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Ronnie Cummins Degeneration Nation 2018: The Darkest Hour Which is more frightening? The destruction of the environment and the climate that sustain human civilization as we have known it? Or the collapse of democracy and the rise of endless war and fascism? Read more |
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Jonathan Cook A 14-Year-Old Girl Forced Into the Gaza Cage Another routine mishap for Israel’s occupation. Read more |
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Paul Buchheit 3 Reasons Why So Many People Still Support Trump Nationalism, exceptionalism, narcissism, racism. Read more |
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Brian Tashman Congress Needs To Hold ICE Accountable for Abuses While Trump uses his bully pulpit to extol ICE and ignore its abuses, grassroots activists and immigrant community leaders are drawing attention to ICE’s role in terrorizing communities. Read more |
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Belén Fernández Is Mexico The Most Dangerous Country On Earth? "Poor Mexico, so far from God, so close to the United States." Read more |
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William Astore Our Enemy, Ourselves Ten commonsense suggestions for making peace, not war. Read more |
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Andrea Flynn No, David Brooks, Fighting for Women’s Autonomy is not a Death Knell for Progressivism Brooks’ argues that abortion is a losing political issue. It’s not. Read more |
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Tom Collina Give Trump More Nuclear Weapons and More Ways to Use Them? Not a Good Idea The public is right to distrust Trump with nuclear weapons, and we all need to speak up and oppose these new, dangerous policies. Read more |
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Susan Delacourt Radical Recipe: Key Sanders-Corbyn Advisors to Back Leap Manifesto in Canada The time is right for 'populism of the left' Read more |
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Patrick Cochran Elizabeth Warren Rallies an 'Army’ for 2018 Midterms and Beyond The next big battle, says Senator from Massachusetts, "takes place at the ballot box in November." Read more |
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John Atcheson Taxation by Another Name: Our Devotion to Privatization Will Cost Us In the end, Trump’s infrastructure plan is simply another in the long line of policies designed to benefit the private sector, and keep the public sector sufficiently small and ineffective that it can be controlled and contained by plutocrats. Read more |
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Robert Reich The 20 Big Promises to Trump Voters That He's Broken in Just One Year But who's counting? Read more |
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Angela Hanks Paul Ryan’s Push for Workforce Development Is a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing If Speaker Ryan and congressional Republicans truly cared about helping people transition into the labor market, they would support policies like raising the federal minimum wage, strengthening collective bargaining rights, and advancing policies like paid leave and universal child care, which... Read more |
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Ken Jones Accompaniment in Honduras How can we be free when our sisters and brothers are not? Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Bills Small and Large: On Competing Performances Now anything is possible in American politics. But you still have to pay for it. Read more |
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Marcy Wheeler The Nunes-Ryan Civil Liberties Sham A mere three weeks ago, Nunes and Ryan were happy to have Americans surveilled with no evidence whatsoever of wrong-doing. Read more |
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Elizabeth Goitein The Nunes Memo Doesn't Reveal an Abuse of Power. It Is One. There is every indication that the Nunes memo was designed to present a misleading picture. Read more |
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Ann Wright Why Not Talk to North Korea Instead of Scaring Us with Nuclear Attack Warning Sirens Instead of "duck and cover" drills and nuclear fearmongering, we need more of the only thing that will guarantee peaceful resolution: diplomacy Read more |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan The Stateless of the Union: Trump’s War on Immigrants For millions of immigrants and their family members around the U.S., the State of the Union was not just a political speech; their lives hang in the balance. Read more |
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Jeff Bryant How Public Schools Became Easy Pickings for the Kochs The Republican party have made public schools one of their top targets, a progressive plum at least as important, if not more so, as Medicare and Social Security. Read more |
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Candace Clement Sen. John Kennedy Could Be the Internet's Hero Who isn’t talking about Net Neutrality at this point? Read more |
