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  Fitz: Is Nuclear Power a Solution to the Climate Crisis?

  The great environmental challenge of our time is to understand that the many sources of biodestruction are interconnected and must be confronted simultaneously, rather than disparaging one danger to focus on another
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  Cook: Corbyn is being destroyed

  Like blowing up a bridge to stop an advancing army
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  Prashad: Israeli Cruelty and Palestine’s Predicament

  Standing on the campus of Birzeit University in Ramallah (Palestine)...
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  Solomon: Victory in Superdelegates Fight Means: Grassroots Can Win

  Officials rarely decide to reduce their own power. And the Democratic Party has not made such a historic reform to its presidential nominating process in decades. So, how did it happen?
• Fiorino: Trump’s coal plan – neither clean nor affordable

  The Affordable Clean Energy plan as a regulatory attempt to keep the coal industry alive, despite its poor prospects, and not as a serious effort to deal with the effects of coal-fired power plants on the climate and public health
• Lartey: Police accused over raids on activist’s family

  Was it coincidence that a mass raid on two Memphis homes occurred on the first day of a trial in which police face claims of illegal surveillance of Black Lives Matter campaigners?
• Gray: Beware the Race Reductionist

  A hostage situation has emerged on the left. And progressive...
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  Cole: Trump is becoming Dylann Roof

  Washington is understandably consumed by the revelations about hush money and election interference, but the Nazification of US foreign policy should be front page news
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  Monbiot: My Way Or The Highway

  The crucial decisions about major infrastructure are made behind closed doors
• Bottger: Ireland’s Taking $380 Million Out of Fossil Fuels

  The Atlantic country has a huge opportunity to model getting money out of fossil fuel companies and into the hands of the people
• Ancel: Why Missouri ‘Right to Work’ Went Down in Flames

  There’s a risk that the legislature in 2019 will vote for right to work all over again. To avoid that, labor needs to continue building a movement that reaches beyond union members
• Robson: From #FreeTommy to the Hostile Environment

  To understand the far right's escalating appeal we need to look at the reciprocal relationship between the far right and the political mainstream
• Wolff: Why Chomsky’s Wrong on Russia

  Big money in American politics, to use again a catchphrase I have invoked before, is a feature, not a bug. Does it therefore make no difference how that money is allowed legally to influence elections?
• Hook: Why Mister Rogers Is the Role Model We Need Right Now

  This is timeless wisdom that Rogers lived, and the challenge of a lifetime: to refuse the degradation that turns us into consumers, offer people dignity even while resisting their behavior, and, above all, love them as they are right now
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  Wainwright: The economics that came in from the cold

  This recognition of workers as not simply an interest to be defended but as knowledgeable, creative allies in the process of production of social wealth, considerably strengthens Labour’s claim to be the party with which voters can best entrust the economy
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  Law: Sex Workers Are Fighting Back

  Anti-Trafficking Laws Are Hurting, Not Helping
• Paul: Workplace Solidarity in the Equitable Economy

  These networks of worker-owned cooperatives show that well-designed workplaces can provide living wages, generate productivity, and foster mutual respect
• Thrall: BDS: Transforming the Israeli-Palestinian debate

  Israel sees the international boycott campaign as an existential threat to the Jewish state. Palestinians regard it as their last resort.
• Robin: The New Socialists

  Why the pitch from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders resonates in 2018
• Pierson: Is Bankruptcy in Your Future?

  Older Americans are going bankrupt in record numbers
• Abbott: Guatemala Communities Rebel Against High Energy Costs

  Rural communities in Guatemala are rising up against unmanageable energy bills, more than two decades after the Central American country privatized its power grid
• Brooks: How New York Taxi Workers Took On Uber and Won

  The union charges Uber with cynically pitting communities of color against one another