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Gregory Shupak In Wake of AMLO Victory, US Media Fear Chavismo and Hope for ‘Business-Friendly’ Change The neoliberal capitalist catechism also manifests itself by maligning those who have challenged its doctrines with any degree of success Read more |
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Marjorie Orellana Kharma, Interconnectedness, and the Immigrant Crisis There is plenty of evidence that the “immigrant crisis” we see today was initiated long ago by actions the United States took Read more |
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Bill McKibben Irish Parliament Makes History With Vote to Divest Country Fully From Fossil Fuels Ireland today becomes the first country in the world to have voted to fully divest itself from the fossil fuel companies responsible for the climate crisis Read more |
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Tobita Chow How Tariffs Play in to Trump’s Xenophobic Agenda Too much of the debate around Trump’s tariffs has remained stuck in a false choice between anti-China protectionism and “free trade” neoliberalism. Both are dead ends. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Universal Voting Dissolves the Obstacles Facing Voters U.S. voter turnout, not surprisingly, is lower than in any other Western country Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler The Dems Could Win If They Stood For Something Now, more than ever, the whole of humanity needs leaders who can who can envision and articulate a global transition beyond war and dominance, beyond environmental exploitation, beyond policies and practices that dehumanize part of us and cluelessly continue more of the same Read more |
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Jürgen Maier America First vs. Germany First Trade policies that are designed by and for the corporate elite in America and Germany, not by or for you and me. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin Why Is a Retired Accountant From Texas Risking His Life to Sail to Gaza? “If not me, then who?” Read more |
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Michael Winship I Yearn for a Society in Which Civility Rules, But These Are Not Civil Times On the sound of the world’s smallest violin Read more |
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Frances Moore Lappé What’s the Biggest Threat to American Democracy? Democracy’s essence is dignity—knowing that we count and have a real voice, in the voting booth, yes, but also in other dimensions of life, including the economic Read more |
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Olivia Alperstein What’s at Stake if Brett Kavanaugh Joins the Court If Americans lose the right to privacy enshrined in Roe, they'll lose a lot more than abortion access Read more |
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Tim Koechlin Imagining an Economy That Serves the 99% Those who benefit most from the status quo spend a lot of money to persuade the rest of us that this – an economy that serves the top 1% — is good for us and, in fact, the best we can do Read more |
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Erica Payne Medicare for All Is a Winner for Democrats, as Ocasio-Cortez and Others Have Shown A popular solution to the nation's healthcare woes. That's the future in the U.S., not Obamacare. Read more |
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Jeff Bryant After an ‘Educator Spring,’ Teachers Storm Elections By taking their cause to the streets and then to the ballot box, teachers have made education a top election issue – not just in states, like North Carolina, where walkouts occurred – but also in states, like Florida, where they didn’t Read more |
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Yoshinori H.T. Himel Enough With the Euphemisms. They’re Not ‘Family Residential Centers.’ They’re Jails. We must not, as we have done in the past, permit official euphemisms to lull us into silent complicity Read more |
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Lee Camp The No. 1 Cause of Climate Change the Media Don’t Mention Our illogical, immoral meat consumption will kill our planet, kill our future and possibly kill your family Read more |
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Juan Cole No, Trump is Not Going to Save UK or Theresa May From Economic Consequences of Brexit What May is about to find out is that Trump takes your political and other investments and pockets them, and then stiffs you Read more |
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Dan Plesch, Kevin Miletic An Urgently Needed Disarmament Strategy for NATO Here's what Donald Trump should really be talking about with Vladimir Putin and NATO. Read more |
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Gloria Steinem, Noam Chomsky, Adolph Reed Jr., et al. Common Ground: For Secure Elections and True National Security Tensions are festering between two nations with large quantities of nuclear weapons on virtual hair-trigger alert; yet the current partisan fixations in Washington are ignoring the dangers to global stability and, ultimately, human survival. Read more |
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Kamala Harris Why I Will Oppose Brett Kavanaugh's Nomination to the Supreme Court Trump's pick represents a direct and fundamental threat to the court's promise to ensure "Equal Justice Under the Law" Read more |
