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Mark Engler, Paul Engler It's a Myth That Presidents Welcome Movement Pressure—and Biden Is No Different Politicians fear the disruptive power of a mobilized base, even when it helps them succeed. Read more |
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Juan Cole Federal Court Strikes Down Arkansas Attempt to Punish Proponents of Boycotting Israel Over Its Treatment of Palestinians The anti-boycott laws are the ultimate in cancel culture. They are also un-American. Read more |
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Chuck Collins, Bob Lord Taxes on the Rich: One-Sixth of What They Used to Be A new IPS briefing paper highlights the unique role of tax policy in wealth concentration. Read more |
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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II The Fight for a $15 Minimum Wage Is a Fight for Racial Justice Democrats need to stop playing games and use their majorities to pass a $15 minimum wage right now—we can't wait any longer. Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac Trump's Guilt Clearly Demonstrated During Senate Trial The Democrats are now presenting a "slam dunk" impeachment case in the Senate. And it will almost certainly "lose" in "court." What's next? Read more |
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Sarah Anderson We Must Expose the Insurrection Financiers The January 6 assault on our democracy should lead to greater accountability for future political leaders—and their wealthy financial backers. Read more |
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Elliot Gilfix Jeep Ad Featuring Bruce Springsteen Emblematic of Lazy Obsession With the Mythical Political "Center" Sorry, but there is no "seeking the middle ground" with the GOP. It has gone way off the deep end. Read more |
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Jonathan Cook The Guardian Reveals Its True Face by Sacking Progressive Columnist Nathan Robinson for Criticizing US Military Aid To Israel We need to understand that old corporate media like the Guardian are not an ally to the left, they are the enemy. Read more |
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Mike Lofgren The Right Devolves From J.S. Bach to Skinhead Rock How conservatives fell in love with trash culture, and why it reflects their rage. Read more |
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Labor Notes Editorial Staff Karen Lewis Lit the Spark That Inspired a Generation of Teachers and Union Organizers When you see fire in educators who are standing with students and community to demand justice, look in those flames for her unwavering determination—and her wide smile. Read more |
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Jeff Schuhrke After Threatening Strike, Chicago Teachers Set "New Standard" With Safer School Reopening Plan Hard-fought negotiations and a strike threat led to Chicago teachers reaching the "most comprehensive agreement for reopening schools" in the country, potentially setting a model for other districts nationwide. Read more |
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John Feffer It’s Time To Resurrect a Global Anti-Fascist Consensus To Name, Shame, and Throw These Guys Out of the Game Beating back the far right globally. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Ariel Gold Biden Should Stop Payment on U.S. Funds To Sisi's Egypt Sisi's reign of power has caused vast human rights abuses and a large-scale breakdown of civil society. Read more |
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Tina Gerhardt How Biden Can Tackle the Climate Crisis Joe Biden has promised to ensure climate justice, but will his administration rise to the challenge? Read more |
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Brian Terrell Ending the Other War in Yemen The global proliferation of weaponized drones is no surprise and Biden’s plea for peace in Yemen that allows for their continued use is a hollow one. Read more |
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Larry Bensky, Conn Hallinan Saving Pacifica Radio Is Critical to Building a Progressive Movement "We are in a battle for the heart and soul of Pacifica." Read more |
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Andrew Bacevich Can America's Soul Be Saved From Poison Injected by Trump? Only by acknowledging the evil caused by the simultaneous presence of racism, materialism, and militarism, will it be remotely possible for the United States to take the first few halting steps toward redemption. Read more |
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Ari Paul The Fawning Coverage of Psaki’s Performance Suggests Some in the Press Have Forgotten That Spin Doctors Are Not on Your Side For all the calm Psaki is bringing into the White House press room after a four-year circus, as State Department spokesperson it was her job to justify the most imperial aspects of the Obama administration’s foreign policy. Read more |
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Jamie Henn Ad Agencies Like Wavemaker Need to Stop Greenwashing Chevron's Climate Crimes The real purpose of Chevron's deceptive feel-good advertising is to convince the public and politicians that the oil and gas giant is already acting on climate, so there's no need to regulate them or hold them accountable. Read more |
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Mondaire Jones Biden Could Cancel Student Debt With the Stroke of a Pen Canceling student debt isn’t just the right thing to do—it’s the economically smart thing to do. It would liberate millions of Americans to meaningfully participate in our economy. Read more |