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Adam Schwartz Keep Border Spy Tech Out of Dreamer Protection Bills The bill would empower DHS to decide which countries are “high-risk,” based on “any” criteria it deems “appropriate.” Read more |
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Adam Johnson Another Warmonger Rewarded for Being Wrong on Iraq War Max Boot joins WaPo opinion staff, where opinion was 91 percent in favor of Iraq invasion. Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Echoes of Alt-Right Worldview in Speech Trump invoked a series of terrifying enemies ready to attack Americans and countered that narrative with multiple noble “heroes” throughout his speech who, like him, were protecting God-fearing, law-abiding American citizens. Read more |
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Ralph Nader The Paradox of Equal Justice Corporations get away with very serious crimes—deaths, lifetime injuries, massive assaults on the economic necessities of millions of innocent people, the sickening of children and loss of their lives, the poisoning of water, air, land, food, perilous workplaces— without consequence. Read more |
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Michael Lighty Meet The New Boss, Same As The Old Boss Why should we subsidize the failed business model of health insurers? Read more |
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Olivia Alperstein Celebrate Black History Month by Fighting for Justice and Equity Until all of us are free, none of us are free. Read more |
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Juan Cole Spying on the Wrong People: The Hypocrisy of the Nunes Memo & FISA Who voted for warrantless surveillance of Americans? Devin Nunes and his whole committee. (And, of course, plenty of Democrats.) Read more |
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Norman Eisen, Caroline Fredrickson Trump’s Saturday Night Massacre Is Happening Right Before Our Eyes The aim of the campaign against the Mueller investigation and the FBI is clear: Obstructing justice. Read more |
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Mandy Pipher Don’t Equate Trump’s Linguistic Mistakes With Stupidity When smart shiny commentators ridicule Trump for not using their sophisticated language, for speaking and writing idiosyncratically and often ungrammatically, I bet that an awful lot of Trump supporters know, quite personally, what that ridicule feels like. Read more |
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Porter McConnell, Luísa Galvão Wall Street Made Bank on Trump in 2017 A new report documents record-high Wall Street political spending, executives in the administration, a tax cut bonanza for the finance industry, and a deregulatory free-for-all. Read more |
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Dr. Carol Paris Medicare for All Only Way to Fix Broken System: An Open Letter to Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, and Jamie Dimon As you turn your focus towards health care, we urge you to meet with policy experts who have studied this problem for decades and concluded—like every other advanced industrialized nation in the world—that a single-payer system is the only way to solve this crisi Read more |
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Nomi Prins How to Set the Economy on Fire: Trump’s Financial Arsonists The next financial crisis — not if, but when. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Yemen’s Crisis Belongs to All of Us But the voices crying out against war remain as marginalized and without political clout as ever. Read more |
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Noa Yachot Trump Embraces the Original Sin of Guantánamo The human cost is incalculable. Read more |
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Lori Wallach, Rosa DeLauro Trump Still Has Nothing But Platitudes For American Workers Unless we rewrite NAFTA, the trade pact will keep giving the green light to corporations to outsource American jobs, pushing down wages for everyone. Read more |
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Peter Certo What Trump Wants on Immigration Is Ethnic Cleansing The president's "open hand" to Democrats is full of poison pills. Read more |
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Miriam Pemberton Huge Military Budgets Make Us Broke, Not Safe Backing down from nuclear war would make us a lot safer than piling more money into the Pentagon. Read more |
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Chuck Collins A California Trend Worth Catching: College for All America's left coast is showing how to break up concentrated wealth and fund higher education for all. Read more |
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Michael Winship Something’s Rotten in the State of the Union You think it can't get any crazier and then it just does. Read more |
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Heather Digby Parton Trump’s Speech Wasn’t The Scary Part: All The Republican Groveling Was Trump’s SOTU was a forgettable, familiar litany. What’s new is the GOP’s brain-dead eagerness to do his bidding. Read more |
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John Nichols Scott Walker's Rejection of Representative Democracy is Shameful Unfortunately, Walker's anti-democratic assault on popular sovereignty is part of an emerging pattern. Read more |
