We have to be smart in how we fight against Trump and the Republican Party this time around. That means picking our battles wisely, and not taking bait that’s dangled in front of our faces.
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Renditions Continue Under Obama
The Obama administration has embraced rendition despite widespread condemnation of the tactic.
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Climate Change Won’t Wait for the President
It’s not a fight, like education reform or abortion or gay marriage, between conflicting groups with conflicting opinions. We’re talking about a fight between human beings and physics.
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Matt Damon’s "Promised Land" Draws Ire of Fracking Industry
The Gus Van Sant film depicts a gas industry that uses cash bribes, hard sells and Machiavellian maneuvers to get its way.
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Longshore Struggle Brews on East Coast
It's been 35 years since the International Longshoremen's Association went out on strike, but membership is ready to pick up its picket signs.
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We’re Tumbling Over an Inequity Cliff
By shifting the definition of who is rich, the fiscal cliff deal passed by Congress extends many of the notions that have made the United States the most economically unfair it has been in half a century.
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UBS Libor Manipulation Merits a Death Penalty
A more emphatic message needs to be sent to UBS bank by its prudential regulator in the U.S.: You are finished in this country.
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Open Letter to the FBI, From a Former Houston Occupier
I’m not a terrorist or a criminal. I’m an American citizen nonviolently protesting the fact that corporations and banks can buy influence in Washington.
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Cost of Combating Climate Change Surges as World Delays
An agreement by almost 200 nations to curb rising greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 will be far more costly than taking action now to tackle climate change.
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As the Foreclosure Crisis Drags On, So Does Flawed Government
We've been keeping a close watch on whether the government is keeping its promises about compensating victims of the foreclosure crisis, which just ended its sixth year.
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A Checkerboard Strategy to Keep Progressivism Alive
Progressives need to get off the defensive and get acquainted with the checkerboard of power and its possibilities.
