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Elizabeth Bruenig The DCCC’s Undemocratic Decision The DCCC's decision, and establishment Democrats' placid acceptance of it, call into question just how serious the party of democracy is about the practice of democracy Read more |
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Glenn Greenwald The Crux of the Accusations Against David Sirota From the Atlantic's Edward-Isaac Dovere Is False The various edits and "updates" made by the Atlantic after publication do not begin to reflect what a journalistic debacle this article was Read more |
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Misha Hill Unfair State Tax Codes Also Exacerbate Racial Inequity Regressive state and local tax codes are worsening both income inequalities and widening racial income and wealth gaps by requiring communities of color to contribute a larger share of their income in taxes Read more |
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Leo Gerard How Billionaires Are Using Hate to Divide Us The only way to deal with them is with solidarity Read more |
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Kevin Gosztola Chelsea Manning Believes Subpoena From WikiLeaks Grand Jury May Be ‘Perjury Trap,’ According To Unsealed Documents “Manning has reason to believe that she will be subject to questions intended to elicit information not properly within the scope of the grand jury.” Read more |
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Jeff Cohen Let’s Not Restore or Mythologize Obama Obama’s tenure paved the way for the rise of Trump Read more |
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Mike Lofgren Seymour Hersh's Anonymous Sources Like Carl Sagan’s undetectable fire-breathing dragon, we must take them on faith Read more |
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Danny Sjursen America Is Exceptional—in All the Wrong Ways I’ve seen where all those ideologies inevitably lead: to aggressive war, military occupations and, ultimately, dead children Read more |
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Juan Cole 2020 Dem Presidential Hopefuls Flee Israel lobbies’ AIPAC After MoveOn.org Boycott Call It is a potential watershed moment Read more |
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Mary Bottari, Scott Zimmerman Boom! Wisconsin GOP’s Lame-Duck Power Grab Ruled Unconstitutional The people of Wisconsin were “entitled to a government that represents their interests transparently, welcomes citizens’ input, and respects the limits of its constitutional authority.” Read more |
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Ryan Cooper What America Can Learn From the World's Happiest Countries A society with all sorts of really nice universal goodies, tons of vacation, and low inequality is a nice place to live, and its residents are happier Read more |
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Ruth Conniff Elizabeth Warren Versus Joe Biden Is Biden’s not-very-progressive record a huge mismatch for the current political moment? Read more |
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Reed Richardson Fox News’ Self-Fulfilling Propaganda on Ocasio-Cortez How right-wing cable spent months demonizing the freshman lawmaker—then falsely inflated her unpopularity Read more |
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Trevor Timm Devin Nunes Has a Cow, and Free Speech Is Endangered The California congressman’s lawsuit against a cow parody account is ridiculous, but it’s also dangerous Read more |
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Ralph Nader Greedy Boeing's Avoidable Design and Software Time Bombs Boeing's sales-driven avoidance of producing effective manuals with upgraded pilot training was courting disaster as was outrageously leaving many of the pilots in the dark Read more |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan Jacinda Ardern Shows Trump What Leadership Looks Like “He asked what offer of support the United States could provide. My message was sympathy and love for all Muslim communities.” Read more |
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Alycee Lane Jim Crow in our Climate Crisis Our extreme weather is blowback from energy systems that were designed and operated in ways that entrenched inequalities Read more |
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Karen Greenberg Retiring the Statue of Liberty: Citizenship in the Age of Trump Death by a thousand cuts Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Putting Our Better Angels to Work in the Wake of Christchurch Every mass shooting signals deep, unaddressed flaws in the social structure. And here we are. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Reinventing Beto: How a GOP Accessory Became a Top Democratic Contender for 2020 It's understandable that many progressives came out of 2018 with a favorable view of O'Rourke. Yet, overall, there's a good reason why even the candidate declines to call himself "progressive." Read more |
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Roy Eidelson Stoking Fear: We Must Remember How the Iraq War Was Sold History shows that fearmongering has long been a standard tactic used to rally public support and acquiescence for military interventions that are both unwarranted and unwise Read more |
