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Aviva Chomsky Talking Sense About Immigration On the necessity of rejecting the president's Manichaean worldview Read more |
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Richard Eskow The $24 Million Reasons Dems Back America’s Worst Banks In a world where Republicans have already been bought and paid for, there is no room for Democrats who act in bad faith. Read more |
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Steven Singer 21 Reasons People Hate, Hate, HATE Betsy DeVos She is deeply unpopular, but not because she's misunderstood. It's actually the opposite of that. People know exactly who she is. Read more |
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Danielle Conrad Nebraska Is Illegally Obtaining and Storing Execution Drugs in Defiance of Federal Law "W e all have one more reason to conclude that the state has no business executing human beings." Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati A Media Mogul’s Noble Challenge to Moguldom The newspaper publishing giant E.W. Scripps would be deeply distressed to se what has become of his namesake company—and beloved country. Read more |
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César Chelala Afghanistan's Dire Health Situation To continue sending troops to try to win an unwinnable war will only increase the suffering of the Afghan people. Read more |
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Elizabeth Hadly Making America Great Again Requires Acting on Scientific Knowledge The mantra these days is “to make America great again.” But a key feature of bygone days was listening to the lessons that science taught and acting upon them to make a better planet. Read more |
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Kenneth Glasgow Marching Backwards for Freedom The truth is, we need a powerful movement for voting rights, economic and racial justice, just as much today as we did fifty-three years ago. Read more |
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Nomi Prins Trade Wars and Diminished Credibility The U.S. remains in a precarious economic situation, as does the world, and that means Trump's trade war and nationalism, coupled with bank deregulation, could inflict more risk on depleted economies. Read more |
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Lawrence Wittner Although 2 Out of 3 Americans Oppose Increasing US Military Spending, the US Government Is Boosting It to Record Levels Americans might want to ponder the fact that, with $700 billion per year now being pumped into the Pentagon by U.S. taxpayers, military spending consumes 54 percent of the federal discretionary budget. Read more |
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Nick Dearden Could Britain's Labour Party Under Corbyn Hold the Answer to Europe's Woes? If it commits to reversing Brexit, British Labour Party could play an important role in making Europe fairer Read more |
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Jeff Bryant West Virginia Teachers Tell Us Why Public Schools And Unions Matter The West Virginia teachers’ strike is not only a startling victory for labor rights; it’s also a reminder of the important role public schools and public school educators can and should play in progressive populism. Read more |
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Diane Ravitch On Charter Schools, Is Mayor De Blasio Turning into Mayor Bloomberg Sadly, like Bloomberg, he has closed many public schools in New York City. Unlike Bloomberg, he does not boast about it. There’s that. Read more |
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Donna Smith From One Mass Shooting Survivor's Mother to the Parents of Student Survivors in Florida: An Open Letter My son witnessed your children rising up and being heard, he uttered words and feelings I never dreamed I would hear from him. "Finally," he said. "Finally, I have hope." Read more |
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Stacy Bannerman The 15th Anniversary of "Original Sin" When it comes to mourning the invasion of Iraq, please do not cry for those who supported it. Cry for those whose lives it took and whose lives it ruined. Read more |
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Matt Taibbi Trump Is a Dangerous Idiot. So Why Are We Pushing Him Toward War? We have the dumbest, least competent White House in history. Whatever else anyone in America has as a goal for Trump's remaining time in office, the single most important priority must to be keeping this guy away from the nuclear button. Read more |
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David Dayen One Thing Democrats and Republicans Apparently Agree On: Deregulating Wall Street There is no constituency for bank deregulation outside of executive boardrooms and K Street lobby shops. And yet here we are... Read more |
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Reed Richardson West Virginia Strike Highlights Corporate Media’s Atrophied Labor Coverage In a media system structurally designed to be "enthusiastically supportive" of business, the failure of outlets to provide insightful coverage of workers' struggles is glaring Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Poverty, Poor Ben Carson, and a $31,000 Table What a little bit of office furniture exposes about the profligates now running things Read more |
