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Robert C. Koehler Rethinking Public Safety: Trust vs. Force We need to start over: set down the guns and strip this system down to the bone, with the intention of rebuilding our social infrastructure on a foundation of trust, cooperation and a belief in the sanctity of life. Read more |
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Bernie Horn To Save Lives—and Democracy—We Need to Vote by Mail We need tens of millions of fewer Americans voting at the polls. Sending ballots in the mail is the simplest solution. Read more |
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Alec Connon In the Fight to Curtail the Climate Crisis, the Earth Just Moved a Little Nearly half of Chase’s owners have demanded to know how the bank plans to align its business model with the Paris Agreement. On the surface, that probably doesn’t sound like an earthquake. But it’s quietly seismic. Read more |
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H. Patricia Hynes Women Have Risen to Heroic Heights During Covid-19 Yet, the global pandemic in physical and sexual violence against women continues unabated and worsened during the coronavirus pandemic. Read more |
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Claire O’Manique The Way Out of the COVID-19 Crisis Is a Green New Deal This crisis has reinforced what we already know—our current economic system is leading us down a path of destruction. Read more |
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Donald K. Sherman Trump Just Removed the IG Investigating Elaine Chao. Chao’s Husband, Mitch McConnell, Already Vetted the Replacement. The President’s attack on inspector general independence at the Department of Transportation deserves just as much public scrutiny as all the rest. Read more |
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Linda McQuaig Let’s Not Be Duped Again By Deficit Hawks Peddling Austerity We could actually be on our way to a very different and promising future. But, count on it, the deficit hawks will soon be circling menacingly overhead, hell-bent on preventing any diversion from the austerity they’ve confined us to for decades. Read more |
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Emily Folk Coronavirus and the Inhumane Treatment of Meat Packers The meat industry has always been exploitative of employees—but the coronavirus has exposed the poor working conditions of meat packers who are getting sick at alarming rates. Read more |
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Victor Pickard The Answer to the Media Industry's Woes? Publicly Owned Newspapers. Newspapers must be for the people. It’s worth investing our tax dollars in them. Read more |
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Vandana Shiva Poisons Mean Extinction: For Bees and Humanity Protecting bees is an ecological duty, pushing them to extinction is an ecological crime. The threat to bees is a threat to humanity. Read more |
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Mark Dudzic, Richard Master Medicare Is Best Way to Cover the Millions of Americans Whose Health Insurance Has Been Taken Away This solution is the most seamless for patients, and the most cost-effective approach for taxpayers. Plus, it prevents an unnecessary and massive transfer of government money to America’s health insurance companies. Read more |
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Michael Lynk Canada Missing in Action on Israel's Proposed Annexation of the West Bank Canada has developed a debilitating case of diplomatic laryngitis on this issue. Read more |
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Negin Owliaei Reopening the Economy Is a Death Sentence for Workers The wealthy may be fine with sacrificing the vulnerable, but workers are fighting for the sanctity of human life. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson Remembering the Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education The Supreme Court decision fueled the civil rights movement and the call for voting rights that are now under assault across the country. Read more |
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Robert Reich The Privileged and Powerful in the Pandemic Those in power must stop viewing the pandemic as an obstacle to personal ambition. Read more |
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Elizabeth Shackelford Trump’s Inspector General Purge and the Death of Dissent A government without avenues for dissent is a dangerous authority indeed. Read more |
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Juan Cole Fundamentalist Pandemics What evangelicals could learn from The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam Read more |
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Michael Winship Never Have So Few Done So Much to Destroy America Comparing Trump to Winston Churchill is a laugh riot. Read more |
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Joseph Winters Rather Than Cull Millions of Livestock, Let’s End Animal Agriculture In the long term, we must not waste this opportunity to start mending our broken relationship with animals. This begins with the end of factory farming and the redirection of all government relief and future subsidies towards plant-based agriculture and food processing. Read more |
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Ashley Shelton The Coronavirus Is Devastating Already Devastated Communities The people and equity-centered recovery approach we are putting forward is intended to address immediate needs, but it’s also a guide for long-term change. Read more |
