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There Have Been 21 Debate Questions About Paying For Social Programs, Zero About Paying For War
Democratic debate moderators are sending the message that we can afford policies that spread militarism—but not those that protect human life.
Sarah Lazare
Rural America
New Trump Budget Proposes Big Cuts to Crop Insurance and Emergency Aid to Farmers
Christopher Walljasper
Rural America
Insect Apocalypse: Count Finds Critically Low Number of Monarch Butterflies for Second Straight Year
Liz Kimbrough
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Bloomberg’s Choice to Speak at AIPAC Shows How Out of Touch He Is
The billionaire has defended Islamophobia and Israel's wars. He'll fit right in at the AIPAC conference.
Alex Kane
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It’s Not Just Bernie Anymore—Centrist Dems Are Skipping AIPAC in a “Watershed Moment”
Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg have joined Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren in abandoning the pro-Israel conference that critics call "a fringe, right-wing, radioactive rogue organization."
Julia Conley
Culture
What a Janitor Found at a Border Patrol Processing Facility
Tom Kiefer spent years collecting items confiscated and thrown away by border patrol
Féi Hernandez
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Red-Baiting Won’t Stop Bernie Sanders. The Democratic Debate Shows Why.
Moderators and candidates tried to weaponize democratic socialism to attack the front-runner.
Mindy Isser
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Why Democrats Need To End the Filibuster
If they actually want to get anything done, Democrats need to kill the filibuster—now.
In These Times Editors
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The Media Doesn’t Know How to Process the Fact That Bernie Sanders Is Winning
Corporate media has moved from denial to anger.
Jim Naureckas
Labor
New England UAW Workers Join Parade of Local Unions Endorsing Bernie Sanders
Hamilton Nolan
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Bernie Sanders Is the Only Leading Presidential Candidate Publicly Opposing the Patriot Act
Many Democrats are still acquiescing to a George W. Bush-era policy that has been in place for nearly 20 years.
Sarah Lazare
Labor
The Culinary Workers Run Vegas. The Politicians Are Just Visiting.
Hamilton Nolan
Dispatch
He Sued Chevron and Won. Now He’s Under House Arrest.
Chevron is using the U.S. courts to avoid paying out $9.5 billion for environmental damage—and to silence lead lawyer Steven Donziger.
Christine MacDonald
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Superdelegates Were Designed To Stop a Candidate Like Bernie
Of course the establishment candidates approve of superdelegates—these unelected electors were created precisely to protect the party elite.
Branko Marcetic
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The Fate of the Planet Rests on Dethroning the IMF and World Bank
A Global Green New Deal could herald a new era of international cooperation to curb the climate crisis.
Johanna Bozuwa and Thomas M. Hanna
Viewpoint
Bloomberg Unleashes Warren’s Rage—At Last
If Warren has a superpower, it is her anger—a righteous, coruscating fury that beautifully clarifies the moral stakes of a rigged economy.
Kathleen Geier
Rural America
America’s Grasslands Once Teemed with Animals. We Must Save What’s Left of Their Vanishing Habitat
Joel Berger and Jon Beckmann
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Bernie’s Strategy To Win California—And Everywhere
Sanders is taking a risk no one has before: banking on new voters
Nuala Bishari
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