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Anthony Torres When the People Lead, Leaders Follow—Lessons From the Fight to Impeach and Remove Trump The Senate may have betrayed the American people, but the movement for impeachment secured critical victories that will propel us forward in the longer battle for democracy. Read more |
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Abigail Penny Measuring Our Impact on the Planet Is Joaquin Phoenix the voice for farmed animals everywhere right now? Read more |
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Alex Kotch Democratic Presidential Candidate Michael Bloomberg Is a GOP Bankroller Over the last decade, Bloomberg helped Republicans take and maintain control of the U.S. Senate. Read more |
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Alan MacLeod For Media in New Hampshire, Losing Is Winning and Winning Is Losing Sanders is the frontrunner going into the next Democratic debate on Wednesday. But don’t expect the media to treat him particularly well. Read more |
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Thomas Hanna, Mathew Lawrence Reimagining Democratic Public Ownership for the Twenty-first Century A new transatlantic project will explore how new models of public ownership can shape the emerging commanding heights of the economy. Read more |
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David Reichmuth Are Electric Vehicles Really Better for the Climate? Yes. Here’s Why Switching to an EV can make a big difference in how much global warming emissions we produce and is one of the biggest actions a household can take to reduce their carbon footprint. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J S Davies Can the World’s Second Superpower Rise From the Ashes of Twenty Years of War? The peace movement’s small victories demonstrate that we have more power to challenge U.S. militarism than most Americans realize. Read more |
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Ted Morgan Why the Democrats Should Back Bernie Sanders: And Why They Won’t, If They Can Possibly Help It This could represent the beginning of a real healing of America’s tragic history around race and class. Read more |
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Jim Hightower The Irony of the Centrist-Progressive Debate Moderates consistently warn that progressive ideas can't win "the middle." But just look at the polls. Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt War Addicts, Inc. Making sense of the age of carnage. Read more |
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Danny Sjursen America and Israel Against the World The only other nations supporting the Trump and Netanyahu plan are dictatorial and/or monarchical Arab client states like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates. Read more |
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Joshua Cho No. 1 Sponsor of Terrorism? US Media Name Iran, but Overlook a Candidate Closer to Home There’s a much stronger case that the US rather than Iran is actually the world’s biggest state sponsor of terrorism. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler The Wall: Separating Democracy From Voters We have a political system that continually surrenders to us-vs.-them thinking: leadership that requires an enemy to keep the country united. Read more |
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Jeff Cohen When CNN Introduces Bernie-Bashers Only as 'Former,' CNN Is Lying To You A lot of the corruption in Washington stems from former officials, whether Democrat or Republican, leaving government to work as consultants or lobbyists for greedy private interests. Read more |
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Peter Certo Who’s Afraid of 'Socialism'? Americans were taught to associate "socialism" with dictatorship and "capitalism" with democracy. Are those days over? Read more |
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Russell Mokhiber NPR Mara Liasson Mandatory Medicare for All and the Ramped Up Attack on Single Payer Leaders of the single payer movement were taken aback by the use of the term and did not know where it came from. Read more |
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Ruth Conniff Election 2020: Transformation or Stability? We don’t know whether the candidate with the most progressive policy ideas will win. What we do know is that there are different paths to victory. Read more |
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Robert Reich 5 Ways Donald Trump Has Not Drained the Swamp Trump has enlarged and deepened the swamp, but the swamp was there before he got to Washington. Read more |
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Jim Hightower Health Care for People...or for Corporate Profits? Unable to win public support on their own merit, the corporatists and their hired political hacks are going all out to continue their profit gouging and keep control of America's dysfunctional system. Read more |
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Harriet Shugarman How to Support Your Children in Turning Climate Angst Into Climate Action We must tell the truth and show through our actions that we stand with young people in their efforts. Read more |
