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Sam Pizzigati Share the Wealth? We Can Start Now – Here’s How Foremost among the forces: the large corporations that dominate our global economy Read more |
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Daniel Ross The U.S. Defense Department Is Losing the Battle Against Climate Change Underfunding, lack of strategic planning and denialism are hindering the DoD’s climate response Read more |
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Susan Galleymore How Dare She Unsettle Us? As Chuck Grassley, Orrin Hatch, Lindsey Graham, Brett Kavanaugh et al, undermine women’s latest efflorescence toward equality, Dr Ford highlighted essential elements of ubiquitous toxic patriarchy. And she did so from the epicenter that dispenses male power Read more |
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Frida Berrigan The Cheetah in Us All A mother thinks about the inheritance of children Read more |
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Rebecca Solnit Dear Christine Blasey Ford: You Are a Welcome Earthquake It was made at great personal cost, but your brave testimony has had incalculable benefits for the country at large Read more |
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Miles Mogulescu Will the FBI’s Kavanaugh Probe Be a White House Coverup? If the FBI investigation is controlled by McGahn and limited to 4 or 5 witnesses, it is a cover-up and a sham Read more |
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John Atcheson Why Kavanaugh Shouldn't Be Confirmed Regardless of what the FBI finds, he’s shown himself to be unfit Read more |
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Sujata Dey The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly on NAFTA 2.0 I am still searching for any reference to Indigenous consent in the agreement Read more |
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Sheetal Dhir It's Time to Speak About the Economic Cost of Sexual Assault The Kavanaugh scandal is an opportunity to finally talk about the economic toll sexual assault takes on our society Read more |
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Chad Ludington 'Brett Has Not Told the Truth': What a Yale Classmate Says About Kavanaugh's Heavy College Drinking "I can unequivocally say that in denying the possibility that he ever blacked out from drinking, and in downplaying the degree and frequency of his drinking, Brett has not told the truth." Read more |
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John Nichols Evolution or Death The midterms are a battle for the soul of both parties Read more |
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Danny Sjursen Backfires and More Blowback: A Generation of American Folly U.S. Policy in the Greater Middle East Read more |
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Brian Fallon, Christopher Kang Why the FBI Should Investigate 'Boofing' Small lies matter — especially when you're asking to be on the Supreme Court. Read more |
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Chris Hedges Lynching the Past It is only by confronting the past that we can end the perpetuation of these crimes in other forms Read more |
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Will Bunch Maria Gallagher, Ana Maria Archila and the Amazing Power of Everyday People Raising Their Voice The elevator pitch that altered the trajectory of American history Read more |
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Linda McQuaig Reactions to Anti-Muslim Video Highlight Political Double Standard The episode highlights the extent to which debate over Palestinian rights has been all but shut down by our political leaders Read more |
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Eric Margolis Amerika Uber Alles Patriotism is poison. Dictators, despots, lunatics—and too many democratic politicians—use it to inflame popular passions to enhance their power. Read more |
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Camillo Mac Bica Reclaiming Armistice Day: A Day to Perpetuate Peace As a veteran, I will not be misled and victimized once more by the militarists and war profiteers. Read more |
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Juan Cole 55% of GOP Say Sexual Assault Not Disqualifying for SCOTUS; What Is *Wrong* With Them? It seems to me that social psychologists ought to look into what is wrong with self-described Republican voters that they take such completely amoral stances Read more |
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Laura Flanders It's Time to Call #TimesUp on Standing Alone It's time to call #TimesUp on anyone standing solo against power. Read more |
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Alison Rose Levy Believing in Activism Is How We Win Enlisting more people to step up to participate and support activism—even at long odds—is the only way to win. Read more |
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David Krieger Nuclear Abolition: The Road from Armageddon to Transformation The nuclear abolition movement must link up with the many other social forces fighting for a better world. Read more |
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Tim Berners-Lee One Small Step for the Web… People want to have a web they can trust. People want apps that help them do what they want and need to do — without spying on them. Read more |
