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Randall Eliason Donald Trump Jr.’s Emails Are Far More Damning Than Anyone Could Have Imagined Wow — where to begin? Read more |
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Jay Stanley Reality Winner Is Latest to Face Prosecution Under Awful World War I Espionage Act Reality Winner, a 25-year-old employee of a contractor that does work for the NSA, was arrested in June and charged with transmitting classified information, widely suspected to be an intelligence... Read more |
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Andrea Armstrong Protest at Your Own Peril: New Report Details Baton Rouge Police Mistreatment of Locked Up Alton Sterling Protesters Participating in a civil rights march in 2016 shouldn’t result in being jailed in inhumane conditions, denied medical care, and deliberately humiliated. But that is exactly what happened in Baton... Read more |
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Michael Winship On Wednesday, July 12, Everyone Can Stand Up for Net Neutrality Imagine a world without internet freedom. This week, a major protest on the web will show what it would be like. Read more |
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Federico Borello Too Many Civilians Died in Mosul. We Need to Protect Them in Raqqa. ISIS wants civilian deaths caused by the U.S. and its partners. We should not give that to them Read more |
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Frida Berrigan Feeling Not Quite So Hopeless in a World on the Skids Why the Resistance is fertile, not futile Read more |
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Robert Borosage The Big Fix: Will the GOP Turn to Dems to Fix Obamacare? Senate leader Mitch McConnell has warned Republicans that if he can’t find 50 Republican votes to repeal and replace Obamacare soon, he’ll open negotiations with Democrats to “fix” the thing. He... Read more |
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Eugene Robinson Donald Jr.’s Meeting Is a Legal Game-Changer From now on, ignore the conventional wisdom about how the Russia scandal is not “resonating” with President Trump’s still-loyal base. The question at this point is what strikes a chord with special... Read more |
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Melissa Boteach, Anusha Ravi No, Young People Aren’t Poor Because They’re Not Married In an op-ed last week, Washington Post columnist George Will deplores the culture of today’s young people, blaming their disproportionate poverty on the fact that too many don’t get a high school... Read more |
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Evan Popp Why Politicians From Both Parties Ignore the Poor Donald Trump isn't alone in his focus on rich and middle class voters Read more |
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Dean Baker Paul Ryan Hates the Idea of a Free Market in Health Care, He Wants to Give Money to Rich People The NYT is again spreading the absurd myth that Paul Ryan and other Republicans want a free market in health care. While it is very helpful to the Republicans to imply that they are trying to advance... Read more |
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Michael Copps, Gloria Tristani The FCC Must Protect the Open Internet — Millions of Americans Agree Since its creation, the internet has operated under a simple principle: All traffic, regardless of its content, should be treated equally. It’s this idea that allowed the internet to change the world... Read more |
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Michael Mann Fear Won't Save Us: Putting a Check on Climate Doom Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. A provocative new article on climate change fails to produce it. Read more |
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Chris Hedges Eating Our Way to Disease In July 1976, the Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, chaired by Sen. George McGovern, held hearings titled “Diet Related to Killer Diseases.” The committee heard from physicians,... Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt Aiding and Abetting the Tweeter-in-Chief How the insult wars in Washington blind us to our troubles Read more |
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Paul Buchheit Stunning Truths about the Bloated Safety Net for the Wealthy The entire 2017 safety net is about $850 billion, compared to over $1.5 trillion for tax expenditures , most of which are for rich Americans . The Unrelenting Wealth Grab by the 1% The average 1%... Read more |
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Juan Cole G19 Outmaneuvers Climate Rogue Trump, Ignores Donald and Ivanka Trump has "sent America's strategic strength and diplomatic soft power swirling down the toilet." Read more |
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Nick Dearden G20 Is Desperately Trying to Save a Failed World Order The G20 agenda utterly fails to break with the tired, broken free-market policies that brought devastation to our world Read more |
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Sarah van Gelder Our Best Shot at Meeting Paris Goals? Make Energy Public A new report finds public ownership is the best way for cities and towns to meet renewable energy and efficiency targets Read more |
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Steven Singer More Truth in Teacher-Written Education Blogs Than Corporate Media "When you read an article in the Wall Street Journal , New York Times or Pittsburgh Tribune Review, there is a presumption of detachment and neutrality. But it's bogus." Read more |
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Bob Burnett The Resistance Bookshelf These are the books you should add to your summer reading list Read more |
