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Movement Builders Should Listen to Bernie Sanders: Focus on Mass Action, Not Candidates
He's even started bringing a long-taboo word back into mainstream American political conversation: socialism.
An Open Letter to Obama: If You Want Money for the Climate, Tax Wall Street
An innovative new tax could fund climate transition and help rebuild the social safety net. So why is the White House knocking it?
Paul Krugman | Lies, Not Mistakes, Led to Invasion of Iraq
The crucial thing to understand is that the invasion wasn't a mistake, it was a crime. We were lied into war.
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Of Course Jeb Bush Would Have Invaded Iraq
The former Florida governor gets too much credit for being smarter than his brother.
Capitalism Could Kill All Life on Earth
Capitalism is great at creating profits and products - but it doesn't care about environmental justice.
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Transforming the Wounds of War: A Veterans’ Retreat With Claude AnShin Thomas
Bica, a Vietnam War veteran, recounts his transformative experience at a mindfulness and meditative practice retreat for veterans and their families.
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A Fossil-Fueled Fantasy
Coal-burning power plants that capture carbon aren't worth the expense.
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Tony Judt: The Best Man Among Us
The moral center in Judt's work is the product perhaps of a weary knowledge of the wickedness of which humanity is capable.
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Obamacare’s Health Plan Choice Benefits Are Vastly Overrated
Complexity is a huge drag on the popularity of our health care system as a whole.
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The Latest Victim in the War on Whistleblowers
Jeffrey Sterling learned the hard way that the feds will throw the book at anyone who embarrasses them.