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The Negative Campaigning Dilemma for Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton

When it comes to attacking one another or the Republicans, both Democratic candidates are in a bind.

Peter White

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Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders’ New Hampshire Wins Show that People Are Sick of the Establishment

It's not about growing extremism. It's about a frustration with the status quo.

Robert Reich

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The More Bernie Sanders Wins, the More Establishment Liberals Will Tell You He Can’t Win

Some thoughts on Sanders' New Hampshire primary victory last night.

Corey Robin

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Without Black Lives Matter, Would Flint’s Water Crisis Have Made Headlines?

The mainstream media learns what 'environmental racism' means.

Susan J. Douglas

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Rewriting the Progressive Playbook

To counter the resurgent Right, Wisconsin progressives are thinking big

Joel Bleifuss

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In the Wake of Flint’s Water Crisis, It’s Time for a Federal Emergency Manager for Michigan

Maybe we should take a page from Gov. Rick Snyder's own playbook and override his authority.

Louis Nayman

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We Don’t Need To Break Up the Big Banks. We Need To Put Them Under Democratic Control.

The problem isn't that banks are "too big to fail"—it's that they're too important not to be under democratic control.

Jamie Merchant

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There’s No Other Way To Spin It: Bernie Sanders Pulled Off a Huge Victory in Iowa

Who would have imagined, even a few months ago, that the Iowa caucus results would be so close?

Marc Daalder

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The 5 Worst Excuses for Hillary Clinton’s Vote To Invade Iraq

Clinton supporters want Democratic voters to forgive their candidate's support for the most disastrous foreign policy decision in decades. They shouldn't.

Stephen Zunes

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LGBTQ Protests Against Israel Are About Justice, Not Anti-Semitism

Israel uses a reductive version of “gay rights” to market itself with a positive, welcoming image—despite its egregious human rights abuses against Palestinians.

Jimmy Pasch

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Joan Walsh to Young Bernie Sanders Supporters: Get Off My Lawn

Walsh's anger sounds like a diatribe against a rude, “barely shaving,” teen for not properly respecting his elder.

Matt Bruenig

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Paul Krugman Is Wrong About Bernie Sanders—and About How Social Change Works

Bernie isn't some kind of wild-eyed radical. He's actually the most pragmatic candidate in the race.

Gabriel Hetland

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Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy: The Man Who Drowned Democracy in ‘Citizens United’

What a legacy.

Joe Conason

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The Bizarre Experience of Agreeing with Trump

It's no coincidence that Trump, the candidate least in need of money or media attention, is the most outspoken against war.

Leonard C. Goodman

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How Donald Trump Hopes to John Wayne His Way Into the White House

Why the American Hero trope is so dangerous

Susan J. Douglas

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Bernie Sanders’ Insurgent Campaign Marks the End of Don’t-Rock-the-Corporate-Boat Liberalism

The grassroots is taking charge of Sanders' campaign—and they're not waiting around for the establishment.

Jim Hightower

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The Newspaper That Transformed Black America—And The Course of History

How an ambitious migrant came to Chicago and changed history with the power of journalism

Salim Muwakkil

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Bernie Sanders’ Election Would Mean the End of ‘Too Big To Fail’ on Wall Street

Why have the power players of the Democratic Party allowed this to continue?

Larry Cohen

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Expanding Housing Assistance to the Poor and Middle Class Is Actually Easier Than You Think

We'd just have to take away subsidies to people who are rich enough not to need them.

Daniel Hertz

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Raise a Glass to These Progressive Victories in 2015

From the death of the Keystone XL pipeline to Fight for 15 victories, progressives made have major strides this year--thanks to groundwork laid over the past decade.

James Thindwa

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The New Star Wars Film is the Same Old Hackneyed Nonsense—Please Don’t Kill Me for Saying It

With Star Wars: The Force Awakens racking up more and more acclaim, have audiences forgotten the narrative complexity and moral ambiguity cinema is capable of?

Eileen Jones

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The Paris Climate Agreement Sets Ambitious Goals, But Countries Won’t Achieve Them—Without Us

COP21's heart may have been in the right place, but by the numbers, the sum is still climate catastrophe.

Tom Ladendorf

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Why Zizek’s Critics are Wrong—and Where They Could Have Gotten it Right

Zizek's critique of the refugee crisis is more sophisticated than his critics are willing to admit—but he, too, missed something big.

Jamil Khader

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Bernie Is Right: The Military-Industrial Complex Is Alive and Well

For some, the Paris attacks were a windfall

Leonard C. Goodman