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John Feffer After Trump Centrist liberalism is dead, and Trump is a disaster. But progressives can use what he’s done to remake America and its place in the world Read more |
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Tracey L. Rogers White Supremacy Is a Genuinely Global Threat It's inspired terrorist attacks—and entire governing structures—on multiple continents. Can we name it? Read more |
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Jessicah Pierre The Real College Admissions Scandal Wealthy families have rigged college admissions for generations, but they want you to blame affirmative action Read more |
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Elizabeth Henderson Organic Farms Are Under Attack From Agribusiness, Weakened Standards For the health of our planet and agrarian justice—consumers need to become co-producers, learning about why it is such a struggle for smaller farms to thrive, and acting in solidarity by paying fair prices, buying direct or seeking out meaningful labels Read more |
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Art Jipson, Paul J. Becker White Nationalism, Born in the USA, Is Now a Global Terror Threat The recent massacre of 50 Muslim worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand is the latest confirmation that white supremacy is a danger to democratic societies across the globe . Despite... Read more |
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Adam Johnson Bloomberg’s Armsmaker-Funded Columnist Wants You to Know: Military Spending Is Woke They can call it whatever they wish—"think tank," "nonprofit," "Center"—but by any objective metric, this organization is just a lobbying entity for the weapons industry and Western militaries. Read more |
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Lindsay Koshgarian Trump's $174 Billion Budget Lie Trump tells us we can't afford PBS funding or preserve affordable housing, but his budget doesn't have any trouble finding billions of dollars for the endlessly expanding Pentagon budget Read more |
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Ahsan I Butt Why Did Bush Go to War in Iraq? The Answer Is More Sinister Than You Think No, it wasn't because of WMDs, democracy or Iraqi oil. Read more |
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Thom Hartmann What Republicans and Billionaires Really Mean When They Talk About ‘Freedom’ Freedom to be homeless, jobless, and unable to access health care when you need it Read more |
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Andy Rowell Climate Crisis: Now Will the Older Generation Step Up? To many who have worked on this for years, it is continually baffling that climate change is not seen as an emergency. To the young, it is a complete and utter disgrace Read more |
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Jesse Jackson Everyone Must Condemn Trump’s Sly Encouragement of Lawless Violence When our president acts irresponsibly to divide us, citizens must act responsibly to bring us together. Read more |
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Russell Mokhiber Meet the Press Chuck Todd and the Boeing Blackout If the political journalist and anchor does decide to cover the story, he might want to focus on his colleagues' reporting on the emerging criminal investigation into Boeing Read more |
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Patti Lynn Transformative Climate Action Is Possible—If Polluters Stay Away We need strong firewalls separating Big Oil and other polluters from climate policymaking Read more |
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Dean Baker Trillion Dollar Wall Street Bailouts, Bernie Sanders, and the Washington Post The newspaper's fact-checker might need to work on his own understanding of the facts, because Sanders seems on pretty solid ground here Read more |
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Jeremy Brecher The Green New Deal: A Strategy for a More Equal United States How protecting our planet could help us build an economy that works for all working people Read more |
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William Astore The Death of Peace: How the US Empire Starts Wars, But Refuses to End Them America's senior generals find no exits from endless war Read more |
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Jeffrey C. Isaac Neither Debs Nor Brandeis, Or Why It Is a Mistake Now to Exaggerate Differences on the Left There is no reason to figure Sanders as Debs, in a century-long contest with Warren as Brandeis. Debs and Brandeis are long gone, and the parties they supported are long gone too. Read more |
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Dean Baker On Paying for a Green New Deal with Modern Monetary Theory We should perhaps not blame politicians who advocate a GND without telling us how they plan to pay for it. After all, Republican politicians have been getting elected for 40 years by promising big tax cuts without saying how they would pay for them. Still, MMT is not the solution. Read more |
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Priti Gulati Cox 'Maria! Maria! It Was Maria That Destroyed Us!': The Human Story of the Hurricane “This is an island surrounded by water, big water, ocean water.” — Donald Trump , September 29, 2017 Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in September 2017. One-and-a-half years later, many of the... Read more |