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Russell Mokhiber Pence PAC Sends $5,000 Check to the Wrong Carol Miller “I have spent my whole life working to alleviate the human suffering that is occurring around the country – from the coalfields of Appalachia to the frontier communities of New Mexico. All over the United States, people are suffering from government actions that your policies would increase and... Read more |
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Carlos Ramirez-Rosa Democrats Ignore the Left at Their Peril. Midwesterners Aren't Scared of Socialism — They're Hungry For It Some members of the Democratic establishment argue that bold, left-wing platforms can't win elections. They're wrong Read more |
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Ariel Dorfman Human Zoos in the Age of Trump Humans as “animals,” then and now Read more |
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Cesar Vargas ‘Abolish ICE’ Doesn’t Mean What Conservatives Say It Does Abolishing ICE is not about lawlessness or open borders but about upholding our constitutional principles of defending people’s freedom from big government, government overreach and racial discrimination Read more |
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Zachary Roth SCOTUS Nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s Troubling Record on the Rule of Law and the Constitution An expansive view of presidential power that could hamstring investigations into Trump Read more |
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Bill Blum Brett Kavanaugh, Trump’s Supreme Court Pick, Will Drive U.S. Law Hard to the Right We're in for a dark period. Read more |
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Stephen Kinzer Make America More Like New Zealand, Costa Rica and Ethiopia “A country where our environment is protected, where we look after the most vulnerable, where we support our families, where we make sure people have the most basic of needs, like a roof over their head.” Read more |
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Brianne Gorod Gorsuch Has Shown no Commitment to Precedent. That Should Worry Collins About Roe While the Constitution supports a woman’s right to choose, Trump made clear before he nominated Gorsuch that he would only appoint justices who were willing to overrule Roe Read more |
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César Chelala Trump’s Policies on Immigrant Children Violate the Convention on the Rights of the Child Although the convention has worldwide recognition and support, the U.S. is the only country in the world that hasn’t yet ratified the CRC Read more |
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Jonathan Cook By Razing Khan al-Ahmar, Israel Will Bulldoze Illusions of Peace Process There will be no end to the slow-motion erasure of Palestinian communities until western governments find the nerve to impose biting sanctions on Israel Read more |
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Pat LaMarche Jaime Guttenberg - Murdered in Parkland - Her Grandmother Speaks Out How is a grandma supposed to react when all NRA money pours into the pockets of the elected officials that are supposed to care about her grandchildren? In Guttenberg’s case, the grandma gets busy. Read more |
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Jeffery Robinson America Was in the Business of Separating Families Long Before Trump The true story is that the United States has a well-documented history of breaking up non-white families Read more |
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Chris Hedges The Con of Diversity Diversity in the hands of the white power elites—political and corporate—is an advertising gimmick Read more |
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Juan Cole Will the Price of Oil Collapse Within a Decade, Driven Off Cliff By Electric Vehicles? A million electric vehicles on the road reduces demand for petroleum by roughly 16,666 barrels a day Read more |
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George Goehl The Future of "American" Is Up To Us Many of our nation’s best moments have been when we heeded the call to stand down hatred and racism. Now should be one of those times. Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt America’s Addictions: Opioids, Donald Trump, and War Overdosing in 21st-Century America Read more |
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Matt Taibbi Why Killing Dodd-Frank Could Lead to the Next Crash Eliminating the bill was a top priority for Trump. So why did any Democrats vote for it? Read more |
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Lawrence Wittner Has Democratic Socialism a Future in American Politics? The rise in American life of a rapacious corporate capitalism, a widening level of economic inequality, and the sharply rightwing policies of many states and the federal government are clearly inspiring a revolt on the Left Read more |
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James Zogby Reporting Hate Crimes: The Arab American Experience More than just a compilation of acts of violence or threats against persons of Arab descent, an upcoming study will also review the history of how law enforcement agencies have dealt with (or rather have not dealt with) anti-Arab hate crimes Read more |