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Robert Reich America’s Martin Shkreli Problem Is Not Just Martin Shkreli Though his story ultimately tragic and pathetic, How different is this one person from other figures who dominate American life today, even at the highest rungs? Read more |
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H. Patricia Hynes Youth, Gun Control and the Pentagon A nation which spends endlessly on guns and militarism, is starving programs designed to help our kids have healthier and more vibrant childhoods Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar For the Love of Their Country or Money? Kushner and the entire Trump dynasty should be required to answer this crucial question Read more |
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Adam Sanchez What the Koch Brothers Want Students to Learn About Slavery The history-teaching wing of the Koch brothers empire is seeking to promote an alternate narrative to slavery Read more |
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Elizabeth Warren I Call It Like I See It on the #BankLobbyistAct Saying Democrats are helping to roll back rules on big banks doesn’t make me the most popular kid on the team. But Massachusetts didn’t send me here to fight for big banks. The people of Massachusetts sent me here to fight for them. Read more |
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John Atcheson Did You Hear the One About the Party That Self-Destructed? On the importance of what we do and don't know about the Democrat's Unity Reform Commission Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Something’s Gotta Give: Time To Disarm the Gun Debate With an issue so clearly reliant on the issue of empowerment and safety, ignoring the fears of those on both sides of the debate means little is ever likely to change Read more |
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Russell Mokhiber Watching Labor History in Real Time Lessons from the West Virginia teachers’ strike Read more |
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Pat LaMarche Can You Keep a Secret on International Women's Day? Some pretty mighty men fell this last year... Except one Read more |
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James Carroll When 'God Wills It!': An American Reckoning The 'War on Terror' as the launching of an 'American Crusade' Read more |
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Jared Bernstein New Evidence of the Minimum Wage Doing What It’s Supposed to Do: Help Low-Wage Workers Recent wage growth has been best in states where minimums were raised Read more |
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Elliot Harmon Stop SESTA/FOSTA: Don’t Let Congress Censor the Internet This bill might sound appealing, but it would do nothing to fight sex traffickers. What it would do is silence a lot of legitimate speech online, shutting some voices out of online spaces. Read more |
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Mark Weisbrot Congress Must Act Now to End America's Atrocities in Yemen What does the US government have to do with this suffering, which has created the worst humanitarian crisis in the world today? Unfortunately, a lot. Read more |
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J.M. Kirby Afro-Colombian Women Mobilize for Justice and Healing on International Women’s Day In Colombia, women are demanding an end to the impunity, silence and invisibility that fuel attacks on female human rights defenders Read more |
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Robert Weissman Wall Street Deregulation Is All About the Money The financial sector is the most lucrative source of campaign contributions for nine of the 13 Democrats co-sponsoring the deregulatory bill making its way through the Senate. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Those Who Controlled the Past Should Not Control the Future If you don’t know who Katharine Gun is or what she did, chalk that up to the media power of the war system Read more |
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Rebecca Solnit Feminists Have Slowly Shifted Power. There’s No Going Back The #TimesUp and #MeToo movements are a revolution that could not have taken place without decades of quiet, painstaking groundwork Read more |
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Christian Christensen Time For Action: Seven Proposals From Sweden For Reducing Sexism and Sexual Violence in the Midst of #MeToo "OK…now what?" Read more |
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Andy Rowell Coast Guard Responders 'Harmed by Chemicals Used to Clean Up BP’s Spill' Nearly one million gallons of the dispersant was dropped by air and a further 770,000 gallons injected into the well head to try and disperse in excess of 200 million gallons of oil that was spilt by BP in the Gulf of Mexico. Read more |
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Ramzy Baroud Ahed’s Generation: Why the Youth in Palestine Must Break Free from Dual Oppression Their collective imprisonment is not only as a result of the perpetual military occupation of their land by Israel, but also by the fact that their leadership has operated for many years in a self-centered fashion. Read more |