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Ray McGovern The Syrian Test of Trump-Putin Accord The immediate prospect for significant improvement in U.S.-Russia relations now depends on something tangible: Will the forces that sabotaged previous ceasefire agreements in Syria succeed in doing... Read more |
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Benjamin Dangl Dismantling Power: The Zapatista Indigenous Presidential Candidate's Vision to Transform Mexico from Below "Patricio's candidacy and radical vision for Mexico challenges conventional politics and marks a new phase for the Zapatista and indigenous struggle in the country." Read more |
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Nicolas J. S. Davies The US State of War—July 2017 "Every country destroyed or destabilized by U.S. military action is now a breeding ground for terrorism." Read more |
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Robert Dodge A Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty—Rx for Survival "This past Friday, July 7, nuclear weapons at long last joined the ranks of other weapons of mass destruction including biologic and chemical weapons, landmines and cluster munitions in being banned and declared illegal under international treaty law." Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli DeVos and Defrauding "Not surprisingly, in this administration, if a choice has to be made between taking steps to help the needy, in this case students, or the taxpayer, the taxpayer wins." Read more |
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Tom Gallagher Move to the Center! And Then? Move to the Center! A recent New York Times op-ed argues that Democrats should continue pursuing corporate centrism, despite all of the evidence that it has been a disastrous failure Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Where Is the Outrage Over Anti-Immigrant Bills? Two pieces of legislation just passed by the House go "hand-in-hand with a coordinated effort by the administration to paint all immigrants as criminal just by nature of their immigration status." Read more |
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Michael Winship In Less Than Six Months, President Trump Proves He's Unfit This way to the egress, Mr. President. Read more |
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Andy Rowell Trump on "Direct Collision Course" With G20 Over Climate So the G20 summit is starting in Hamburg in Germany, after a day of angry protests which saw dozens arrested. As the talks commence, the new international “Climate Pariah”, Donald Trump, is going to... Read more |
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Eugene Robinson Trump's Dangerous Thirst for a Clash of Civilizations “A little learning is a dangerous thing,” wrote the poet Alexander Pope. Three centuries later, Pope’s aphorism perfectly — and dangerously — describes President Trump’s understanding of history as a... Read more |
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Cynthia Kaufman The Fortress World of Capitalism vs. the Beautiful Possibilities of Cooperation Building a sustainable world in these very quickly changing times requires that we understand clearly what we are up against Read more |
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Paul Rogers A World in Trouble: Drought, War, Food, Flight The disruptions of climate and conflict are sparking perilous global insecurity Read more |
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Andre Segura How Trump Is Threatening the Constitution A year ago, as the Republican Party was preparing to head to its convention in Cleveland to officially nominate Donald Trump for president, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) issued an... Read more |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan Trump’s Man With a Plan ... to Suppress the Vote Nationwide President Donald Trump can’t seem to get over the fact that he lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton. He lost massively, by over 2.8 million votes, but he won the Electoral College, and thus the... Read more |
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Richard Eskow There’s a Big Hole in the Center of the Democratic Party “I mean, have you seen the other guys?” That’s one of the slogans that was recently proposed by Democratic Party strategists, presumably in a lighthearted way. But the joke, if that’s what it was,... Read more |
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Jim Naureckas At NYT, Fantasy of Bill Clinton's Centrism Saving the Dems Never Gets Old "The Times has been telling this same story for years, always with the same thrilling leaps of logic." Read more |
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Norman Solomon Instead of Trying to Sabotage the Trump-Putin Meeting, Democrats Should Support Vital Proposals Some leading Democrats in Congress are eager to turn the summit meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin away from avenues for improvements in U.S.-Russian relations, even if that means... Read more |
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Lorenzo Marsili, Beppe Caccia The G20 Parade of Monsters Hundreds of thousands of activists will take the street of Hamburg to protest a G20 divided between two bad alternatives: status quo or authoritarianism. Read more |
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Jeff Bryant Why Democrats Should Unite On A Charter School Moratorium Democrats know that success for their party relies on bringing labor and civil rights advocates together on key issues. Faced with disastrous Donald Trump, labor and civil rights advocates are... Read more |
