By Robert Reich — Marco Rubio is being positioned as a moderate alternative to Ted Cruz or Donald Trump. Baloney.
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By Chris Hedges — The establishment structure is sliding toward its death, and the foremost sign of this is the silly and sickening display of “junk politics” that we call an election campaign.
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By Carrie Rickey — The actor and comedian was tapped to criticize the academy that had hired him, but he walked the tightrope with grace and blistering humor.
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Update: In the show’s home stretch, the political moments seemed to happen with about the same frequency that African-Americans were called onto the Oscar stage ... as presenters. Also: Joe’s standing O, DiCaprio’s climate-change plea and the 88th Oscars’ final wins.
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By Allen Barra and Margaret Barra —
Is the “best picture” always the best picture? Not if history is any guide. And some observers will argue that a similar lack of logic is apparent in the shortage of minority representation in the major Oscar nominations.
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By Deirdre Fulton / Common Dreams —
U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii announced her decision Sunday morning on “Meet the Press.”
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The New York Times formally endorsed Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Party’s nomination, but that stance might seem surprising after a close read of the paper’s in-depth investigation of her assured, yet ultimately failed, strategy for compulsory regime change in Libya five years ago.
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The Associated Press reports that “Black voters powered Clinton to victory” in South Carolina’s Democratic primary, “with eight in 10 voting for her.”
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By Timothy Karr / OtherWords —
The media require free-flowing information—and so does our democracy.
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Historian and activist Gar Alperovitz argues that many socialist institutions exist in the U.S. with the support of both liberal and conservative citizens and politicians—and many more are in the making.
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By Robert Reich — The Florida senator is being positioned as a moderate alternative to Ted Cruz or Donald Trump. Baloney.
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“We are not alone,” the leader of Britain’s Labour Party told the crowd in a mass demonstration in central London Saturday. “There are many people around the world ... who have wanted a non-nuclear future for their country and their planet.”
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By Stacy Mitchell / Common Dreams —
More than anything, Wal-Mart’s closures are best explained as a side effect of its main strategy for dominating the economy: overbuilding regions to the point of not just destroying competition but cannibalizing its own sales.
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By Allen Barra — The casting director, who died in 2011, discovered or jump-started the careers of many of today’s biggest Hollywood names, and she was known for placing African-Americans in parts intended for white actors. Yet her own name is missing from many of her most famous projects.
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The health professions make a grave mistake when they treat mental illnesses as “discrete brain conditions that are largely genetically determined and barely influenced by the slings and arrows of misfortune,” writes clinical psychologist and researcher Richard Bentall.
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A Dow Chemical settlement made public Friday indicates that the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was worth billions of dollars to business.
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It’s hard to imagine Christie being anyone’s vice president. So is he angling to be attorney general in a Trump administration?
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By Tim Radford / Climate News Network —
Researchers predict that the hothouse effect of runaway greenhouse gases would ultimately boil our planet dry and make it incapable of sustaining life.
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By Carey Shenkman — Calls by candidates and law enforcement to undermine encryption could seriously harm many people, including sexual and gender-based rights activists, domestic violence victims, human rights defenders, psychiatrists and counselors and their clients, and journalists and their sources.
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By Sonali Kolhatkar — A fundamentalist, upper-caste crackdown on dissent is roiling Indian society. Why should we care? Because it’s spreading to the U.S. by way of Indian-American support of presidential candidate Trump.
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By Juan Cole — To please corrupt casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and other GOP donors of his ilk, Rubio immediately jumped into Thursday night’s Republican debate to make a series of completely false and contradictory pronouncements on the Palestinians, about whom he knows nothing at all.
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By Matthew E. Stanley / Common Dreams —
America’s 21st-century “exceptions” appear as dubious distinctions: gun violence, carbon emissions, mass incarceration, wealth inequality, racial disparities, capital punishment, child poverty and military spending.
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