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Rachel Levinson-Waldman, Faiza Patel Monitoring Kids' Social Media Accounts Won't Prevent the Next School Shooting Invading students' privacy isn't the solution. Read more |
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Robert Reich Trump's Brand Is Ayn Rand This far-right philosophy is an affront to the idea that we're all in this thing together Read more |
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Karen Dolan Getting Real About School Safety Armed adults don’t make kids safer. They put them at greater risk. Read more |
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Steven Singer When Students Stay Up All Night Playing Fortnite and You’ve got to Teach Them in the Morning Teaching them is like teaching someone in a deep sea diver suit. Read more |
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Leonard Pitts Jr. When it Comes To Honoring Martin Luther King, Maybe Trump Should Skip It Go golfing at Mar-a-Lago. Give Stormy Daniels a ring. Have some cake. Meantime, the rest of us will honor the radical prophet who died calling on America to vindicate its noble promises - something America still struggles to do, 50 years later. Read more |
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Ralph Nader Heritage’s Corporate Lobby Inside Trump’s Government is Not the People’s Heritage Hand it to Heritage, it deals with both abstract conservative principles and corporatist concrete policies. Read more |
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Jim Hightower We're Told the Dow Jones Average... Nearly all stock is owned by the richest 10 percent of Americans, so the Dow Jones Average says nothing about the economic condition of the 90 percent majority of Americans. Read more |
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Camillo Mac Bica "Why I Won't Give Up My AR15" . . . And Why You Should Want to wear camouflage and be a warrior, then join the military. Read more |
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Hamzah Raza Nine Reasons Israel Is Not a ‘Progressive Paradise’ Progressives realizing the realities of the state of Israel are precisely why Democrats are continuing to sympathize more and more with Palestinians. Read more |
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Jim Naureckas Social Media and the Rise of the ‘Consistent Liberal’ A funny thing happened in the 21st century: People began to find ways around corporate media gatekeepers. Read more |
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Tom Gallagher California Democrats Call for End to Seemingly Endless Afghanistan War A war that cannot be won; a war that creates more enemies than it eliminates; a war that according to the U.N., killed more civilians last year than at any time since they started tallying the dead in 2009. Read more |
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Derrick Johnson Gun Safety Is About Freedom In the wake of the Parkland massacre, NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson says that comprehensive, sustainable gun control is achievable. Johnson uses Australia’s gun control policies as an example. Read more |
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Belle Chesler Will an AR-15 Succeed Where the American Dream Failed? High school students: The canaries in the coal mine of American disaster. Read more |
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Ryan Cooper Will Striking Teachers Spark a Labor Revolution? It's time we all paid attention. Read more |
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Matt Taibbi Russiagate and the New Blacklist It may have been aimed at Trump to start, but it's become a way of targeting all dissent. Read more |
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Judith Solomon Arkansas’ Harsh Medicaid Work Requirement Jeopardizes Recent Progress This approach introduces new, burdensome red tape for all enrollees, but electronic reporting will pose a particular challenge for people without Internet access. Read more |
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Michael Winship The "Pure Madness" of Our Vigilante President Trump and the NRA leadership’s disdain for schools as “gun free zones”—as if the idea of an educational safe haven is somehow ludicrous—is equally abhorrent, like an arsonist cynically making fun of a flameproof building and simultaneously passing out lighter fluid to show how to make it burn. Read more |
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Pat Elder Junior Cadet Private First-Class Nik Cruz Where does a 14-year-old boy, who never fired a gun before, get the skill and the desire to kill? Read more |
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Claudia Lefko Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here: Marking the Anniversary of a Disaster in Iraq For my part, I think it’s important to try to remember all of it, to remember as much as we can reasonably hold in our hearts and minds. Read more |
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Dana Drugmand Time to Hold Petroleum Perpetrators Accountable for Climate Damage The attempt to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable through litigation is gaining momentum. Read more |
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Arnold R. Isaacs Using Fake Facts to Make Us Afraid On immigration and terrorism, the Trump Administration misleads about its own misleading data. Read more |