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Juan Cole RIP Internal Combustion Gasoline Engine: Volvo Goes Electric The Swedish auto manufacturer Volvo, owned by the Chinese automotive corporation Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co., Ltd, has abruptly decided to produce only electric, plug-in hybrid and “mild hybrid... Read more |
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Kristin Miller Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses Yearning to Be Free Trump executive order cuts refugee numbers in half. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Skewing Democracy White Every real problem this country — and this planet — face is replaced by a fantasy problem, which all the powers of government then pretend to address. Meet Donald Trump, master of the street con,... Read more |
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Ralph Nader The Destructive Power Trips of Amazon’s Boss For his smallish stature, Amazon Boss Jeff Bezos has a booming, uproarious laugh . Unleashed during workdays, its sonic burst startles people, given it comes from as harsh and driven a taskmaster as... Read more |
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Dilip Hiro The Enemy of My Enemy Is My...? The Saudi-American-Iranian-Russian-Qatari-Syrian conundrum Read more |
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Jill Richardson Are We Tired of ‘Winning’ Yet? It's hard to see how anything the president would call a "win" would be good for his voters, or for any of us. Read more |
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Peter Certo A Bipartisan Vote to Put the Brakes on War By putting such a sinister face on it, Trump might have finally inspired lawmakers to rein in America’s post-9/11 war machine Read more |
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Richard Eskow Why We Need to Know What Trump Says Behind Closed Doors When I’m not writing for OurFuture, I host a weekly news and opinion program on syndicated radio and cable TV called The Zero Hour . My team there recently faced a major challenge when we received a... Read more |
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Keith Payne Economic Inequality Goes Well Beyond the Bank Account If President Trump’s plan to cut individual and corporate taxes is enacted, it would accelerate the rise of income inequality in America. Economists have analyzed the effects such cuts would have on... Read more |
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Paul Pillar The Plummeting of U.S. Standing in the World The Pew Research Center released last week the results of one of its periodic surveys of global views of the United States and its leadership and policies. More than 40,000 people were polled in 37... Read more |
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Hannah Porter 'Democracy is Broken': US Federal Courts Powerless Over Civilian Drone Deaths The American justice system should provide recourse for the families of civilians killed or injured by US drone strikes. A recent case in a US federal appeals court failed this test. Read more |
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Bill Blum Justice Neil Gorsuch Has Landed, to the Delight of the American Right The biggest story coming from the Supreme Court these days doesn’t concern the cases the court decided during its recently completed October 2016 term. The biggest story—and it’s one that will... Read more |
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Srecko Horvat Are Protests Enough to Bring Down the G20? We have to take to the streets of Hamburg on July 7 with a clear idea of what we want our world to be. Read more |
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Katrina vanden Heuvel Patriotism in the Trump Era "Protest, too often, has been deemed unpatriotic." Read more |
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Howard Zinn Howard Zinn’s July 4 Wisdom Stands the Test of Time 'Is not nationalism—that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder—one of the great evils of our time, along with racism, along with religious hatred?' Read more |
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Norman Solomon The Trump-Putin Meeting and the Fate of the Earth "This moment in human history is not about Trump. It's not about Putin. It's not about whether you despise either or neither or both. What's at stake in the dynamics between them is life on this planet." Read more |
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Nozomi Hayase Moral Injury of War and the Invisible Wound of Empire "Every time we shield memories of our own aggression upon our fellow man through historical revisionism, denial and deflection, we forsake the young whom our society sacrificed in its self-righteous suicide." Read more |
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Joe Conason On July Fourth, A Message For The Patriotic Resistance 'When a demagogue like Trump wraps himself in the Stars and Stripes, he is defiling the flag and denying our history.' Read more |
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Peter Dreier, Dick Flacks Trump's Phony Patriotism Clashes With the Radical Roots of America the Beautiful and the Pledge of Allegiance "Most Americans are unaware that much of our patriotic culture—including many of the leading symbols and songs—was created by people with decidedly progressive sympathies." Read more |
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Charles P. Pierce This 21st Century Modern Presidency Is a Spectacular Sh*tshow And it's not just on Twitter. Read more |
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Michele Swenson ALEC's Covert War on Democracy Ahead of national convention in Denver, a look at destruction wrought by group that pairs right-wing lawmakers with corporate interests Read more |