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Christopher D. Cook Republicans Are Now the Party of Lawlessness and Disorder There really is no debating that Trump incited a deadly insurrection riot, no more so than we might debate that the earth is round. And the pending vote to convict or acquit will make clear exactly what the GOP has become. Read more |
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Vanessa Meraz All Undocumented Americans Deserve a Pathway to Citizenship Years of advocacy have made DACA the floor of what’s possible, not the ceiling. Read more |
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Kaniela Ing With Environmental Justice, the Devil Is in the Details If we invest enough, and we invest right, our communities—Black, Indigenous, Latinx, all of us—will finally get a taste of the good life that America has forever promised. Read more |
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David Hart If You Want Healing, Get Off My Bike Do we, as a people, want the events of January 6th to be seen by history as the beginning of national healing, or will we allow it to be the start of an even worse time of division and violence in our nation? Read more |
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Julie Hollar Washington Post Curates the Memory of George Shultz By exclusion or distortion, establishment obituaries rewrite history to make the official heroes fit for adoration. Read more |
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Roger Bybee Why Should U.S. Citizens' Tax Dollars Be Diverted to Enriching the Manufacturing Base of Other Nations When Americans Need Jobs? The President’s plan to reinforce the Buy American Act is the first step in reviving the U.S. industry. Read more |
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John Buell GameStop Fiasco Proves We Need a Financial Transaction Tax America is over-financialized and needs a tax on speculation. Read more |
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Jim Hightower We Can Push Biden for Fundamental Change at the USDA and Beyond Here's a chance for progressives to rally a broad grassroots constituency to refocus the work of this huge public resource and make it The People's Department again. Read more |
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Trevor Potter Impeachment Trial Must Result in Trump Lifetime Ban To Protect Our Democracy We cannot begin to address this threat and rebuild trust unless we send a clear message that future presidents cannot incite an insurrection at the end of their term and get away with it. Read more |
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Philip H. Howard, Mary Hendrickson Corporate Concentration in the US Food System Makes Food More Expensive and Less Accessible A resilient food system that feeds everyone can be achieved only through a more equitable distribution of power. Read more |
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Alice Slater Time to Negotiate for Peace in Space A legally binding international treaty banning the basing of weapons in space should be the global objective of all. Read more |
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Laura Packard Hedge Funds Tried to Kill GameStop. Now They’re Coming for Our Health Care System Too Hedge funds and private equity firms make profits off our misery and threaten any future health care reform. Read more |
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Rebecca Gordon The Looming Fires Climate change, the bomb, or the flame of hope? Read more |
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Mary Babic Top Reasons It's Time to Raise the Minimum Wage Now When employers don’t pay people enough to survive, those workers are compelled to seek government assistance, meaning taxpayers are essentially subsidizing the corporations. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Democrats Disarm Themselves Before Trump’s Senate Impeachment Trial If the Democrats do not go full throttle in this trial—this last clear chance to exercise the Constitution against Tyrant Trump—they will be remembered as profiles of infamy. Read more |
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Tara Houska #DefundLine3: Because Stopping This Pipeline is a Matter of Justice Over the next two months, we're going to make the financial companies that support Enbridge and its toxic tar sands project feel the heat. Here's the plan. Read more |
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John Feffer The World Welcomes Biden But Hedges Its Bets Will continued political volatility be America's downfall? Read more |
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Jameel Jaffer Why the Biden DOJ Should Drop All Charges Against Julian Assange A successful prosecution of the Wikileaks' founder and publisher would have far-reaching implications both for national security journalists and for the news organizations that publish their work. This isn't an accident. Read more |
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Robert Reich No Perks, No Cushy Benefits for Twice-Impeached President Someone who has disgraced the office of the president so maliciously should not reap its amenities for the rest of his life. Read more |
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Rebekah Entralgo Ending the Subminimum Tipped Wage Will Lift Up Black Workers and Benefit All Workers "If we are committed to ending systemic racism in the workplace, passing a living wage bill for tipped and non-tipped low-wage workers is essential to reducing inequality," says racial justice champion Tanya Wallace-Gobern. Read more |
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Donald Pols 13 Years Is Too Long for Victims of Shell's Oil Spills to Wait for Justice This case has beaten a path through the undergrowth for victims of corporate crimes. Now we need strong laws to make this avenue easier to access. Read more |