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Juan Cole Lindsey Graham Disregards Violence Toward Women, and His State Is a Women's Murder Capital Graham’s tone deafness to rape victims is nothing new. He has consistently voted against the Violence Against Women Act. Read more |
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Mitchell Zimmerman I'm a Lawyer. I've Been to Trial. And I Believe Christine Blasey Ford. When you look at the surrounding circumstances, it's clear: Brett Kavanaugh has everything to gain by lying. Christine Blasey Ford has nothing. Read more |
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Khury Petersen-Smith The US Isn't Just Backing the Yemen War—It's Helping Trap Those Forced to Flee The United States is helping Oman militarize its border with Yemen, trapping refugees from the U.S.-backed bombing of the country Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Yearning to Be Free Who'd have thought this country would ever descend to such a low level. It has, and it is still falling. Read more |
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Peter Dreier Unhinged? Unlikely Trump is a pathological liar and we now know that Kavanaugh has lied his way through his confirmation hearings for his federal judgeship and now for the Supreme Court Read more |
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Shamus Khan Kavanaugh Is Lying. His Upbringing Explains Why. The elite learn early that they’re special — and that they won’t face consequences Read more |
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Debbie Metke Balancing Ourselves in the Activist Fight The amount of work can seem endless, but we need to pace and yes, enjoy ourselves for the long haul Read more |
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Kyle Whipple Brett Kavanaugh Really, Really Likes to Perjure I believe these women, because they don’t have a well-documented and extensive history of perjury dating back to 2004 Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Women Roar in the Face of Men Like Trump, Kavanaugh, Cosby With masses of women on the outside backing bold and powerful women on the inside refusing to be silenced and diminished, there can be no going back Read more |
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Claire Fallon Brett Kavanaugh’s Testimony Was A Spectacle Of Angry Male Bonding Anger, like laughter, really can bring men together at women’s expense Read more |
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Josie Mooney Kavanaugh Is A Liar: His Words Don’t ‘Ring True’ You have no place on the Supreme Court. And we will stay in the streets until you also understand this to be true Read more |
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Michael Winship Brett Kavanaugh, the All-American Privileged Boy His was not a judicial temperament. It was the unhinged ranting of a right-wing ideologue who should not be allowed to serve as an associate justice of SCOTUS. Read more |
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Kristine Mattis What Brett Doesn't Know: Ten Lesson From the Ford-Kavanaugh Hearings It's fairly obvious that Kavanaugh cannot be trusted, but there's more to it than that Read more |
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Talia Lavin Men Are Afraid of Women Now? Good. In the president’s words, the women coming forward are part of "a con game." But it has begun to feel as if the real con game is the broad expectation that women will go along peaceably. Read more |
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Peter Dimock The Symmetry of the Torture and Sexual Misconduct Testimony of Brett Kavanaugh What we do know suggests the likelihood that Kavanaugh, both as Associate White House Counsel under George Bush from 2001 to 2003 and then as his White House Staff Secretary from 2003 to 2006, had significant involvement in the Bush Administration’s torture policies Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt In the Heart of a Dying Empire The adolts in the room (and no, that is not a typo!) Read more |
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Frances Moore Lappé Hope’s 3 Essentials, and All Are Present Grounds are forming for each of the three realizations most humans need for eyes-wide-open hope triggering heroic action Read more |
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César Chelala Why Do Republicans Hate Women? Republican legislators have repeatedly denied that there is a war on women, and insist that this is a gimmick to influence women voters Read more |
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Jack Holmes It's Difficult to Overstate How Unhinged, and Legitimately Scary, That Trump Presser Was His sentences were scattered, fragmented, and hard to understand—including when he was smearing his accusers Read more |
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Vijay Prashad The World Laughed at Donald Trump But the rest of his speech is a serious threat to world order and peace Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler The Curse of Eve This is so much bigger than Brett Kavanaugh, or the outcome of his nomination Read more |
