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Op-Ed
An Open Letter to My Fellow Americans
This is not a “left” or “right” problem, but a threat which all of us face.
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Common Core Betrays the Civil Rights Movement
Common Core's promise does not correspond to its reality.
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For Moment, the World Embraces the Cuba Model – and Slaps the Empire
This week the nations of the world rebuked the United States' 54-year embargo against Cuba.
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The Pressure to Escalate
ISIS and Ebola - Think of them as the two horsemen of the present American apocalypse.
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FBI Infringes the Associated Press Trademark, and AP Yawns
The press really doesn't care about the FBI's infringement of the AP trademark to run a fake news story used to ensnare a young suspect.
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A Moderate, Hidden in Plain Sight
“The constant calls for a moderate, sensible path that supposedly lies between the extremes of the two parties, but is in fact exactly what Mr. Obama has been proposing.”
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Meanwhile, Down at the Nuclear Power Plant, Something’s Going Wrong
The chances of radiation disasters will increase further if the Nuclear Regulatory Commission allows US reactors to run for 80 years.
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Faces of Fracking: Rebecca Claassen
A grassroots effort in Santa Barbara County to stop intensive oil production fights against millions from the oil industry.
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Fasting for Democracy: Why I’ve Given Up Food to Fight Corruption
The struggle to end corruption and establish political equality regardless of wealth is a struggle to ensure that universal suffrage still means something.
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Halfway There
What we need to imagine, I think, is a new kind of “prosperity” - one that combines a carefully limited consumption of nature's regenerative resources with a robust consumption …