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Paul Buchheit The Year of Cheating the Poor People who have money can buy stocks, wait for awhile, and ultimately get richer by doing nothing. But low-income Americans have to depend on wages for their fair share of national economic growth—and wages have barely budged in over 50 years. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Hidden in Plain Sight: The "Unimpeachable" Offenses If what's impeachable is only what members of Congress say it is, constituents should insist that egregiously narrow definitions must no longer prevail. Read more |
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Libby Leonard Returning to the Roots of Community Resilience in Hawai'i Local agriculture initiatives offer a way toward food security through reconnection with the land and the true spirit of aloha. Read more |
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Patrick Shea Tribes at Long Last Reclaim Control of National Bison Range Indigenous people will take over the management of decimated herds. Read more |
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Hamilton Nolan Enormous VA Union Contract Moves Towards Uncertain Conclusion Under New Biden Administration The fate of more than a quarter million federal workers is still up in the air. Read more |
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Annelle Sheline Biden to Lift the Wrongheaded Houthi Terrorist Designation—But What's Next? Having reversed the worst of Trump's policies, Biden must now tackle those of the Obama administration. Read more |
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Reese Erlich What Trump and the Myanmar Coup Have in Common The Asian country's military overthrew its government over baseless claims of voter fraud. Sound familiar? Read more |
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Mark Schuller US Reporting Fails to Note Foreign Roots of Haiti's 'Constitutional Crisis' Voices within Haiti amplified in foreign corporate media are political parties. Read more |
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Leonard Pitts Jr. Henry Darby Goes Above and Beyond to Help His Students—And That Should Make You Angry What does it say about us as a country that he must go to such extraordinary lengths? Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Suu Kyi and Trump Have a Lot in Common—Offices They Held and Their Treatment of People However, one significant difference is Suu Kyi is the recipient of something Trump wanted more than almost anything else in the world—the Nobel Peace Prize. Read more |
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Alexander Langlois Biden's 'America First' Vaccination Strategy Promotes Global Inequity Gobbling up nearly 1.6 billion doses of various Covid-19 vaccinations directly conflicts with the administration's so-called equity-based approach. Read more |
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Johanna von Braun Biden's Efforts on Climate Is a Start—But What About Including Biodiversity? With approximately one million plant and animal species threatened by extinction, the loss of our natural habitats is as much of a global crisis as climate change. Read more |
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Juan Cole In Game-Changer, ICC Will Take Up Israeli War Crimes and Apartheid in Palestine Palestinian victims of Israeli war crimes from various generations will gain the right to seek justice after decades of occupation. Read more |
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Domenica Ghanem Biden's Repeal of Trump's Muslim Ban Is Just the Beginning It should kick off a bigger process of healing the harms this long-term dehumanization has caused. Read more |
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Michael Reich 65 Billion Reasons the Senate Can Pass a $15 Minimum Wage by Reconciliation The benefits of a $15 minimum wage are clear. The raise is long overdue. Read more |
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Josh Bivens The Biden Rescue Plan Is Neither Risky Nor a Distraction From Structural Issues The risks of going too-big are trivial. The risks of going too-small are large—letting the unemployment shock from Covid-19 linger for years. Read more |
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Zishun Ning Should We Not Stop the 24-Hour Shifts if There Are Workers Who Like It? "Choosing 24-hour shifts” is a false concept that they put out to confuse people and perpetuate this deplorable sweatshop practice. Read more |
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Lynn Parramore Is America's Current Capitalist System Equipped To Handle the Potential Tsunami of Despair After COVID? Only a serious reform of American capitalism can address the kind of distress and insecurity so severe that it kills. Is the country ready for this critical shot in the arm? Read more |
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Eleanor J. Bader The Capitol Insurrectionists Were Also Part of a Misogynist Anti-Abortion Movement The events of January 6 were firmly planted on an intersectional foundation that included white supremacy, sexism, and misogyny. Read more |
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James K. Galbraith, Jayati Ghosh, Mark Weisbrot, et al. Open Letter From 40+ Economists Regarding Ecuador and the Dollar Not only has leading presidential candidate Andrés Arauz emphasized that he is committed to maintaining the dollar as the national currency, he and his party have a long track record of taking strong measures to make sure that dollarization did not come under threat. Read more |
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Victor Pickard The Fairness Doctrine Won't Solve Our Problems—but It Can Foster Needed Debate Why it’s time to explore the connections among the First Amendment, content regulation and democracy. Read more |