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Ellen Brown Another Bank Bailout Under Cover of a Virus Insolvent Wall Street banks have been quietly bailed out again. Banks made risk-free by the government should be public utilities. Read more |
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Esha Bhandari, ReNika Moore Coronavirus 'Immunity Passports' Are Not the Answer A system of immunity passports in the United States threatens to exacerbate racial disparities and harm the civil liberties of all. Read more |
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Kumar Venkat, Susan Cholette Emerging From the Pandemic With a Climate Plan As we come out of this pandemic with an altered business landscape and more awareness of our personal consumption patterns, we have a rare opportunity to make sure that the planet’s climate doesn’t become an even bigger crisis than the one we are battling now. Read more |
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Pierre Tristam Food Drops Are Not Enough. Expand Food Stamps Programs Now. As heartening and important as these food drops are, they’re a supplement, not a replacement for what government can and must do. Read more |
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Basav Sen Fossil Fuel Bailouts Are Class War. This Is How We Fight Back Only a recovery based on principles such as those of the people’s bailout would be able to create a more just society out of the ashes of the coronavirus crisis. Read more |
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Karen Greenberg So Long to American Exceptionalism Over there is now over here: America’s pandemic role reversal. Read more |
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Ted Morgan Are the Democrats Dead (Again)? For election after election, the Democrats failed to present either an effective counter to the Republican myth-makers or a program that would effectively address the needs of workers who felt left out. Read more |
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Raúl Carrillo The Pandemic Has Shown That We Need a Public Option for Banking Services A public option for basic banking services, and an improved, publicly accountable payments system, are necessary parts of a recovery infrastructure that works for everyone. Read more |
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Gregory Shupak Corporate Media Setting Stage for New Cold War With China The idea that China is a threat to Americans' security is baseless. Read more |
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Alex Kotch Secretive Right-Wing Nonprofit Plays Role in COVID-19 Organizing CNP's founders include multiple members of the conspiracist John Birch Society and Paul Weyrich, co-founder of the Heritage Foundation and ALEC. Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati Civil Disobedience, Billionaire-Style Elon Musk's successful bullying has vividly revealed that our duly elected leaders and the governments they lead cannot, when push comes to shove, adequately safeguard the health and well-being of average working people. Read more |
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Cynthia Kaufman Alternatives to Killing People for the Economy In order to pay for those programs and help the country get back on its feet, we need to tax the wealthy and invest in our common good. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Trump: Letting Big Corporations Get Away with Whatever They Want Trump considers himself above the law. Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Who's Lying When it Comes to the Flynn Case? The lie that gave rise to the current dilemma was a lie told not to the parent by the consumer of a purloined ice cream bar, but a lie told to an entity known as the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Read more |
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Walden Bello The Race to Replace a Dying Neoliberalism One would be foolish to count out the left. Read more |
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Diane Archer The Best Way to Ensure Unemployed Workers Get Health Care? Pay for It Through Medicare There's only one group that benefits handsomely from the COBRA proposal: The health insurance industry. Read more |
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Pramila Jayapal We Can and Must Do Better: Why I Will Vote No on the HEROES Act Our response here in Congress must match the true scale of this devastating crisis. The Heroes Act—while it contains many important provisions—simply fails to do that. Read more |
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Amee Chew Stop the $2 Billion Arms Sale to the Philippines Philippine strongman Rodrigo Duterte is using the pandemic to crush his opposition—and the U.S. is poised to arm him to the teeth. Read more |
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Jamie Henn Our Greener, Climate-Friendly Future Is Going to Be Amazing—It's Our Job to Tell That Story A more comfortable apartment. Cheaper electricity bills. Your stove cooks faster, your dishwasher washes cleaner, and the lightbulbs look great. Even the food is more delicious! Read more |
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Sarah Lahm Billionaires Are the Biggest Threat to Public Schools For education "disruptors" like Bill Gates and Betsy DeVos, COVID-19 isn’t a crisis—it’s an opportunity. Read more |
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Michelle Chen Prisons Are Using the Pandemic to Impose Lockdowns Advocates say the extreme restrictions on movement are punitive and dangerous. Read more |
