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Razan Azzarkani Hollywood Won’t Destroy Sexism, But We Can The solution isn't for Oprah to run for president. It's to listen to women everywhere. Read more |
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Richard Eskow When Will Democrats Start #Resisting GOP Voter Suppression? Americans love democracy, at least in principle. Read more |
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Steven Singer When You Mistreat Teachers, Beware the Unintended Lessons for Students Not only a horrific violation of Deyshia Hargrave’s rights, but defies the very purpose of public school. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler The Sanctity of Life Militarized police, the omnipresence of guns, the ever-present possibility of violence and the common belief in an enemy (be it dark-skinned terrorist or basic bad guy) who is out to get us. Read more |
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Jill Richardson Rethinking the ‘Goldwater Rule’ in the Trump Era Is it ever appropriate for mental health professionals to diagnose a politician from afar? Maybe. Read more |
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Bill McKibben Applaud Mayor de Blasio and NYC for Climate Courage: Righteous Pension Divestment, Legal Fight Against Fossil-Fuel Companies Earth’s mightiest city is now in full-on battle with the planet’s richest, most irresponsible industry. Read more |
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Amrit Cheng ICE Abused Somalis for 2 Days On a Plane and Now Wants to Send Them Into Harm’s Way Rahim is one of 92 Somali nationals, currently locked up in Florida, who ICE is rushing to deport before they have a chance to ask to reopen their immigration cases so that a judge can consider the danger to their lives. Read more |
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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Jeff Orlowski What the Trump Administration Doesn't Understand About Ocean Conservation Think of the ocean as a trust fund. If you want to rely on that fund for the rest of your days, you can only use the interest. Read more |
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Wenonah Hauter These Candidates for Congress Want to Win in 2018 on a Platform of Decisive Climate Action More than 100 U.S. House and Senate candidates pledge to move off fossil fuels. Read more |
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Trita Parsi Will Trump Kill the Iran Nuclear Deal This Week? If So, Threat of War Grows A key decision by the US president is due by Friday, and could put his country on an almost inevitable path towards more conflict in the Middle East Read more |
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Ramzy Baroud Shadow Armies: The Unseen, But Real US War in Africa It will be many years before Africa and its 54 nations are truly free from the stubborn neocolonial mindset, which is grounded in racism, economic exploitation and military interventions. Read more |
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Dave Zweifel If This Is Making America Great, We're In Trouble The destruction of Donald Trump. Read more |
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Jim Hightower What's Killing America's Middle Class? What we have here is plutocracy in action. Read more |
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Natasha Roth Why Has Israel Banned Jewish Leftists But Not Members Of Nazi-linked Groups? There is a toxic mix of prejudices at work here: racism, illiberalism and religious chauvinism. Read more |
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Soumaya Ghannoushi US Hypocrisy, From Cairo to Tehran Washington would be better off challenging absolute theocracies and brutal dictatorships, rather than confronting a semi-democracy in a region in which tyranny and absolutism are the norm. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Working on Empathy and Other Concerns: An Open Letter to Donald Trump "Please release your full medical records with the necessary technical details and explanations to give the public confidence in your health." Read more |
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Ken Hannaford-Ricardi Death at the Gate “When is my time going to come?” Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt Welcome to 2018: Another "Non-War Year" in Oblivious America A "non-war year"? Tell that to the Afghans, the Iraqis, the Syrians, the Yemenis, the Somalis, or for that matter the parents of the four American Green Berets who died in Niger last October. Read more |
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Nick Turse The Coming Year in U.S. Special Operations Failures From Afghanistan to Somalia, Special Ops Achieves Less With More. Read more |
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Adam Eichen, Diana Tomezsko Voting Rights Still Need Your Protection Even with Trump’s bogus voter fraud panel gone, the fight against voter suppression isn’t over. Read more |
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Ben Norton MSNBC Ignores Catastrophic US-Backed War in Yemen Finds Russia 5000% more newsworthy. Read more |
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Andy Heintz In the Nuclear Standoff, Ordinary North Koreans Disappear An advocate for North Korean refugees outlines an alternative approach to political change and regional peace in Korea. Read more |
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Jonathan Cook Ahed Tamimi Offers Israelis a Lesson Worthy of Gandhi Ahed has exposed the gun-wielding bully lurking in the soul of too many Israelis. Read more |
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Bernie Sanders It’s on Republicans to Stop a Shutdown This is not just my viewpoint. It’s what the American people want. Read more |
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Will Bunch Actually, The Most Insane Thing About 'Stable Genius' Trump May Be His Policies The portrait of presidential inadequacy that should have been clear from the very first moment that orange hurricane of hair descended the Trump Tower escalators in June 2015 has now come into full, horrifying focus. Read more |
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Sarah van Gelder We Must March. But We Must Also Organize Locally The next women’s march is in the works. Although big mobilizations are important, they’re just one tactic. Read more |
