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Mike Lofgren Should Trump Be Held Accountable? A Harvard Academic Says No The elites rush to the defense of the status quo. Read more |
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Olivia Alperstein As Historic Nuclear Ban Enters into Force, It’s Time for the US to Help Put an End to the Nuclear Age The only nation to use a nuclear weapon in an act of war can and should take steps to end the nuclear threat for good. Read more |
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Robert Reich How to Reverse This Craven GOP Power Grab The most ambitious structural reform would be to rebalance the Senate itself, as well as the Electoral College. Read more |
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Renee Knake Jefferson Why Amy Coney Barrett Must Recuse Herself From Election-Related Cases The choice is simple: She must recuse, and welcome Trump’s scorn. Read more |
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Nancy J. Altman, Linda Benesch Donald Trump Is an Existential Threat to Social Security The contrast between the two parties on Social Security has never been clearer. Every working family that has contributed to Social Security has a stake in this fight. All of us should vote accordingly. Read more |
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Andrea Mazzarino A Well-Armed and Unpatriotic Far Right How the war came home, big time. Read more |
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Stephen Zunes Is the U.S. Prepared to Resist a Coup? If Trump refuses to step down, we must be ready to not cooperate. Read more |
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Robert Dodge Nuclear Weapons Banned—Illegal at Last With Honduras delivering the 50 th ratification of the treaty on Saturday, the world has spoken and the global community has banned these most dangerous of weapons. Read more |
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Thom Hartmann Because We Don’t Have a Right to Vote… If you care about the survival and expansion of democracy in America, this may be your last chance to get out there and vote. Read more |
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Michael Beer, Mubarak Elamin Removing Sudan From the Terror List Is Welcome; Yes to Assistance No to Extortion We should be celebrating the bold nonviolent revolution in Sudan, investing in their economic development, empowering them to become the shining light and a model for other countries in the region to follow. Read more |
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David Coman-Hidy Half a Million Chickens Will Be Boiled Alive This Year It’s time for these corporations to transition away from the cruel, outdated practices of factory farming, adopt much stronger animal welfare policies, and ultimately focus their energy on expanding their plant-based alternatives—all of which will help reduce this widespread, unfathomable suffering. Read more |
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Taryn MacKinney The Postmaster General’s Manufactured Mail Slowdown and Racial Inequality Compared to the national average, mail delay complaints are nearly 50 percent higher in zip codes with populations that are more than 45 percent Black, Indigenous, or other people of color. Read more |
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Simon Davis-Cohen Chile, Bolivia, El Salvador Lead On Decolonial Constitutional Change Legalizing the world we need: social movements with constitutional visions. Read more |
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Rajan Menon So Trump Loses to Biden....Then What? If Trump loses in November, he won’t just moan about election rigging, he’ll also lose all interest in providing more help to millions of Americans at the edge of penury and despair. Read more |
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Juan Cole South Australia to Go 100% Solar as Sun Power Offers World's Cheapest Energy For one hour, on October 11, all of its electricity was generated by solar power, the first time this feat was achieved by any major jurisdiction in the world. Read more |
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Debi Smith Hello, Neighbor: My Letter to a Trump Supporter "The only way we will love our neighbor as ourselves is by getting to know our neighbors, even in the midst of our differences." I love that. Read more |
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Robert Freeman How Did We Get Here? And How Do We Get Out? It's important that we figure this out, and figure out how to inoculate the country from this disease—the disease that conflates bravado with brains, degeneracy with dignity, greed with grace, hate with hope. Read more |
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Cynthia Kaufman Preparing to Protect the Election Results Winning, and then protecting this election against a coup, are necessary steps to getting back to our regular work of fighting to build a just and sustainable society. Read more |
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Steven Hill Why Uber's Desperate Prop 22 Is Bad for Drivers and Society It would lock in a serf-like condition forever, since Prop 22 requires an unprecedented 88% vote by the state legislature to change it. Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati Out of the UK, a Bold Pay Prescription for a Post-Trump America Two British think tanks are calling for a cap on the compensation that goes to corporate chiefs. Read more |
