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Christian Christensen Dear Sweden: Learn a Lesson From the US and Reject Corrosive Dystopianism Is there crime? Yes. Problems in schools? Yes. Dissatisfaction with healthcare? Sure. Is Sweden on the brink of implosion? Not even close. Read more |
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Bandy X. Lee Thousands of Mental Health Professionals Agree With Woodward and the New York Times Op-ed Author: Trump Is Dangerous My current concern is that we are already witnessing a further unraveling of the president’s mental state, especially as the frequency of his lying increases and the fervor of his rallies intensifies Read more |
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Victor Wallis Wholesale Crimes Terracide—meaning the total destruction of the earth-system—next to which the common crimes committed by isolated individuals pale in magnitude Read more |
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Dahlia Lithwick, Mark Joseph Stern Brett Kavanaugh Is Cherry-Picking the Cases He Says Count as Precedent In his confirmation hearings, the judge is disregarding important rulings protecting abortion and same-sex marriage rights Read more |
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Michael Li NC Voters Will Use Gerrymandered Maps This Fall The maps have been struck down, but a court said there isn’t time before the election to draw new ones. Voters will be the losers Read more |
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Jeff Bryant Back-To-School Season Marred By Chronic Underfunding, Endless Charter School Scandals The ever-expanding accumulation of news reports and citizen testimony from communities across the nation point to a chronic problem of corruption and education malfeasance in the charter industry that politicians and industry representatives seem little interested in acknowledging, much less... Read more |
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Jim Naureckas Thomas Friedman’s Crazy Poor Economics As with many columns by Thomas Friedman, this one prompts the question: What is he talking about? Read more |
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Danielle Fugere Oil & Gas Companies Fail to Reign in Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Investors Must Demand Paris Compliant Plan We no longer have the luxury of time. Read more |
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Ken Sehested David McReynolds: He Desired a Better Country A remembrance. Read more |
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David Macaray Explaining Donald Trump In a word, we tend to “respect” the wrong people Read more |
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Scott Remer Why the Left Should Embrace Debt Forgiveness It would assuredly receive enthusiastic backing from the tens of millions of Americans who are shackled to enormous debts incurred through spending on healthcare and higher education, both of which are considered basic human rights in nearly every developed nation except for the United States Read more |
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John Feffer Who Was the Real Maverick: McCain or Trump? John McCain was a politician, not a maverick — he played ball, and sometimes compromised. Trump is the true maverick: He's batshit crazy and there's no dealing with him Read more |
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Eugene Robinson We’re in a Constitutional Crisis. Only Voters Can Save Us Now. Republican officials have made the conscious decision to see, hear and speak no evil Read more |
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Julie Millican The Apathy in the Media Regarding Brett Kavanaugh Is a National Scandal Normally, a Supreme Court nominee apparently committing perjury during a confirmation hearing would be explosive news that’s covered extensively Read more |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan This Woman Is Going to Prison for Voting Texas state law is clear: A person can only be convicted of voter fraud if he or she intended to commit the offense. Crystal Mason clearly did not Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt What Will Donald Trump Be Remembered For? The world according to the Don(ald) Read more |
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Juan Cole Trump’s Enablers Boast of Saving Nation But Reveal They’re Looting the Nation The more corrupt sections of the ruling US business classes are perfectly willing to use Trump to achieve their Libertarian paradise of no taxes on the rich and their praetorian paradise of a military potlatch Read more |
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Paul Gordon Democrats’ Civil Disobedience for American Values at the Sham SCOTUS Hearing No Supreme Court confirmation process has been infected with corruption at this scale in modern times, perhaps ever Read more |
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Bernie Sanders, Ro Khanna It’s Time to Get Billionaires Off of Welfare The working families and middle class of this country should not have to subsidize the wealthiest people in the United States. That’s absurd. That’s what a rigged economy is all about. Read more |
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Mairead Maguire Why the Catholic Church Should Abolish the Anti-Christian "Just War" Theory Following Pope Francis' visit to Ireland, a reflection on abuse, violence, war, and peacemaking Read more |
