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Trump Gender-Equality Appointee Bethany Kozma Is Unfit to Serve

By naming an anti-trans activist as USAID adviser, the president delivers a "slap in the face" to the LGBT community.
 

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Author Rebecca Carroll on Identity and the ‘Monolith of Blackness’ (Audio and Transcript)

In this week’s edition of “Scheer Intelligence,” host and Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer interviews the writer about race, her writing process and the climate for black writers and artists. [Transcript added.]
 
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Is the Supreme Court Killing Secularism?

Three rulings in one week raise fears that human rights are being subverted in favor of religious rights, particularly those of evangelical Christians.
 
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On a panel moderated by Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer (far right), Goodman explains why he blew the whistle on corruption in the Central Intelligence Agency.

The award-winning cartoonist came prepared with images of Jesus in compromised positions and an array of ideas about the role of the rabble-rousing artist in contemporary culture. Watch and learn.

 
 
 
 
Health Care 2017: A Physician’s Perspective

Most doctors will say that the system is broken, and that only activist citizens can restore a sane, rational method of governance and problem-solving to America.

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The Media Aren’t Telling the Real Story of Trump’s Missile Strike in Syria

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh cast doubt on the White House narrative in Syria, but mainstream media continue to maintain radio silence on his revelations.

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Why California’s Single-Payer ‘Shell Bill’ Was Doomed From the Start

The Intercept explains how supporters of California’s SB 562, recently shelved by Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, are “hiding the realities of California’s woeful political structure.”

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Attempt to Close Al-Jazeera Is an Attack on Freedom of Expression, U.N. Says

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights is reportedly “extremely concerned” by four neighboring countries’ demand that Qatar shut down the television news network.

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Sanders Has His Priorities Backward; We Can’t Delay Medicare for All

Sen. Bernie Sanders (pictured, left) was on track to introduce and advocate for a Medicare-for-all bill, but now he says his priority is to improve the Affordable Care Act.

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Why the Obamacare Repeal Effort Will Never Disappear

People will continue to vote for the party that will strip them of their health care as long as it promises to turn back the clock and “Make America White Again.”

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Trump’s Travel Ban 2.0 Goes Into Effect

The ban has set the stage for a Supreme Court battle over executive powers later this year. (Pictured: A Muslim woman awaits a relative’s arrival at the Los Angeles airport on Thursday.)

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Numerous States Reject the Administration’s Demand for Voter Data

A request for sensitive voter information by the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity is causing a backlash from civil rights advocacy groups, governors and state secretaries. (Pictured, a 2014 march for voter protections.)

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In Sickness and in Health

Although “The Big Sick” presents itself as a familiar story with an intercultural twist, it breaks from the typical boy-meets-girl form in more ways than one, with moving results.

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Living in the Shadows

A new book by writer, photographer and union organizer David Bacon is a bilingual fusion of journalism and documentary photography that reveals the humanity and suffering of marginalized Latino workers.

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Five Things Trump Is Doing That Are Worse Than Insulting Mika Brzezinski

U.S. media is focusing on the president’s provocations rather than on important issues like tax cuts, climate change and health care. (Pictured: Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough on MSNBC.)

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Russians Alarmed, Washington Befuddled by White House Threat to Syria

The American statement that Syrian President Bashar Assad (pictured) is preparing to use poison gas could have dire consequences.

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The American Meaning of War: Reality or Reality Television?

There are so many wars and war rumors involving America these days that it’s starting to feel a little unreal, even for the most devoted of news watchers.

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Thinking Dangerously: The Role of Higher Education in Authoritarian Times

Any viable attempt at developing democratic politics must address the role of education and civic literacy as central to politics itself.

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