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Robert Weissman Will McConnell Buck the Voters on Pro-Democracy Efforts? Voters are desperate for far-reaching campaign finance and ethics reforms — divided only on whether the system should be fundamentally changed or completely rebuilt. Voters are not likely to treat his obstructionism kindly. Read more |
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Rebecca Peters 'It Didn't Have To Be This Way': How the Gun Lobby Made New Zealand Less Safe Behind each massacre is the story of a violent gun culture and an industry that has stood against meaningful efforts to restrict weapons designed to maim and murder Read more |
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Michael Winship School Daze: Use That Bribe Scandal to Fight for Debt-Free College Since 2006, student loan debt has grown 170 percent Read more |
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Chris Hedges Chelsea Manning and the New Inquisition The celebrated U.S. Army whistleblower has always insisted her leak of the classified documents was prompted solely by her own conscience and she has refused to implicate WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange Read more |
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Ilhan Omar We Must Apply Our Universal Values to All Nations. Only Then Will We Achieve Peace. Valuing human rights also means applying the same standards to our friends and our enemies Read more |
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Eve Ottenberg Gentrification, School Closings, and Displacement in Chicago A former Chicago public school teacher sees school closings as part of a deliberate effort to push African Americans out of newly desirable areas so white families can move in Read more |
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Linda Wiggins-Chavis The Myth of White Meritocracy While most of society will publicly denounce what certain parents did to get their already privileged children into elite institutions, it is in important ways nothing new Read more |
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Will Bunch Stop Joe McCarthy-ing the 'Socialist' Bogeyman and Fix America's Broken Capitalism Instead of asking how each 2020 presidential hopeful plans to solve wealth inquality, the "defenders of the American way" are demanding a mindless loyalty oath to the system that enriched people like them at the expense of the masses Read more |
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Janine Jackson Colleagues Defend Tucker Carlson’s ‘Ideas'—That Iraqis Are ‘Monkeys,’ Child Rape Is ‘Commitment to Love’ For champions of so-called "civility," the problem for public discourse is not the sort of statements Carlson made, but any suggestion that the public could be better served Read more |
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Matt Fuller The New Zealand Shooter’s Rhetoric Sounds Like Something You Might Hear In Congress We should talk about why that is Read more |
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Leanna First-Arai Why Students of Color Are Stepping Up to Lead Climate Strikes The youth-led movement builds on the momentum of the increasingly Black and Brown leadership behind the Green New Deal. Read more |
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Bill Bigelow The Real Irish-American History Not Taught in Schools Sadly, today's corporate textbook-producers are no more interested in feeding student curiosity about the poverty and inequality that drove the famine than were British landlords interested in feeding Irish peasants Read more |
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Bill McKibben A Future Without Fossil Fuels? "The bottom line is clear: to the degree that the fossil fuel industry is weakened by some combination of technological change and furious activism, the chances for serious change increase." Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Wells Fargo Redux Some hoped that the light of day that had shined on the bank’s practices might cause the bank in the United States to mend its ways, but employees say fraudulent activity persists Read more |
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Steven Singer Who’s Afraid of Public Schools? "No one really denies that there are two Americas anymore. We just lie to ourselves about how you get placed in one or the other." Read more |
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Linda McQuaig Debunking Billionaire Claims of Heroic Capitalism "The notion that it is somehow legitimate for a tiny group of humans to cordon off the bulk of the world’s bounty for themselves is fairly astonishing, on the face of it." Read more |
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Greta Thunberg, Alexandria Villasenor Think We Should Be at School? Today’s Climate Strike Is the Biggest Lesson of All We are among the young people striking against climate change in every corner of the globe—adults should join us too Read more |
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Miles Mogulescu Expanding Supreme Court May Be Only Way to Protect Democracy The one vote conservative Court majority has undermined democracy and put its thumb on the scale to help Republicans get elected Read more |
