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Jeremiah Lowery Climate Change Is So Much More Than a 'Single Issue' Tom Perez needs to reconsider his position and the DNC needs to step up to the plate and host a climate debate, because the multiple issues within our climate crisis can no longer be pushed aside Read more |
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Dr. Sanjeev K. Sriram Are You Sure You Actually 'Like' Your Private Health Insurance? In 2018, as millions of Americans borrowed $88 billion to pay for health care, 62 CEOs of health care companies made a combined total of $1.1 billion in compensation Read more |
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Ramzy Baroud Kushner as a Colonial Administrator: Let’s Talk About the 'Israeli Model' Kushner thinks he is capable of arranging the future of the Palestinian people without the inclusion of the Palestinian leadership Read more |
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Joshua Cho According to NYT, 'Relentless Flooding' in Midwest Just Happens The Times failed to link the floods overwhelming the city with a changing climate Read more |
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Sarah Jones Finally, Some Good News for Abortion Rights The state’s newly elected Democratic governor, Janet Mills, signed a bill that will allow nurse practitioners, osteopathic physicians, and physicians assistants to perform abortion procedures Read more |
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Jesse Jackson Bring Troops Home and Send More Kids to College It aids the ambitious children of low-income families in rural and urban areas to lift themselves above their circumstances Read more |
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Robert Reich The 7 Biggest Failures of Trumponomics Trumponomics has exploded the deficit, hurt ordinary Americans, and lined the pockets of the wealthy and corporations Read more |
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Nick Hanauer Sorry, But Just Having Better Schools Won’t Fix America Like many rich Americans, I used to think educational investment could heal the country’s ills—but I was wrong. Fighting inequality must come first. Read more |
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Sheena Anne Arackal Annexation Without Citizenship Is Apartheid The only way to avoid bringing the barbarism of apartheid into the 21 st century is by firmly shifting away from the two-state solution and instead linking Israel’s inevitable annexation of the Occupied West Bank to Israeli citizenship for occupied Palestinians Read more |
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Eugene Robinson We Don’t Need 23 Presidential Candidates. There’s Another Important Role to Fill Dear Democratic presidential candidates: If you truly believe your own righteous rhetoric, some of you ought to be spending your time and energy in another vital pursuit—winning control of the Senate Read more |
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David Bromwich Politics as Usual and Planetary Destruction Fire and flood: What it means to be "great" on a planet going down Read more |
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Margaret Wurth What Life Is Like When Abortion Is Banned "As Republicans around the country pass sweeping abortion bans, I think about what life could be like for women and girls if these laws take effect. I don’t have to use my imagination." Read more |
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John Duda Revealed: Americans Care More About Social Needs Than Deficits A recent poll from the Democracy Collaborative and YouGov reveals that most Americans are ready to spend more for social needs, even if it raises the deficit Read more |
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Vijay Prashad Peace Is a Word That the West Has Taken From the Afghans With no end of war in sight, this past year has been the deadliest year for civilians since the United States first began to bomb Afghanistan in 2001 Read more |
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Bonnie Castillo Medicare for All Is Coming... Because Even the "Insured" Are Not Safe in This For-Profit System So-called "experts" tell us that Americans love this system and it would be too costly or too complicated to change it. But even those with private insurance or employee-provided coverage know this simply is not true. Read more |
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Andrea Dehlendorf, Ann Marie Reinhart Retail Workers Nationwide Are United for Respect Workers around the country are fighting back, taking creative actions and pushing legislators and pension funds to act Read more |
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Rachel M. Cohen How Unions and Climate Organizers Learned To Work Together in New York New York Renews offers an encouraging example of how labor and environmental groups can work together to act on climate change Read more |
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Julio Ricardo Varela Trump's Mexico Tariff Deal Is Fake News. Mexico Has Been Enforcing U.S. Immigration Policy For Years The only thing the Mexican government surrendered in the war of words was its dignity Read more |
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Jeff Bryant Charter Schools Are a Major Dividing Line for the 2020 Democratic Candidates—Education Fights in Pennsylvania Point the Way Charter schools now cost Pennsylvania taxpayers over $1.8 billion annually and account for over 25 percent of the state’s basic education funding Read more |