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Will Bunch Native Americans Wage War Against New Virus and a 400-year Disease of Bias, Ignorance "We’re helping other nations with billions in aid, and the Navajo are still waiting on aid." Read more |
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Bill Fried For John Bolton, No Bad Deed Goes Unrewarded And most vulnerable among us are forced to pay the price. Read more |
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Andrea Mazzarino Who Is "Essential" to Our Covid-19 World A military spouse's perspective on fighting this pandemic. Read more |
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Ariel Gold My Israeli Nemesis Is Moving to America The soon-to-be ambassador to the U.N., Gilad Erdan, made clear his lack of regard for international law and global opinion, stating that: "We are telling the world that it doesn’t matter what the nations of the world say." Read more |
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Jess Tomlin, Jessica Houssian Gender Equality Out of Reach During COVID-19? We don’t buy it. Read more |
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Rachel Bronson Something Like Coronavirus Is Exactly What the Doomsday Clock Has Been Warning About While "social isolation" and other tactics being used today to combat the coronavirus pandemic are not those needed to address the dangers posed by nuclear weapons and climate change, the resolve now being exhibited to take major steps to bring about swift change is a model for dealing with these... Read more |
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Amy Hanauer The Right Vision for Remaking Our Economy Does Not Include Tax Cuts for the Rich People are getting sick and losing jobs in every corner of this country . So the same-old trickle-down, tax-cut agenda that drowns government in a bathtub won’t get us out of this . Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Sussan Tahmasebi Iranian Women Squeezed By US Sanctions, COVID-19 and Their Government "The Iranian women’s movement is more isolated today than it has ever been in all my years of activism." Read more |
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Alan Minsky The Democratic Party's Hand Is Weak. Only Progressives Can Strengthen it. Only a progressive New Deal-like response can address the people's needs. Read more |
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Winnie Wong The Democratic Party Cannot Defeat Trump by Returning to Past Failures What we need now is a new vision for America to repair the damage done to our nation, and transform this country into a more equal and compassionate democracy. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Racism and the National Soul The nation’s racism has manifested itself over the centuries in countless ways, politically, socially, economically. The racism is deeply embedded in the country’s institutions, its legal system and—oh so discretely and between the lines—in our founding documents. Read more |
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Norman Solomon The Sanders Campaign Was About "Us"—Not Bernie—Remember? It is vital that grassroots activists in upcoming primary states take the initiative and get out the vote for Bernie. Read more |
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Heidi Shierholz In Just Two Months, More Than 33 Million Americans Have Filed for Unemployment Congress must act. Read more |
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Sandy Smith-Nonini To Re-Open Safely We Need a "Health Force" of Disease Detectives In the long run such a workforce could help address the long-standing shortage of primary care in the United States—including community-based programming to assist families with preventive health, nutrition, exercise, chronic diseases and mental health needs. Read more |
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Janice Li, Svante Myrick Facing Down Bigotry—and a Pandemic Against harassment and bigotry, Asian-American officials are finding ways to care for their communities through this crisis. Read more |
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Negin Owliaei 'Reopening' Means Workers Will Die The wealthy may be fine with sacrificing the vulnerable, but workers are fighting for the sanctity of human life. Read more |
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Guy Standing Class Politics Fit for the Times The themes the Left should be coalescing around are dismantling rentier capitalism, offering a new income distribution system in which basic income divorced from the performance of labor is the anchor, and reviving all forms of commons and commoning. Read more |
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Robert Reich The Real Reason Trump Wants to Reopen the Economy He’s trying to force the economy to reopen to boost his electoral chances, and he’s selling out Americans’ health to seal the deal. No matter the cost, Donald Trump’s chief concern is and will always be himself. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson The Murder of Ahmaud Arbery—And Our Continuing Terror His slaying has become a global embarrassment for whites. But when the camera turns away, the savage injustice that embarrasses us becomes simply business as usual. Read more |
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Laura Flanders The Future Is Up for Grabs History is made, not decreed, which is why on May 11th, activists from dozens of different countries launched Progressive International, a global initiative with a mission to unite, organize and mobilize progressive forces. Read more |