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Christian Christensen Christchurch: When Simply Being a Muslim Is Your Biggest Crime The sediment of hatred and discrimination directed at Muslims slowly builds up over time and it is not only the most hateful and dark places online or in the world that lay the groundwork for explosions of hatred and violence such as this Read more |
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Dean Baker Worry About the Old, Not the Rich, HuffPost Tells Readers We have seen a massive upward redistribution over the last four decades yet there is a large market for pieces saying the big conflict in the US is generational rather than class Read more |
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Michael Galant Unions Can Take on International Fights—and Win Fresh off a strike in Erie, PA, the United Electrical Workers are a model of the working-class internationalism that can build a more just world Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Why Isn’t Tucker Carlson's Hate Speech a Deal-Breaker? In Trump’s America morality has been distorted and hate continues to have a place on television and in the White House—until the nation chooses another way Read more |
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David Goodner A President for Nationalizing Major Industries? Please Can We Have ‘76 Bernie for 2020 CNN dug up old quotes of Bernie Sanders calling for nationalization of the economy—and insinuated his past statements could be used to attack his candidacy. But why should he run away from sound and quite reasonable ideas? Read more |
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Rebecca Solnit Thank you, Climate Strikers. Your Action Matters and Your Power Will Be Felt Nothing is possible without action, and almost anything is when we rise up together, as you are today Read more |
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Leo Gerard Of Course College Admissions Rigged for the Rich. The Whole Economic System Is The college admissions scandal is just the tip of the inequality iceberg Read more |
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Ashley Bennett We Will Not Rest Until Housing Justice Is Done For too long, big banks and the one percent have built fortunes on the backs of low-income tenants Read more |
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Marie Antoinette Marie Antoinette Stages a Comeback on Capitol Hill In this exclusive interview, the 18 th century queen shares her views on the popular revival of her ‘let them eat cake’ attitude among top Trump administration officials. Read more |
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Julie Wilson Judge in Second Roundup Cancer Trial Worked for Firm that Defended Monsanto The judge worked for the firm when Monsanto was engulfed in an all-out legal battle over rBGH, a genetically engineered drug developed by Monsanto Read more |
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Frida Berrigan A Mother Swept Away by Climate Change Parenting the climate-change generation or will they parent us? Read more |
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Tracey L. Rogers Stop Making Women Apologize Women are socialized from a young age to say "sorry" for simply occupying space. This Women's History Month, I say no more Read more |
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Andrew Cohen When a Bill to Revive Democracy Is Called an Ode to Socialism The Republican response to the For the People Act is ultimately about white supremacy, argues Brennan Center Fellow Andrew Cohen Read more |
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Robert Reich The Huge GOP Lie About the Deficit It’s not social spending that’s causing the federal deficit to soar, it’s Republican tax cuts Read more |
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John Sarbanes, Michael Brune To Clean Up the Planet, Clean Up Washington We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to protect our democracy—and our planet Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Artificial Morality “We are a global coalition of Microsoft workers, and we refuse to create technology for warfare and oppression." Read more |
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Steven Rosenfeld Good-Bye Electoral College? Popular Vote Movement Gaining Steam It’s not just Democrats that see the virtue in reforming presidential elections Read more |
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Fran Quigley Beating the Big Pharma Shell Game Momentum is growing for a long-overdue fix to the broken medicines system and big pharma is fighting back Read more |
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Chuck Collins Bring Back Eisenhower Socialism Conservatives want you to believe that not having to choose between paying for rent or medicine is Soviet-style tyranny Read more |
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Joshua Cho ‘What Is Terrorism?’ NYT Asks—but Offers No Answers The credibility of the United States' War on Terror depends on the unchallenged assumption that the United States is not a terrorist state Read more |
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Vasudha Talla Documents Reveal ICE Using Driver Location Data From Local Police for Deportations It’s time to take back control of our information and make sure our communities aren’t collaborating with ICE Read more |