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Michael Winship Republicans Don’t Know Much About History. But That Won’t Stop Them In word and deed, Trumpists try to murder truth and hide the body. Read more |
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Max Richtman Biden Presidency Opens Window to Expand & Strengthen Social Security Without Social Security, 38% of elderly Americans would fall into poverty. Read more |
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Robert Lipsyte Take Me Out to the Capitol…Whoops, I Mean the Ballpark The Super Bowl ends the most toxic season ever. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler How "National Security" Disregards Humanity As long as there are divisions in humanity, and thus in understanding, no one can possibly be secure. Read more |
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Michael Mann It’s a New Day in the Climate Battle, Now We Must Act With Agency We must push forward aggressively now that the wind is finally at our backs, to rescue our planet while there is still time. Read more |
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Mitchell Zimmerman More Partisanship, Not Less: Democrats Shouldn’t Compromise Their Solutions to Pander to a GOP That Is Part of the Problem There can be no reasonable compromise between those determined to confront the crises America faces and those who deny that the problems exist—and have indeed aggravated them. Read more |
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Juan Cole After Years of Outrage Politics, RepubliQans Have Surrendered to the Neo-Nazi Conspiracy Theorists The House Republicans have experienced an embarrassing loss of spine, which has reduced them to floundering slugs, because Trump is still the leader of their party and he supports Greene. Read more |
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Shayna Lewis The Bombing of Civilians in Yemen's Civil War Involves Many Actors, Including Defense Contractors at Raytheon It’s time to confront the powerful interests of the arms industry, stop arms sales to those who are indiscriminately bombing civilians, and end U.S. complicity in the war in Yemen for good. Read more |
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Bianca Mugyenyi In Honor of Black History Month, Canada Should End Its Support of Authoritarianism in Haiti Canadian officials have barely criticized any of Moïse’s authoritarian measures. On the contrary, Ottawa has backed Moïse at almost every turn. Read more |
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Ralph Nader The Struggle Inside Senator Mitch McConnell's Brain Allowing the Trumpian half of his brain to overpower his judgment and vote to acquit Dangerous Donald would spell disaster for the Republican Party (assuming the Democratic Party doesn’t go to sleep as it did after Obama’s win in 2008). Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies The Decline and Fall of the American Empire Instead of opening doors for American big business or supporting America’s diplomatic position in the world, the U.S. war machine has become a bull in the global china shop, wielding purely destructive power to destabilize countries and wreck their economies. Read more |
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Neil Datta 'This Is Just the Beginning': Why Poland's War on Abortion Should Scare You This is not just 'Poland being Poland.' These actions are illegal, inhumane and could spread across Europe. Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac The False Equivalence Between the Democratic Left and the Republican Right Is Absurd If this country’s media institutions are to truly function as means of public enlightenment and civic education in this very dark time, then they had better be very clear about this difference. Read more |
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Hamilton Nolan You Can’t Hurt the Gangsters at the Capitalist Casino by Shuffling the Chips Around To Different Bets. You Take Their Chips off the Table. Pumping up GameStop will do nothing to change what people hate about Wall Street. There’s a better way. Read more |
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Rebekah Entralgo Biden's Private Prison Reform Must Include Immigration Detention Centers To fully address profit-driven punishment, the Biden administration will need to take aim at every tendril of the private prison industry. Read more |
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Chuck Collins, Omar Ocampo The Real Winners of Pandemic Super Bowl 2021? The Sports Owners Raking in Billions Even in a pandemic, 64 billionaires have seen incredible gains from the major league sports teams they own. Read more |
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John Nichols The Worst Mistake the Democrats Could Make Is To Seek the Center—Again. Why Biden and the Democrats must go bold. Read more |
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Mike Lofgren The Electoral College Is Far Worse Than You Think Majority disenfranchisement isn't its only flaw; it allows fanatical splinter groups to decide elections. Read more |
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Lindsay Koshgarian Will the Space Force take the Pentagon Budget to Infinity and Beyond? While the Space Force represents just a small sliver of the Pentagon budget, it is in many ways the poster child for a Pentagon that knows no bounds, either budgetarily or physically. Read more |
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Thom Hartmann Could This Be the Smoking Gun of Trump's January 6 Treason? If some of the available evidence bears out, this goes far beyond incitement. Read more |
