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How Tariffs Are Playing Into Trump’s Xenophobic Agenda
Trump's anti-China protectionism and "free trade" neoliberalism are both dead ends. To confront multinational corporate power, the answer is global solidarity.
Tobita Chow

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Should We Primary Every Democrat?
Three views on left electoral strategy ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.
In These Times Writers

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The Colonial Roots of Gun Culture
The origins of the U.S. gun obsession lie in the violent dispossession of Native Americans.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

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Guns Have Always Been Vital to Black Political Struggle
From slave revolts to self-defense, Black revolutionary history is often ignored in the gun control conversation.
Charles Cobb Jr.

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We Can Fight for Gun Control Without Locking People Up
Solutions rooted in policing and prisons just contribute to a culture of violence.
Daniel Denvir

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The Arc of History Doesn’t Bend Toward Justice On Its Own.
It’s been 50 years since the Kerner Commission report was released, and institutional racism still pervades our society.
Joel Bleifuss

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Your Carbon Footprint Doesn’t Matter (Unless You’re Michael Bloomberg)
Consumption shaming is bad science—and bad politics.
Kate Aronoff

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A Socialist Case for Curbing Consumption To Stop Climate Change
Combating extractive capitalism is crucial. So is taking the bus.
Dayton Martindale

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Democrats Can’t Win By Courting Conservative White Voters
It’s time to follow the lead of Black grassroots organizers.
James Thindwa

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Establishment Democrats Lack the Will to Fight the GOP Tax Plan. It’s Time for an Alternative.
To fend off the Republicans' one-sided class war, we must break the corporate hold on the Democratic Party.
Joel Bleifuss

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Trump Must Go
We can’t have an out-of-control president with a finger on the button.
Joel Bleifuss

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Puerto Rico Is a Symptom of America’s Rotting Democracy
We need to rebuild the island and our government.
Jessica Stites

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Heed the Lesson of 1932: Only Left Unity Can Defeat the Racist Right
We have our differences, but we also have the numbers.
Joel Bleifuss

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We’ll Beat the Fascists With Ideas, Not Fists
As bad as the far Right is, shutting them down is poor strategy.
Nathan Robinson

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Don’t Give Fascism an Inch
To defeat white supremacy, we must confront it directly.
Natasha Lennard

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Why I Helped Shut the “Alt-Right” Down
While different situations call for different tactics, sometimes the only option is denying a platform.
Mukund Rathi

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Why Toxic Masculinity Hurts Men as Well as Women
Feminists and progressives need to highlight toxic masculinity's poisonous effects on not just the marginalized, but men as well.
Susan J. Douglas

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There’s Nothing Okay About Kevin Drum’s “Disgust” For the Homeless
The Mother Jones column is a case study in how liberals insulate themselves from the psychological and material effects of injustice.
Michael Metzger

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We Are In the Midst of a Black Power Renaissance
Under Trump, we are seeing a return to collective Black consciousness.
Salim Muwakkil

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We Have an Existential Imperative to Resist GOP Death Panels
The casualties of the war on health are real and imminent, not a hyperbolic exaggeration.
Joel Bleifuss

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Centrism Is in a Death Spiral: Our Only Hope Is to Let It Perish
While some cling to the Clinton era of the 1990s, the future belongs to a socialism for the 21st century.
Miles Kampf-Lassin

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The Senate GOP Healthcare Bill Is Lethal for the Poor and Elderly. The Answer Is Medicare-for-All.
The fight against the Senate's deadly healthcare bill must also include the demand for a single-payer system.
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan

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Ossoff’s Loss Is Further Proof: Democrats’ Path to Power Is Through Moving Left, Not Center
The results in Georgia show that the Trump resistance can show up to the polls, but centrism isn’t a strategy to win.
Theo Anderson

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If the European Left Doesn’t Step Up to Take on Capitalism, the Right Will Pounce
The left must respond to the economic crisis to defeat the right-wing lurch towards nationalism and racism.
Conn Hallinan