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Richard Eskow The GOP’s 100-Year War Is Bigger Than Taxes or Trump While the nation obsesses about Trump, he and his fellow Republicans are radically rewiring our political and economic order. Read more |
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Paul Buchheit How Inequality Is Killing Off Humanity They're making it nearly impossible to reverse the deadly effects of an unnaturally unequal society, in part because they're no longer connected to the world beyond their estates. Read more |
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Frida Berrigan 'Do Kids Die, Mom?: Parenting in a World on Fire Facing the future with trepidation during the Age of Trump Read more |
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Ariel Gold By Barring Me And My Fellow Activists, Israel Is Further Isolating Itself As BDS grows, builds and succeeds, Israel becomes more and more desperate to contain it. Read more |
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Ellen Brown Student Debt Slavery: Time to Level the Playing Field We need to free our students from the system of debt slavery that has financialized education, turning it from an investment in human capital into a tool for exploiting the young for the benefit of private investors. Read more |
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Robert Reich Seriously, How Dumb is Trump? Or is he an extraordinarily talented conman? Read more |
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Christen A. Smith The Fallout of Police Violence Is Killing Black Women Like Erica Garner If the world is to truly begin to take steps to preserve black women’s lives, then we must take this into account in our discussions. Read more |
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Beverly Bell What We Want for 2018: The Biggest Movement Leaders Envision the Changes Ahead From Alicia Garza to Annie Leonard, nine organizers share their hopes for the new year. Read more |
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John Buell 2017: Corporate Sins of Commission and Omission Some of the most outrageous, even reckless performances of the year Read more |
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Andrew Cohen The Overton Window and Trump's Judges Trump’s judicial nominees have been so extreme that what was once considered beyond the pale is now acceptable. Read more |
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Stephen McCloskey Western Complicity Is Fueling Yemen’s Humanitarian Crisis A besieged and starved population has been pushed to the brink of famine. The UK, US and France need to re-evaluate their relationship with Saudi Arabia. Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati The Free Market Made Us Do It! A new global CEO pay comparison, the most dramatic yet, demolishes the standard-issue corporate rationale for America's over-the-top executive compensation. Read more |
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Sue Sturgis Trump's Offshore Drilling Plan Flouts Law by Ignoring Governors' Wishes Listening to governors when drawing up a five-year offshore drilling plan is not merely a matter of courtesy Read more |
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Adam Johnson Think Tank-Addicted Media Turn to Regime Change Enthusiasts for Iran Protest Commentary As usual, it’s simply taken for granted the United States has a divine right to intervene in the affairs of Iran. Read more |
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Kevin Martin, Gabe Murphy North Korea Diplomacy Needs Defending, Not Snarky Tweets While slowly warming to the prospect of dialogue with North Korea, the administration has been taking a ‘one step forward, two steps back’ approach. Read more |
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Brian Tashman Trump Wants Homeland Security to Continue Dirty Work of Voter Suppression Purging voters is Kobach’s aim. Read more |
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Eugene Robinson Trump Was Right To Hope He’d Lose Somebody tell me how we survive three more years of this oppressive, exhausting show. Read more |
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Sarah Anderson RIP Marc Raskin, Who Connected the Dots Between Inequality and War The late IPS co-founder consistently connected the dots between America’s military adventures overseas and economic and racial injustice at home. Read more |
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Halee Kirkwood 7 Acts of Native Resistance They Don’t Teach in School It is irresponsible to teach the tragedies without also teaching the resistance movements that oppose colonial violence. Read more |
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Ronnie Cummins Let's Make 2018 the Year We Rise Up and Regenerate! Planet Earth will survive in one form or another, no matter what damage we humans inflict on it. The question is, will we survive with it? Read more |
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Ramzy Baroud Israel Step Closer to Making Jerusalem Jewish-Only City The US and Israel are now actively invested in a system of political Apartheid in Palestine, and are twisting the arm of the PA to facilitate such a dreadful regime. Read more |
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Timothy Karr Trump's Appalling Record on Internet Freedom at Home Makes Him a Weak Champion of Rights Overseas Donald Trump wants to make the internet great again … in Iran. Read more |
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John Feffer Trump and the Neocons Are Exploiting an Iran Protest Movement They Know Nothing About Iranians are protesting conditions worsened by U.S. policies, but Washington’s hawks see only an opportunity for regime change. Read more |
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Jonathan Marshall While Pundits Condemn Iran, Honduran Police Kill Street Demonstrators Do you smell a double standard? You should—and hardly for the first time. Read more |
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Jill E. Adams If Trump Wants To End Roe v. Wade, We Must Fight For Legal Abortion When abortion opponents, candidates and lawmakers speak of abolishing abortion, they are really talking about sending people who have abortions to jail. Read more |