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Robert Reich The Same Old Scare Tactic About Socialism When the Republican candidate inscribes the slogan 'Down With Socialism'…what he really means is, 'Down with Progress.' Read more |
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Pierre Tristam Green New Deal Me In It should all be a call to arms no less urgent than that of the "Fate of the Earth." Read more |
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Chris Hedges The Cult of Trump Only when we recognize Trump as a cult leader, and many of those who support him as cult followers, will we understand where we are headed and how we must resist Read more |
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Norman Solomon Why an "Apology Tour" Is Needed: An Open Letter to Joe Biden Pretending that you don't have much to apologize for is not viable. Read more |
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Sarah Reinhardt Will the Trump USDA Deliver on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans? Our New Report Shows What’s at Stake "The federal government should be making a renewed commitment to public health by developing a strategy that will allow the benefits of a healthy diet to be realized by all communities." Read more |
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Jill Richardson Dealing With Climate Fear If you feel powerless, remember that the biggest change you can make is to support leaders who think our planet is actually worth saving Read more |
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Juan Cole No, WSJ, Palestinians Have Not Given Up On National Rights Most Palestinians support a just and lasting settlement of the issue of Palestinian statelessness. Read more |
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Igor Volsky What the Gun Control Movement Can Learn From Marriage Equality Clear goals, consistent strategy, and a sense of personal connection can change public opinion—and the law Read more |
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Xavier Best Decades After False Convictions, 'When They See Us' Highlights Media Failure While the highly publicized antics of Donald Trump has received a great deal of condemnation, less attention has been paid to how prominent media outlets fell in lockstep with the myth of five deranged black youths randomly attacking white cyclists and joggers in Central Park Read more |
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Sarah Jones What’s So Funny, Joe? "After Nevada lawmaker Lucy Flores published her account of an unwanted kiss from Joe Biden, the 2020 candidate said he’d have to change the way he campaigned. Instead, he's turned her story into a punch line." Read more |
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Jessicah Pierre Racism as a Public Health Crisis Milwaukee's novel approach to combating racial inequity should inspire other cities Read more |
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Nate Singham How Powerful Mining Corporations Flagrantly Plunder the Global South Without Consequence The process of corporate plunder in the global mining industry is severely aggravating social and economic inequalities across the planet Read more |
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Mary Otto America's Dental Health Crisis: Modern Life Causes More Tooth Decay, and Care Is Increasingly Unaffordable Millions of Americans lack access to oral health care, and vulnerable communities are in desperate need of a solution Read more |
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Ralph Nader FAA’s Boeing-Biased Officials: Recuse Yourselves or Resign "Boeing is used to getting its way. Its grip on Congress—where 300 members take campaign cash from Boeing—is legendary." Read more |
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Carmen Perez Reopen Linda Fairstein’s Cases and Hold New York’s Criminal Justice System Accountable Our criminal justice system is stacked against people of color, especially young people of color, from the moment they come into contact with law enforcement to when they enter probation Read more |
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Gabrielle Oliveira For Immigrants at the Border, It's About the Children The U.S. government has chosen to fracture and separate the very unit that it argues it cares about most Read more |
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Bill Bianchi The AMA Stops Us From Getting Health Care We demand you step out of the way of Medicare For All, which is the health care we want and need Read more |
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Peter Oborne Aung San Suu Kyi in Hungary: A Chilling Sign of Global Islamophobia The spectacle of the Burmese Nobel Laureate's meeting with Viktor Orban highlights the monstrous threat posed to Muslims around the world Read more |
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Joshua Cho WSJ Says CIA Chief Wouldn't Do Anything 'Inappropriate'—Despite Record of Torture and Coverup Perhaps if outlets like the Wall Street Journal provided less adulatory coverage of the CIA’s leaders and the organization’s illicit activities, it would be harder for its members like “Bloody Gina” Haspel to get away with lying Read more |
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Rebecca Solnit The Curious Case of Elizabeth Warren and the "Charter School Lobbyist" Who Wasn't How internet insinuation can quickly become campaign fact Read more |
