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Eric Levitz Democrats Should Be Nervous About Trump's Already Extraordinarily Well-Funded Reelection Effort Trump's novel weaknesses may ultimately dwarf his newfound strengths. But Democrats shouldn't bank on it Read more |
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Kiana Calloway I Spent 16 Months in Solitary Confinement and Now I'm Fighting to End It The need for reform is urgent. Because putting people in dehumanizing situations pushes them to do dehumanizing things Read more |
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Celina della Croce How Working-Class Movements Are Moving Beyond the Confines of Capitalism We must rebuild the imagination of the working class and combat the capitalist narrative that has made it easier for us to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism Read more |
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Bill Blum Here Are 10 Questions Congress Should Ask Robert Mueller Given the chance the lawmakers will soon have, here's what I would ask Read more |
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Aidan O'Sullivan Civil Disobedience and Policing in the Anthropocene How will the police respond to environmental direct action groups like Extinction Rebellion as climate breakdown reaches critical mass? Read more |
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David Suzuki Yes, We Can Resolve the Climate Crisis We’re at a pivotal point. Read more |
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Michael Winship Trump's Big, Wet Fourth of July Picnic Photobombing the nation's annual portrait. Read more |
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Eugene Robinson Teeny, Tiny Trump on the Fourth of July The president tried to make Independence Day all about him. He ended up looking small. Read more |
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Peter Dreier, Dick Flacks Progressive Patriotism for July 4 As both a candidate and as president, Trump has consistently confused patriotism and nationalism Read more |
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Elizabeth Henderson Unfair Food Pricing Is Killing Family Farms and Regenerative Farming Neoliberal free-trade policies that favor aggregated seed, food and chemical corporations prevent family-scale farms that use regenerative practices from profiting. We need a fair Green New Deal now. Read more |
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Maywa Montenegro, Annie Shattuck US Agriculture Needs a 21st-Century New Deal We have urged Congress to use the proposed Green New Deal to promote a just transition in agriculture Read more |
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Jonathan Cook The Plot to Keep Jeremy Corbyn Out of Power As the establishment’s need to keep him away from power has grown more urgent and desperate so has the nature of the attacks Read more |
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Tim Koechlin The Rich Get Richer, and Richer Still: Soaring Inequality in the US and Why it Matters There are powerful forces out there fighting with all of their might and all of their abundant resources to preserve the status quo Read more |
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Donna Smith This 4th of July, We Will Still Hold Some Truths to Be Self-Evident The promise of our shared interests in anything close to attainment of our declared values and reason for being is lost to us unless we all stand together Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Trouble at the Border It’s about a culture of militarism, which, unavoidably, equals a culture of racism Read more |
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Jeff Biggers Climate Strike: Youth Activism Is Giving Their Parents' Generation a Second Chance I've been writing about climate change for 20 years. But my teenage sons have given my work a new meaning Read more |
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Eric W. Maroney An Open Letter to Randi Weingarten and the American Federation of Teachers Regarding the Humanitarian Crisis at the Border Let us carry the torch reignited by the CTU and the UTLA to illuminate the collective imagination and the bold dream for justice Read more |
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Natascha Elena Uhlmann What Does It Mean to Abolish ICE? Our demand is not a return to the so-called civility of the Obama years, but an unapologetic end to an apparatus that preemptively criminalizes migration, and enforces a hierarchy based on the accident of birth Read more |
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Jill Richardson How Do You Celebrate a Flawed Nation? To love America is to love the movements that have fought for centuries to make it better Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Ann Wright Trump Celebrates Himself on July 4th This isn't the first time a U.S. president has militarized Fourth of July celebrations for cynical and political purposes, but hopefully it's the last Read more |
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Lizet Ocampo Our Immigrant Prisons Are an Atrocity Children are suffering and dying. Enough is enough. Read more |
