually represents the fruits of a concerted, decadeslong effort to recognize the role of indigenous people in the nation’s history. Read more |
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Jefferson Morley Understanding the Two Types of Whistleblowers Legal whistleblowers work within the system seeking to make the government work better. Civil disobedience whistleblowers go outside the system (and the law) seeking to change or disrupt government policy. Read more |
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Robin Carver The Supreme Court Needs to Protect Trans People from Discrimination "I wasn’t hired because I am trans. And in more than half the country—twenty-nine states, in fact—that’s perfectly legal." Read more |
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Juan Cole How ‘Citizens United’ Decision Paved Way for Giuliani's Clients Parnas and Fruman to Buy influence in America As I pointed out last week, the most powerful intervention in US politics allowing foreign influence in US elections, which contributed to Trump’s victory in 2016, was the Supreme Court’s Citizens... Read more |
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Nick Turse As the World Looks Away, Death Stalks the Democratic Republic of Congo The forgotten trauma of a forgotten war. Read more |
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Tom Gallagher Turkey, the Kurds, and Lots and Lots of US Weapons The Turkish military doesn’t function without the U.S. weapons industry—and the approval of the U.S. government. Read more |
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John Atcheson A Trump Impeachment Inquiry Isn't Keeping Congress From 'Getting Things Done'—Mitch McConnell Is. As long as people keep voting for anti-government candidates they will elect people who are not interested in—or even knowledgeable about—governing. And that means things the people want, won’t get done. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J S Davies Crises in Iraq and Haiti Expose the Failure of Militarized Neoliberalism It should be no surprise that the new governments installed by all these U.S. wars and coups are among the most corrupt regimes on earth. Read more |
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Basav Sen Dig Beneath the World’s Far-Right Governments—You’ll Find Fossil Fuels From Brazil to India to the United States, extractive industries have aligned themselves with authoritarian governments waging war on minority populations. Read more |
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Julie Hollar How Ageist Is Too Ageist to Be Published? "How old is too old" stories draw on tired prejudices that need to be challenged by reporters, not reinforced by them. Read more |