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Ilhan Omar We Must Apply Our Universal Values to All Nations. Only Then Will We Achieve Peace. Valuing human rights also means applying the same standards to our friends and our enemies Read more |
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Eve Ottenberg Gentrification, School Closings, and Displacement in Chicago A former Chicago public school teacher sees school closings as part of a deliberate effort to push African Americans out of newly desirable areas so white families can move in Read more |
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Linda Wiggins-Chavis The Myth of White Meritocracy While most of society will publicly denounce what certain parents did to get their already privileged children into elite institutions, it is in important ways nothing new Read more |
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Will Bunch Stop Joe McCarthy-ing the 'Socialist' Bogeyman and Fix America's Broken Capitalism Instead of asking how each 2020 presidential hopeful plans to solve wealth inquality, the "defenders of the American way" are demanding a mindless loyalty oath to the system that enriched people like them at the expense of the masses Read more |
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Janine Jackson Colleagues Defend Tucker Carlson’s ‘Ideas'—That Iraqis Are ‘Monkeys,’ Child Rape Is ‘Commitment to Love’ For champions of so-called "civility," the problem for public discourse is not the sort of statements Carlson made, but any suggestion that the public could be better served Read more |
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Matt Fuller The New Zealand Shooter’s Rhetoric Sounds Like Something You Might Hear In Congress We should talk about why that is Read more |
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Leanna First-Arai Why Students of Color Are Stepping Up to Lead Climate Strikes The youth-led movement builds on the momentum of the increasingly Black and Brown leadership behind the Green New Deal. Read more |
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Bill Bigelow The Real Irish-American History Not Taught in Schools Sadly, today's corporate textbook-producers are no more interested in feeding student curiosity about the poverty and inequality that drove the famine than were British landlords interested in feeding Irish peasants Read more |
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Bill McKibben A Future Without Fossil Fuels? "The bottom line is clear: to the degree that the fossil fuel industry is weakened by some combination of technological change and furious activism, the chances for serious change increase." Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Wells Fargo Redux Some hoped that the light of day that had shined on the bank’s practices might cause the bank in the United States to mend its ways, but employees say fraudulent activity persists Read more |
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Steven Singer Who’s Afraid of Public Schools? "No one really denies that there are two Americas anymore. We just lie to ourselves about how you get placed in one or the other." Read more |
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Linda McQuaig Debunking Billionaire Claims of Heroic Capitalism "The notion that it is somehow legitimate for a tiny group of humans to cordon off the bulk of the world’s bounty for themselves is fairly astonishing, on the face of it." Read more |
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Greta Thunberg, Alexandria Villasenor Think We Should Be at School? Today’s Climate Strike Is the Biggest Lesson of All We are among the young people striking against climate change in every corner of the globe—adults should join us too Read more |
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Miles Mogulescu Expanding Supreme Court May Be Only Way to Protect Democracy The one vote conservative Court majority has undermined democracy and put its thumb on the scale to help Republicans get elected Read more |
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Christian Christensen Christchurch: When Simply Being a Muslim Is Your Biggest Crime The sediment of hatred and discrimination directed at Muslims slowly builds up over time and it is not only the most hateful and dark places online or in the world that lay the groundwork for explosions of hatred and violence such as this Read more |
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Dean Baker Worry About the Old, Not the Rich, HuffPost Tells Readers We have seen a massive upward redistribution over the last four decades yet there is a large market for pieces saying the big conflict in the US is generational rather than class Read more |
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Michael Galant Unions Can Take on International Fights—and Win Fresh off a strike in Erie, PA, the United Electrical Workers are a model of the working-class internationalism that can build a more just world Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Why Isn’t Tucker Carlson's Hate Speech a Deal-Breaker? In Trump’s America morality has been distorted and hate continues to have a place on television and in the White House—until the nation chooses another way Read more |
