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The Obama Administration Is Continuing a Failed Strategy of Building Military Bases Around the World
The United States seems intent on continuing its imperialistic policies in the Middle East (and worldwide).
David Vine
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The Other Keystone: The Alberta Clipper, the Pipeline No One Is Talking About
The Alberta Clipper pipeline is already transporting huge quantities of oil, but is doing so under the radar.
Branko Marcetic
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Why the GOP’s Mexico Fence Fantasy Is a Farce
Environmental damage? Exorbitant cost? Immigrants' ability to find a way around it anyway? No matter! Build The Wall!
Jim Hightower
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Ted Cruz’s Collateral Damage: Why So Few Americans Care About Dead Civilians
For the most part, Americans don’t think or care much about the real-world consequences of unleashing American air power.
Rick Shenkman
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Trump Bullies, Boasts and Bullshits in Bernie’s Burlington
Sitting in the audience was like watching blood dry—a convergence of the compellingly grotesque and the mind-numbingly boring.
Terry J. Allen
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Big Money, Small Farmers and the Stubborn Persistence of Hunger
We haven't yet found the answer to the persistent problem of hunger around the world. Maybe we should ask radical peasants in the global south.
Max Ajl
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Bernie Sanders Calls For an End to Mass Deportation Raids of Central American Immigrants
Sanders claims the Obama administration's raids of Central American families and children are inconsistent with American values—and must be stopped. Hillary Clinton's past support of such deportations sets her apart.
Miles Kampf-Lassin
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The Laquan McDonald Email Dump Shows Rahm Emanuel’s Administration in Crisis Mode
A guide to the documents released by City Hall in the aftermath of the Chicago police shooting.
Rebecca Burns
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The Bankruptcy of India’s Economic and Political “Miracle”
India is neither the vibrant global South democracy nor the poster child for globalization's benefits that global political elites have insisted it is for over a decade.
Kamil Ahsan
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Slavoj Zizek: The Need to Traverse the Fantasy
A call to mobilize Europe's radical-emancipatory tradition, and why we need a solidarity of struggles, not a "dialogue of cultures"
Slavoj Žižek
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The Rise of Podemos In Spain’s Election Shows How Much Trouble the Establishment Is In
From Spain’s “Nueva Política” to Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, outsider candidates and parties are catching fire, creating new spaces for political revolution.
Erica Sagrans
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The U.S. Military Is Expanding Its Secret Drone Warfare in Africa to Combat the Rise of ISIS
American efforts are underway to create a string of drone bases in Africa.
Nick Turse
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8 Terrible Things About the Trans-Pacific Partnership
It's no wonder the Obama administration tried to keep this secret—the corporate-friendly trade agreement, decoded.
David Moberg
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Artist Molly Crabapple on Refusing Lena Dunham, Sketching Occupy and Achieving Cockroach-Free Hair
Molly Crabapple tells In These Times about her new memoir—and true to form, the interview is no-bullshit in tone and global in scope.
Rachel Luban
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Bringing Socialism Back: How Bernie Sanders is Reviving an American Tradition
The Sanders campaign is resurrecting socialist electoral politics and paving the way for a more radical public discourse.
Joseph M. Schwartz
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Donald Trump, Marine Le Pen, and the Dangers of ‘Eco-Nationalism’
France's ascendant far-right claims to care about climate change. Activists in Paris explain why that's a problem--for France and the rest of us.
Kate Aronoff
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Accused of Supporting Torture, DePaul University Dean Faces Calls For Resignation
Like others who had a hand in the Bush-era torture programs, activists say, Gerald Koocher is facing virtually no consequences for his role in allowing psychologists to participate in "enhanced interrogation" techniques.
Tom Ladendorf
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How Jessica Jones Won Over This Marvel Hater
Yes, it's feminist. Yes, it's genuinely good. Damn it.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
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Bernie Sanders Just Won TIME’s Person of the Year Reader’s Poll—And It Wasn’t Even Close
The democratic socialist came out far, far ahead of both Clinton and Trump.
Lauren Kaori Gurley
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What Corporate America Would Do If It Really Cared About Climate Change
CEOs are professing to care about the climate. But they're still funding Republican climate-change deniers.
Joe Conason
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Chicago’s Racial Justice Movement Can’t Stop at the Resignation of Police Chief Garry McCarthy
McCarthy's resignation should be seen as the beginning, not the end.
Charles Brown
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Barbara Ehrenreich: America’s Blue-Collar White People Are Dying at an Astounding Rate
Could the bump in white working class deaths be the result of widespread despair?
Barbara Ehrenreich
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The Robots Are Coming. Whether They’ll Be Job Terminators or Job Transformers Is Up to Us.
Don't fear the robot.
David Moberg
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American Hunger-Related Healthcare Costs Exceeded $160 Billion in 2014, According to New Study
Food insecurity, especially for children, remains near record high despite the Great Recession’s official end.
Elizabeth Grossman
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