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Mina Shahinfar What Sanctions Mean for My Iranian-American Family As innocent people suffer, break-ins are on the rise—including at my grandparents’ house Read more |
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Bonnie Castillo Medicare for All Means Real Choice: One Health Card, Good Anywhere You Go You can go to any doctor, any hospital or clinic or other provider you prefer. All networks are gone. So are all surprise medical bills. So are all out of network charges. So are all premiums, all deductibles, all co-pays for such basics as emergency care, doctor's visits, mental health, dental,... Read more |
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John Atcheson It's Time to Redefine Left, Right, and Especially "Center" in US Politics The chorus of people warning against the dangers of drifting to the left are being duped by a well-funded, Madison Avenue-style campaign that has been decades in the making Read more |
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Suzanne Stone Trump Wants to Remove Federal Protections for Wolves: Idaho’s Example Shows Why This Is a Terrible Idea There’s still time to speak out against national wolf delisting by adding your public comment by July 15 Read more |
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Juan Cole June Hottest Month on Record, As Antarctica Melts: Top 3 Signs We are Cooking the Planet . . .and Ourselves We need to elect politicians who will address the problem systematically, with massive infrastructure Read more |
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Jim Hightower The Devastation of Farm Country Is Biting Us All on the Butt Today's catastrophe is far more desperate than outsiders know—and is caused by another perfect storm of corporate monopolization, financial manipulation and rigged ag policies Read more |
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Jim Naureckas Buttigieg Goes for Big Bucks as NYT Oversells His Small-Donor Support In the case of Buttigieg, the two main sources of funds seem to be the tech industry—and the financial industry, that traditional source of funds for corporate-oriented Democrats Read more |
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Peter Dreier With Move to Destroy or Cover Mural, San Francisco's 'Progressive' School Board Is Embarrassing Itself The school board should keep its hands off the mural, because we cannot learn about our nation's history of cruelty and oppression if we destroy depictions of it Read more |
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Laura Flanders Love and Rights: Contingent or Unconditional? Are rights things to be granted by the powerful to the deserving few, contingent on their obedience, someone’s convenience and adherence to the prevailing rules and conventions? Read more |
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Thomas Linzey The Meek Be Damned on Global Warming Two ideas that could save us and the planet: community democracy in the name of sustainability, and the rights of nature Read more |
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Dean Baker Why Aren’t the Democrats Talking About Ending Patent-Financed Drug Research? It would be nice to see Democrats propose plans that would stop the government from making drugs expensive in the first place Read more |
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Ralph Nader Highly Recommended Books for 2019 Summer Reading Ralph Nader's book recommendations Read more |
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Pierre Tristam Bomb Iran? Pass. Let’s not tempt a third loss against a country whose history outlasts ours by about 6,000 years, all because Saudi Arabia is trying to pimp the United States into fighting its religious war Read more |
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Ryan Cooper Joe Biden's Record on Race Is Even Worse Than Kamala Harris Lets On When African-Americans arguably needed his help the most—Biden has repeatedly wielded his power to devastate the black community Read more |
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Eli Clifton Cory Booker’s Foreign Policy Echoes His Biggest Donors Either Booker is echoing his biggest donors or he is coincidentally out of step with the Democratic Party and aligned with NORPAC, which just happens to be based in his home state of New Jersey Read more |
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Patrick Hiller Iranians Are Not Our Enemies When foreign policy as we know it isn’t working, creative citizen diplomacy can step in to humanize the real people who would be most impacted by war Read more |
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Harry Blain American Concentration Camps, Then and Now When human beings are framed as a national security threat, barbed wire is the next logical step. But unlike during the Japanese internment, today there’s high-level political resistance Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt We’re Not the Good Guys Why is American aggression missing in action? Read more |
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Joseph Stiglitz Thumbs Down to Facebook’s Cryptocurrency Only a fool would trust Facebook with his or her financial wellbeing. But maybe that’s the point: with so much personal data on some 2.4 billion monthly active users, who knows better than Facebook just how many suckers are born every minute? Read more |