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David Goodner A President for Nationalizing Major Industries? Please Can We Have ‘76 Bernie for 2020 CNN dug up old quotes of Bernie Sanders calling for nationalization of the economy—and insinuated his past statements could be used to attack his candidacy. But why should he run away from sound and quite reasonable ideas? Read more |
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Rebecca Solnit Thank you, Climate Strikers. Your Action Matters and Your Power Will Be Felt Nothing is possible without action, and almost anything is when we rise up together, as you are today Read more |
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Leo Gerard Of Course College Admissions Rigged for the Rich. The Whole Economic System Is The college admissions scandal is just the tip of the inequality iceberg Read more |
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Ashley Bennett We Will Not Rest Until Housing Justice Is Done For too long, big banks and the one percent have built fortunes on the backs of low-income tenants Read more |
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Marie Antoinette Marie Antoinette Stages a Comeback on Capitol Hill In this exclusive interview, the 18 th century queen shares her views on the popular revival of her ‘let them eat cake’ attitude among top Trump administration officials. Read more |
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Julie Wilson Judge in Second Roundup Cancer Trial Worked for Firm that Defended Monsanto The judge worked for the firm when Monsanto was engulfed in an all-out legal battle over rBGH, a genetically engineered drug developed by Monsanto Read more |
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Frida Berrigan A Mother Swept Away by Climate Change Parenting the climate-change generation or will they parent us? Read more |
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Tracey L. Rogers Stop Making Women Apologize Women are socialized from a young age to say "sorry" for simply occupying space. This Women's History Month, I say no more Read more |
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Andrew Cohen When a Bill to Revive Democracy Is Called an Ode to Socialism The Republican response to the For the People Act is ultimately about white supremacy, argues Brennan Center Fellow Andrew Cohen Read more |
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Robert Reich The Huge GOP Lie About the Deficit It’s not social spending that’s causing the federal deficit to soar, it’s Republican tax cuts Read more |
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John Sarbanes, Michael Brune To Clean Up the Planet, Clean Up Washington We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to protect our democracy—and our planet Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Artificial Morality “We are a global coalition of Microsoft workers, and we refuse to create technology for warfare and oppression." Read more |
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Steven Rosenfeld Good-Bye Electoral College? Popular Vote Movement Gaining Steam It’s not just Democrats that see the virtue in reforming presidential elections Read more |
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Fran Quigley Beating the Big Pharma Shell Game Momentum is growing for a long-overdue fix to the broken medicines system and big pharma is fighting back Read more |
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Chuck Collins Bring Back Eisenhower Socialism Conservatives want you to believe that not having to choose between paying for rent or medicine is Soviet-style tyranny Read more |
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Joshua Cho ‘What Is Terrorism?’ NYT Asks—but Offers No Answers The credibility of the United States' War on Terror depends on the unchallenged assumption that the United States is not a terrorist state Read more |
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Vasudha Talla Documents Reveal ICE Using Driver Location Data From Local Police for Deportations It’s time to take back control of our information and make sure our communities aren’t collaborating with ICE Read more |
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Cynthia Kaufman Bring Back Pell Grants for Prisoners There are hundreds of thousands of people in this country’s prisons who could benefit from educational opportunities Read more |
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Haven Coleman, Bill McKibben Students are Striking for Action on Climate Change—a Truancy Everyone Should Applaud Maybe, at least for a day, there’s more education to be found out in the street. Instead of studying history, it’s time to make it. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin An Apology for a Different Plane Crash, 30 Years Later While most Americans have no memory of this incident, in Iran the date of the deaths of 290 innocent people at the hands of the U.S. military is marked every year just as the 9/11 attack is remembered every year in the United States Read more |
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Rev. Susan Hendershot Wheeler's Poison Plan Is a Threat to Families' Health and Safety Wheeler’s willingness to poison our children goes against the very mission of the agency and is anathema to the moral principles embraced by diverse religious traditions Read more |