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Tara DeZao Brett Kavanaugh Sounds Familiar: I Went to High School With Boys Just Like Him The religious right is trying to permanently legislate into American culture with the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh: women are merely sexual objects who cannot be trusted to make decisions about their own bodies Read more |
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Thomas Neuburger The Kavanaugh Confirmation Endgame Republicans now have two choices. They can withdraw the nomination or brute-force it through the Senate anyway. Read more |
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Jefferson Morley How Trump Hijacked the Government’s Transparency Process in an Attempt to Trap Rod Rosenstein Donald Trump took a popular liberal idea and use it to attack the rule of law Read more |
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Marshall Auerback One of Global Finance's Biggest Doctors Warns: The World Economy Is About to Get Very Sick Unless banks and governments switch gears from tax cuts to addressing inequality, we may be in for a lengthy economic downturn soon Read more |
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Jill Richardson The Unbelievable Cruelty of the GOP’s Kavanaugh Charade When I hear people shouting on TV that an assault in one's teens doesn't matter, it feels like they're shouting at me, too. Read more |
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Aniqa Raihan The Strength of Kavanaugh’s Accusers Is Truly Amazing I know what it’s like to seek justice against all odds. The fact that women keep doing it speaks volumes. Read more |
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Nita Lowey Brett Kavanaugh's Accusers Are Being Treated Just Like Anita Hill Was. The Senate Has Learned Nothing. It seems increasingly likely that the Senate Judiciary Committee will repeat its catastrophic failures from the Clarence Thomas hearings Read more |
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Mitchell Plitnick Beating War Drums at the UN Trump’s use of the UNGA platform to build the case for aggression against Iran, and even to add more obstacles to a peaceful resolution of tensions between the United States and the Islamic Republic, was particularly offensive Read more |
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Jen Maman Five Reasons to Support a Total Ban of Nuclear Weapons Today September 26th is the United Nations’ International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons Read more |
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John Atcheson Harbingers: Florence, Forest Fires, and the Future If past is prologue, the media will soon move on, leaving the greatest threat humanity has ever faced virtually uncovered Read more |
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Valerie Vande Panne Outraged by ICE's Treatment of Children? How to Close Your Wallet to the Companies That Profit From It You can do something about it Read more |
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Chris Hedges American Anomie The reconfiguring of American society into an oligarchy and the collapse of our democratic institutions have left most of the population disempowered Read more |
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Marcelo Svirsky The Two-State Delusion It's time to admit that only a change in power dynamics will bring about a solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict Read more |
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Alan MacLeod Facebook’s New Propaganda Partners That a single corporation has such a monopoly over the flow of worldwide news is already problematic, but the increasing meshing of corporate and US government control over the means of communication is particularly worrying Read more |
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Trita Parsi The Ahvaz Terror Attack in Iran May Drag the US Into a Larger War If the Ahvaz Attack has Saudi and UAE fingerprints, then their goal is likely for Iran to respond aggressively, which may force the US to act militarily Read more |
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Amira Odeh Puerto Rico One Year Later: We’re Fighting for Justice and Prosperity It has been a year since the impact of Maria. Here in Puerto Rico, there are still families living in the dark, homes without a roof, people who haven’t been able to find a new job after their businesses were destroyed, and people mourning their lost loved ones. This is climate injustice in action. Read more |
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William Hartung Trump's Space Force: To Boldly Go... Nowhere! Smoke and mirrors or a step towards war in space? Read more |
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Michelle Goldberg Pigs All the Way Down Kavanaugh and our rotten ruling class Read more |
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Patti Solis Doyle Burn Down the 'Boys Will Be Boys' Club Women across America will be watching on Thursday, and, in just a few weeks, they'll be voting Read more |
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Olivia Alperstein It’s Time to Ban Nukes for Good “Use of any nuclear weapon, regardless of its killing power, could be catastrophically destabilizing." Read more |