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Robert Reich Abolish the Billionaires! The cost to our democracy of billionaires with enough wealth and power to dictate the rules of capitalism for their own benefit is incalculable Read more |
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Christopher Warren Trump's War With Iran Would Be a Climate Disaster—Why Peace and Climate Justice Are the Same Project We must come to the position that opposing war and fighting for a safe climate are no longer categorically separate things, entailing separate actions Read more |
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Prabir Purkayastha Facebucks Are the Last Thing the World Needs Just what is the social media giant up to? Read more |
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Jonathan Cook Exactly Like Its Predecessors, Trump’s Peace Plan Has Been Designed to Fail The Palestinians may have refused this time to stumble into the trap set by the president and his son-in-law Jared Kushner, but they will find themselves the fall guys, whatever happens Read more |
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Chuck Collins Bernie Sanders Is Right: 3 Billionaires Really Do Have More Wealth Than Half of America And in addition to the 3 billionaires Bernie mentioned, we should also be worried about the expanding fortunes of multi-generational wealth dynasties Read more |
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Fran Quigley 'If Grandma Is on the Table, No One Will Blink at the Price': A Former Drug Company Manager Explains Industry Price-Setting Frances Leath no longer works in management for pharmaceutical industry giant Eli Lilly and Company, but she keeps tabs on the company where she spent the first 15 years of her career. She still... Read more |
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Reese Erlich When It Comes to Iran, the So-Called 'Trump Doctrine' Is Sinking Fast The Iranian government saw the president's vacillation as a sign of weakness, one journalist tells me, "Iran was ready to retaliate on an unbelievable scale." Read more |
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Dilip Hiro Under Trump, America's Global Standing at Record Low Two years later, Trump has failed to reverse America's decline Read more |
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Phyllis Bennis If War Breaks Out with Iran, It Won’t Be an Accident A range of U.S. policies have been deliberately designed to provoke an Iranian response. Read more |
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Mike Lofgren Integralism: The Shiny New Toy of the Right A dangerous dissatisfaction with American life that borders on clinical paranoia and dictatorship. Read more |
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Norman Solomon After Biden’s Sharp Decline, Wall Street Investors Reassessing Other Blue Chips Like any other stock, Wall Street is looking for a winner it can own Read more |
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Jeremy Brecher The Green New Climate Deal The next phase of the climate movement is here. It may provide a last opportunity that many of us thought we would never have. Read more |
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Reese Erlich The 'Trump Doctrine' Is Sinking Fast The Iranian government saw the president's vacillation as a sign of weakness, one journalist tells me, "Iran was ready to retaliate on an unbelievable scale." Read more |
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Juan Cole Dear Trump: CO2 Is Polluting Our Atmosphere and Acidifying Our Water. They Aren't the 'Cleanest' As usual, everything Trump said about renewable energy and the atmosphere was complete lies Read more |
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Jeffrey D. Sachs, Vanessa Fajans-Turner Why Calling Bernie Sanders a 'Radical' Is Nonsense It's time to stop labeling pragmatic solutions as radical and out of reach Read more |
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Jane Regan In Haiti, Washington Meddling Missed by Press If this were Venezuela, elite media journalists and commentators would be all over the story Read more |
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Katie Halper How NYT Reporter Sydney Ember Uses Corporate Sources to Attack Bernie Sanders Ember is supposed to write reported articles, not op-eds, but she consistently paints a negative picture of Sanders temperament, history, policies and/or political prospects Read more |
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Shaun King History Has Taught Us That Concentration Camps Should Be Liberated. We Can't Wait Until 2020. This is why we say that cruelty is the point. It's not an accident. These systems are cruel by design. Read more |
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Ryan Costello Why Is Booker Parroting Trump on Iran? Trump has put the country back on the warpath. Just like the Paris Climate Accord, the Democrats should make clear that they are going to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal, whether the Republicans like it or not Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Trump and Hitler: A Juxtaposition It is a sad day for our country when comparisons between the leader of Nazi Germany and the president of the United States are apt Read more |