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Wendell Potter Trump’s Greedy 2019 Budget Goes Nuclear on Medicare and Medicaid This budget would be the U.S government’s largest ever, which wouldn’t be a problem if it weren’t also such a morally bankrupt document Read more |
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Ralph Nader An Open Letter to Boeing Executives: Passengers First, Ground the 737 MAX 8 Now! Stop digging in your heels. Tell the airlines to stop digging in their heels. Public trust in your Boeing 737 MAX 8 is eroding fast. Read more |
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Michaela Haas The Climate Solution Right Under Our Feet The ideas behind regenerative farming are simple and ancient Read more |
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Hina Shamsi Trump Pledged to End ‘Endless Wars.’ His Executive Order Suggests Just the Opposite Only with greater pressure can we end our nation’s deadly addiction to a war-based foreign policy Read more |
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Jim Hightower It's Not Socialism; It's What the People Want Far from socialism, this is democratic populism, reversing decades of government policies that take from the many to give to the wealthy few Read more |
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Vijay Prashad The Rightful Owners of a Key Island Military Base for the U.S. Would Like It Back, and the UN Agrees The Chagos Archipelago belongs to the country of Mauritius; it’s not a bargaining chip for the American empire Read more |
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Jesse Jackson To Help Venezuela, the U.S. Must Use Diplomacy, not a Military Coup Fomenting regime change—by a soft coup, by economic sabotage, by fostering a military revolt—is likely to lead to more violence and more suffering Read more |
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Morris Pearl Trump's Budget for a Nightmare America When someone promises to be selfish and cruel, believe them. Read more |
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Robert Reich Warren Is Correct About Busting Up Big Tech Let’s be clear: Monopolies aren’t good for anyone except for the monopolists Read more |
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Dar’shun Kendrick You Want Our Wombs? We're Coming For Your Testicles "You want some regulation of bodies and choice? Done!" Read more |
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Stan Cox, Paul Cox Vulnerable U.S. Citizens Are Still Trapped in the Ruins Left by Hurricane Maria—Would We Care More If They Lived Near Us? Abandoned by their country, residents refuse to accept the idea that they will never recover Read more |
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Frances Moore Lappé The Green New Deal Is Not a Choice Please don’t let the naysayers dim our confidence in our power to step up in this do-or-die moment Read more |
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John Atcheson Nobody Likes Trump, But He Could Still Beat a Centrist Democrat in 2020 Will just "veering" left be enough to inspire voters who have learned to ignore promises and platitudes? Read more |
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Allegra Harpootlian The School Shooters of the Planet Linking gun violence at home to America’s wars abroad Read more |
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Walden Bello Why Free Trade Is Bad for You (or Most of You at Any Rate) Free trade is simply a euphemism for the corporate capture of international trade Read more |
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James Zogby The Shameful Attack that Backfired It is clear that Omar's courage has helped to open a door enabling a discussion of Israeli policy and the US-Israel relationship Read more |
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Jonathan Cook The UN Fails to Name and Shame Firms Aiding Israel’s Illegal Settlements The hypocrisy of these states—urging peace in the region while doing their best to subvert it—is clear Read more |
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Tom Gallagher San Francisco Democrats Adopt Venezuela Stance Diametrically Opposed to Pelosi’s It seems clear than when Nancy Pelosi speaks of the “San Francisco values” that she represents, this does not extend to foreign policy Read more |
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Diane Archer Why Medicare for Some Is the Wrong Idea Let's get real: Commercial insurance is the biggest threat to health care choices and our freedom to receive the health care we need. Read more |
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Paul Buchheit The Big Cheat of 2018: Corporations Make Billions in Profits, Demand Tax Refunds from the American Public It was a banner year for corporate greed Read more |
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Medea Benjamin How US Sanctions are Hurting Iran: A Firsthand Report Trump's economic strangulation is having devastating people on the Iranian people Read more |
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Norman Solomon Here Comes Joe Biden and It's Worse Than You Thought The former vice president is eager to stake out the middle of the road, between ultra-predatory capitalism and solidarity with working-class people Read more |