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Jade Begay, Ayşe Gürsöz Why Defending Indigenous Rights Is Integral to Fighting Climate Change Historic conference asserts Indigenous peoples’ rights as a climate change solution Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler What Healing Looks Like When Justice Restores This is the opposite of traditional criminal justice, which wants only to leave a lasting scar on those who get entangled with it, and could care less about its effect on struggling communities Read more |
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Ryan Cooper The Democratic Leadership is Musty and Weary It seems fair to conclude that the opinion of the Democratic establishment — black, white, or otherwise — is carrying increasingly little weight with voters Read more |
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Ebony Slaughter-Johnson ‘Stand Your Ground’ Laws Encourage Dangerous Vigilantism Some Americans call the cops on black people for frivolous reasons. Others appoint themselves judge, jury, and — sometimes — executioner Read more |
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Jesse Jackson NFL Owners’ Treatment of Colin Kaepernick Disgraces League and Country The owners should pay dearly for their folly Read more |
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Jessica Roy No, Anonymous Trump Official, You're Not 'Part of the Resistance.' You're a Coward If they really believe there's a need to subvert the president to protect the country, they should be getting this person out of the White House Read more |
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Ralph Nader Stop Brett Kavanaugh — A Corporation Masquerading as a Judge Just look at the record, Kavanaugh rules like he is a corporation masquerading as a human Read more |
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Vijay Prashad Hunger: A Warning Hunger, that constant sound inside the head of the poor, has to be silenced Read more |
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Emily Kawano Seven Ways to Build the Solidarity Economy We can transform capitalism by encouraging the ‘better angels of our nature.’ Read more |
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Andrew Cohen The Kavanaugh Hearings Are an Egregious Abuse of Power The Republican effort to thwart any thorough examination of Kavanaugh’s record is just as cynical as blocking Merrick Garland’s Supreme Court nomination Read more |
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Neve Gordon UNRWA and Trump's Attempt to Erase the Palestinian People By cutting the funding to the UNRWA, Trump wants to eliminate the Palestinians' demand for the right to return Read more |
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Mike Lofgren Neoconservative Comeback? They Never Left In many ways, Trump’s bellicosity, his militarism, his hectoring cant about American exceptionalism and national greatness, his bullying of allies—all of it makes him not an opponent of neoconservatism but its apotheosis Read more |
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Thomas Neuburger Democrats Can Block the Kavanaugh Nomination If They Want To If Democratic votes put Kavanaugh on the Court, the nation will be harmed irreparably, and Democrats will not only be complicit, they will be seen to be complicit, risking even further abandonment by the young and first-time voters they must inspire Read more |
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David C. Fathi It’s Time to Give Prisoners a Big Raise Why not pay prisoners a real wage, so they can save for the future and build a nest egg for their eventual release? Read more |
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Michael Winship Where Do We Get Such Men? When the "best people" are truly the worst. Read more |
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Ramzy Baroud What Lies Beneath: The US-Israeli Plot to ‘Save’ Gaza Whatever grand illusion is harbored by Washington and Tel Aviv at the moment, is almost entirely based on exploiting Palestinian divisions, for which the Palestinian leadership is to be wholly blamed Read more |
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Hannah Shearer Brett Kavanaugh's Extreme Beliefs on Gun Control Ignore the Concerns of Most Americans The judge's consideration of only the Second Amendment’s text and history, ignoring public safety, is straight out of the gun lobby’s playbook Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati How to Recognize a Plutocracy: The Dead Giveaway A political system that pays no more than lip service to average people’s problems and works diligently instead at protecting — and growing — the wealth of the already wealthy Read more |
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Will Bunch GOP Ramming Unpopular Brett Kavanaugh Down America’s Throat Is Another Democracy Death Blow There's little doubt that the 51 GOP senators representing less than half of the Kavanaugh-disliking public will be able to ram this thing though, probably with help from one or two weak-kneed Democrats up for re-election in the so-called red states Read more |
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Charles P. Pierce Brett Kavanaugh Is a Lifelong Republican Operative and Will Rule Like One He's been involved in nearly every ideological flashpoint of the last 20 years. He's always been on one side Read more |