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Jim Hightower Trump Blasts Into a New Frontier...for War The Pentagon presently spends a whopping $14 billion a year on space operations. In short, there's no need for this thing...except for Trump's political needs. Read more |
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John Buell The Trump Depression Could Be Worse Than the Great Depression Avoiding a dystopian future requires as a first step repairing the elements of fragility in our political economy. Read more |
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Mike Masnick US Covid-19 Vaccine Data Should Be Shared With the Whole World—Not Locked Up This really should be a moment of global cooperation to deal with the pandemic on a truly global basis. Read more |
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Cristina Flesher Fominaya How Do You Protest When You Can't Take to the Streets? Cyberspace has become the main arena for social movements, as digital tools are used to help activists and citizens communicate, organize, and mobilize. Read more |
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Erica Fein After Trump Vetoed the Iran War Powers Resolution, Congress Must Continue to Act The bipartisan majority that has come together on this issue should not stop working to enact legislation to reclaim its war powers and block Trump from taking us to war with Iran. Read more |
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Erik Edstrom Celebrated to Death: Memorial Day Is Killing Us The betrayal of the American soldier. Read more |
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Joshua Cho Corporate Media Don’t Think Americans Paid to Invade Venezuela Count as Mercenaries It’s clear that the men behind the La Guaira invasion aren’t described as mercenaries because the US government and media alike favor regime change in Venezuela. Read more |
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Fred Silverman , Robert Barnett They Did It Once, Would They Do It Again? For those who may have forgotten, the Presidential election of 2000 was unlike any other. Read more |
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Brett Wilkins A Perfectly Legal Lynching in Georgia? Killings of black men by whites are 8.5 times more likely to be ruled "justified." Read more |
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Michael Winship Mission Imperative: Come November, Trump Must Go In case you needed a reminder, the pandemic reveals everything rancid about this presidency. Read more |
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Kenneth Peres Murderer in Chief: Donald Trump and the Tens of Thousands Coronavirus Dead Many argue that the U.S. president has blood on his hands. The question remains: just how much? Read more |
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Halah Ahmad The Fight for the Democratic Platform on Racial Justice, Palestine The Biden campaign and the DNC must consider the voters they lose by not broadening their platforms on racial justice as conceived by progressives—voters who no longer make Palestine the exception to their progressive values. Read more |
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Sarah Anderson Let’s Save the Postal Service The coronavirus-related plunge in mail revenue is threatening to bankrupt USPS—Trump doesn't want to help. Read more |
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Shanna Hanbury Studies Reveal Climate Tipping Points Could Be Here Much Sooner Than We Thought According to the findings, climate tipping points could happen in a matter of years or decades, not on the ecological timescale of hundreds, or even, thousands of years. Read more |
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James Zogby The End of US Empire: Covid-19 Exposes Once-Great Superpower as Epic Failure While his base continues to be mesmerized by the "emperor’s new clothes," the world stands aghast at the naked truth that America is not only incapable of leading the world, but also failing to protect its own people. Read more |
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Leonardo Flores Botched Infiltration of Venezuela Leaves Guaidó Tainted Beyond Repair Unless Democrats begin to take advantage of the liability Guaidó represents and push back against Trump’s regime change efforts, there seems to be little hope of improving U.S.–Venezuela relations, regardless of who wins the presidency in November. Read more |
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Dan Brook Republicans Are On the Wrong Side of History—and Everything Else! Republicans are conserving little beyond their own wealth, racism, sexism, and homophobia, while eroding American democracy, health, and the environment. Read more |
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Belle Chesler This Empire Has No Clothes: In the Classroom That Zoom Built Teaching across an abyss of silence. Read more |
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Juan Cole If Only the US Had That $6.4 Trillion It Wasted on Iraq and Afghanistan Wars to Fight Covid-19 Pandemic Not only did we waste $6.4 trillion, we continue to wast trillions more on war industries that don’t actually do us any good or make us perceptibly safer. Read more |
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Bama Athreya The Ride Gets Rougher: Gig Workers Organize Through a Pandemic As companies around the world turn to contactless service, the guidelines and protections gig workers win in the midst of coronavirus will have an incredible impact in the future. Read more |