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Bob Dreyfuss Is a War With Iran on the Horizon? The Trump administration is reckless enough to turn the Cold War with Iran into a hot one Read more |
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Chris Hedges Israel’s Stranglehold on American Politics Israel's dominance of the Democratic Party is eroding and increasingly losing legitimacy in the eyes of the public Read more |
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Michael Winship Don’t Let the Ilhan Omar Fight Hide Two Essential Truths Criticism of Israel—and AIPAC—isn't anti-semitic Read more |
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Nozomi Hayase Chelsea Manning’s Fight Against the Grand Jury Exposes Battle for Free Speech The former US Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning was sent to jail Friday for refusing to answer questions relating to WikiLeaks 2010 disclosures at a grand jury in the Eastern District of... Read more |
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Reese Erlich What’s Really Going On in Kashmir? The geopolitics behind the recent military attacks from India and Pakistan Read more |
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Kathy Kelly Judging U.S. War Crimes Chelsea Manning, who bravely exposed atrocities committed by the U.S. military, is again imprisoned in a U.S. jail. On International Women’s Day, March 8, 2019, she was incarcerated in the Alexandria... Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac More Denunciation of Omar, More Bullshit: Enough! It’s all over the news. Ilhan Omar has done it again. This time it’s not “the Jews” she’s attacking. It is “Obama.” This headline, viral on Facebook, says it all: “ Ilhan Omar Goes After Obama,... Read more |
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Stephen Kinzer We’re Edging Closer to Nuclear War Last month two nuclear-armed countries, India and Pakistan, came to the brink of war. Their border skirmish was a scary message from the future. If controls on nuclear weapons continue to weaken,... Read more |
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Laura Flanders Making American Journalism Great and Different A great divide is shaping up in the newspaper business between those who want to make American Journalism “great again” and those who believe it has never been great but could be. It’ll come as no... Read more |
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Katie Halper Debate Over Labeling Omar Obscures Vital Debate on Israel/Palestine Though it was not their intention, Ilhan Omar’s critics did her a favor: They proved the very point she made at the Progressive Issues Town Hall at Busboys and Poets bookstore in Washington, DC, last... Read more |
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Eric Margolis More Power to You Miss Omar “Tell me who you cannot criticize and I will tell you who is your master”. (Attributed to Voltaire). Saying anything negative about Israel has long been the third rail of US politics and media... Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Trump: The Great Imitator Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. — Charles Caleb Colton, Many Things in A Few Words 1824 It was a brilliant move. He one-upped Alec Baldwin of Saturday Night Live (SNL) who has become... Read more |
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Madeleine Zúñiga, Ema Jackson International Women’s Day—A Woman’s Place Is Still in the Revolution Now more than ever it is imperative that women are celebrated and elevated at the highest level for their immense contribution to shaping a world that is non-sexists, non-gender biased and unequivocally builds gender equitable systems for all Read more |
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Kathy Kelly Can We Divest From Weapons Dealers? Impoverished people living in numerous countries today would stand a far better chance of survival, and risk far less trauma, if weapon manufacturers such as Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, and Raytheon stopped manufacturing and selling death-dealing products Read more |
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Ralph Nader Who Will Displace the Omniciders? The only reason Congress has been an oil, gas, and coal toady, instead of an efficient, renewable energy force, is because we have sat on the sidelines watching ExxonMobil be Congress’ quarterback Read more |
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Daniel Ross A Climate Change Solution No One’s Talking About: Better Land Use A key to fighting climate change could be right under our feet Read more |
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Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap, Greg Coleridge The 'We the People Amendment' Aims to Fix the Crisis of Corporate Rule Because corporations are not people and big problems require bold solutions Read more |
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Washington Office on Latin America A Peaceful, Democratic Solution to Venezuela's Crisis Requires Fact-based Analysis and Advocacy A response to the "Open Letter to WOLA" from 124 academics and scholars Read more |
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Karl Evers-Hillstrom Big Pharma, Insurers, Hospitals Team Up to Kill Medicare for All The giants of the healthcare industry agree on one thing: Medicare for All cannot become law Read more |