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William Astore A Ten-Point Plan to Make Joe Biden a Peace-Time President After two decades of war and four administrations, it won't be easy to work for peace—but it sure is worth the try. Read more |
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Julie Hollar On Sunday Shows, the Only Biden 'Promise' That Matters Is Compromise Democrats rode to victory in Georgia on a clear promise to give people $2,000 checks if they were given control of the Senate. But to hear corporate media tell it, the more important promise—and the only one they will hold him accountable for—is one Biden never even made. Read more |
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Meg Wiehe, Jenice Robinson Biden’s Child Tax Credit Plan Could Right a Historical Wrong One lesson from 2020 is that economic and racial inequality are intrinsic challenges that have been either swept under the rug or addressed at the margins for far too long. Read more |
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Chris Hedges The Oligarchy Knows Class Warfare Is the Real Fight—Why Don't Liberals? The Democrats and Republicans have legalized a level of greed and fraud that even heirs of the robber barons thought unsustainable. Read more |
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Simon Davis-Cohen, Lindsey Schromen-Wawrin Biden's Executive Order on Climate Crisis Exposes Need for Constitutional Change Demands to abolish the Electoral College and restructure the U.S. Supreme Court can be pegged to substantive constitutional change. It's the role of movements to demand and make changes to the "applicable law," and its interpretation. Read more |
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Zoe Weil We Must Shift the Purpose of Education and Cultivate Meaningful Solutions to Potentially Calamitous Global Problems For the sake of children and the world, we need a solutionary generation. Read more |
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Trita Parsi Biden’s First JCPOA Hurdle As simple as this formula is, it doesn’t resolve the question of who should take the first step. Read more |
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Simon Allison Under the Current Rules, Vaccines Are Only Going To Rich Countries That Can Afford It Despite Bill Gates’ stated commitment to an equitable distribution of the Covid vaccine, he is refusing to back South Africa and India’s calls for a waiver on patents. Read more |
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Sarah Anderson The Big Chicken Bosses Are No Longer Calling All the Shots in DC In the new political landscape, poultry workers have already managed to scuttle a Trump administration reform that would’ve made their jobs even more dangerous. Read more |
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Robert Reich The Real Reason the GOP Don’t Want Biden’s Plan? They Fear It Will Work Biden’s success would put into sharp relief Trump and Republicans' utter failures on COVID and jobs. Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt The Imperial Presidency Under Joe Biden Joe Biden may not believe in the imperial presidency, but it could be all he has. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Judging Biden by Low Standards Set by Trump Would Be an Unforgivable Catastrophe We don't have any room to grade this administration on a curve. Progressives must push with everything they've got. Read more |
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Robert Reich Sedition By Other Means: Corporate Executives and Lobbyists Routinely Undermine Democracy to Protect Their Bottom Line The corporate assault on democracy hasn't been as violent as the pro-Trump mob who stormed the Capitol. And it's entirely legal. But it's arguably more damaging over the long term. Read more |
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Jim Naureckas NYT Scrutinizes Coronavirus Response in China Where Less Than 5,000 People Have Died in One Year While US Loses 3,250 People Per Day Eighty-seven times as many people have now died from Covid-19 in the U.S. as in China, but in a puzzling attempt to undermine the notion that China's pandemic response has been better, the Times has recently highlighted that country's "efforts to hide its missteps"—and criticized it for sending... Read more |
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Leah Douglas After Enduring "Complete Hell" During Pandemic, Food Workers Face Obstacles Getting Covid-19 Vaccinations There are still unanswered questions about how and whether the vaccines will actually get to a workforce that ranks among the most vulnerable to the coronavirus. Read more |
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Eric Levitz Democrats' Internal Conflict Over the Filibuster Is Just Getting Started Joe Manchin doesn't necessarily have an interest in the institutional health of the Democratic Party, but the party's leaders have a vital interest in passing sweeping reforms that gratify its base and mitigate its structural disadvantages. Read more |
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Tom Valovic A Closer Look at the AI Hype Machine: Who Really Benefits? In a second "Gilded Age" where the power of billionaires and elites over our lives is now being widely questioned, what do we do about their ability to radically and undemocratically alter the landscape of our daily lives using the almighty algorithm? Read more |
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Shelley Inglis Death Threats Against Public Officials Reflect Trump's Autocratic Legacy. Reversing GOP's Authoritarian Turn Difficult But Essential The heightened risk of widespread political violence symbolizes the depth of deterioration of democracy in the U.S. What happens next with the Republican Party, and its financial backers and supporters, will remake or break America's democracy. Read more |