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Harvey J. Kaye We Are Radicals at Heart — Don’t Forget It A historian reminds us that to truly “make America great again” we must enhance freedom, equality and democracy, not diminish them. Read more |
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Kathy Kelly What Does War Generate? At an April, 2017 Symposium on Peace in Nashville, TN, Martha Hennessy spoke about central tenets of Maryhouse, a home of hospitality in New York City, where Martha often lives and works. Every day,... Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Is the Supreme Court Killing Secularism? The Supreme Court this week made a series of decisions that challenge the central tenet of secularism in the nation: the separation of church and state. First and most shockingly, the nine justices... Read more |
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Robert Reich Trump’s Escalating Assault on the Press On Sunday morning Trump seemed to promote violence against CNN. He tweeted an old video clip of him performing in a WWE professional wrestling match, with a CNN logo superimposed on the head of his... Read more |
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Sarah Chaisson-Warner Love Your Country? Save Health Care! Senators are home to celebrate Independence Day this week. Don’t let them go back to D.C. without hearing how important saving health care is to our country. We have one more chance to stop the GOP’s... Read more |
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Peter Dreier Joe And Mika Owe America An Apology Let’s not forget that the “Morning Joe” cohosts, particularly Scarborough, are partly responsible for Trump becoming president. Read more |
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César Chelala Solving Donald Trump's Mystery Recently, as I picked up a book from my bookcase, I realized that one word in its title had the answer to a problem that for months had been bothering me. The book is “ The voice imitator ” by the... Read more |
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Alyssa Aquino Student Debt Means Fewer Public Servants — and More Bankers Indebted students trained for public service are instead cutting bait and heading for Wall Street. Read more |
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Bob Burnett Searching for the Soul of the Democratic Party Writing in Politico, Bruce Bartlett complains the Republican Party has lost its way because it has ceased to champion ideas; he says the GOP has become the Party that panders "to the lowest common... Read more |
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Sam Husseini Should Media Expose Sources Who Lied to Them? If an anonymous source knowingly and maliciously feeds a media outlet false information, should they continue to be granted anonymity? If media continue to protect the deceptive source’s identity,... Read more |
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Wim Laven A Political or Apolitical 4th of July? With a long holiday weekend lined up for the 4 th of July most people are probably worried about having enough food for the barbeque, or hoping that their get-togethers aren’t too political. Facebook... Read more |
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Adam Johnson As Democratic Voters Shift Left, ‘Liberal Media’ Keep Shifting Right In the past few years, the Democratic Party’s rank and file has shifted left on major issues. From healthcare to legalization of drugs to taxes , the heart of the party has grown more progressive—and... Read more |
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Adil E. Shamoo Trump: Toward War in the Middle East By staying out of the conflicts in the Middle East, the United States can benefit both American citizens and the citizens of those distant lands. Read more |
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Christine Ahn Americans and South Koreans Want Peace. Will Trump Listen? Korea's new pro-engagement president may not have to be as deferential to Washington hardliners as his predecessors. Read more |
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Miriam Pierson, Sarah Edelman How the US Can Prevent a Fire Like Grenfell Tower At least 80 people are missing and presumed dead after a devastating fire in Grenfell Tower , a high-rise apartment building in London. It’s the deadliest fire in Britain in more than a century. This... Read more |
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Hannah McKinnon Reality Check: The End of Growth in the Tar Sands. So Now What? A managed decline is highly preferable to an unmanaged one, but it requires recognition that the decline part is inevitable Read more |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan Medicare for All: It’s a Matter of Life and Death “Kill the bill! Don’t kill me!” chanted protesters in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, opposing passage of the controversial Senate health care reform bill. President Donald Trump and his Republican... Read more |
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Eugene Robinson There Trump Goes Again If you want to look at the bright side of things, at least we’ve learned that the nation can survive for half a year without a sane, functioning presidency. We’ve had nothing of the sort since... Read more |
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Pierre Tristam When a President’s Tweets Ape the Squeals of a Swine What struck me in Donald Trump’s latest hurl of tweets, among other foulness, was the time of the tweets: around 9 a.m., when most of us have already been neck-deep in work for a few hours. What is... Read more |