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Kalena Thomhave How Justice Kennedy’s Retirement Could Lead to an Increase in Housing Discrimination Kennedy was the swing vote on a case that affirmed the Fair Housing Act protects against discrimination, even if it isn't explicit Read more |
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Mel Gurtov At Home and Abroad, Trump Abandons Human Rights "Among the extraordinary backward steps Donald Trump is taking America, none is more shameful, than his disregard for—in fact, his calculated trampling on—human rights at home and abroad." Read more |
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Gus Bova The Trump Administration's Own Numbers Show "Zero Tolerance" Didn't Work The "zero-tolerance" policy appears to have achieved only one thing: Making it extremely difficult for asylum-seekers to follow the law. Read more |
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Ryan Cooper The Most Politically Savvy Thing Democrats Can Do Democrats must stop assuming that being a big money sellout is a guaranteed political winner Read more |
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Lisa O'Neill Inside the Crowdfunding Campaign to Reunite a Family Separated at the Border "We live in this incredible moment where 'ordinary citizens' have so many means at their disposal to take action. Crowdfunding really provides an equalizing opportunity for people to be involved." Read more |
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Sharon Velasquez Trump Administration War on CFPB Is Bad News for Communities of Color "In gutting the CFPB and corrupting its mission, the Trump Administration disregards struggling families, and how the 2008 crisis brought our economy to its knees." Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Guns and Candles The stated purpose of the NRA Candlelight Society would be: “To conduct candlelight vigils in memory of victims of gun violence whenever and wherever such vigils take place, at no charge to the community.” Read more |
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Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg Trump’s Racism Coils Around Black Children, South American Immigrants Racism—the lifeblood of the Trump presidency—fuels and sustains both the criminal justice and immigration systems. Read more |
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Derrick Z. Jackson How Dangerous is New EPA Chief Andrew Wheeler? Very. Here’s Why. "Nominated by President Trump and narrowly confirmed in April by the Senate, Wheeler came into the job as the polar opposite of the EPA’s stated mission 'to protect human health and the environment.'" Read more |
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Héctor Figueroa, Cristina Jiménez Moreta Immigrants and Unions Make America Great And they’re fighting back against Trump’s onslaught Read more |
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Somil Trivedi The Family Separation Crisis Exposes America’s Addiction to Incarceration The truth is that the criminal justice system we are imposing on immigrants is a reflection of the one we impose on our own — and both need fixing. Read more |
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Miguel Guevara Mexico's Lopez Obrador Has to Stand Up to Trump The newly elected Mexican president will have to prove that his promises to confront Trump are more than just rhetoric. Read more |
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Ed Markey Americans Deserve Privacy Protection From Big Data The European privacy law proves that American companies can provide robust privacy protections, and we all know they should. Read more |
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Laura Flanders Jeff Sessions Sets Back the Clock How low can he go? And how far back can this Attorney General take us? Read more |
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Katharine Trendacosta California's Net Neutrality Bill Is Strong Again Because You Spoke Out This is what real net neutrality looks like. And it all happened because people spoke out. Read more |
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George Goehl There’s an All-Out War on Kids, and Not Just on the Border What we’re witnessing at our border is one part of a war against all children — whether by cuts to schools, child nutrition, health care, safe air and water, or family-supporting jobs. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson Arrogant Supreme Court Justices Trample the Law in Service of the Rich These are right-wing lawless judges ignoring the laws and will of our elected representatives and trampling the dictates of legal precedent. Read more |
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Will Bunch Why They Risked Everything to Occupy ICE The populist appeal of the “Abolish ICE” movement clearly caught the Beltway pundit crowd completely flat-footed, which of course is about as surprising as Wile E. Coyote and his Acme jet pack slamming into a desert rock at 200 mph. Read more |
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Kate Aronoff Young Leftist Candidates Are Breathing New Radicalism Into Stale Climate Politics If Ocasio-Cortez’s election marks a new era for the Democratic Party, what will that mean for its climate politics? Read more |
