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Nader Calls for a New 1 Percent
In his latest book, the critic and activist proposes the creation and activation of a new 1 percent—one that will expose “conditions of deprivation and abuse” and champion “basic fair play.”
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10 Indigenous and Environmental Struggles—And How You Can Help in 2017
Whom to call, what to donate, and where to show up.
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3 Ways Progressives Can Reconnect With Rural America
First, understand the environment is not only about climate change—it’s about livelihood for miners, drillers, loggers, and farmers like me.
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Post-Fascist Europe Tells Us Exactly How to Defend Our Democracy
Have your passports ready, watch your language, and other advice from a Yale history professor.
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Obama Bids Farewell With An Indirect Warning Of Trump’s Threat To Democracy
President Barack Obama on Tuesday issued a rallying cry to preserve and protect U.S. democracy, urging Americans to remain “vigilant, but not afraid” and to reject complacency and fear.
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Why Democrats need to speak with one voice on Obamacare
When one side speaks in unison, the point coming from that side is solidified. When comments from the other side are scattershot, they get lost.
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Senate Confirmation Hearings to Begin Without All Background Checks
As Senate Republicans embark on a flurry of confirmation hearings this week, several of Donald J. Trump’s appointees have yet to complete the background checks and ethics clearances customarily required before the Senate begins to consider cabinet-level nominees.
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British Muslims send message to ISIS and the world—and it’s spot on
Often scorned and associated with terrorists, innocent Muslims around the world have suffered ridicule, discrimination, abuse, torture, and murder.
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Women Warriors Among Northern Plains Indians
The popular media and sometimes history book view of the Northern Plains Indians of the nineteenth century envisions a male warrior, mounted on a horse, wearing a long war bonnet. There are many things wrong with this stereotype, but what is usually missing from the non-Indian descriptions of Northern Plains Indian warfare is the fact…
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ISIS Is a Symptom, Not the Cause, of the Middle East’s Disintegration
We live in an age of disintegration. Nowhere is this more evident than in the Greater Middle East and Africa. Across the vast swath of territory between Pakistan and Nigeria, there are at least seven ongoing wars—in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, and South Sudan.