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Robert Borosage Pushing for Real Change in the Democratic Party If the DNC votes against reform – or the state parties torpedo it – it will feed cynicism about the rigged system and turn activists toward third parties, or away from electoral politics altogether. Read more |
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Russell Mokhiber West Virginia Frontier Communications Workers on Strike “What business wants is to hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.” Read more |
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John Nichols Scott Walker Does Not Respect Democracy And Walker's not alone in denying democracy. Republican governors of the swing states of Michigan and Florida are also refusing to call special elections for legislative seats, and for a U.S. House seat in Michigan Read more |
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Brandy Bochna Tuck I'm a Coal Miner's Daughter and a West Virginia Teacher. Here's Why I'm on Strike We are in this position because education is not a priority to our government Read more |
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Robert Reich Jared Kushner's Unconscionable Conflicts It's as bad for a government official to look as if he's lining his pockets as for him to actually do so, because the appearance of corruption undermines public trust just as readily as the real thing Read more |
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Eric Margolis Putin Trumps Trump With New Nuclear Weapons Arsenal The Russian leader has neatly trumped the U.S. president's nuclear arms buildup and shown up his empty bullying Read more |
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Robert Freeman A Teacher's Take on Arming Teachers Let's fix the systems that are there for a reason, but failed, before we go out and deputize a whole new cadre of reluctant amateurs Read more |
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Nancy Romer How New York City Won Divestment From Fossil Fuels The divestment campaign provides an excellent example of how dedicated organizing, clear demands and strategies, creative tactics, strong coalitions, and good luck can come together for a win Read more |
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David Krieger US Nuclear Posturing Has Adversaries Gearing Up, Not Standing Down The nation's nuclear posture will spur other nuclear-armed countries to do the same, assuring new arms races and increased nuclear dangers ahead Read more |
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Raymond Hogler Collective Action Is Unions' Last Line of Defense. The Supreme Court Is on the Verge of Destroying It A ruling in the Janus case could devastate unions Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli The In-Laws and the President First Lady Melania Trump's parents got into this country under the current immigration rules that the president hopes to change Read more |
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Eric Ruben Are Recently Proposed Gun Regulations Constitutional? Examining firearm reforms and the Second Amendment Read more |
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Rebecca Vallas The Leaked Rule That Could Ban Immigrants Based on Income, Explained by Experts If this policy goes into effect, "no longer would we be the country that serves as a beacon for the world's dreamers and strivers. Instead America's doors would be open only the highest bidder." Read more |
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Mark Trahant The Disruption of White Supremacy The white male-centric colonial system is incapable of the leadership we need, and Indigenous knowledge is essential for the innovation that will follow this disruption Read more |
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Brigitte Amiri Scott Lloyd's Anti-Abortion Ideology Is Harming the People His Agency Is Supposed to Protect The head of the Office of Refugee Resettlement believes that he has the power to override a young woman's decision to have an abortion Read more |
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Maggie Ellinger-Locke We Will Continue to Resist the Assault on Environmental Protest Lawmakers are trying to give corporate interests even more tools to punish people for speaking up for their families and communities Read more |
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Ben Lilliston The High Cost of Trump's Infrastructure Plan The plan is a mess—cutting some critical rural infrastructure programs, while expecting states and investors to pick up most of the tab. Read more |
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Deborah Burger Shocking Aetna Report Shows Why California Needs Single-Payer Californians cannot rely on the giant insurance companies whose profit margins always come first, not our care. Read more |
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Robert Reich Why We Need Rise-Up Economics, Not Trickle-Down Invest in our people—their education and skills, their health, and the roads and bridges and public transportation that connect them. Read more |
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Jeff Bryant Will Lawmakers Again Make Schools The Sacrificial Lamb For Gun Control? The media’s big lie is that “we’ve done nothing” to address school shootings that continue to plague the nation, when really we’ve just done the wrong things. Read more |