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Laura Carlsen Trump’s Mexico Tariffs Are About White Nationalism, Not Trade There’s nothing “uncontrollable” about people applying for asylum. All the U.S. has to do is meet its obligations under international law. Read more |
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Danny Sjursen Whitewashing War Crimes Has Become the American Way What sort of society would America be if its soldiers were free to rape, pillage and plunder in current and future wars? A venal empire, that’s what—which this country resembles more and more. Read more |
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Mark Weisbrot Tariffs Are a Bad Response to an Imaginary Border Crisis The migrants that do arrive in the U.S. are fleeing situations exacerbated by decades of bad American foreign policy. Tariffs on Mexico would continue that pattern. Read more |
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Gregory Shupak In Media’s Looking Glass, US Doesn’t Threaten Iran But Merely Responds to Iranian Threats The media’s false implication that Iran is a danger to the population of the United States makes US escalations against the country appear necessary and justified Read more |
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Thomas Neuburger Four Ways to Expand the U.S. Supreme Court Congressional action can address the problem Read more |
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Justin Podur Sanctions Are Genocidal, and They Are the US’s Favorite Weapon Far from precision-guided munitions, sanctions are weapons of starvation, which target the most vulnerable civilians for slow and painful death by deprivation of food and medicine Read more |
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John Buell From Guatemala to Moscow to Washington, Neoliberalism and Privatization Driving Our Crises Neoliberal privatization and austerity, backed by the hard fist of militarization, have an ugly track record of which we must remind citizens early and often Read more |
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Rebecca Gordon Clemency for the Lowly, Free Passes for the Mighty Of crimes and pardons in the Trump era Read more |
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Joe Lauria After Assange’s Espionage Act Indictment, Police Move Against More Journalists for Publishing Classified Material Less than two months after the arrest of journalist Julian Assange, and two weeks after his indictment under the Espionage Act, emboldened governments have sent the police after journalists who’ve challenged the state Read more |
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John O'Day Corporate Media Have Second Thoughts About Exiling Julian Assange From Journalism One might have thought that, when drawing a line between Pulitzers and prison, corporate media would instinctively err on the side of caution and go to bat for Assange Read more |
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Robert Reich The Gig (Economy) Is Up The jobs problem today isn’t just stagnant wages. It’s also uncertain incomes. Read more |
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Juan Cole Hey, Psst, Prince Charles: Here are Some Graphs on Global Heating That Maybe Even Trump Could Understand Prince Charles may as well have saved his breath. There are nothing but squirrels running around inside Trump’s brain. Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar The GOP's White Supremacy Now Has a Smoking Gun The racism of the citizenship question should at least be apparent to the American public—if only mainstream media outlets covered the story with the gravity it deserves Read more |
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Russell Mokhiber Boeing, Obama, a Gold Watch, and 346 Dead During his time as President of the United States, Barack Obama promoted the sale of Boeing planes—including the 737 Max 8 planes—around the world Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler The Quiet Killer at the Core of Patriotism Doesn’t it make sense, in this land of 357 million guns, that our national glorification of war will have some unintended consequences here at home Read more |
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Jill Richardson Celebrating Pride, Mindfully Inequalities in our broader society also occur in the queer community Read more |
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Steven Rosenfeld America Is Missing Its Chance to Fix Our Election System Before We Vote in 2020 As many legislatures adjourn, few improve their recount and audit laws Read more |
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Isabel Marlens The Farms of the Future If we all divest our time, energy and money from the corporations that fill megastores and supermarkets, and invest instead in ourselves, in local farmers and small local businesses, then we can keep money and precious resources circulating in our communities Read more |
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Medea Benjamin Travel to Cuba Falls Victim to John Bolton’s Wrath John Bolton hates the governments of Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua— calling them the “troika of tyranny” and the “three stooges of socialism”—and is determined to use his time as National Security... Read more |
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Philipp Frey A Shorter Working Week Isn't a Luxury—It's An Ecological Necessity Working less wouldn’t just free ourselves to spend time doing the things we love: it could be the key to staying within our planet’s boundaries Read more |