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Alison Stine Appalachia’s Front Porch Network Is a Lifeline A traditional gathering place where the public meets the private is now the critical point of contact for families isolated during the pandemic. Read more |
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Derrick Z. Jackson The Push to Relax COVID-19 Protections Exposes Age-Old Racial Wounds "These are the first shots fired in an uncivil economic war." Read more |
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Jim Naureckas NYT's "Real Coronavirus Death Toll" Is Anything But Clearly, the New York Times designers used the most recent data they could get. But that just begs the question: Why didn't they postpone the project when they realized they didn't yet have the data they needed? Read more |
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Thomas Neuburger From Juanita Broaddrick to Tara Reade: In Forty Years Has Nothing Changed at All? "If Christine Blasey Ford is credible, then Tara Reade is credible at the very least—and so is Juanita Broaddrick." Read more |
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Miles Kampf-Lassin The U.S. Response to Covid-19 Has Lavished Wealth on the Rich While the pandemic ravages American workers, the federal government has orchestrated a monumental transfer of wealth from the bottom of the economic ladder to the top. Read more |
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John Cavanagh Trump Isn’t the First to Threaten WHO, but His Threat Is the Most Dangerous The story line from Reagan to Trump is the same: undermining global public health to serve narrow interests. Only now, we’re in a pandemic. Read more |
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Christopher Cook Farmers Are Destroying Mountains of Food. Here's What To Do About It The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed the cracks in a corporate-focused system supported by polices that favor profits at any cost. Read more |
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Mary Fitzgerald, Cori Crider We Need Urgent Answers About the Massive NHS Covid Data Deal Why is the UK government refusing to release details of its ‘unprecedented’ data transfer to US tech giants? If we don’t get answers, we may seek them in the courts. Read more |
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Mike Lofgren "Reopen the Economy": the Republicans' Nero Decree GOP policies aren't "mistaken." They're a conscious waste of lives for deceitful purposes. Read more |
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Christian Christensen "It Could Be Something We Didn’t See On The Tape"—Ahmaud Arbery and the Eternal Guilt of Black Victims The presumption of normality (let alone decency) is a luxury of privilege. Read more |
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Robert Reich Trump’s 4-Step Plan for Reopening the Economy Will Be Lethal He's trying to force the economy to reopen in order to boost his electoral chances this November, and he’s selling out Americans’ health to seal the deal. This is beyond contemptible. Read more |
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Sina Toossi Pressuring Iran Is Not the Answer to the US’s Middle East Woes Military escalation against Iran would be reckless and counterproductive. It would keep the U.S. bogged down in a permanent confrontation against what is fundamentally a weak country that poses no clear threat to U.S. national security. Read more |
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Joshua Cho Why It’s Wrong (and Racist) to Blame Covid-19 on Chinese 'Wet Markets' It’s easy to point fingers at Chinese “wet markets” to distract from the US’s failures, but US journalists should prioritize holding their own government accountable, and connecting seemingly isolated issues to larger causes. Read more |
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Catherine Xhardez Can COVID-19 Positively Change Perceptions on Migration? The awareness that threats do not stop at borders and that migration is essential, might open avenues for a renewed debate on migration. Read more |
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David Cole Why We Need Postal Democracy If state legislatures fail to allow people to vote by mail during a pandemic, they will effectively deny them their right to vote. Read more |
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Elise Gould A Waking Nightmare: Today’s Jobs Report Shows 20.5 Million Jobs Lost in April It’s as if all the jobs in all of the states beginning with the letter "M" simply disappeared in the last month. That's all the jobs in Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, and Montana combined. Read more |
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Jim Goodman That This System Would Fail Was Entirely Predictable Our food system is not set up to handle a global crisis. Read more |
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Rev Dr Liz Theoharis Poor People’s Campaign: We Refuse to Allow Politicians and Big Corporations to Balance State Budgets by Denying Rights Leaders are using the lie of scarcity to place the burden of the crisis on the poor while billionaires are becoming even richer and large corporations are getting bailouts. Read more |
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Brendan Fischer We Believe This "Dark Money" Group Illegally Spent Nearly $5 Million to Destroy Sanders 2020 Campaign And because voters have a right to know the truth, the Campaign Legal Center where I work has filed an official FEC complaint against the secretive Big Tent Project. Read more |