By Eugene Robinson — Not enough has been made of two obvious facts: Hillary Clinton, if she wins the presidency, would be the first woman elected to the White House. And it will have been the votes of women who put her there.
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By KiMi Robinson — After serving 41 years in Louisiana State Penitentiary for a crime he didn’t commit, Tyler is supporting Proposition 62 on the November ballot.
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The vice presidential nominee recently met with the Truthdig team for a conversation on the current election, in which he discussed the struggles and successes of his party—as well as how it will move forward after Nov. 8.
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The politician, peace activist, author and Truthdig contributor died Sunday at the age of 76. Share your thoughts on his legacy in our comments section.
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Tensions continued to escalate over the weekend as police shot down a drone used by protesters to film police activity at the North Dakota site. Since demonstrations began over the summer, at least 260 people have been arrested.
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By Tom Hayden — From the archives: The veteran social activist wrote a new preface to the manifesto that helped shape a generation’s views on racial equality, participatory democracy and the military-industrial complex.
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The Truthdig columnist and the Islamic scholar review how Western interests have shaped Muslim societies and how terror groups have perverted Islam.
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By Nick Turse / TomDispatch —
This is no longer a town, but a killing field—a place where human remains lie unburied, whose residents have long since fled. Its few remaining inhabitants mostly are refugees from similarly ravaged villages.
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Wenonah Hauter / YES! Magazine —
In addition to advising on all three mega-mergers, Credit Suisse is playing a big role behind the scenes of the Dakota Access pipeline.
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By Alex Kirby / Climate News Network —
Global CO 2 concentrations have produced a new climate reality, with emissions levels unlikely to fall for centuries ahead.
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The “Last Week Tonight” host delves into the painful truths behind the painkiller dependence that is ruining—and taking—many American lives.
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By Juan Cole / Informed Comment —
The fundamentalist group launches fighting in two cities, amid the slow, steady advances being made by the Iraqi army and its allies.
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By Robert Reich / RobertReich.org —
By stretching the boundaries of what’s acceptable, Donald Trump, John McCain and others like them have undermined prevailing norms and weakened the tacit rules of the game—trapping us in a vicious cycle of public distrust.
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By Nadia Prupis / Common Dreams —
Saturday’s events follow reports of escalating police abuse at protest sites, including beatings and unnecessary strip searches of those detained.
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By Lauren McCauley / Common Dreams —
A slew of bipartisan reports are hoping to push the former secretary of state to increased military action in the Middle East, particularly Syria.
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Should progressive voters adopt different strategies in swing states versus, say, blue states? Princeton University’s Eddie Glaude makes room for that possibility in this Democracy Now! debate with Chris Hedges, while Hedges decisively does not.
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Iraqi and Kurdish soldiers celebrated in the town of Bartella, which Iraqi forces recently retook. Not pictured are U.S. officials, who may be cheering the prospect of Islamic State fighters, driven from Iraq, causing problems for Syrian President Bashar Assad and Iran.
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For illuminating what the Democratic presidential nominee’s camp does in the dark, the long-confined hacker-turned-journalist is under fresh attack from familiar adversaries and taking hard, if necessary, criticism from erstwhile allies.
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This week marked the third—and final—bout between the nominees before Americans head to the polls. We want to hear from you: Did these faceoffs influence how citizens will mark their ballots?
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By Adam Eichen / Moyers & Company —
If Hillary Clinton is serious about reducing the role of money in politics, she should appoint Supreme Court justices willing to revisit two cases from the 1970s that formed the basis of our inability to regulate money in politics.
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