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It’s Personal: Apologizing to My Daughter for the Last 15 Years of War
“I wanted to tell my daughter just how sorry I was that she would have to live in what 9/11 transformed into the most frightened country on Earth.”
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Trump’s Economic “Fixes” for Women Mean the Fix Is In
Trump's so-called economic fixes for the nation's majority — women — are woefully lacking.
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The Dangers of Medicalizing Racism
Treating racism like an addiction or mental illness undermines efforts to deal with its structural underpinnings.
Goldman Sachs Is Acknowledging Climate Change. Why Isn’t the GOP?
As a whole, the Republican Party remains a den of denialism.
Educational Inequality and the Ballot Booth
Class bias impedes democracy. Tuition free public universities has the potential to create a more representative democracy.
US Media Ignores CIA Cover-Up on Torture
US veterans chastise mainstream media for ignoring an account of how the CIA tried to block the Senate's torture investigation.
Climate Justice Meets Racism: This Moment at Standing Rock Was Decades in the Making
Many people of Standing Rock are not surprised by the extreme response of law enforcement against activists.
Supreme Cover-Up: How Wisconsin Failed to Investigate Scott Walker’s Connections With Dark Money
The Wisconsin Supreme Court's dysfunction is on full display in newsly released documents.
Meet the “Deplorables”: 13 Despicable Characters in Trump’s Very Crowded Basket
Looking at who surrounds the GOP standard-bearer, it's hard to argue with Hillary Clinton's controversial comments.
Prison Revolutionaries of the ’60s Generation: Role Models for Contemporary Strikers
Former prison activists Albert Woodfox, Robert King and Sekou Kambui continue to inspire current prison struggles.