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Op-Ed
In Congress, Christmas Is a Time of Giving – and Receiving
At holiday time, a little something tucked away in legislation in exchange for campaign largesse is the greatest gift of all.
Farmers Would Do Better to Understand the Land Than Grow GM Crops
It is the mindset from which GMOs emerge that needs reprogrammed.
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For Most People in the World, Retirement Is Not an Option
Except for the well off, men and women should expect to continue working well beyond normal pensionable retirement ages.
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Princeton Students Are Right: Woodrow Wilson Was Way Worse Than You Think
President Wilson enshrined racism, gutted discourse on public control of the economy and shredded US civil rights and liberties.
Our Prisons Are Us
The world's self-proclaimed freest society is anything but.
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Why the Refugee Acceptance Movement Must Become an Anti-Imperialist Movement
In order to understand the refugee crisis, we must examine the US role in creating instability and chaos in Iraq and Syria.
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What the GOP Is Putting Under Corporate America’s Tree
This year-end tax package is a grab bag of gifts for corporations and a lump of coal for working families.
It’s Time to Fire Trump
How, in 2015, can anyone running on a racist, xenophobic ticket find any support at all?
US Ground War in Syria? What Would Robert Gates Say?
In Syria, the likely choices are diplomacy now or ground war later.
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Whose Lives Matter? A Crisis of Solidarity at the Climate Talks in Paris
The true test of success in Paris will be if the lives of people in poorer nations aren't valued less than others.