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Leo Murray Why We're Protesting Trump's Visit by Flying an Inflatable Trump Baby Over London To really get through to Trump, you have to get down on his level and talk to him in a language he understands: personal insults. Read more |
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Fran Shor A Different "Trail of Tears" If not as cruel as the 1838 Cherokee removal, the recent forced separation of asylum-seeking and immigrant parents and children at the southwest border has, nonetheless, unleashed a different “trail of tears.” Read more |
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Elizabeth Bruenig Conservatives Will Always Call Socialists Hypocrites. Ignore Them. As more left-flank challengers face off with center-left incumbents and more democratic socialists begin looking toward public office.... beware. Read more |
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Ebony Slaughter-Johnson Poverty Won’t ‘Make America Great’ A recent UN report on international poverty highlighted an unexpected crisis area: the United States. Read more |
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Bill C. Davis A Kiss For the Coach – Jim Jordan on the Mat These "men" should not be in government. They don't respect or feel a need to protect children. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Womp, Womp: Racism in a Cage When we describe the United States in the abstract, the best of who we are prevails... But the real America has always been parsimonious in its allotment of freedom and respect. Read more |
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John Atcheson Listen Up Voters – If You Want Change, You Can't Keep Voting for the People Resisting Change A Fourth of July message for fed-up Americans Read more |
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Robert Reich How To Prevent Future Trumps Trump isn't the cause of what’s happened to America. He's the consequence. So to avoid future lawmakers like him, root causes must be addressed. Read more |
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Jeff Biggers The American Resistance Should Also Salute This Corsican Revolutionary on July 4th Two decades before the American Revolution, Corsica’s constitution was hailed by Scottish author James Boswell as “the best model that hath ever existed in the democratical form.” Read more |
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Dennis Parker DeVos Doesn’t Believe that Promoting Racial Diversity in Schools Is a Worthwhile Cause This is dangerous, considering research shows that school segregation is getting worse. Read more |
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David Korten Three Questions to Lead Us Away from Self-Extinction Transformation begins with clarity on the nature of the choice that confronts our species. Read more |
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Fizz Perkal Abolishing ICE Isn’t Radical — It’s Rational ICE is supposed to keep Americans safe. Instead, it's terrorizing refugees, families, and small children. Read more |
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Frank Clemente This July Fourth, Americans Should Rebel Against GOP Economic Policies Just like in 1776, Americans are getting fed up. And with very, very good reason. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Recommendations for Engrossing Summer Reading and Viewing Because readers think and thinkers read. Read more |
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Jim Cohen AMLO Presidente! A New Era for Mexico? The path forward will not be easy, but the newly-elected president's victory is rightly seen as an inspiring development for a more progressive and visionary nation Read more |
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Robert Reich What We Must Do Now First and most importantly, do not give up Read more |
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John Buell Not Extreme: Sanders’ and Ocasio-Cortez’s Leftism Has Been Core to the Democratic Party Right now the democratic populism recently articulated by Ocasio-Cortez and like- minded campaigners and activists is essential to combating Trump’s extremist authoritarian incursions. Read more |
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John Nichols Patriots Still Called to Throw Off Yoke of the Political Machine "Then, as now, wealthy and powerful elites had conspired to make government the servant of their desires at the expense of the common good." Read more |
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Peter Marcuse Facing the Causes of the Problems with Immigration Those problems all start with the staggering global inequalities of our time Read more |
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Ruth Conniff Mexico’s Change Election The view from small-town polling stations on Election Day shows a corrupted democracy that bottom-up activists hope AMLO can start fixing from the top-down. Read more |
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Bill Blum It’s Time to Use the 'F' Word to Describe Trump The issue of Trump’s fascism has finally reached center stage in the U.S., sparked by the administration’s shameful treatment of Central American refugees and its Gestapo-like “zero tolerance” on the border Read more |