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Bill Moyers, Michael Winship NRA Issues Call for White Supremacy and Armed Insurrection The gun lobby's new "recruitment ad" is really a call for white supremacy and armed insurrection, deliberately crafted to stir anger and fear. Read more |
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Joshua Cho The Cynical Opposition of Some Democrats to Universal Health Care After strong opposition from Americans concerned with the potential repeal of the Affordable Care Act and opposition from Senate Republicans forced Mitch McConnell to delay the Senate vote on the... Read more |
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Jeff Bryant Trump Is Vulnerable On Education. Do Democrats Care? A string of special election defeats has left Democrats bewildered at how they can continue to lose against a party led by the most unpopular president ever. Seasoned campaign analysts and political... Read more |
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Steven Singer Calling Total Bullshit on Allowing Guns in Schools Bring your gun to school – courtesy of the Pennsylvania Senate Read more |
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John Light The Ironworker Running to Unseat Paul Ryan Wants Single-Payer Health Care, $15 Minimum Wage Randy Bryce on his plans for winning Paul Ryan's seat, his viral first campaign video, and all the many articles casting him as a character in a Bruce Springsteen song. Read more |
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Adele M. Stan Very Dangerous Times: Press Attacked by Authoritarian White House There’s a reason the Founders enshrined the press as the one profession specifically protected in the Bill of Rights. Read more |
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Danny Sjursen Why the Next Afghan "Surge" Won't Work Either In America's longest war, the trouble ahead will look much like the trouble behind. Read more |
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Neal Gabler Why the Obamacare Repeal Effort Will Not Die, No Matter What People will continue to vote enthusiastically for the party that will strip them of their health care so long as that party promises to turn back the clock. Read more |
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Chris Winters Trumpcare Is Not the Health Plan We Need (but Neither Is the ACA) Under both GOP plans, we’ll have high costs, spotty coverage, and ad hoc solutions—which we have enough of already. Read more |
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Talcott Camp The Only Way to Get Arkansas Legislators Out of the Exam Room Is To Take Them To Court Arkansans have plenty of health needs their politicians should address — from the third highest maternal mortality rate in the U.S . to an opioid epidemic . Yet Arkansas politicians have spent their... Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler The Fire Burns, the Caldron Bubbles America serves up its news in a caldron from hell, or so it sometimes seems. The fragments are all simmering in the same juice: bombs and drones and travel bans, slashed health care, police shootings... Read more |
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Andrew Kennis Javier Valdez and the Drug War that Killed Him One month ago today a burly, middle-aged reporter set out from the offices of the news weekly Riodoce that he co-founded some fourteen years ago, walking toward his car at high noon. In the preceding... Read more |
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Chuck Collins What Happened to America’s Wealth? The Rich Hid It. There's actually trillions that could be used to fix our roads and schools. The wealthy just don't want you to know where it is. Read more |
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Michelle Brown, Maud Schaafsma Hey Betsy DeVos! That Money Is for Student Needs, Not Private Schools The Education Innovation Research (EIR) program was designed to support innovation in public schools, not as a backdoor to privatization efforts Read more |
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Frank Clemente Senate Health Bill Slashes Medicaid to Cut Millionaires’ Taxes While those who are most vulnerable lose health coverage, the wealthy and corporations reap huge tax savings Read more |
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Robert Reich It’s Time for Medicare for All Mitch McConnell is delaying a vote on the Senate Republican version of Trumpcare because he doesn’t yet have a majority. Some Senate Republicans think the bill doesn’t go get rid of enough of the... Read more |
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Maha Hilal The Supreme Court’s ‘Muslim Ban’ Decision Is Terrifying If the war on terror has taught us one thing, it's that harsh laws targeting non-citizens will eventually be extended to citizens, too. Read more |
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Roger Bybee In Kenosha Kickoff, Ironworker Randy Bryce Hammers On Paul Ryan’s Weakness Andy Bryce, an ironworker and avid Bernie Sanders surrogate during the 2016 primary, made a direct appeal to working people in Representative Paul Ryan’s district as he officially launched his... Read more |
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Binta Baxter How the Student Loan Industry, Trump, and Neoliberals Are Creating a Nation of Serfs Most of the discussion about student debt in the United States has centered on its excessiveness, the negative impact it has on home-buying for the next generation, various refinancing schemes, and (... Read more |
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Derek Davison White House Syria Statement Raises Eyebrows The Trump administration may be gearing up for another military strike against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s military. Late in the day on Monday, the White House released the following statement... Read more |