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Paul Heideman Michael Bloomberg, American Billionaire Oligarch The multi-billionaire has spent his career using his fortune to undermine democracy and enact his preferred political agenda. His presidential gambit is just the latest example. Read more |
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Juan Cole From 'Swiss Cheese' to 'Frankenstein's Monster,' Arab Leaders Have Many Names for Kushner-Trump Apartheid Plan A contest among Arab leaders to find the most colorful way of expressing how truly catastrophic the Kushner Apartheid is for the Palestinians and the Arab world. Read more |
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Mehdi Hasan With Back-to-Back Wins for Sanders, Pundits Proven Wrong in Iowa and New Hampshire It was a big, big mistake to write off both Bernie Sanders and his No. 1 policy proposal. Read more |
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Mark Weisbrot Bernie Sanders Isn’t a Radical—He’s a Pragmatist Who Fights to Un-rig the System Sanders would use both markets and government to reverse the upward redistribution of income to the already rich. Read more |
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Derrick Z. Jackson Asbestos, Ubiquitous and Avoidable, Is a Deadly Threat to Our Kids Like cigarettes, asbestos is a time bomb causing disease in victims decades after exposure—in this case lung cancer and mesothelioma. Read more |
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John Sanbonmatsu No, Bernie Sanders Isn't a Socialist (But that's okay) Read more |
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Kelsey Yule Trump’s Border Wall Is an Ecologist’s Nightmare Blowing up mountains, bulldozing sacred sites, guzzling groundwater—the wall is turning border ecosystems into a grim dystopia. Read more |
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William Hartung Will Trump Ride Pentagon Spending to Reelection? The president bets on arms sales big time. Read more |
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Assal Rad Iranian-Americans in the Age of Trump, the Travel Ban, and the Threat of War We want democracy and freedom for Iran, not because of Iranian exceptionalism, but because those are the values we aspire for at home, and therefore believe all people deserve. Read more |
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Allen Hester The Doomsday Clock Is the Call to Action We Need Right Now Nuclear weapons make us less, not more, safe, and it’s time to stop playing a no-win game of chicken and enact common-sense nuclear policies before time runs out. Read more |
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Robert McChesney If Bloomberg Wants to Buy an Election, He Should Run as a Republican Against Trump—Not Sabotage Democrats The mega-billionaire should be running against Trump in the Republican primaries, not as a Democrat. If he actually cared about this country more than stroking his massive ego that is exactly what he would be doing. Read more |
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Adolph Reed Jr. Here They Come Again: The Kind of Neoliberal Democrats Who Prefer Trump to Sanders Here's the question: to what extent is the Establishment's commitment to democratic institutions greater than their commitment to current forms of capitalist hierarchy? It seems like we are about to find out. Read more |
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Brett Wilkins The Beasts and the Bombings: Reflecting on Dresden, February 1945 The Dresden bombing shocked the world’s conscience. Read more |
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Rev. John Dear Fire Drill Fridays Take L.A. Catastrophic climate change is not coming in fifty or one hundred years. It’s upon us now. Read more |
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Barbara Smith I Helped Coin the Term 'Identity Politics.' I'm Endorsing Bernie Sanders. I support Sanders because I believe his campaign is currently the best hope for helping marginalized Americans. Read more |
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Michaela Rafferty Before Celebrating Sinn Féin Election Surge, Consider Their Pro-Austerity Record in the North of Ireland For over two decades, the party has shared power in the North of Ireland, where it has widened the gaps between rich and poor. Read more |
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Pat LaMarche The Climate-Fueled Camp Fire Took Their Homes. Now They Are at Risk of Losing FEMA Housing Too. It's time for our country to focus on massive, extreme events—fueled by climate change—that result in the instantaneous homelessness of tens of thousands of people. Read more |
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Jason Sattler Moderate Democrats Have a Duty to Consider Sanders. He Has a Clear Path to Beating Trump. Bernie Sanders isn't even my favorite senator running for the 2020 nomination. But I see his potential to unite the Democratic Party and oust Trump. Read more |
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Juan Cole Israeli Blocking of Palestinian Exports to Jordan Shows Reality of Apartheid That the Kushner Plan Would Only Cement That Israel can stop Palestinian-Jordanian trade demonstrates conclusively that Palestine is not a free agent but is rather an Occupied territory, and that all the power rests in the hands of the Occupation military. Read more |
