Latest Politics/Gov.

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  Swanson: The Unbearable Awesomeness of the U.S. Military

  Unrepentant, always wrong
• Coffey: The Limits of Excellence

  A feminism based on lionizing hyper-successful women obscures the unjust structures that need to be dismantled
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  Law: Private Prisons Are Far From Ended: 62 Percent of Immigrant Detainees Are in Privatized Jails

  Private prison corporations will continue to control 46 immigration detention centers that detain nearly 25,000 people (or 62 percent of the country's 33,676 immigrant detainees) on any given day
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  Feffer: The Globalization of Trump

  Looking for a place to escape from President Trump? You're running out of options
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  Boggs: Hillary and the War Party

  A Clinton presidency, which seems more likely by the day, can be expected to stoke a resurgent U.S. imperialism, bringing new cycles of militarism and war
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  Stein: Stein & Baraka to Bernie Sanders Supporters: Vote Green & Abandon the Party of War and Wall Street

  Interview on the election
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  Cohn: US Targeted Killing Rules Conflate Legality and Politics

  Under the guise of increased transparency, the administration has revealed partial information about its targeted killing program. But much remains classified. And what we do know does not comply with the law
• Braatz: Presidential Elections Need Not Matter So Much

  So vote happily for a presidential candidate, or hold your nose and vote, or don’t vote at all, but help build a nonviolent movement to compel the president to act for human good
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  Wallerstein: South Africa’s ANC Is Slipping Away

  South Africa has now shifted from a democratic model that it has claimed to be, to being a center of internal turmoil of a sort that might be difficult to label as democratic.
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  Cole: Trump and Extreme Vetting of Muslims

  In an attempt at a foreign policy speech in Youngstown,...
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  Swanson: The Pro-Nuclear War Party

  According to a Wall Street Journal report, the following people...
• Kamal: One Humanity? Millions of Children Tortured, Smuggled, Abused, Enslaved

  69 million children under five will die from mostly preventable causes, 167 million will live in poverty, and 263 million are out of school
• Kann: How A Right-Wing Media Myth About Planned Parenthood Could Hurt Florida’s Fight Against Zika

  Anti-choice lawmakers instead invoked a right-wing media myth to attack Planned Parenthood and block its efforts to help combat a potential outbreak
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  Shiva: Free people from ‘dictatorship’ of 0.01%

  The time is ripe for a planetary freedom movement that defends and protects the freedoms of all beings from this 0.01 percent
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  Ellner: Venezuelan Opposition Unlikely To Secure Recall Referendum Before Year’s End

  The image of Venezuela as an oppressive failed state is really very far from what's happening on the ground
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  Yee: Refugees become a flash point in elections across the South

  Refugees have drawn big cheers at the 2016 Rio Olympics this...
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  Falk: Human rights and the failed coup in Turkey

  It is quite possible that present tendencies toward a more inclusive democracy will continue, and at the same time, denials of human rights are almost certain to persist, and justify scrutiny and vigilance
• Robin: The Conservative Movement Has No Decency

  Framing Donald Trump as an indecent anomaly exonerates the movement and party that produced him
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  Bennis: Clinton Vs. Trump: Treacherous Foreign Policy

  Both Trump and Clinton would pursue militaristic foreign policy with nuanced differences
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  Swanson: One City Is Following Through on Protests of Confederate Monuments

  Missing from Charlottesville's public spaces now is pretty much the entire rest of its history