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Gennie Gebhart A Privacy-Focused Facebook? We'll Believe It When We See It. Above all, Facebook needs to be transparent about its business model Read more |
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Lee Camp We Are Being Lied Into War Again This is not the first time our government and our media have conspired to drag the American people into war with another country—or helped create a coup that will inevitably have disastrous results Read more |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan The Time for Medicare-for-All Has Arrived It’s a matter of life and death Read more |
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Salena Tramel Embracing Grassroots Feminism Feminism is inherently political and must not be viewed in isolation from other structural inequalities, including race, generation, and class Read more |
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David Goodner Will 2020 Be the Year Presidential Candidates Actually Take Labor Issues Seriously? Sanders, Harris and Warren have all also taken symbolic actions since announcing their presidential runs in order to highlight their close relationship with unions and the working class Read more |
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Jeff Cohen This Jew Tells Speaker Pelosi: "You May Well Prove Ilhan Omar Correct" Unfortunately, all the vague media references to Rep Omar's so-called "anti-Semitic remarks" obscure how truthful and non-hateful those comments were Read more |
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Rebecca Gordon From Mowing the Grass to Cutting the Flesh How young women learn to hate their genitals Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt Feminism, Radical Literature, and Little Old Me I certainly can take no credit for the fact that we were distributing such now-classic materials back in the 1970s, but I can still take pride in the fact that I was there when it all happened Read more |
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Robert E. Scott Record U.S. Trade Deficit in 2018 Reflects Failure of Trump’s Trade Policies Unless these trends are offset by a rapid decline in the value of the U.S. dollar, rapidly rising trade deficits could be devastating for U.S. manufacturing Read more |
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Hannah Estrada, Michael Estrada It’s Not Just Our Planet That Needs a Green New Deal—Our People Do Too We stood up to our senator to save our future. Will you join us? Read more |
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Evie Blad 1.7 Million Students Attend Schools With Police But No Counselors, New Data Show "Schools are under-resourced and students are overcriminalized." Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Re-Inhabiting Planet Earth What may be history’s ultimate moment of human arrogance: the belief in a sense of separateness from and superiority to nature so thorough that we have, with our monstrous intelligence, the ability and therefore the right to play Bad God and make the whole planet go poof Read more |
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Nate Singham Trump’s Nuclear Doctrine Increases the Likelihood of Human Extinction Given the current policy direction, peace activists have been quick to point out that for the first time in half a century, U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals will not be bound to any bilaterally negotiated oversights Read more |
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Leo Gerard Why It Takes Pressure and Rabble-Rousing From Workers to Retire With Economic Security Workers are fighting for their hard-earned pensions and every one of them deserves our support Read more |
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Juan Cole Irony: As Pelosi Backs Down on 'Anti-Hate' Resolution, Israel's Politics Goes Peak Racist That the Democratic Party was proposing a resolution condemning racism as a way of defending Israel and its supporters is next-level irony. Read more |
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Jefferson Morley Elliott Abrams’ Bloody Lies The duplicity of Trump’s Venezuela envoy Read more |
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Rebecca Vilkomerson I'm Jewish, and I Find the Hypocrisy of Republican Islamophobes Hounding Ilhan Omar Breathtaking It is no surprise that the first elected officials defending Palestinian human rights are facing such fierce opposition from defenders of the status quo Read more |
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Olivia Alperstein A Modest Proposal: Don’t Start a Nuclear War No one wants a nuclear war, ever. Why don't we have a policy against starting one? Read more |
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Sarah Gertler Criticizing Israel Isn’t Anti-Semitic. Here’s What Is. Pro-Israel politicians don't speak for young Jews like me. They shouldn't pretend to. Read more |
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Neve Gordon The Witch Hunt at Westminster Accusations of anti-Semitism are increasingly being used to delegitimise critics of the Israeli government and its policies toward the Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem Read more |