Latest Politics/Gov.

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  Pizzigati: Let’s Start Debating What Dooms Democracy: Concentrated Wealth

  Why we need to shove inequality onto America’s political center stage
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  Cunningham-Cook: Washington Congressional Race Lays Bare Democratic Divide on Climate Crisis

  The outcome of the race will say much about what kind of Democratic Party will be confronting climate change in the years ahead
• Contributors: Poll finds broad, multi-racial support for policies to transform policing, economic inequities

  “This timely survey shows common ground on real solutions” and “Opportunities to bridge across racial and political spectrum.” 
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  Shalom: The greater evil: A response to Charlie Post and Ashley Smith

  Stephen R. Shalom criticizes the arguments against lesser-evil voting and makes the case for the Left both to support Biden and build the social movements
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  Sanders: Trump versus democracy

  The American people, no matter what their political persuasion, must make it clear that American democracy will not be destroyed
• Cohen: Earth to Presidential Debate Moderators: “I’m Burning Up”

  With the horrific fires on the West Coast and hurricanes and storms pounding the Caribbean and Gulf Coast, in a healthy democracy, one would expect presidential candidates to be pressed hard about climate chaos. I’m not holding my breath.  
• Wilkins: ‘Sledgehammer to Permanently Silence Opposing Voices’

  Outrage Over Florida Gov. DeSantis' Proposed Anti-Protest Bill
• Orentlicher: Unlike US, Europe Picks Top Judges with Bipartisan Approval

  By choice and by law, high court justices in those places work together to render consensus-based decisions
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  Solomon: We’ve Got Our Own Reasons to Elect Biden — and He Isn’t One of Them

  “We can lend a hand to people’s organizations that are not just working to defeat Trump, but also working to upend an unacceptable status quo, defeat an out-of-touch political establishment, take on the powerful forces arrayed against us, and win the future for the many, not the few.”
• Walker: Breonna Taylor Killing: Only One Police Officer Facing Criminal Charges

  A grand jury has determined that criminal proceedings can move forward against one of the three white police officers who shot and killed Breonna Taylor
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  Cooke: The Politics of Portland’s Protests

  The quietly coordinated move allowed Oregon State Troopers to be federally deputized, essentially making them Trump’s Troopers. Such a bold move by Oregon’s liberal executives—in arguably one of the bluest states in the country—is comparable to treason
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  Cole: Every Day is Memorial Day

  The Trump Virus has killed as Many Americans as Died in Combat in the 4 Years of the Civil War
• Hartmann: GOP Reshaped U.S. to Hold Onto Power—Can Dems Do the Same Thing to Save It?

  Mitch McConnell understands holding minority power requires ruthless brutality
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  Polychroniou: Why Trump’s Racist And Neo-Fascist Campaign Resonates In 21st Century US

  The major task for progressives is to search for creative ways that will alter public consciousness in the United States about the devastating effects of a political culture engulfed in the flames of racial strife, violence, militarism, and climate change denialism
• Activists and Writers: Open Letter: Dump Trump, Then Battle Biden

  Protestations that Biden is beholden to elites are true but beside the point. The lesser evil is evil, but in this case, the greater evil is simply off the charts
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  Rasmus: A Most Dire Warning

  Failure of the Democrats to have stopped Trump the past four years will likely usher in a basic political party re-alignment in the US as a form of authoritarian government takes hold under Trump
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  Cohn: Ginsburg’s Legacy Is Vast, But a Trump Appointee Could Overturn Her Best Rulings

  A Trump appointment would substitute a right-wing justice for Ginsburg, making a 6-3 conservative majority. There would be solid votes to overrule Roe v. Wade and strike down the Affordable Care Act.
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  Kolhatkar: Dems Mock GOP for Denying Climate Science, But Are Still Addicted to Fossil Fuel Funders

  The liberal party offers strong rhetoric on climate change but in practice promotes continued fossil fuel production. In the face of our unfolding climate catastrophe, this needs to end now
• Zhang: Youth Must Focus This Election on Climate Change — and Push Dems to Confront It

  Together, we can transform a burnt, drained, and inequitable world into a green, replenished, and just one for generations to come
• People's Campaign: McConnell must pass fair COVID-19 relief, end hypocrisy about RBG vacancy

  “This is about what kind of world we want to live in, and he does not represent it”