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Robert Reich Dems Cave on the Border A week of disgusting images at the border that repulsed a nation ended with Trump getting more money to carry out the same abuses, without accountability Read more |
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Talcott Camp Georgia Tried to Ban Abortion, So We Sued With this lawsuit, we and our partners are sending a clear message to those who passed this bill: they will not succeed Read more |
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Yurij Rudensky, Annie Lo Supreme Court Refuses to Stop Partisan Gerrymandering With the Supreme Court shirking its responsibility, other strategies for getting fair maps are more important than ever Read more |
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Astra Taylor Canceling All College Debt Will Make Us Smarter and Richer An erasure of all student loans currently on the books, would be a significant boon to GDP, boosting the economy by approximately $100 billion a year for at least 10 years, yielding lower unemployment rates, increased spending, and more Read more |
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Juan Castillo Image of Migrants Should Stir Our Outrage and Our Compassion As difficult as it is to see, we cannot and should not turn away. If we become numb to this, we risk losing our soul. Read more |
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Frances Moore Lappé, Zachary Field Who Can Afford a Green New Deal? We Can! Let’s drop the false narrative of "unaffordability." Read more |
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Will Bunch Explosions! Floods! Cancer! What More Will It Take for Pa. to Ditch Fossil Fuels? Let’s close the loop that started in 1859, and we’ll look back on June 21, 2019, not as a catastrophe but as the first day of Pennsylvania’s green and glorious new era Read more |
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Peter Dreier A Democratic Debate Report Card It's not a list based on preference, but an assessment of how they performed over the last two nights Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar As Immigrant Deaths Pile Up, We Need to Find Our Moral Compass To Trump and his supporters, immigrants are not human Read more |
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Juan Cole Saudi Arabia Erases Science, Blocks Progress at Bonn Climate Summit, Pushing Dirty Oil Saudi Arabia’s oil is actually worthless because it is toxic to our planet, but the markets bestow on it a value because people are still driving gasoline cars Read more |
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Michael Winship Over Two Nights, Democrats Start Building the Wall Against Trump Who will rid us of this turbulent fake? Read more |
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Jud Lounsbury Donald Trump, Rapist-In-Chief If rape isn’t a "high crime and misdemeanor," what is? Read more |
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Robert Dodge Nuclear IQ, Presidential Debates, and Our Future The formal debates for the 2020 Democratic nomination for President have begun this week. While there are many substantive topics that need to be covered, there are two existential threats that... Read more |
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Robert Freeman Why Do You Lie So Much?—and Eight Other Questions NBC's Chuck Todd Should Have Asked Trump It is almost impossible to overstate the damage such boot-licking performances do to civic discourse, public trust, cultural norms, respect for journalism, and even constitutional government Read more |
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Nick Turse "What Does War Have to Do With Me?" Combat viewed from the rooftops and beyond Read more |
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Ralph Nader Which 2020 Democrat Will Go After Trump's Destructive Embrace of Corporate Socialism? Our political economy is largely controlled by giant corporations and their political toadies. Today the concentration of power and wealth is staggering. Read more |
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Jennifer Lunden What Should We Do About Concentration Camps in Trump’s America? Portland, Maine is welcoming a wave of migrants with kindness as the administration comes under fire for its cruelty at immigrant detention centers Read more |
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Ryan Cooper The First Democratic Debate Was a Circus Key policy questions were left hanging as the conversation flitted from topic to topic Read more |
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David Dayen Warren's Medicare for All Moment Was Critical The 2020 candidate had been more equivocal on single-payer in the past. Not at the first debate. Read more |
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Steven Rosenfeld The GOP Is Embracing More Ruthless Power Grabs in the Face of Huge Political Challenges Expected Supreme Court rulings are just the tip of a bigger trend Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler American Concentration Camps No, they are not death camps. But, I fear, they are evolving. Read more |