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Cynthia Kaufman Bring Back Pell Grants for Prisoners There are hundreds of thousands of people in this country’s prisons who could benefit from educational opportunities Read more |
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Haven Coleman, Bill McKibben Students are Striking for Action on Climate Change—a Truancy Everyone Should Applaud Maybe, at least for a day, there’s more education to be found out in the street. Instead of studying history, it’s time to make it. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin An Apology for a Different Plane Crash, 30 Years Later While most Americans have no memory of this incident, in Iran the date of the deaths of 290 innocent people at the hands of the U.S. military is marked every year just as the 9/11 attack is remembered every year in the United States Read more |
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Rev. Susan Hendershot Wheeler's Poison Plan Is a Threat to Families' Health and Safety Wheeler’s willingness to poison our children goes against the very mission of the agency and is anathema to the moral principles embraced by diverse religious traditions Read more |
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Wendell Potter Trump’s Greedy 2019 Budget Goes Nuclear on Medicare and Medicaid This budget would be the U.S government’s largest ever, which wouldn’t be a problem if it weren’t also such a morally bankrupt document Read more |
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Ralph Nader An Open Letter to Boeing Executives: Passengers First, Ground the 737 MAX 8 Now! Stop digging in your heels. Tell the airlines to stop digging in their heels. Public trust in your Boeing 737 MAX 8 is eroding fast. Read more |
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Michaela Haas The Climate Solution Right Under Our Feet The ideas behind regenerative farming are simple and ancient Read more |
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Hina Shamsi Trump Pledged to End ‘Endless Wars.’ His Executive Order Suggests Just the Opposite Only with greater pressure can we end our nation’s deadly addiction to a war-based foreign policy Read more |
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Jim Hightower It's Not Socialism; It's What the People Want Far from socialism, this is democratic populism, reversing decades of government policies that take from the many to give to the wealthy few Read more |
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Vijay Prashad The Rightful Owners of a Key Island Military Base for the U.S. Would Like It Back, and the UN Agrees The Chagos Archipelago belongs to the country of Mauritius; it’s not a bargaining chip for the American empire Read more |
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Jesse Jackson To Help Venezuela, the U.S. Must Use Diplomacy, not a Military Coup Fomenting regime change—by a soft coup, by economic sabotage, by fostering a military revolt—is likely to lead to more violence and more suffering Read more |
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Morris Pearl Trump's Budget for a Nightmare America When someone promises to be selfish and cruel, believe them. Read more |
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Robert Reich Warren Is Correct About Busting Up Big Tech Let’s be clear: Monopolies aren’t good for anyone except for the monopolists Read more |
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Dar’shun Kendrick You Want Our Wombs? We're Coming For Your Testicles "You want some regulation of bodies and choice? Done!" Read more |
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Stan Cox, Paul Cox Vulnerable U.S. Citizens Are Still Trapped in the Ruins Left by Hurricane Maria—Would We Care More If They Lived Near Us? Abandoned by their country, residents refuse to accept the idea that they will never recover Read more |
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Frances Moore Lappé The Green New Deal Is Not a Choice Please don’t let the naysayers dim our confidence in our power to step up in this do-or-die moment Read more |
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John Atcheson Nobody Likes Trump, But He Could Still Beat a Centrist Democrat in 2020 Will just "veering" left be enough to inspire voters who have learned to ignore promises and platitudes? Read more |
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Allegra Harpootlian The School Shooters of the Planet Linking gun violence at home to America’s wars abroad Read more |
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Walden Bello Why Free Trade Is Bad for You (or Most of You at Any Rate) Free trade is simply a euphemism for the corporate capture of international trade Read more |
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James Zogby The Shameful Attack that Backfired It is clear that Omar's courage has helped to open a door enabling a discussion of Israeli policy and the US-Israel relationship Read more |
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Jonathan Cook The UN Fails to Name and Shame Firms Aiding Israel’s Illegal Settlements The hypocrisy of these states—urging peace in the region while doing their best to subvert it—is clear Read more |