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Eugene Robinson Never Have We Seen Such Chaos and Corruption None of what’s happening is normal, and none of it should be acceptable. Read more |
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Kathy Kelly Teen Solidarity Against the Merchants of Death The outrage now directed toward the National Rifle Association should also challenge all assaults made by the U.S. military. Read more |
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Jesse Hagopian, Jessie Muldoon #ArmMeWith Solidarity Against the NRA and Militarizing Our Schools When we say we oppose access to weapons like the AR-15, we truly mean everyone, including the police. Read more |
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John Feffer Oh Magog! Apocalyptic Christianity Returns to U.S. Foreign Policy Trump is no churchgoer. But for evangelicals, his hard right line on Israel and machinations against Iran make him an instrument of the endtimes. Read more |
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Richard Eskow Ben Carson’s Redecoration of HUD is Worse Than You Think As Carson was being pampered with office furnishings reminiscent of Louis XIV, his department was seeking $8.8 billion in cuts to programs that help low-income Americans. Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Divided Democrats Risk Midterm Defeat The Democratic Party has a history of letting the right set its agenda and has time and again kowtowed to Republican posturing instead of articulating a clear oppositional vision. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Is MSNBC Now the Most Dangerous Warmonger Network? The most profound dangers from what Rachel Maddow and company are doing is what they least want to talk about—how the cumulative effects and momentum of their work are increasing the likelihood that tensions between Washington and Moscow will escalate into a horrendous military conflict. Read more |
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Juan Cole Pence’s White Nationalist Exclusion of Syrian Refugees Struck Down by Court The ploy of Pence and others, of making certain Americans afraid of those coded as immigrants, succeeded beyond their wildest dreams and catapulted them into power Read more |
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Sharon Velasquez CRA “Reform” Is an Attack on Communities of Color At a time of record profits for banks and record wealth and income inequality in the U.S., a strong CRA is critical to reaching economic equity for the working class and people of color. Read more |
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Phyllis Bennis This Opportunity to End the US-Backed Carnage in Yemen Must Be Seized This is the first real chance to stop the U.S. killing in at least one of the too many countries where U.S. bombers, pilots, special forces and other parts of the Pentagon's killing machine are deployed. Read more |
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Amy Kroin Net Neutrality Supporters Launch Operation #OneMoreVote Activists took to the streets to pressure key members of Congress. Read more |
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Peter Dreier Disneyland's Workers Are Undervalued, Disrespected and Underpaid 85% of Disneyland employees are paid less than $15 an hour, while their CEO Robert A. Iger earns millions. Read more |
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Bernie Sanders, Chris Murphy, and Mike Lee Why Congress Must Vote on the US Role in Yemen 'We believe that since Congress has not authorized military force for this conflict, the United States should play no role in it beyond providing desperately needed humanitarian aid.' Read more |
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Adam Johnson Media Parroting ‘$1000 Bonus!’ Stories Helped Give Trump’s Tax Cuts Majority Support Fox News, CNBC, Fox Business, CNN and dozens of local media outlets joined the messaging charge, singing the bill’s money-saving praises. Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt The Ultimate Blowback Universe A planet boiling with unintended consequences. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Melting the Ice in the Human Heart We can’t undo what we’ve done to the planet, but perhaps we can ask its forgiveness. Read more |
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Katherine Paul Trump's 'Harvest Boxes:' A Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Idea One more scheme to subsidize Big Ag and Big Food while undermining the health and well-being of some of America’s most vulnerable families. Read more |
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Reese Erlich The Russians Aren’t The Only Election Hackers The US has interfered in elections all over the world — and this Russian 'crisis' is a big deal about very little. Read more |
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Ramzy Baroud Netanyahu’s Corruption: How Israeli Journalists Project Israel’s Crimes on to Palestinians Israel is the only country in the world that continues to practice Apartheid. Read more |
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Charles P. Pierce How Do You Deal with This Much Nonsense? Jared Kushner, everybody. Read more |