The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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Europe's Struggle for Abortion Rights Intensifies
From Hungary and Poland to Italy and Spain, today's anti-abortionist movements are feeding one another—while also driving a growing counter-movement.
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Alabama Ignoring SCOTUS Shows True Danger of a Partisan Court
The Supreme Court wasn’t designed to be an unaccountable super-legislature of a handful of corporate lawyers who can override the decisions of the executive and legislative branches, but it has become exactly that.
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Means Testing Is Drowning the Disabled in a Sea of Red Tape
Navigating America’s labyrinthian bureaucracy can leave applicants for public safety net programs feeling exhausted and defeated — something especially true for people with disabilities
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Green New Deal XXII: Kick Out the Landlords and Provide Decent Homes for All
A just future needs universal decent housing. Around the world, in Europe in particular, movements are fighting back and, in some cases, scoring popular wins against the landowning classes.
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If a Strip Club Can Unionize, So Can Your Workplace
The wave of post-pandemic unionization that kicked off with “Striketober” in the fall of 2021, with walkouts at Starbucks, Amazon, and other large employers, is now spreading to strip clubs.
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The Culture War Is Just as Urgent as the Class War
2023 and 2024 will be decisive years for the American culture war, and when a winner emerges, we will be a radically different country, either for worse or for better.
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GOP Anti-Trans Agenda Is a Shiny Object to Distract from War on Women
Despite their anti-trans arguments being repeatedly debunked by scientists, Republicans are winning the culture war and are poised to win further electoral victories by spreading vitriol against the transgender community.
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America Needs to Confront Its Culture of Guns and Fear
The combination of a high proliferation of guns and our fear of the unfamiliar has led to this week’s disturbing acts of violence — and should be a wake-up call to examine how things got to this point and how to turn them around before the violence gets worse.
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Even if Trump Goes Down, Democracy Is Still at Risk
Voting alone won’t save democracy, but by combining the vote with other powerful tools—public protest, getting messaging to circulate in the media, and shoe-leather grassroots organizing—the most anti-democratic elements in society can be held at bay.
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Green New Deal XXI: The Rich Are Killing Our Planet. Make Super-Wealth History
We need to reverse policies that make the super-rich even richer, and create a narrative to challenge their wealth and devastating power, which are inextricably linked.