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Robert Reich The Next Big Fight: Saving Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security from Massive Cuts Expand and improve these programs: don’t cut them. Read more |
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Pierre Tristam To Keep America Great, Legalize All Undocumented Immigrants The defense of legal immigrants becomes a mask for a denigration of undocumented immigrants that’s no less repulsive than the president’s racism. Read more |
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Chelsea White The State of OUR Union Is Ready To Lift Up Truth We are fighting for a collective vision, not only of the world that might be, but of the world as it is, a world of everyday, courageous women who do not resist history, but who create it. Read more |
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Elizabeth Bruenig Trump's Solution to America's Crisis: Nationalism Trump has tapped into the nationalist response to our current malaise largely because there was no widespread sense of civic trust strong enough to hold him back Read more |
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Will Bunch Trump and His Teleprompter Assure America That the State of the Union Is Strong. No, Really In reality, the opposite is true and the real news was not what was in the speech but what was swirling all around it. Read more |
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Jim Naureckas A Tribute to Robert Parry: Independent Journalism at Its Best In gratitude and fond memory, we offer some excerpts from a small part of an enduring body of work. Read more |
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Jessica Juarez Scruggs Women Take the Stage for ‘The State of Our Union’ “There is nothing more powerful than women coming together and demanding change." Read more |
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Josh Bivens, Heidi Shierholz Year One of the Trump Administration: Normalizing Itself By Working For the Top 1 Percent His agenda of continuing the upward redistribution of income to this top 1 percent while scapegoating immigrants and allegedly nefarious foreign governments is essentially the orthodoxy among the Republican Congressional majority, and it will do nothing to help America’s workers. Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt The Military God of America’s Losing Wars Unlike previous celebrated generals in U.S. history, today's leading military minds are not expected to ever win wars Read more |
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Karen Hobert Flynn, Fred Wertheimer For Donald Trump, A Historic First Year For All the Wrong Reasons We are unaware of any previous president in the history of the U.S. who has lied so blatantly and debased so dangerously our values and our institutions of self-government. Read more |
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Andrew Bacevich How We Got Donald Trump: American Paths Chosen and Not (1989-2018) We had many opportunities to avoid this, but we failed. Read more |
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Jonathan Steele US Must Stop Using Syria as a Pawn Instead of counterproductive threats to keep US forces in Syria indefinitely, Americans should press Turkey to withdraw from Afrin. Read more |
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Juan Cole Trump Declines to Sanction Russia, Spurring Speculation About Putin Hold Is the underlying motivation for these unilateral US sanctions on Russia now simply to give Lockheed Martin, Boeing and other US arms manufacturers an advantage over their Russian counterparts? Read more |
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Kathy Kelly A Treacherous Crossing The “good guys” shaping and selling U.S. foreign policy and weapon sales exemplify the heartless indifference of the smugglers who gamble human life in exceedingly dangerous situations. Read more |
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Ruben Cantu, Katrina Deloso In Era of Recreational Marijuana, We Must Do More to Protect Public Health The many positive aspects of marijuana decriminalization and legalization do not mean we should not be thoughtful as we craft local policies Read more |
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Bernie Sanders What Trump Will Not Be Talking About in His State of the Union He will surely not be apologizing for the many lies he told American voters. Read more |
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Paul Buchheit Six Big Losers in Our 'Booming' Economy We're approaching third-world status in parts of our nation. Read more |
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Melissa Goodman Let’s Stop Sexual Harassment and Violence Before They Begin With Comprehensive Sex Ed To stop the objectification of women and power imbalance that fuels this societal epidemic, we need to start long before anyone enters the workplace. Read more |
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Michael Mann Climate Change Denial in the Age of Trump Our best hope is perhaps that Trump comes to realize that climate change is a threat not just to human civilization but to the one thing he cares about—Trump. Read more |
