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Democratic Elites Are Uneasy With Keith Ellison. That Is Exactly Why He Should Be Head of the DNC.
The Democratic Party must be rebuilt—from the bottom up.
Joel Bleifuss
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Tom Geoghegan: 4 Things We the People Can Do About Our Unjust Voting System and a President Trump
A case for a house divided.
Thomas Geoghegan
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How To Vote When There’s No Lesser Evil
On foreign policy, both candidates are bad, but Clinton may be worse. We can't keep supporting militarism out of fear.
Leonard C. Goodman
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The Left Deserves Better Than Jill Stein
Stein’s Green Party run doesn’t offer a plan to win, or to build power. The Left is capable of so much more.
Kate Aronoff
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Voting For Hillary is a Privilege—One Not Shared By the People She’ll Bomb
Yes, vote for her. But then prepare to fight her hawkish policies every step of the way.
Marc Daalder
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3 Reasons to Vote for Hillary Clinton That Have Nothing To Do with Hillary Clinton
We can't ignore the ways that having a Democrat in the White House matters.
Thomas Geoghegan
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How a Trump Presidency Would Unleash Racist Violence—And Devastate the Left
The Left should take the Trump threat very seriously.
Arun Gupta
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More Than a Protest: Why Voting Green Counts
Jill Stein's campaign manager makes the case for a Green political revolution.
David Cobb
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Should Silicon Valley Really Be Allowed To Decide What Is and Isn’t Hate Speech?
The internet is a bastion of free speech—but that's not always a good thing.
Susan J. Douglas
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Tilting at Windmills
Wind and solar energy may be our best bet against fossil fuels. Can that justify their grave cost to wildlife?
Michael Hutchins and Rebecca Leber
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On the Clinton Foundation, Why Are Journalists Telling Us to Look the Other Way?
Hillary Clinton’s media sycophants appear to have forgotten how political corruption works.
Joel Bleifuss
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Hillary: Here’s a Stake, Find Neoliberalism’s Heart
We need Clinton to take up Bernie Sanders' progressive charge and end the long reign of market fundamentalism.
Susan J. Douglas
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The Black Political Establishment Should Never Have Given Hillary Clinton a Blank Check
The Sanders campaign was an opportunity to put pressure on Clinton, but instead the neoliberal Black elite backed her unconditionally.
James Thindwa
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An Inside-Outside Strategy For the Political Revolution
Raucous protests and down-ballot Democrats can beat the Bernie-or-bust blues.
Joel Bleifuss
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‘Marketplace Feminism’ and the Commodification of Empowerment
Andi Zeisler's new book We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl®, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement takes on corporate exploitation of the feminist movement.
Susan J. Douglas
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Elie Wiesel Denounced Oppression of Jews—But Didn’t Do the Same for Palestinians
How should we remember the Nobel Peace Prize recipient who also provided cover for the devastation of the Middle East?
Max Blumenthal
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Puerto Rico Can’t—And Shouldn’t—Pay Its Debts Just to Enrich Wall Street Profiteers
With interest rates of 785 percent, the island got stiffed by the municipal equivalent of a payday loan
Saqib Bhatti
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Banning the Box is Not Nearly Enough
For those who have been incarcerated, punishment doesn’t end with prison.
Lewis M. Steel
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After Brexit, European Left Calls for ‘Massive Political Opposition’
What Europe needs more than ever to avoid a slide into a xenophobic, deflationary, 1930s-like abyss.
Nadia Prupis
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A Newly Leaked Hillary Clinton Memo Shows How Campaigns Get Around Super PAC Rules
It's not that hard.
Branko Marcetic
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You Don’t Have to Like Hillary Clinton—But Sexist Attacks On Her Supporters Are Shameful
The gendered attacks against Clinton and her supporters must come to an end.
Susan J. Douglas
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Government Surveillance Can’t Prevent Attacks Like Orlando. We Shouldn’t Expand It Now.
We are already incredibly surveilled, yet this did nothing to keep us safer. Increasing surveillance won't help prevent future attacks.
Branko Marcetic
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Noam Chomsky: The Republican Party Is Becoming a Real Danger to Human Survival
Nuclear weapons, climate change, and the prospects for survival.
Noam Chomsky
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On the Occupation’s 49th Anniversary, Israel Wants To Expand Capital Punishment for Palestinians
The move would likely only be used for Palestinians found guilty of engaging in terrorism, but not Israelis.
Marc Daalder
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