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Chris Hedges What Is Happening to Assange Will Happen to the Rest of Us The publication of classified documents is not yet a crime in the United States. If Assange is extradited and convicted, it will become one. Read more |
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Michael Klare The Arctic: World War III’s Newest Battlefield U.S. troops head for the far north. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Why the Buttigieg Campaign Tried to Have Me Arrested for Handing Out These Medicare for All Fliers So much for freedom of speech and open election discourse in public places—even in the "Live Free or Die" state of New Hampshire. Read more |
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Adam Gaffney Trump Says Covering All Immigrants Would Bankrupt Our Healthcare System. That’s a Lie. Covering undocumented immigrants under Medicare for All isn't just morally right—it’s also economically sound. Read more |
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Sarah Jones The Democrats Finally Get Around to Talking About Abortion "Abortion rights are in theory one of the Democratic Party's basic principles, a standard it will not compromise. Except that it does, with disastrous results." Read more |
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Andrew Taggart If Work Dominated Your Every Moment, Would Life Be Worth Living? An obsession with work causes needless human suffering and immiserates our imagination. Read more |
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Amanda Follett Hosgood At the Unist'ot'en Outpost, a Tightknit Group Readies for Police "This is my home. It's not a protest camp." Read more |
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Russell Mokhiber West Virginia Legislation Would Make Civil Disobedience Against Gas Pipelines a Felony "West Virginians value their rights to free speech and free association as granted to us under the Constitution. We will not stand for the legislature taking these rights away." Read more |
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Anita Desikan The EPA's New Shameful Tactic: Avoid People Poisoned by Coal Ash The Trump administration has rolled back requirements for public hearings regarding federal rules, making the fossil fuel industry even less accountable to communities. Read more |
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Ryan Cooper American Democracy Is Dying "About every other country has suffered a constitutional collapse at some point; our number may well be up quite soon." Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati Living in Inequality, Dying in Despair Americans are living a little longer. But we still lag well behind the developed world's life expectancy norm. As the world's most unequal developed nation, we shouldn't be surprised. Read more |
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Lornet Turnbull What Happens When a Person Is Deported? A new guide provides resources to help those being returned to their countries of origin. Read more |
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Ralph Nader The Vengeful, Lawless, Corporate Toady Trump Explodes "The egomaniacal Trump is inebriated with his disgraceful acquittal, convinced of his own innocence, despite the clear evidence of his guilt." Read more |
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Belén Fernández Child Suicide Is a Symptom of Our Traumatised World The prevalence of psychological trauma among refugee youth should be an issue of utmost urgency for us all. Read more |
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Anastasia Christman, Brian Chen House Approves Worker Rights Bill in Face of Growing Labor Backlash Against Trickle-Down Policies The PRO Act, which offers a pathway to increased power for the working class, passed the House with bipartisan support. Read more |
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Linda Kramer Jenning How Advocates Are Fighting Voter Suppression As the 2020 election season gets under way, activists are beginning to push back against voter disenfranchisement across the country. Read more |
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Mneesha Gellman Deported to Death: US Sent 138 Salvadorans Home to Be Killed The murders of 138 deportees belie any notion that El Salvador can protect citizens who are under threat. Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar The Coronavirus Panic Exposes the Pathology of Nationalism "The idea of America First, the nationalist populism, is against everything that we believe in in global health." Read more |
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Martha Argüello Climate Justice Movement Joins Forces With Entertainment Industry at Fire Drill Fridays to Take on Big Oil in Los Angeles Los Angeles is the perfect city to host the launch of Fire Drill Fridays in California—where our "West Coast" image of environmental progressivism clashes with the reality of a city still grappling with its relationship to the fossil fuel industry. Read more |
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Wenonah Hauter Banning Fracking: Politically Smart and a Climate Necessity A call to ban fracking is bound to energize climate activists and progressive voters, who see it as the kind of bold action necessary to confront the climate crisis. Read more |