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Juan Cole Donald Trump, the Mr. Magoo of Geopolitics, Incites Warfare Between Egypt and Ethiopia Trump is much more terrifying, if equally cartoonish. Read more |
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Bryce Greene After Socialist Victory in Bolivia, Media Still Whitewash Coup U.S. media have a long history of reporting on Latin America that does more to please the State Department than to inform readers. Read more |
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Tom Weis Like Sanders and Warren, I'm Backing Biden Any hope of advancing the popular causes championed by Sanders and Warren begins with removing Trump, flipping the Senate, and electing more progressives to the House. Read more |
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Benjamin Dangl Ballots Defeat Bullets: MAS Wins Historic Mandate in Post-Coup Bolivian Election The MAS victory is a rejection of the racist coup government. Áñez pushed the MAS down, but the party and its diverse base of supporters rose up and won. Read more |
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Sarah Anderson The Trump Tax Reform Helped the Billionaire Class—Not the Working Class The Republican tax law boosted the fortunes of America's wealthiest while increasing insecurity for U.S. manufacturing workers. Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli The Art of Packing While accusing Democrats of wanting to "pack the courts," Trump has appointed almost a quarter of all active federal judges in the United States. Read more |
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Russell Mokhiber NPR and the Corporate Criminal Element Suffice it to say that the corporate criminal element has infused NPR with millions of dollars of donations. Read more |
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Jeremy Brecher How Workers Can Help Defeat a Trump Coup Donald Trump, desperately behind in the polls, appears to be laying the groundwork for illegally attempting to remain in office if he loses the election. This commentary focuses in on the role of workers—union and nonunion—in resisting a Trump Coup. Read more |
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Lee van der Voo Remember This the Next Time Someone Says a Green Economy Would Be Too Expensive We spent $2 trillion to keep Americans afloat in the pandemic. Putting a similar amount toward the climate crisis could be even more pragmatic. Read more |
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Jamie Henn Joe Biden is Finally Talking About Fossil Fuels—That’s a Good Thing It is high time to break the spell the industry seems to have cast over Democratic politicians. This was a promising start. Read more |
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Margaret Poydock The Passage of California’s Proposition 22 Would Give Digital Platform Companies a Free Pass to Misclassify Their Workers Californians must require that companies follow the law and properly classify their workers. No company should be able to buy its way out of treating workers fairly. Read more |
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Richard Eskow The Sunset Gun: One Nation, Under the Influence of Hate Repairing the breach left by centrism and fueled by rage will require radical love, the kind of love that condemns a broken system and not its broken people. Read more |
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Michael Winship That Final Debate Was a Parade of Presidential Prevarication Notes from the ghost town that only exists in Trump’s impoverished imagination. Read more |
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Alan MacLeod Media Outlets Owned by Billionaires Very Quick to Tell Readers Taxing the Rich Is Bad Idea A wealth tax as modest as some Democrats are proposing would affect precious few Americans, but still generate trillions of dollars of revenue from people who have largely been increasing their fortunes throughout the pandemic. Read more |
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Kenneth Peres Why the Republican Party Wants to Destroy Labor Unions The GOP sees unions and their supporters as enemies to be politically and economically destroyed. Read more |
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Reese Erlich What Bolivia Can Teach the United States About Democracy The South American nation sets an example of how to undo an attempted coup. Read more |
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Matthew Duss Only a Reckoning With the Disastrous Legacy of the So-called 'War on Terror' Can Heal the United States U.S. foreign policy never recovered from the war on terror. Read more |
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Heidi Shierholz With Millions of People Out of Work, the Senate’s Inaction Is Not Only Cruel, It’s Bad Economics When these programs expire, millions of these workers and their families will be financially devastated. Read more |