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Larry Beinhart Timing of Kennedy's Retirement Only Cements His Right-Wing Legacy When it came to money and power, 'moderate' Justice Anthony Kennedy had always been an agent of the top one percent. Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati Income Distribution For Minimum Decency, a Maximum Wage Amid rising inequality, a new book argues, the notion of capping income has suddenly become politically plausible. Read more |
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William Hartung Trump's "Infrastructure" Plan? Weaponized Keynesianism and a Pumped Up War Budget Pentagon spending is the Trump administration’s substitute for a true infrastructure program Read more |
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Mike Ervin The Tyranny of Politeness The proper time and place to protest, they say, is always the time and place where they feel they can most easily ignore us. When we show up at their churches, homes, and country clubs, we are no longer constrained by their rigged rules. Read more |
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Reese Erlich Leftist Landslide in Mexico Imagine for a moment if Bernie Sanders had won the 2016 presidential election. That's a little bit like what has just happened in Mexico. Read more |
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Robert Dodge The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty at 50 – Awaiting Good Faith The NPT will ultimately only be successful when leaders have the political will for change. Read more |
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Chris Hedges America The Failed State In the United States, ruling elites abjectly serve corporate power to exploit and impoverish the citizenry Read more |
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Paul Buchheit An Update for 2018: More Evidence That Half of Americans Are In or Near Poverty The extreme level of inequality in the U.S. is battering the poor Read more |
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Jeff Biggers Trump Is Following Arizona’s Playbook On Immigration. We Know How To Fight Back What can happen when a “Circus Maximus” takes over the halls of power. Read more |
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Brandi Miller White Evangelicals Will Never Make America Great Again Evangelicals will sacrifice every word of Jesus in order to see their political ends met. Read more |
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Gwynne Dyer Mexican Election 2018: ‘Mexico’s Bernie Sanders’ Set to Win It’s quite likely that within a year the US intelligence services will be tasked with the job of finding ways to bring him down Read more |
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Jim Hightower A Wall Won't Fix Immigration Until our leaders address the real issues, it's not possible to build a wall tall enough to stop them from coming. Read more |
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Tony Norman They All Call to Ask, ‘What Do Black People Want?’ There’s never anything “racial” about unarmed shootings of blacks. Read more |
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Michelle Goldberg The Millennial Socialists Are Coming "We can do it everywhere.” Read more |
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Brett Wilkins ‘Ali is On the Grill’: Israeli Settlers Taunt Family of Palestinian Toddler Murdered in Arson Attack Some 20 police officers reportedly stood by watching the hate chants, without intervening. Read more |
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Bob Burnett Telling the Truth About Immigration Not surprisingly, Trump has exaggerated and lied about the immigration situation Read more |
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Steven Singer The Necessity and Importance of Teachers We’ve stopped focusing on how to make education better and instead equated it with how to make it more profitable for those who are already wealthy. Read more |
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Sarah Anderson Unions Have Survived Tough Times Before My ancestor’s 19th century story is a reminder of how labor unions have bounced back from even bigger hits than the recent Supreme Court ruling. Read more |
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Jenice Robinson Rigging the System and Poor Shaming (Rightly) Are Incompatible Political Strategies Turns out working people and low-income Americans don’t take too kindly to being depicted as booze-guzzling swindlers who don’t know the value of a dollar while the rich and corporations, whose profits were at historic highs under the old tax regime, are cast as worthy of tax cuts Read more |
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Lee Saunders Five Justices Cannot Break the Solidarity of America’s Unions We are unbowed by this decision. We will continue to do what we have always done, but now with greater energy and passion. Read more |
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Tim Koechlin Uncivil Disobedience and the GOP’s Racist, Rapacious Agenda If you defend appalling behavior (your own or that of others) in a "polite" tone of voice, you aren't "civil."You’re complicit. You're an enabler. You're full of sh-t. Read more |