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Making the Green New Deal Work for Workers

A true just transition means robust training, guaranteed jobs and pensions for fossil fuel industry workers.

Jeremy Brecher

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The Green New Deal Must Have a Zero Waste Policy

Disrupting the extractivist logic of capitalism is crucial to addressing climate change.

Kali Akuno

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How To Build the Zero-Carbon Economy

The Green New Deal sets an ambitious goal. Here’s how to get there.

Winona LaDuke

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How Trade Agreements Stand in the Way of an International Green New Deal

To reduce emissions abroad, the U.S. must renegotiate its trade agreements.

Basav Sen

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We Produce Too Much Food. The Green New Deal Can Stop This.

Overproduction spurs environmental degradation while the poor get left behind.

Eric Holt-Giménez

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Electric Companies Won’t Go Green Unless the Public Takes Control

Private electric utilities are an obstacle to climate justice. Here’s how to build alternatives.

Johanna Bozuwa and Gar Alperovitz

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U.S. Out of Everywhere

The case for an immediate withdrawal from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq.

Azadeh Shahshahani

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The Victims of the Trump-Netanyahu Special Relationship

The flurry of favors the president did for Netanyahu could constrain U.S. policy — and hurt people in the region — for years to come.

Phyllis Bennis

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Fossil Fuel Companies Are Enlisting Police to Crack Down on Protesters

An analysis by In These Times found, in at least seven states, the oil industry has backed critical infrastructure bills that criminalize pipeline protests.

Sarah Lazare and Simon Davis-Cohen

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Individuals Working for Wall Street, Private Equity and Big Pharma Love to Donate to Cory Booker

Booker has sworn off corporate PAC contributions, but his biggest donors work in fields whose interests run counter to progressive priorities.

Branko Marcetic

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Filing Your Taxes Is Already Difficult. The House Just Passed a Bill That Keeps It That Way Forever.

The new bill could keep H&R Block and Intuit’s profits high—while keeping your taxes complicated to file.

Elizabeth Zach

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The Media Must Face Up to Its Role in Inflaming a Frenzy Over Russiagate

By claiming Trump was colluding with Putin, media outlets distracted from the president’s overt crimes while escalating tensions with Russia. They should own up to their failures.

Branko Marcetic

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Both Chicago Mayoral Candidates Claim to Be Progressive. Here’s a Close Look Into Their Records.

Lori Lightfoot and Toni Preckwinkle have each run under the “progressive” mantle. Yet their records—and conversations with movement organizers—tell a more complicated story.

Camille Erickson

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Why You Shouldn’t Listen to Self-Serving Optimists Like Hans Rosling and Steven Pinker

There’s a reason Bill Gates loves Pinker and Rosling—their analyses obscure inequality.

Roland Paulsen

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A Healthcare Industry Built on Premature Death

On the cruelty of private healthcare corporations.

Roqayah Chamseddine

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As War on Yemen Hits the 4-Year Mark, Here’s a Brief History of U.S. Involvement

As the political tide in the United States finally turns against the war, we must not let its U.S. proponents whitewash their wrongdoing.

Shireen Al-Adeimi

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“UC for the Many, Not the Few”: Solidarity on the California Picket Lines, In Photos

Thanks to thousands of solidarity strikers, this was the largest strike of 2019.

Brooke Anderson

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Climate Change. War. Poverty. How the U.S.-China Relationship Will Shape Humanity’s Path.

A call for diplomacy and deescalation, not economic and military confrontation.

Calvin Cheung-Miaw and Max Elbaum

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The Case for Opening Our Borders

Democrats cannot have it both ways. If you oppose jailing and exiling people for crossing an invisible line, you must be in favor of significantly opening our borders. Fortunately, that’s fine.

Brianna Rennix

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When Former Prosecutors Rebrand Themselves as Progressives to Win Elections

From Kamala Harris to Lori Lightfoot, former prosecutors are rewriting their own histories to present themselves as progressive.

Victoria Law

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The Private Prison Divestment Movement Just Had an Incredible Week

Activists are stopping banks like JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo from financing the caging of migrant children. Here’s how.

David Dayen

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Young Black Feminists Have Some Pointers for Obama

Instead of scolding Black youth, Assata's Daughters is helping them organize to transform the world.

Eli Day

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Another Failed Coup in Venezuela?

The Venezuelan opposition and its backers in Washington may have underestimated the Chavista grassroots.

George Ciccariello-Maher

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Why Is Dianne Feinstein So Opposed to the Green New Deal? Look at Her Family Finances.

Sen. Feinstein has direct financial interests in the same fossil fuel companies that the Green New Deal threatens.

Branko Marcetic