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Maya Finoh Five Ways the Trump Administration Has Attacked the U.N. and International Human Rights Bodies By pushing xenophobic policies that defy international law, the Trump administration is pitting the United States against the very system of multilateralism that our country worked so hard to create in the years after World War II Read more |
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Rachel Licker Understanding 1.5°C: The IPCC’s Forthcoming Special Report The latest scientific literature has only underscored the urgent need for action to limit the heat-trapping emissions that are fueling climate change Read more |
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John Feffer Trump’s New Normal: Say Goodbye to the Guardrails of Governance What happens when the adults in the room are as scary as the crying baby? Read more |
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Ryan Cooper Brett Kavanaugh and the Corruption of the American Aristocracy Aristocracy means corruption, deception, and moral rot. It is nowhere worse than in America's most elite universities Read more |
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Robert Reich Why I’m Betting on Millennials, This November 6th In my thirty-five years of teaching college students, I’ve not encountered a generation as dedicated to making the nation better as this one Read more |
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Eileen M. Ahlin Memo to Kavanaugh’s Defenders: Passage of Time Doesn’t Erase Youthful Mistakes in the Criminal Justice System, Especially for People of Color Juvenile crimes can haunt people for the rest of their lives Read more |
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Bill C. Davis On Catholic Boys, Kavanaugh, Women, and Belief It seems to me now, the way men perceive women is how they perceive life itself. Read more |
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Steven Greenhouse SeaWorld and Kavanaugh’s Missing Empathy Gene The Supreme Court nominee showed more concern for overregulation than worker safety in a U.S Court of Appeals case involving the death of a whale trainer. Read more |
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Trita Parsi The Ahvaz Terror Attack in Iran May Drag the US Into a Larger War If the Ahvaz attack has Saudi and UAE fingerprints, then their goal is likely for Iran to respond aggressively, which may force the US to act militarily Read more |
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Laura Carlsen Central American Women Are Fighting Extractive Industries on their Land—and Winning The battle to stop the spread of extractive industries pits indigenous and peasant communities against powerful business interests, backed up by politicians who encourage the foreign investments that convert millennial ways of life into cash—for them Read more |
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Kevin Gosztola Death Of Jon Burge: Commander Set Standard For Police Terror In Chicago What happened with Burge is a microcosm of how society and government can allow authorities to torture their own citizens, especially if thuggish elements can convince officials the ends justify the means Read more |
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Debbie Weingarten Arizona Had A Plan To Make the Wealthy Pay For Education. The Supreme Court Shut It Down. "The Arizona Supreme Court decision is not just a blow to the thousands of supporters who spent months protesting, organizing, and petitioning. It is a rejection of a literal phenomenon." Read more |
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Juan Cole How Rosenstein’s Firing Could Lead to Trumpian Martial Law and Blood in the Streets Trump has wanted to fire Rosenstein for some time, and the Times report could well push the volatile hotelier over the edge Read more |
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Marshall Auerback Does the U.S. Have the Ingredients to Win a Trade War? In winning the trade battle with China, Trump may lose the war against inflation. Read more |
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Sami Awad, Michael Beer Gaza As the Palestinian State Is Not an Acceptable Two-State Solution "On the 25th anniversary of the Oslo Accords, Israel is implementing an unjust 'two-state' solution by making Gaza the Palestinian rump state on 1.76 percent of historical Palestine. Israel is moving toward permanent annexation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem." Read more |
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Steven Rosenfeld America's Political Pollsters Could Be Missing the X Factor in the 2018 Elections—'Hidden Voters' Pollsters like to look for reliable voters, but that overlook this year's key blocs of new and infrequent voters. Read more |
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Glenn Greenwald Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 11/9" Aims Not at Trump But at Those Who Created the Conditions That Led to His Rise Trump himself is a secondary figure in Moore's film, which is far more focused on the far more relevant and interesting questions of what—and, critically, who—created the climate in which someone like Trump could occupy the Oval Office. Read more |