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Brenda Ekwurzel The Polar Vortex, Winter Storm Grayson, and Climate Change: What’s the Connection? Scientists are making progress in better understanding how much natural seasonal patterns, ocean cycles, and other factors play a role in altering the jet stream and how much global warming is responsible. Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt Mapping a World From Hell 76 countries are now involved in Washington’s war on terror. Read more |
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Yara Hawari What Would Happen If Trump Cuts UNRWA Funding? A total US funding cut would mean a serious reduction in services and the complete halt of many of the education and health programmes. Read more |
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Eli Clifton Iran Hawks Embrace Protest Movement But Show Little Concern For Iranian Lives Their agenda is to align the U.S. with anything likely to destabilize the Iranian government, regardless the human cost. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler The Button, The Wall And The Myth Of Nations The most toxic force on Planet Earth is nationalism. Read more |
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Philip Lederer MD Notes From the Burn Intensive Care Unit Will Americans stay silent while the United States becomes a country in which billionaires control our political system, families live in homeless shelters, and kids die from preventable diseases? Read more |
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Ralph Nader Corporate Coercion and the Drive to Eliminate Buying with Cash Once you’re in the credit card system, lack of privacy and access to your credit are just the tip of the iceberg. Read more |
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Elizabeth Bruenig Trump Is Nakedly Fragile Whatever virtues Trump and his administration are aiming for, mercy isn’t among them. Mercy, after all, is a quality of the strong; in his repeated attacks on those with the very least, Trump is most obviously weak. Read more |
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John Nichols Wisconsin-Born Marcus Raskin Shaped Progressive Politics Of Two Centuries Raskin never lost faith in that prospect of universal justice. Read more |
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Ali Abunimah What Happens If Trump Does Stop Aid To Palestinians? US aid to the Palestinian Authority has averaged around $400 million a year – and primarily benefits Israel by reinforcing the status quo of occupation. Read more |
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Hind Awwad Lorde Set An Example For Young Celebrities To Follow Exhibiting the political maturity of a truly "informed young citizen", she recognised why the overwhelming majority of Palestinians have called on international cultural figures not to entertain apartheid Israel. Read more |
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César Chelala Yemen Is Today's Guernica The U.S.-backed, Saudi-led massacre of innoncent Yemeni civilians. Read more |
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Jim Hightower Inequality is Feeding America Vast disparities in the economy happen not by chance, but by intentional design Read more |
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Norman Solomon Social Media Madness: The Russia Canard There are real parallels between the McCarthy Era and today's anti-Russia fervor in the United States Read more |
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Bandy X. Lee, Leonard L. Glass The Ethics of Warning the Public About a Dangerous President Mental health professionals should further engage in educating the public, not less. Read more |
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Andy Rowell As Trump’s Climate Denial Continues, Experts Take Flight to France In time, there will be a so-called “brain drain” of leading climate experts who will leave the US to escape the noxious fumes of the Trump Administration. Read more |
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Naomi Schaefer Riley Kids Don't Need a Cellphone; They Need a Digital Diet When you take away phones and tablets, you have to give your kids other things — more time outside, more low-tech toys or more time with you. Read more |
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Matt Taibbi Goodbye, Erica Garner In a life full of tragedy, she died too soon. Read more |
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Ahmad Sadri Why Did Protests Erupt In Iran? Deep within Iran's authoritarian system there is a tiny democratic heart, complete with elective, presidential and parliamentary chambers, desperately beating against an unyielding, theocratic exoskeleton. Read more |
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Rev. John Dear The Year of “Nonviolence or Non-Existence” It’s our most important choice ever. Read more |
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Will Bunch The One Half-True Thing Trump Said in Times Interview Was Scarier Than His Two Dozen Lies As 2018 dawns, The Donald clearly hasn’t lost track of his One Big Idea. Read more |
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Reza Marashi Iran Protests: Civil Rights Movement Or Revolution? As things currently stand, these protests more closely resemble a continuation of Iran’s long-standing civil rights movement rather than an attempt to overthrow the government. Read more |
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Sarah van Gelder Feeling Burned Out? When We Gather, We Get Energized Removing debris after a hurricane or giving blood after a shooting empowers us. Read more |
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Jared Bernstein A New Year’s Resolution for the Media: Do Not Let Republicans Get Away With Saying ‘Reforms’ When They Mean ‘Cuts’ There’s no reason to expect general readers to intuitively understand that when House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) says he plans to “reform” entitlements, he means to cut them. Read more |
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Trita Parsi There's Something Different About These Iran Protests Four days into the protests, there are still more questions than answers. Read more |
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Lawrence Wittner Why the 'Merchants of Death' Survive and Prosper As long as people retain their faith in the supreme value of military might, we can probably also expect "defense contractors" to continue profiting from war at the public's expense. Read more |