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Navina Khanna, Axel Fuentes Here's How Meatpacking Corporations Could Protect Workers From COVID-19—and What They're Doing Instead It’s time for our elected officials to pass enforceable workplace protections like those in the HEROES Act to make sure workers are able to stay safe, maintain social distance, and access paid sick leave. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Wrecking America: How Trump’s Lawbreaking and Lies Betray All If you don’t want such a person as your neighbor, why would you want him as your President where he’d have exponentially more power to harm you and your family? Read more |
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Ariel Dorfman Sending Trump to Hell Dante Alighieri has words for Donald J. Trump from the other side of death. Read more |
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Mark Harris A Trump Defeat Will Not End the Far-Right Threat For decades now, the Democratic political establishment has overseen the betrayal of progressive and working-class hopes and interests. Read more |
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Mitchell Zimmerman Trump to Seniors: Drop Dead In lieu of a plan for the virus, the president keeps assuring audiences that "only" older people will die. Read more |
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Gleb Tsipursky Are You Prepared for an Election Disaster? Everyone should have a plan to vote this year, but people should also have a plan for what comes after that. Read more |
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Sandra Babcock Lisa Montgomery: A Victim of Incest, Child Prostitution and Rape Faces Execution The story of Lisa's life reads like the script of a horror movie. Read more |
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Juan Cole DNI John Ratcliffe, a Trumpie Wingnut, Hilariously Blames Iran for Pro-Trump Proud Boy Email Spoof Anyone with the slightest common sense can see that Iran would be much better off with Biden, who is likely to try to re-implement the 2015 nuclear deal. Read more |
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Bill Blum Confirmation Hearings Exposed Barrett as a Hardcore Rightwing Activist Her goal on the court will be to drive America back to the days before the New Deal and the civil rights movement. Read more |
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Robert Reich How to Stop Trump from Stealing the Election Make this a blowout victory for Joe Biden and Democrats down the ballot, and stop Trump from stealing this election. Read more |
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Jesse Jackson Denying Pre-Trial Detainees the Right to Vote Must Stop This form of voter suppression is a social injustice and a civic indignity. Read more |
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Joshua Cho Press Worries About a Fracking Ban’s 'Risk' to Democrats—Not Fracking's Threat to Planet There is no reason for a fracking ban to be "political suicide" unless corporate journalists are determined to equate that with the death of the fossil fuel industry. Read more |
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Laura Flanders The US Spends More Than $80 Billion a Year Incarcerating 2.3 Million People There’s never been a better time to reconsider the entire system. Read more |
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Mike Lofgren Damnatio Memoriae: The First Step to Recovery in a Post-Trump America To get beyond the present crisis, we must undo his crimes and follies. Read more |
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Michael Winship Scott Atlas Is Trump’s Doctor Death He’s a reminder of an infamous Russian who "probably killed more human beings than any individual scientist in history." Read more |
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Mike Males Young Activists Aren’t Waiting For Anyone Older generations have generally favored "nowism," which privileges short-term well-being at the expense of long-term environmental and societal sustainability. And today’s youth are done with it. Read more |
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Marc Edelman Fascism in America Words matter. We must call what is happening in the US by its true name. Read more |
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Stacie Murphy Global Reproductive Health on the Ballot this November If Democrats are elected, we can have a new president and a congress that will fight to repeal the Helms Amendment and safeguard accessible and affordable healthcare everywhere. Read more |
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Amy Reed-Sandoval Voting in Exile The forces that have kept us in exile want us to lose touch with our sense of democratic agency—they want us to feel that we have forever lost our worlds. Read more |
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Shiney Varghese World Food Day Drives Home Need for Change in the US The pandemic has exposed the fragility of the current industrialized food supply system, which is nested in an unequal, racialized and gendered socio-economic system experiencing the increasing prevalence of unemployment and food insecurity. Read more |
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Rebecca Gordon Guns, Germs, and Smoke UNITE-HERE! Canvassers take on Trump in Nevada. Read more |
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James Zogby Policies Targeting Arabs and Muslims Didn’t Just Start With Donald Trump Regardless which party is in the White House, these onerous policies must finally be challenged and defeated. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies How Biden Flubbed Town Hall Foreign Policy Question Most of our leaders are still hell-bent on preserving America's imperial power at any cost: endless wars, climate catastrophe, mass extinctions, and the terrifying risk of a final, apocalyptic mass-casualty war—most likely a nuclear war. Read more |