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Jack Goldsmith Quick Notes on the Rosenstein Revelations The Times story is "another piece of evidence—on top of large-scale senior-level insubordination, the anonymous Times op-ed writer, and many episodes in Woodward’s new book—that senior Trump officials are significantly disenchanted with the president’s basic competence and have undertaken very... Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli The Pot Addresses the Kettle As President Donald Trump mulls sanctions for China over its treatment of ethnic Uighurs, more than 13,000 young immigrants are in U.S. government custody Read more |
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Ruth Conniff Kavanaugh Accusations Test a ‘Boys Will Be Boys’ Culture Power, privilege, white male prerogative—that’s the backdrop of the Kavanaugh hearings Read more |
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Michael Winship The Grumpy Old Men of the Senate: Time for This Movie to Fade to Black Senate Republicans are in the clutches of misogyny, money and male pattern blindness Read more |
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Kevin Martin For This Year’s International Day of Peace, Korea Takes the Lead This rare, historic outbreak of peace should be celebrated and supported by all the peoples of the world, including and especially Americans and our government Read more |
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Isaiah J. Poole Why We Have To Break Up Amazon A European Union inquiry into Amazon’s business practices raises the same questions we should be asking in the United States about Amazon’s size and power Read more |
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Ryan Cooper The $11 Trillion Question Chris Cillizza Can't Answer The key thing to remember is that Americans already pay enough in taxes to fund a decent Medicare-for-all system — we just have a colossal amount of wasteful spending Read more |
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Brett Max Kaufman Trump Is Unshackling America's Drones Thanks to Obama's Weakness CIA’s operation of drones to hunt and kill terrorism suspects — a campaign that has killed thousands of people, including hundreds of children, in places like Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia — remains an official secret Read more |
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Margaret Hartmann Kavanaugh Backer Presents Bonkers Theory: Christine Ford Was Assaulted by Judge’s Doppelgänger All Whelan did was vividly illustrate why Republicans are wrong to reject Ford’s call for an FBI investigation prior to her testimony Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Trump Is Strangling the U.S. Refugee Program to Death Because national security is not an issue, according to the government’s own internal review, the only other reason to suppress the number of refugees being resettled in the U.S.—and to do so disproportionately against Muslim refugees—is to pander to the racist elements of Trump’s political base... Read more |
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Robert Reich Another Tax Scam for the Rich It’s another big handout to the wealthy, another huge increase in the federal deficit, and it’s illegal Read more |
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Miles Mogulescu Stop the "Kavanaugh Coup" By Any Means Necessary His confirmation would complete the slow-moving coup by Republicans that began under the Reagan administration and culminates with the Trump administration’s effort to tilt American law towards pro-corporate, oligarchic dominance Read more |
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Jim Naureckas Climate Change Made Florence a Monster—But Media Failed to Tell That Story News outlets continue to fail their audiences on this crucial issue Read more |
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Arnold R. Isaacs Learning the Power of Lies: Facts vs. Falsehoods in the Age of Trump In this war on truth, Trump has several important allies Read more |
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Mike Zubrensky Judicial Nominee Background Investigations — Fact vs. Fiction We’re clarifying the FBI background process and addressing the misinformation being spread by Judge Kavanaugh’s defenders Read more |
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Lara Merling Puerto Rico’s Colonial Legacy and Its Continuing Economic Troubles Given that the people of Puerto Rico have no democratic representation or say in this process, it is not surprising that their colonial rulers are ignoring their needs Read more |
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Lisa Gilbert Deregulation of Wall Street Is Plain and Simple Corruption Tens year after the financial crash, and in the two years since Trump took power, here's how Wall Street banks cashed in on their political spending and lobbying efforts Read more |
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Lorraine Chow 3.4 Million Chickens, 5,500 Hogs Killed in Florence's Flooding "This was an unprecedented storm with flooding expected to exceed that from any other storms in recent memory." And millions of animals have already paid the price. Read more |
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Mark Weisbrot How Congress Can End the War in Yemen “The missiles that kill us, American-made. The planes that kill us, American-made. The tanks, Abrams, American-made. You are saying to me, where is America? America is the whole thing.” Read more |