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Elizabeth Drew To Impeach, or Not to Impeach Nancy Pelosi warns that Trump wants to be impeached, because he thinks it would play to his political advantage. But it’s not clear that this is so—or that it's relevant Read more |
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Ryan Cooper American Farmers Are Reaping the Climate Denial Whirlwind Last year it was the residents of Paradise, California who paid the price, when their city burned to the ground in a matter of hours. Today it is farmers. Tomorrow it might well be me, or you. Read more |
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Rachel Levinson-Waldman How ICE and Other DHS Agencies Mine Social Media in the Name of National Security Through its vast and deeply flawed social media monitoring, the Department of Homeland Security jeopardizes the rights of travelers, immigrants, refugees, and many others Read more |
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John Nichols Impeachment Affirms the Will of the People Impeaching and removing Donald Trump would make him what most voters wanted him to be when they cast their ballots in 2016: a citizen who does not hold the office of president Read more |
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Jim Hightower How to Arm Nature Against Corporate Profiteers Corporate powers—who have perverted law, logic and nature to have their lifeless profiteering entities declared "persons"—are aghast that Mother Nature not only has rights but those rights can be legally and morally superior to the claim that a corporation's right to profit is absolute Read more |
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Michael Winship Enough Hesitation, House: Impeach Ben Franklin would tell Trump to go fly a kite Read more |
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Daniel M. Goldstein What Mount Everest Climbers and Migrants Have in Common Despite the very obvious differences, many deaths—of migrants and mountain climbers alike—are the result of government policies that prioritize economic and political agendas over human life Read more |
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William Astore The American Cult of Bombing and Endless War The very Dark Side of US air power Read more |
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Alex Myers Fifty Years After Stonewall, the Real Fight for LBGTQ Rights Is Local As legislation has languished in Congress, many cities and states are moving forward with their own non-discrimination bills Read more |
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Bill Press Mueller Must Be Called to Testify Having been assigned, on behalf of the American people, to investigate possible wrongdoing by Trump, he should be asked under oath: Did members of the Trump campaign collude with Russia? Yes or No? Did Donald Trump obstruct justice? Yes or no? Read more |
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James Zogby Why the U.S. "Workshop" For Palestinians Will Fail What the Palestinians need more than anything is freedom from Israeli control and the independence they need to grow their economy Read more |
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Ashley Gorski The Hypocrisy of William Barr's Spying Claims Barr played a key role in developing a secret program that served as the blueprint for the NSA’s mass surveillance of Americans’ phone records Read more |
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Jesse Jackson Donald Trump Confuses Bluster With Strength on Trade Trump has launched a long overdue challenge to our trading relationship with China. Yet instead of enlisting allies to challenge China, Trump slapped tariffs on some of our best trading partners. Read more |
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Robert Kuttner Elizabeth Warren Presents Unparalleled Plan to Bolster American Workers and Manufacturing The Massachusetts senator presents by far the most serious proposal to bolster American industry. Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac Trump, Impeachment, and the Question of Democratic Legitimacy To allow Trump to continue to act as if he has legitimacy is simply to continue to legitimatize him and his party Read more |
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Thom Hartmann How Guns Literally Go to Men's Heads Guns can be thought of as a drug—an intoxicating, mind-altering, power-conferring drug that leads to aggression and, in the United States, to around 40,000 deaths a year Read more |
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Brett Wilkins Duncan Hunter Admits His Marine Unit ‘Killed Probably Hundreds of Civilians’ in Iraq Republican congressman counts 'women and children' among his probable victims as he brushes off war crimes during interview Read more |
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Chuck Collins Business School Graduates—Don’t Work for Billionaires For every dollar a billionaire gives to charity, U.S. taxpayers chip in 37 to 57 cents in lost tax revenue Read more |
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Dylan Dusseault You Know Nothing John Delaney... About Medicare for All Mr. Delaney either doesn’t know what an effective policy tool Medicare for All will be, or he’s unwilling to face the facts. Either way, not a great look for a Presidential hopeful. Read more |
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Drew Elizarde-Miller, Azadeh Shahshahani Congress: Stop Funding Duterte U.S. military aid to the Philippines doesn’t defend the country from invaders. It’s turned inward, against the poor, journalists, and human rights defenders Read more |
