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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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The Hillary Clinton vs. Bernie Sanders Fight Has Gotten Nasty. But It’s Not Nearly As Bad As 2008.

Have we all forgotten how acrimonious Clinton vs. Obama was?

Branko Marcetic

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A Former Nation of Islam Activist Looks Back on Muhammad Ali

From a bout in Jamaica to an Air Force base in Germany to the streets of Chicago, Ali's presence was massive.

Salim Muwakkil

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Bernie Has Every Right To Raise Hell at the Democratic Convention

As wise man once said, “Democracy is not always nice and quiet and gentle."

Joel Bleifuss

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The Case for a One-Person, One-Vote National Primary To Nominate Our Presidential Candidates in 2020

State contests would be held first to reduce the field.

Rob Richie