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Ruwan Subasinghe, Makbule Sahan Ending Corporate Impunity Is at the Heart of a Sustainable Post-Pandemic Global Recovery Upcoming negotiations for a UN Binding Treaty on Business and Human Rights provide a critical opportunity for governments and business to demonstrate their commitment to responsible corporate conduct. Read more |
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Robert Reich The Public, the Personal, and the Utter Hypocrisy of the GOP It is nonsensical to argue, as do Trump and his allies, that government cannot mandate masks or close businesses during a pandemic but can prevent women from having abortions and same-sex couples from marrying. Read more |
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Thom Hartmann How Does a Nation Best Deal With a Leader Who Intentionally Kills Its Citizens? Regardless of his motivations, Trump is engaging in and encouraging behavior that is killing and disabling Americans by the millions. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Why a Former Green Party Candidate Is on a Very Long Fast—Urging Progressives to Vote for Biden to Defeat Trump "A very large number of people on the left who supported Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren have come around to an understanding that Trump and his accomplices are such a dire threat to any hope of forward progress in this country." Read more |
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Bud McClure Donald Trump's Hatred of Women The extent to which he denigrates women and the anger and even hatred he projects onto them reflects, in equal measure, his own self-hatred of his dependency, weakness, and passivity that he associates with the feminine in him. Read more |
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Andrew Bacevich Reframing America’s Role in the World The specter of isolationism. Read more |
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Steven Singer An Originalist Reading of Public Schools and the Absurdity of Amy Coney Barrett GOP is now the the party of plutocrat neofascist Christian fundamentalism. Read more |
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Robert Freeman Judge Trump’s Worthiness by Either Past or Future If the next four years besiege the country as did the last four, our problems will be immeasurably worse, for they will only fester, mutate, magnify, and multiply. Read more |
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Juan Cole Dear Sen. Perdue: Kamala Is the Name of Great Americans Since Perdue is implicitly playing the American card by othering Kamala Harris, let us look at some very American Kamalas who are much more admirable people than David Perdue and who have achieved much more of lasting value for Americans than he has. Read more |
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Anna Bianca Roach This Crisis Makes Clear: We Need a Four-Day Work Week, Now A shorter work week could help create a more thriving society. But to work it must be equitable. Read more |
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Sara Reardon Leading Scientists Urge Voters to Dump Trump Journals and Nobelists, usually cautious, cite unprecedented damage and incompetence in calls for a U.S. leadership change. Read more |
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William Cohn Amy Coney Barrett: Just Another Pro-Corporate Villain on the Court As the judiciary heads further to the right it is evident it no longer serves the values of the majority of the people. Read more |
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Juan Cole America Is Complicit, as Yemen Spirals Toward Mass Starvation This is an American war, and Americans have Yemeni blood on their hands. Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli The Monster and the Trump The Executive Order was signed by Trump who has repeatedly shown his disrespect for people with whom he disagrees by the language he uses when addressing them. It is mostly directed towards women and people of color. Read more |
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Mariah Kreutter Dianne Feinstein Was Harder on Preteen Climate Activists Than She Was on Amy Coney Barrett The contrast makes it clear that Feinstein prioritizes an outdated model of bipartisanship over engaging a passionate, young, left-leaning voter base. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Corporatist Judge Barrett–Two More Senate Abstentions Needed to Stop Trump It's time for the rising movement of elected and grassroots progressive to take over. Read more |
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Zoe Weil Four Ways to Find Equanimity When the News Is Overwhelming Staying healthy and effective in the maelstrom. Read more |
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David Suzuki Humility, Caring and Wisdom Make a Better Future Possible For many, the pandemic has renewed our innate appreciation for and connection to nature. People have taken to growing food on windowsills and in backyard and community gardens. We’re cultivating yeasts to bake bread and getting outside more to walk, run, swim and cycle. Read more |