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Jill Richardson A New Year’s Resolution: Time to Speak Up When men make me feel uncomfortable, I'm going to tell them. It's their job to listen. Read more |
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Michael Hiltzik Netflix Raises Executive Salaries, Proving That 'Performance-Based' Pay Always Was a Sham "For nearly a quarter-century, or since the Clinton era, tax deductions for executive salaries have been limited to $1 million per executive. But there's a loophole." Read more |
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Adam Johnson Trumpwashing 70 Years of Crimes: Under Guise of Criticizing President, Times Pushes Pro-US Ideology What exactly is this "liberal, rules-based international order," and when did "the world" view the United States as its most reliable anchor? Read more |
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Juan Cole Top 5 Signs Trump Doesn’t Actually Care About Iranian Protesters "Sympathizing with working people facing increased prices is not Trump's brand, and it is rich for him to pretend to care about them." Read more |
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Jacob J. Hutt How a Supreme Court Ruling Could Embolden Police Retaliation Against Political Speech "If the probable cause rule becomes law nationwide, retaliatory arrest lawsuits—a primary tool for deterring police misconduct—will become much harder to win." Read more |
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David Korten What Bitcoin and Amazon Are Doing to the Middle Class Roughly 20 percent of U.S. workers are in a high-paying finance, technology, and electronics sectors. The other 80 percent face a daily struggle to survive. Read more |
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Kathy Kelly Remaining Peaceful Was Their Choice: Young Yemenis Sounded Alarms Before the Civil War "Now, the nightmare of famine and disease those peaceful youths anticipated has become a horrid reality, and their city of Ta'iz is transformed into a battlefield." Read more |
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Adam Johnson The Top 10 Under-Covered News Stories of 2017 What else happened while the media focused on the president's tweets; the attempt to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act; the hurricanes in Texas, Florida, and Puerto Rico; the tax bill; and #MeToo? Read more |
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Juan Cole Did the US Cause Iran’s Economic Protests & Will Trump Take Advantage? "To the extent that the protests come out of economic distress, the U.S. is certainly a big part of the problem here, acting in part at the behest of the Israel lobbies and in part at those of the arms manufacturers and oil interests." Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Who Knows What Other Surprises the Fool Has in Store for Us? "Always creative, the Trumpeters have now come up with a brand new idea on how to control illegal immigration." Read more |
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Phyllis Bennis Remembering Marc Raskin (1934-2017): A Progressive Leader Whose Legacy Outlives His Death "We'll keep working in your name—challenging the new threats, stopping the next wars, transforming the new world, finding the new leaders." Read more |
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John Atcheson No, Mr. Trump, the World Does Not Need 'a Little Bit of That Good Old Global Warming' "Having an ignorant reality TV star in the White House dismantling environmental protections and fostering fossil fuels is not just embarrassing, it's downright dangerous." Read more |
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Eugene Robinson Trump’s First Year Was Even Worse Than Feared—But Voters Can Change Things Up at the Ballot Box in 2018 "Our duty is to elect a Congress that will bring this runaway train under control." Read more |
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John Atcheson A Year That Will Live In Ignominy How We Got Here – Can We Get Back? Read more |
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Jeffrey D. Sachs A Trump Christmas Carol At the behest of the US, the UN regular budget for 2018-2019 has been reduced by $285 million per year. But the world receives an astounding return on its investments in the UN, and member countries should be investing far more, not less, in its organizations and programs. Read more |
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Jeff Abbott International Community Remains Split Over Contested Honduran Election As Protests Continue The rhetoric of the state and the growing intensity of the protests has led many to fear that Honduras is heading toward a civil war. Read more |
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Robert Reich New Year’s Update for Trump Voters A list of lies. Read more |
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Joan Wickersham The Name Of The Elephant The tale of an elected president turned self-declared emperor. Read more |
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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II We Need A Moral Movement In our travels to more than 32 states, we bore personal witness to the extreme poverty and systemic inequality that plague the world’s wealthiest democracy. Read more |
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Nusrat Choudhury Jeff Sessions Takes a Stand for Debtors’ Prisons There is no place in this country for a justice system that lets rich people buy their freedom while poor people are locked up or lose their driver’s licenses because they can’t afford to pay money to courts. Read more |
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Chuck Collins Help For Struggling Millionaires Is On the Way If you're struggling to get by on $20 million, the GOP is looking out for you and your heirs. Read more |
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Charles P. Pierce Trumpian Philosophy: Any Regulation Is Bad, Even If It Protects Sick Old People Nursing home residents beware. Read more |
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Belén Fernández Remembering Cast Lead: How Corporate Media Continue To Justify Israel's Criminal Excesses Media defences of Israel have become so institutionalised that the situation is almost boring to discuss. Read more |