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Glick: People in Cages on the Border on July 4th
It’s not like all of this is completely new, but the lengths to which Trump is willing to take his vile racism is new
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Barber: What to the immigrant is the Fourth of July?
On Liberty Island in New York City stands the 305-foot-tall...
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della Croce: Working-Class Movements Moving Beyond Confines of Capitalism
The challenges posed by global capital require creativity in their solutions
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Fisk: Jared Kushner should be ignored
But we should remember this startling US Middle East plan from 100 years ago
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Ertl: Transit Union Triumphs in Anti-Union Stronghold
Transit in the Washington, D.C., area is heavily unionized. But...
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Cole: Your Fourth of July and My Fourth of July (in the Age of Trump)
Revised for the the Age of Trump: Your Fourth of...
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An inside look at the recent wave of teacher strikes
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Chomsky: Trump Is Consolidating Far-Right Power Globally
Trump's foreign policy is a deadly farce that is consolidating the global alliance of right-wing leaders
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Cole: June Hottest Month on Record
As Antarctica Melts: Top 3 Signs We are Cooking the Planet . . . and Ourselves
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Cook: The plot to keep Jeremy Corbyn out of power
We might finally understand that a system designed to pacify us while a few grow rich at the expense of our children’s future and our own does not have to continue. That we can raise our voices and loudly say: “No!”
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Day: Here’s What Bernie Could Do in Power
From climate change to criminal justice and student debt: here's what Bernie Sanders could do if he had executive office and mass popular support, but faced a hostile Congress
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Bazelon: Looking at Kamala Harris
As Senator Kamala Harris rises in the early presidential polls, she is facing increasing scrutiny over her record as a prosecutor in California. In 2004, Harris became district attorney of San Francisco
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Hollar: Progressive Dems Leaving Corporate Media’s Comfort Zone
Election Focus 2020After the first round of Democratic primary debates, the line from corporate media and their overwhelmingly centrist sources was clear: The Democrats are moving dangerously to the left, at their own peril
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Erlich: How Iran Ran Circles around Trump
Over the past several weeks, the Trump Administration has managed to infuriate ordinary Iranians, traditional US allies, and US war hawks
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Cohn: After Supreme Court Refusal, It’s Up to the People to End Gerrymandering
The Supreme Court has abdicated its responsibility to strike down...
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Bello: Elections in the Era of Charismatic Politics
Authoritarian governments have tried to rig elections for ages. More dangerous are the far-right leaders concentrating their power by relatively fair elections
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Gelderloos: What went wrong for the municipalists in Spain?
Spain’s municipalist parties suffered a major setback at the May elections — their own actions and inactions are largely to blame for the loss of support
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Baker: A Little Honesty May Help the Green New Deal
It is very convenient for the people who deliberately structured the economy to give more money to people like themselves, at the expense of the rest of the population, to act as though the upward redistribution was something that just happened
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Featherstone: Warren Is No Hillary. She’s Also No Bernie.
The feud between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren supporters is getting ridiculous. Warren isn’t Hillary and Bernie is no sexist
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Shupak: Creating a Climate for War With Iran
Headlines are breathlessly suggesting to readers that Iranians are going to kill Americans if Americans don’t kill Iranians first
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Cook: Three Lessons for the Left from the Mueller Inquiry
In the combined success-failure of the Mueller inquiry, the left has an opportunity to understand in a much more sophisticated way how real power works and in whose favor it is exercised
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Kelly: “Every War Is a War Against Children”
Atrocities of war accumulate, horrifically. We in the United States have yet to realize both the futility and immense consequences of war
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Fuentes: Who are Venezuela’s Colectivos?
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Solomon: The Toxic Lure of “Guns and Butter”
The current political brawl over next year’s budget is highly significant
Recent Audio/Videos
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Hoxie: Ten Years Without A Raise
Longest Period Without Fed Minimum Wage Increase Since Law Enacted in 1938
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Flanders: Aging Isn’t a Problem, Ageism Is
Someone turns 65 every 8 seconds in this country, and as our elderly population grows, so does the need to build an economy around our future selves
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Petersen-Smith: Trump Oversees Death and Destruction in Syria, Afghanistan, and More
Amnesty International released a major report about US-led massacres of more than 1,600 civilians in Raqqa, Syria from June to October of 2017
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Interview on Bernie Sanders and the 2020 election to the challenges posed by Big Tech
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Sanders: Town Hall with Bernie Sanders, Part 2
2020 Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders discusses immigration, national security, Mueller's report, and more during his town hall
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Hallam: Why International Rebellion?
Explaining the concept behind the forthcoming International Rebellion starting from April 15, 2019
Recent Blogs
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Santamaria: Dementia and changes.
I conclude, by means of interacting with pilgrims here, in...
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New York TImes, Meridith Kohut and Isayen Herrera, December 17,...
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Wittner: Whatever Happened to an Affordable College Education?
As U.S. college students―and their families―know all too well, the...
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I think it’s isn’t a time for reading or writing....
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Kailash Mansarovar, a geographical as well as a mythological place,...
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