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Obamacare Is Not Some Left-Wing, Socialist Plot; It Is a Republican Plot
Obamacare is not some communist, left-wing, socialist plot. It's a Republican plot.
Obama’s Admission Not Enough: US Spin on Middle East Violence Must Change
President Obama's call to address the root causes of violence was a step in the right direction, but still miles away from taking the least responsibility for the mayhem …
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Obama’s Legacy: Permanent War and Liberal/Radical Accommodation?
African American radicals can't afford to be unclear about the nature and interests of the white supremacist, patriarchal, colonial/capitalist order.
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Alternatives to Incarceration: Be Careful What You Wish For
It is necessary to be careful about any sort of presumption of correlation between criminality and incarceration.
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Syriza’s Greece: From a New Social Deal to an Updated Version of the Economics of Social Disaster
Syriza's swift failure to rid Greece of the eurozone's harsh austerity measures makes it harder for progressives across Europe.
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“Transit Revolution”: Will Los Angeles Become Gentrification Ground Zero?
The tension between improving LA's public transit infrastructure while not driving families out of their neighborhoods is ongoing.
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What the Media Still Get Wrong About Paul Ryan
There's plenty of evidence that Paul Ryan's overriding goal is to redistribute income from the poor to the 1%.
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On the Left/Right Paradigm, Capitalism’s Grow-or-Die Imperative and Murray Bookchin
In the twenty-first century we go on using the terms, but what is left of the Left?
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We’re Young, Passionate and Bent on Justice: Why #BlackLivesMatter Is Irresistible
This movement is showing what wholeness looks like and demanding a whole and uncompromised justice.
Trouble in “Wine Country”
A moral person would not buy “blood diamonds.” It is time to consider the various environmental, climate change, and human factors when one buys Sonoma or Napa County wines.