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Victoria Bassetti Why Kavanaugh’s Paperwork Counts — and It’s Probably Not for the Reason You Think One of the remaining vestiges of an orderly confirmation process is worth preserving Read more |
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Jacob J. Hutt Is the Government Planning to Surveil Keystone XL Protesters? Indigenous communities, in particular, have been historically over-policed and subject to unwanted governmental surveillance, with the surveillance of the Dakota Access Pipeline Spirit Camp one of many examples Read more |
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Douglas Keith What We Know About the Money Behind Brett Kavanaugh’s Confirmation Fight Before senators ask Judge Brett Kavanaugh a single question in his confirmation hearings this week, the debate over his nomination to the Supreme Court will have already been playing out for weeks in TV ads Read more |
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John Atcheson Democrats and the 2018 Midterms A march to victory or a march of folly? Read more |
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Nick Turse The US Military is Winning. No, Really, It Is! A simple equation proves that the U.S. armed forces have triumphed in the War on Terror Read more |
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Ron Fein The Tweeter-in-Chief Risks Nuclear Catastrophe Trump has twice now threatened nuclear war against unstable and despotic regimes that lack a solid understanding of U.S. intentions Read more |
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Heather Mallick Humans Repeat History. Race Wars Are Back Racism is back in all its forms, locally, nationally and continents-wide Read more |
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Paul Pillar War Crimes In Yemen The bombing last month of a school bus, killing dozens of young boys, is among the most recent of what has become a string of aerial atrocities Read more |
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Robert Dodge Preventing Nuclear War: A National Campaign Emerges Nationally this effort is bringing together social, environmental and economic justice communities recognizing that their concerns are all connected and that there is no greater insult, impact or effect to each of these than nuclear war Read more |
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Calvin Schermerhorn Prisoner Strike Exposes an Age Old American Reliance on Forced Labor From convict leasing to the billion-dollar prison industry, forced laborers have served American consumers for centuries Read more |
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Bill Blum Brett Kavanaugh and the Triumph of the Conservative Counterrevolution Kavanaugh's ascension to the nation's highest court, while infuriating, is no accident. Like other right-wing justices before him, his rise is the result of careful calculation by powerful regressive forces who have been plotting this course for decades Read more |
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Kelly Candaele, Peter Dreier Helping Labor Get Off Its Back: We Have an Obligation to Reverse the Erosion of Unions Why do unions have such a hard time recruiting new members? The answer is fear. Read more |
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Jared Bernstein, Dean Baker Unions in the 21st Century: A Potent Weapon Against Inequality If U.S. unions are even going to get back to 1970 rates of membership, they will have to make inroads into new areas. Part of that story has to mean organizing professional workers. Read more |
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Leo Gerard Labor Day: 24 Hours When Workers Are Human "Business schools and the corporate executives they spit out have lumped workers together with robots and raw materials as 'inputs,' as if laborers aren't human. That makes it easier for CEOs in ungodly profitable corporations to deny workers raises." Read more |
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Frank Clemente Check Your Wallet: Can You Find the $4,000 Trump Promised You? The GOP tax cuts have also added almost $2 trillion to the deficit. Now Republicans are trying to cover the hole they created by cutting critical public services that are important to working families. Read more |
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Chris Hedges The Slaves Rebel You might not know it, but there is a major revolt happening right now in the United States Read more |
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Paul Buchheit What Just Happened? $30 Trillion to the Richest White Americans Since 2008 While wealth continues to rush, not trickle, upwards, low-income families are going backwards as the average net worth for the poorest half of America decreased from $11,000 to $8,000 since the 2008 financial crash Read more |
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Jonathan Cook US Cuts to UNRWA Point to the Dark Future Being Readied for the Palestinians There is a deeper and darker agenda afoot than simply reviving failed negotiations or pandering to the Trump administration’s well-known antipathy towards international institutions. Read more |
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Héctor Figueroa Why Unions Still Matter, on Labor Day and Always With strong membership this year, unions promise improved wages and working conditions. Read more |
