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Elizabeth Warren: The New Populism Is a Fight for America’s Values
This is a fight over economics, over privilege, over power. But deep down, this is a fight over values.
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Stepping Forward or Chaining Oneself for Justice
A teachers watches the harrowing effects of families that are torn apart by deportation.
My Speech to the Graduates: Don’t Listen to Graduation Speakers
A teacher advises, "Dedicate your life to something that matters to you because you have but one life and the pursuit of money and things will always prove hollow …
Czars, Kings, and Presidents
ProPublica's columnist Jesse Eisinger describes the tendency to focus on Tim Geithner, while ignoring the role of the president.
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Students Now Indentured to the Banksters
Never in the history of the developed world has an entire generation had to go into debt just to get an education and a job. Until now.
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The 95 Percent Doctrine: Climate Change as a Weapon of Mass Destruction
Consider climate change a WMD on a particularly long fuse, already lit and there for any of us to see.
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American Lung Association Contradicts Its Own Mission
The public deserves to know the shameful truth about the American Lung Association.
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Cecily McMillan’s “Law of Love” Suffers US Injustice
The judge may have intended to send a message to those who dissent, instead may have created a powerful messenger of dissent.
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Standing Up, One Year Later: President Obama’s Broken Foreign Policy Promises
The President's speech included a profound assertion that "from our use of drones to the detention of terrorist suspects, the decisions we are making will define the type of …
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Remembering Vincent Harding, an Enduring Veteran of Hope
The author of a series of books on the civil rights movement - which he called the Southern Freedom movement - he not only wrote history, but also played …