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Danny Sjursen The War That Never Ends (for the U.S. Military High Command) And It’s Not the War on Terror. Read more |
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Chris Hedges The Useful Idiocy of Donald Trump Trump, who has no inclination or ability to govern, has handed the machinery of government over to the bankers, corporate executives, right-wing think tanks, intelligence chiefs and generals. Read more |
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Juan Cole No, Trump, Ice Isn’t Growing at Poles, and Yes, We Are Boiling the Earth Since Trump is not good with reading books and the like, it may be helpful to reply to his falsehoods with graphs. Read more |
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Nat Parry The Legacy of Investigative Journalist Robert Parry (1949-2018) Robert Parry, editor and publisher of Consortiumnews.com, died peacefully Saturday evening. In this tribute, his son Nat Parry describes Robert’s unwavering commitment to independent journalism. Read more |
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Robert Reich Trump's America: Open to Global Capital, Not People Trump to global CEOs and financiers: "America is open for business." Trump to ambitious young immigrants around the world, including those brought here as children: America is closed. Read more |
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Juan Cole Many in Press Fall for Trump's Non-Apology on Retweet of Anti-Muslim Hate I take it what is going on is that the British upper crust is pressuring Trump to dissociate himself from Britain First but doesn't care as much if he remains associated with anti-Muslim hate speech. Read more |
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Juan Escalante The White House Dreamer Deal Isn't a Compromise. It's a Racist Ransom Note. The media, and anyone else watching this debate unfold, must resist any urge to label Trump and Miller's immigration outline as a "deal." Read more |
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Robert Weissman The Trumpy Awards, Round Six: Worst Cabinet Member Today's nominees certainly do represent the worst of the Trump administration. Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Congress and the Tax Collector If Congress continues to cut the IRS's budget, its ability to collect delinquent taxes will get even worse than it now is, and if its budget is cut far enough, the Private Collection Agencies will look good by comparison, thus justifying their continued employment. Go figure. Read more |
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Robert Weissman The Trumpy Awards, Round Five: Worst Cabinet Member With a president who has minimal and only passing familiarity with policy, Cabinet officials and their deputies are crucial in driving what the administration is actually doing. Read more |
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Will Bunch The Year of Whatevs: Why Trump Fatigue Makes 2018 So Dangerous Despite everything we've seen over the last couple of years, the majority of Americans cling to an "it can't happen here" mindset. But anything is possible in the Year of Whatevs. Read more |
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Charles P. Pierce The Un-American ICE We're watching proto-fascist behavior in action. Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar More Bombs, Deaths in Trump's First Year in Office Trump's foreign policy may indeed be the most dangerous game he is playing as president. Read more |
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Janine Jackson The Lucky 1 Percent Get Trump's Speech, CNBC's Devotion—and Nearly All Global Growth Would it really do CNBC 's wealthy, influential viewers a disservice to consider the statement from Oxfam’s Winnie Byanyima that "the billionaire boom is not a sign of a thriving economy but a symptom of a failing economic system"? Read more |
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John Atcheson Tribal America The issue isn’t simply that we’ve become tribal, it’s why we have, and what we can do about it. Read more |
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Julie Goldscheid Is Sexual Harassment a Civil Rights Violation? It Should Be. It’s clear that we need to refocus our public dialogue and use of the law on how to actually stop gender-based violence and harassment, both in and out of the workplace. Read more |
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Michael Winship Nevertheless, She Persisted – By the Millions It's women of every race and creed working to bring the country back toward the ideal of a compassionate democracy Read more |
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Robert Dodge Approaching the Apocalypse, the Doomsday Clock Moves Forward It’s time to abolish nuclear weapons. Read more |
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Elizabeth Bruenig Judge Rosemarie Aquilina’s Real Message Aquilina’s outspoken approach to Nassar’s sentencing is a signal from the bench that these crimes are serious and more abundant than many of us perhaps thought, and that they deserve the sustained attention of the courts and the public. Read more |