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Fred Wertheimer Mitch 'The Grim Reaper' McConnell: Meet the Man Who Ruined the Senate The Republican Majority Leader from Kentucky has made the Senate a legislative graveyard Read more |
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Kenia Alcocer Fund Head Start, Not Internment Camps One policy gives children lifelong benefits. The other destroys lives. Read more |
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Valerie Vande Panne A Visionary Blueprint to End Poverty—A Moral Budget for 2020 Poor People’s Campaign and Institute for Policy Studies release a “Moral Budget,” ask 2020 candidates to end poverty Read more |
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Nancy J. Altman Intergenerational Warfare Is a Scam—We Need to Expand Social Security and End Student Debt Expanding retirement security, providing tuition-free public college, and the cancelling student debt should unite us all—not pit one generation against another Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac On Being Very Much Against Biden Without Demonizing Him Biden deserves to be called out, challenged, and defeated in the primary, because of his troubling stances on the politics of race and gender, because of his ties to Wall Street, and because of his general fecklessness. And yet... Read more |
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Ellen Brown Facebook May Pose a Greater Danger Than Wall Street "Libra might someday be recognized as a sovereign currency, with Facebook acting as a 'shadow bank' that could compete with the central banks of countries around the world." Read more |
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Robert Lipsyte How the Worst Values of Sports Are Taking Over America From the ballpark to team Trump Read more |
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John Buell Trump Is Deregulating the Nation Toward Disaster What is unusual if not literally unique about the Trump presidency is the scope of the deregulatory initiatives, the willingness to expand federal power in behalf of its deregulatory agenda, and the explicit, emphasis on profits as the goal of deregulation Read more |
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James Zogby, Mel Levine Jared Kushner’s Bahrain Conference Won’t Work Palestinians have been down this road before, and they know that unless there is a political horizon that provides for an end to the occupation and the freedom and independence they need to grow their economy, they will not prosper Read more |
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Julia Travers 20 Ways You Can Help Immigrants Now While Congress stalls, you can take other kinds of actions to help immigrants in transition, in detention, and in crisis Read more |
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Kathy Kelly An Honorable Course in Iran: End Sanctions, Resume Dialogue The greatest outlier in terms of possessing nuclear weapons is the U.S. Read more |
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Mike Lofgren Reverse Darwinian Selection Afflicts Trump’s Washington This administration always chooses the worst and the dumbest Read more |
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Kalena Thomhave Banning Private Prisons—and Prisoner Exploitation Elizabeth Warren’s newest plan goes beyond limiting the private role in mass incarceration, and seeks to prevent corporate abuse of vulnerable inmates Read more |
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Karthik Ganapathy Florida Is Burning. The Midwest Is Flooding. Why Aren't Democrats Debating Climate? Miami hit its highest temperature ever recorded in the same week Democrats arrived for the first presidential debate. This isn't rocket science. Read more |
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Julie Hollar WaPo Doesn’t Want Voters to Know Medicare for All Will Cut Their Health Costs Healthcare consistently ranks as one of the top issues for Democratic voters, so helping those voters understand Democratic presidential candidates’ positions on healthcare ought to be a key job for... Read more |
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Vijay Prashad The Hybrid War Against Iran Sanctions, the information war, and the American sabotage Read more |
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Miles Mogulescu Nancy Pelosi's Anti-Impeachment Stance Makes Increasingly Less Sense With Each Passing Day The House Speaker's position only makes Democrats appear weak and unprincipled. And appearing weak and unprincipled is, by definition, bad politics. Read more |
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Robert Reich Why We Need to Break Up Big Tech Monopolies aren’t good for anyone except for the monopolists, especially when they can influence our elections and control how Americans receive information Read more |
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Robert Wright When NPR Is More Dangerous Than Fox News When you tune in to "mainstream" media, you may think you’re getting an objective account when in fact you’re getting an account that’s biased in favor of war—just biased in subtler, harder-to-detect ways than the accounts on Fox News Read more |