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James Zogby Mr. Trump, You Cannot Erase the Palestinian Refugees At stake is: the lives and fortunes of innocent Palestinians and their families; the rule of law; simple human justice; and the possibility of peace Read more |
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Katharine Trendacosta Victory! California Passes Net Neutrality Bill California's fight is a microcosm of the nation's. Net neutrality is popular across the country. Read more |
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Elliott Negin Why Is ExxonMobil Still Funding Climate Science Denier Groups? The company's money trail, however, clearly shows that it is still financing climate science denier groups that denigrate any and all climate policy options Read more |
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Robert Reich The Next Crash Trump and his Republican enablers are now reversing regulations put in place to stop Wall Street's excessively risky lending Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Trumping the Flag Trump has exploited the murder of Mollie Tibbetts to bellow yet again about the need for a wall, despite her family's objections to his "racist fear-mongering" Read more |
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Tyler Cullis Creating the Conditions for War U.S. hawks are signaling their intent to attack more directly the very foundations of the nuclear accord Read more |
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Ryan Cooper How to Pay for Medicare-for-All The way to make the legislation work is to isolate the sources of the most hideous and immoral waste in the healthcare system and concentrate the pain on them. Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati Taxpayers Are Footing the Bill for Sky-High CEO Salaries Billions in taxpayer funds go to CEOs who pay their workers peanuts. We can change that. Read more |
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Nancy Altman This Labor Day, Gear Up to Stop Trump and GOP War on Workers The ballot box looms for unpopular politicians Read more |
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Shannan Stoll First Nations Celebrate Win Against Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Here’s how indigenous leaders pulled together a grassroots movement to resist the pipeline expansion Read more |
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David Dayen The Good and the (Potentially Very) Bad in Trump’s NAFTA Renegotiation All in all, it’s a good heuristic to judge trade deals by how mad business lobbyists are about them, and judging from the Business Roundtable’s grumblings, the renegotiation has the potential to be decent Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar How One Deportee Is Helping Other Exiled Immigrants in Mexico “My story is just one of thousands of such stories.” Read more |
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Matt Taibbi The Cuomo-Nixon Debate Was a Preview of Democrat-DSA Battles to Come Democrat Sith Lord Gov. Andrew Cuomo slimed his way past the corporate money issue and attacked Cynthia Nixon’s celebrity Read more |
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Will Bunch Is Delaware’s Kerri Evelyn Harris the Next Explosion to Rock the Democrats? Harris says her campaign isn't anti-Trump, anti-GOP or even anti-Carper, but all about how to accomplish positive things such as raising the minimum wage to $15 without hurting small businesses, achieving true universal health care, and wiping out college debt Read more |
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Bob Burnett It’s the Corruption, Stupid Donald Trump has only enabled "the swamp." Read more |
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Lidy Nacpil, May Boeve, Patti Lynn Writing a New Chapter, Not an Obituary, for the Planet A recent New York Times Magazine article suggests action to address climate change is futile Read more |
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Brian Terrell Catholic Support for War: Another Child Abuse Scandal The Church cannot condemn child abuse by pedophiles and yet bless the government's murder of children in its wars, if it wants to be consistent and faithful to Christ Read more |
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Ryan Cooper Republicans Will Let Florida Drown For the Miami community, it is quite literally a matter of whether it will be allowed to exist in the future Read more |
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Ruchi Shroff Monsanto-Bayer: Eliminating the Name Will Not Erase the History We will continue to reclaim citizens’ rights, as well as those of small and medium producers, who, despite being crushed by the current market mechanisms, are the only ones providing us with healthy and nutritious food Read more |
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Vijay Prashad Dissent Is Being Muzzled Across Our Planet The arrests of five activists in India is part of a dangerous trend that demands more attention and public outcry Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Reviving the Spirit of ’68 I fear the forces the antiwar protesters were confronting fifty years ago have made a shift in keeping with their deepest interests: not to “win” the wars but simply to make sure they continue Read more |