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Paul Waldman Why 2020 Is Starting to Feel Like 2004 Sixteen years ago, leading Democrats shied away from doing the right thing. Today, they're perilously close to making the same mistake Read more |
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Ruth Conniff The SCOTUS Will Soon Decide if Republicans Can Cheat Cases on gerrymandering and the new Census citizenship question will shape the political playing field Read more |
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Michael Mann, Jonathan Brockopp You Can't Save the Climate By Going Vegan. Corporate Polluters Must be Held Accountable. Many individual actions to slow climate change are worth taking. But they distract from the systemic changes that are needed to avert this crisis Read more |
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John Atcheson Neoliberalism Is Dead—But the Neoliberal Elite Didn’t Get the Memo At a time when neoliberalism is all but dead, Democrats and the corporate media are pushing Joe Biden, a neoliberal with a track record of supporting corporations and financial interests above the people's interests Read more |
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Michael Klare The Pentagon’s Spoiling for Another War, But With China, Not Iran The Navy’s war vs. Bolton’s war Read more |
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Chris Hedges Manufacturing War With Russia We are in a new and more perilous point in a 50-year nuclear arms race Read more |
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Norman Solomon Why Joe Biden Was Afraid to Face California’s Democratic Party There was a very high level of mistrust regarding the former vice president at the state convention Read more |
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Anna Vickerstaff We’re Flying the Trump Baby Blimp Again—Because the US President Doesn’t Deserve Our Respect Our balloon is part of a proud history of political satire in the UK that sends a clear, orange, message to Trump and his politics of hate that they are not welcome here Read more |
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Nick Dearden This May Feel Like the 1930s, But History Doesn’t Have to Repeat Itself The left needs to end its sectarianism. Broad alliances and radical policies are required urgently. Read more |
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Mike Lofgren Enough. Wake Up, Sheeple! Why people think reality is a conspiracy. Read more |
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Jeff Bryant Why Democratic Presidential Candidates May Have to Choose Between Teacher Pay Raises and Charter Schools "The problem with charter schools isn't that they're competing with public schools; it's that they're supplanting public schools." Read more |
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Les Leopold Will the Democrats Abandon Lordstown to Trump? Lordstown is the poster child for modern financialized capitalism and runaway inequality Read more |
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Eric Margolis India's "Trump" Wins Big Modi commands wide public support for his Muslim-bashing and anti-Pakistan invective Read more |
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Andrew Taylor, Harpreet Kaur Paul A 'Green New Deal' Needs to Be Global, Not Local Rather than focusing just on "green jobs" for British workers, a Green New Deal must recognize the U.K.'s climate debt and fossil-fuelled colonial past. Read more |
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Mark Weisbrot Puerto Rico’s Botched Disaster Relief, Unsustainable Debt, and Economic Failure Linked to its Colonial Status How can this scale of corruption, overseen by the US Congress, even happen? Read more |
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Bill C. Davis Time Bombs: A Meditation on Walt Whitman’s 200th Birthday Trickle down theory applies here. America has a death penalty. America has the largest military in the world and in history. America will not stand being crossed. These moments of spasm and orgy are... Read more |
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Christian Christensen Dear John Cleese: Why Was My White, Nordic Immigrant Family Never Accused of Making England Less English? Not once were we told that we eroded national culture by bringing in our own, outside habits, languages and experiences Read more |
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Pierre Tristam Trump Against the First Amendment It's a potential calamity for the First Amendment and a free press Read more |
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Leslie Cooper Trump's Anti-LGBTQ Agenda Will Keep Foster Children From Having a Loving Home While we don't yet know what form this rule will take, one thing is clear: It will be bad for the over 440,000 children in government care in need of loving families Read more |
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Ben Armbruster How Mainstream U.S. Media Is Failing Us On Trump and Bolton’s March To War With Iran The media is failing us by quoting and promoting those pushing for regime change and/or war and presenting them as, at best, neutral "experts" Read more |
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Maha Hilal There's a Simple Explanation for Racial Disparities in Terrorism Prosecutions: Racism Whether authorities classify an act as "terrorist" depends almost entirely on who carries it out, not what they did Read more |