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Norman Solomon With Establishment Knives Out for Bernie, Iowa Fiasco Just a Taste of What's Coming The glaring subtext of what's now occurring is the frantic effort to find some candidate who can prevent Sanders from becoming the party's nominee at the national convention in July. Progressives must fight back—not succumb to fatalism. Read more |
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Richard Eskow Of Course Bloomberg's an Oligarch—and He's Coming For Your Social Security I'm not a dictionary, but I know what words mean. And I'm not a clock, but I know what time it is. Read more |
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Isaiah J. Poole Out of the ClickHole, a Light on Alternative Media Ownership Models It marks a new entry into the ranks of employee-owned firms and puts a spotlight on a problem facing larger and more serious-minded media enterprises that employee ownership might help solve. Read more |
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Jennifer Epps-Addison, Rahna Epting, George Goehl, Leah Greenberg, et al. The Time Is NOW For The PRO Act To Protect Workers Working people have never stopped fighting for their rights. Now it’s time for Congress to join their fight. Read more |
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Dorian Warren Organizers Won't Let Trump Dismantle Medicaid Trump’s plan will endanger the people who need health care most—pregnant women, children, young adults aging out of foster care, and people with disabilities. Read more |
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Peter Certo Trump Is No Friend to Workers, But That Doesn't Mean He Won't Lie About It Trump is counting on the working class he’s betraying most aggressively. Can the left get out of affluent suburbia and back to its roots? Read more |
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Bill Moyers, Steven Harper Lawyers, Liars, and Trump on Trial Just how far can the U.S. Constitution bend? Read more |
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Max Richtman Trump's State of the Union Belies His Destructive Policies on Social Security, Prescription Drugs For a president who seeks re-election, he clearly is on the wrong side of these life and death issues. Read more |
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Andrea Mazzarino Women and Trauma in the Trump-Putin Era "We've been attacked!" Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Voting With Food and Water Standing up to this kind of cruel action—especially when it is ensconced in legality, armed and wearing a uniform—is voting at the deepest level of citizenship. Read more |
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Mark Weisbrot What Does the Future Hold for US-Bolivia Ties? No one disputes that Morales was democratically elected to his term in 2015, yet the Trump Administration strongly supported the military coup that overthrew him. Read more |
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Robert Reich Forget Trump's Lies, Here's the Real Economic State of the Union Nothing has trickled down to average workers. Read more |
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Jim Naureckas How Corporate Media Make Pete Look Like He’s Winning Leading at what exactly? Read more |
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Diallo Brooks Impeachment Is Over, But Don’t Despair The Senate failed to do their job—but ordinary citizens can’t fail to do ours. Read more |
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Jared Gaby-Biegel As Momentum Builds for Paid Family Leave, Much Work Remains The FAMILY Act represents the best chance to pass a national paid family leave program that provides new benefits to families without asking them to sacrifice their financial futures. Read more |
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Michael Winship Donald Trump's State of the Mighty Me A speech not worth the paper Nancy Pelosi tore apart. Read more |
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Carey Gillam It’s Farmer v. Monsanto in Court Fight Over Dicamba Herbicide Bader Farms claims Monsanto induces farmers to buy dicamba-tolerant seeds. Read more |
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Samantha Jacoby Final Opportunity Zone Rules Could Raise Tax Break’s Cost We’ve seen similar dynamics play out in other areas of the 2017 tax law, with lobbyists using the regulatory process to secure significant new tax breaks that mainly benefit multinational corporations and very affluent owners of certain kinds of businesses. Read more |
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Scarlet Kim, Hugh Handeyside CBP Lied About Iranian-American Detentions, Leaked Memo Suggests If this memo is authentic, CBP has been caught in a lie. Read more |
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Erica Fein Why House Democrats Passed Bills Reining in Trump’s War Machine If Democrats continue to trend in this direction, they’ll finally be meeting voters where they are : seeking an end to forever wars, unconditional support for tyrannical governments, and blank checks for the military-industrial-complex. Read more |