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Hina Shamsi On National Security, Kavanaugh Has a History of Extreme Deference to the President Kavanaugh’s record shows he would likely defer to — and not even scrutinize — a president's push for war or abuses in the name of "national security" Read more |
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Marshall Auerback Trump’s NAFTA Deal Simply Can’t Solve America’s Manufacturing Problems A few additional crumbs for labor at a time when most U.S. manufacturing capacity has already been offshored or destroyed by militarization Read more |
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Larry Elliott Ten Years After the Financial Crash, the Timid Left Should be Full of Regrets Capitalism’s near-death experience with the banking crisis was a golden opportunity for progressives. But they blew it Read more |
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Basav Sen Trump Puts Forth an Actual Plan to Kill People for Coal Shocking as this sounds, the U.S. government is — by its own admission — willing to murder up to 1,600 Americans a year to enrich a few coal billionaires Read more |
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Steven Rosenfeld DNC Superdelegates Have Been Tamed—But Millions of Democratic Primary Votes Are Still Vulnerable If Berniecrats want millions of new voters, they need to win big in state primaries like New York’s upcoming September 13 vote Read more |
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Dennis Parker More Than 60 Years After His Brutal Murder, Emmett Till Deserves Justice The reopening of the Till case matters as we continue to confront racism in all its insidiousness Read more |
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Daniela Aspiazu This School Year, Let’s Keep Kids in Classrooms There are better ways to help students learn from their behavior than suspension and expulsion Read more |
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Ralph Nader 15 Ways the Democrats Can Lose the November Elections If the party cannot get its act together and put their focus where it belongs, Republicans will continue to enjoy their control of the federal branches of our captured government and many state houses Read more |
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Marshall Auerback The Failure to Punish White-Collar Crime After the 2008 Financial Crisis Helped Produce President Donald Trump Ten years later, Trump’s rise to power is a consequence of poor governance Read more |
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Justin Anderson Media Continues Writing Premature Obituaries for the Democratic Left When one takes a historical look at socialism in the United States, Sanders’ insurgency seems to be doing remarkably well Read more |
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Juan Cole Storm Death Toll in Puerto Rico Rivals 9/11: But Where Is War on Climate Change? Apparently we can see a large US territory flattened and nearly 3000 citizens killed, and yawn and pretend it did not happen or we don’t know why hurricanes are becoming more destructive Read more |
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Bob Lord The Arithmetic of the CEO-Worker Pay Divide Sometimes percentages alone don't do justice to the injustice of corporate compensation Read more |
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Larry Cohen Voters—and Nobody Else—Will Pick the 2020 Democratic Presidential Nominee This past weekend, the party changed its rules, and became more democratic Read more |
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Will Bunch John McCain and the 29-Second ‘Rashomon’ Moment That Defined America’s Coming Crisis "I genuinely don’t understand what is so inspiring about this moment. 'He’s not Arab, he is a decent man' is not shutting down racism — it is racism." Read more |
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Peter Certo The Iraq War Should Be a Much Bigger Part of McCain’s Legacy Than His ‘Civility’ The “straight talk” people praise McCain for is actually what most of them can’t stand about politicians: They say noble words but cast ignoble votes. Read more |
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Juan Ortiz Freuler Facebook Will Fail to Solve #FakeNews Zuckerberg needs to step back for his company to succeed Read more |
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Nan Aron ‘Justice Kavanaugh’ Is Not Inevitable The controversial judge’s confirmation would represent a tremendous threat to millions of Americans—and we can easily prevent it Read more |
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Peniel Joseph Chicago '68: The 50-Year Lessons America Still Hasn't Learned The internecine war for the soul of American democracy continues in our own time, as the rage and fear tapped almost 50 years apart by Richard Nixon and Donald Trump have continued to mesmerize successive generations of Americans Read more |
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Robert Reich Don’t Just Impeach Trump. Annul His Presidency Annulment would repeal all of it – recognizing that such appointments, orders, rules, and records were made without constitutional authority Read more |
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Tom Emswiler, Will Isenberg Your Government Has a Secret Kill List. Is that OK With You? Kareem’s story neatly captures the havoc that the war on terror has wreaked on the legal system and the dangers of abandoning legal traditions that have served us well for centuries Read more |