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Sarah van Gelder We Need Radical Imagination Imagination, as Hawaiian Native rights advocate Poka Laenui describes it, is more than an antidote to hopelessness. It is a source of power. Read more |
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Richard Eskow Trump’s General Just Announced a New Cold War. Who Will Stop It? It can only be stopped by a mass movement of people who are willing to stand against the reckless rush into chaos. Read more |
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Harvey Wasserman Trump’s Assault on Solar Masks an Epic Crisis in the Nuclear Industry Like nearly everything else Trump does, the hike in duties makes no rational sense. Read more |
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Robert Weissman The Trumpy Awards, Round Four: Worst Corporate Giveaway There are literally dozens of egregious anti-consumer, anti-environment and anti-worker measures that the judges considered but were unable to include on this list. Read more |
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Norman Solomon DNC Chair Tom Perez, the Democratic Party’s Grim Metaphor The corporate power structure of the Democratic Party, institutionalized in the DNC, has not given up on blocking efforts to reform the party and how it chooses a presidential nominee. Read more |
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Kalena Thomhave Bank of Whose America? By eliminating a popular free checking account, Bank of America only reminds us that traditional banking is for everyone—except the poor. Read more |
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Danny Sjursen America’s Syria Trap Pay attention, folks. It’s about to get a lot worse in the Middle East. Again. Read more |
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John Feffer Trump Isn’t Just Incompetent and His Agenda Isn’t Just Bad. It’s Evil. After a year that's brought us closer to nuclear war, ethnic cleansing, and climate catastrophe, it's time to consider that the Trump-GOP agenda may be genuinely evil. Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt Creating an Empire of Graveyards? At the Circus with Donald Trump. Read more |
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Craig Aaron Burger King Loves Net Neutrality (?!) and Other Whoppers Burger King just made an ad about Net Neutrality. Read more |
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Basav Sen How One Coal Baron Set an Entire Administration’s Energy Agenda In a political system awash with money, it's Big Coal vs. democracy. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Governing By Scapegoat The agenda that Trump and his cohorts are focused on moving forward is not the one that addresses American misery, but the one that slashes corporate taxes and privatizes as much of the social infrastructure as possible. Read more |
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Robert Weissman The Trumpy Awards, Round Three: Cruelest Action Donald Trump is a bigoted demagogue who sees the political payoff in scapegoating. Read more |
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Jamie Henn Fossil Free Fast: A Climate Resistance Game Plan for 2018 With the transition to 100% renewable energy, we have perhaps a once in a lifetime opportunity to rebuild our economy in a more just and equitable way. Read more |
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Kevin Martin The Olympic Truce: A Unique Chance to Step Back from the Brink of (Nuclear?) War with North Korea The Olympic Truce—a tradition which dates to the ancient Greek Olympics—represents an important opportunity to defuse tensions and begin the work of reconciliation on the Korean peninsula. Read more |
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Emma J Roth Is a Nondisclosure Agreement Silencing You From Sharing Your ‘Me Too’ Story? 4 Reasons It Might Be Illegal Survivors who want to speak out should know their legal options. Read more |
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Charles Derber Women Are Universalizing The problems of women, people of color, workers, and immigrants are all intertwined, all ruled by the same tiny concentration of wealthy people who run our militarized corporate system for their own benefit. Read more |
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Leonard Pitts Jr. Dear Democrats, You Just Don’t Have a Clue, Do You? You often seem terrified of alienating voters who do not embrace you, while discounting those — such as immigrants, African Americans, LGBTQ and, yes, progressive whites — who do. Read more |
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Steven Singer Few Kids in the World Can Pass America’s Common Core Tests, According to New Study “Advocates who push for school improvement on the grounds of questionable benchmarks are not strengthening education and advancing American interests, but undermining public schools and weakening the United States.” Read more |
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Adam Johnson WaPo Editor Blames Lack of US Leadership for Famine Caused by US Leadership Obama and Trump have logistically and politically supported the Saudi-led bombing and blockade of Yemen that caused the famine. Read more |