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Natalie Dowzicky Beware of Presidents Promising 'No More War' at Election Time The public sees right through the facade of large lofty claims. Read more |
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Robert Reich Vote NO On CA Prop 22: Reject This Corporate Power Grab Make no mistake: Prop 22 is a lousy deal for Uber and Lyft drivers, and for millions of other workers. Read more |
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Miles Mogulescu Biden Can’t Let Republican Court Packers Intimidate Him Into Pledging Not to Unpack the Courts Mitch McConnell subscribes to the premise that "the easiest way to change the law is to change the judges." Read more |
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Tom Weis History Will Damn Trump & Co. for Betraying the Vision of Our Founders A societal reckoning is required to fulfill our founding promise of liberty and justice for all. Read more |
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Natalie Shure The Squad Is Growing: A New Crew of Left Challengers Is Bringing Movement Politics to Congress It’s not just AOC, Omar, Pressley and Tlaib. This crop of organizers-turned-politicians—alongside the Squad—plans to usher in a progressive revival in the House of Representatives. Read more |
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Julie Hollar Democracy Dies in the Light The problem is that the media continue to operate as if a normal democratic election is being held in this country, when it clearly is not. Read more |
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Alex Kotch Koch-Funded Legal Group Pushes to Allow Mass Evictions During Pandemic The CDC's eviction moratorium update "is symptomatic of a system that has always and continues to work to benefit the profiteers." Read more |
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Silky Shah Why America Still Needs to Abolish ICE The nation’s attention may have moved on, but the crisis remains. Read more |
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Ruth Conniff Amy Coney Barrett Is Not Pro-Life Trump's Supreme Court nominee has no regard for Americans protected by the Affordable Care Act. Read more |
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Juan Cole Pro-Life, Judge Barrett? Climate Denialism Is Mass Murder Human-induced climate change through burning gasoline, coal and natural gas is not "politically controversial." It is established science. Read more |
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Steve Fraser The United States of Paranoia From the Salem witch hunt to conspirator-in-chief Donald Trump Read more |
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Timi Iwayemi, Miranda Litwak Biden’s Treasury Could Fight Climate Change, But Would Lael Brainard’s? Biden’s choice for Treasury Secretary is arguably among his most important climate policy decisions. Read more |
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Michael Galant 5 Foreign Policy Issues to Look Out For in Tonight’s Town Halls We must work to end the United States’ role in existing conflicts, repeal the AUMFs, return the powers of warmaking to Congress, and slash the Pentagon budget. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Columbus Day in Pretend America Slave trade? Genocide? Armageddon? Never heard of it! Read more |
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Mark Hertsgaard Journalists Must Demystify The Green New Deal Rather than contributing to an environment in which the words "Green New Deal" are treated as a political liability, good journalism should assess both candidates' plans on their merits and inform the public accordingly. Read more |
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Rabyaah Althaibani How a Future Biden White House Can End the War in Yemen Biden has recently stated that under his leadership he would end U.S. support for Saudi military intervention in Yemen, a move supported by Congress, and reassess the current close U.S.-Saudi relationship. Read more |
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LaShawn Warren Amy Coney Barrett Hearing Reveals Senate's Misplaced Priorities Senate Republicans are grasping any last chance to hold onto power well after public support has lapsed and their terms are over. Read more |
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Sarah Anderson Farmers and Meatpackers Are Teaming Up During the pandemic and recession, farmers are realizing they have more in common with immigrant meatpackers than agribusiness CEOs. Read more |
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Jill Richardson Voter Suppression in a Pandemic Election Voting is more difficult than it should be in the best of times. In the pandemic, many states are adding barriers, not removing them. Read more |
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Ann Wright Dangers of Military Confrontation Between the United States and China Around Taiwan and in the South China Sea In 2020, The Trump administration has dramatically increased the number of Freedom of Navigation missions. Read more |
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Tony Norman Even Villains Are Heroes in Their Own Minds The plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer reveals the depths of militia lunacy in Trump’s America. Read more |