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Dorothee Benz The Trump Impeachment Trial: Witness to a Farce The New York Times was content to cover it as a Washington drama and no more; its impeachment landing page even lists a "cast of characters." Read more |
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Jeff Biggers It's the Turnout, Stupid: The Real Story of Iowa Caucus My caucus in Iowa City had 60 fewer people than four years ago. Tepid turnout will re-elect Trump for sure. Read more |
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Richard Eskow Iowa Wasn't a Technology Failure. It Was a Failure of Democratic Values. This kind of behavior undercuts the Democratic Party politically. To put it in today's corporatized vocabulary, "democracy" is the party’'s brand—and lately they've been trashing it. Read more |
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Cari Hernandez The App That Disrupted the Iowa Caucuses A cascading set of failures led us here. Read more |
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Juliet Gellatley Eating Animals Will Be the Death of Us It is time to finally make the connection between animal agriculture and environmental destruction, antibiotic resistance and disease outbreak. Read more |
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Ken Levy Sorry, Republican Senators: Alan Dershowitz’s Theory of Impeachment Is Total Bullshit No matter how much Dershowitz explains and obfuscates, a legitimate motive simply cannot magically immunize unconstitutional conduct against impeachment. Read more |
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Alan MacLeod Breaking News From Corporate Media: Billionaires Do Not Like Socialism Just as the press are keen for you to know that Medicare for All is a very bad idea, they are equally anxious to make sure that the voices of beleaguered, unheard plutocrats are given as much of a boost as possible. Read more |
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Alice Herman Dude, Where’s My Vote? The caucuses are a carnival of disenfranchisement, especially this year. Read more |
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William Astore The Art of the Deal, Pentagon-Style Wars without victories, weapons without end. Read more |
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Erin McCarley An Open Letter to the DNC From an American Centrist I respectfully encourage the DNC to abandon its corporate allegiance, re-configure its membership and shift into alignment with the will of the people. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Iowa Fiasco Raises Stakes for New Hampshire, Where Sanders Could Win Big Monday night's collapse of the caucus vote-counting process in Iowa has amped up the spotlight on—and political consequences of—what will happen in the New Hampshire primary. Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac Impeachment Has Always Been More Than Impeachment. And It Still Is. Trump must be defeated politically. Read more |
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Michael Winship At a Church and on Capitol Hill, The Battle for Democracy In Washington, two events on the same day show the promise of American democracy—and the mortal danger to it. Read more |
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Rob Richie We’re Stuck With a Flawed Primary Process in 2020, But We Can Make 2024 Better The combination of a chaotic and incoherent primary schedule and antiquated voting rules makes winning as much the product of dumb luck as anything relating to the quality of candidates and their ability to unify voters. Read more |
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Chris Hedges America: Land of Make-Believe America, founded on the evils of slavery, genocide and the violent exploitation of the working class, is a country defined by historical amnesia. Read more |
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Rajan Menon The Shame of Child Poverty in the Age of Trump Billionaires are soaring, poor kids are losing more. Read more |
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Juan Cole On the Big Issues, Bernie Sanders Is the Only One Who Can Save America Only Sanders among the candidates understands the urgency of the Crisis of Plutocracy and has a workable plan for dealing with it. Read more |
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Mary Hladky The Afghanistan Papers and a Mother's Question We must stop the killing, take the trillions of dollars devoted to endless war and instead invest in our people, invest in our environment, and invest in our future. Read more |
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Cari Hernandez The Candidate Who Best Represents Me Is Only One Saying It's About Us When Bernie says it's not about him, I see my values and fears and hopes represented in a way I never have before. Read more |
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Norman Solomon The Creation Myth of the Buttigieg Campaign The deft spin from the Buttigieg apparatus and the huge media hype about him have obscured the significance of his deep-pocketed backers. Read more |
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Robert Dodge In the Name of Medicare for All, This Family Doctor Will Vote for Bernie Sanders It is at long last time for the United States to move from providing the world's most expensive sick care to providing the world's greatest healthcare. Read more |