Kaepernick Was Right — Racists Love the Betsy Ross Flag
Conservatives may deny it, or say it’s a thing of the past. But, hate groups are still flying their Betsy Ross flag right next to their Confederate one.
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Ten Good Things About the House’s (Too-Big) Military Budget
While the funding level is much higher than we need, the NDAA the House just passed takes important steps toward ending wars, preventing dangerous military conflicts, and protecting human rights.
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Trump’s Send-Them-Back Doctrine
Trump’s war on immigrants recalls the absurdity of Stalin’s purges — and a few of his supporters, at least, are starting to notice.
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Critics of Campus Activists Don’t Care About Free Speech
They complain when students protest hateful speakers, but not when shadowy conservative groups and politicians write laws to punish our speech.
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Washington Vs. The Squad
Trump’s not the only one terrified of these four congresswomen — leading Democrats apparently are, too.
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The Racist History of Tipping
This week, the House of Representatives will vote on the Raise the Wage Act, which would boost the minimum wage across the country to $15 an hour by 2024.
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Can Congress Use NDAA To Stop War With Iran?
The House, with Republic support, just passed an amendment to the $733 NDAA bill which would require Congressional approval for any war with Iran.
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A Trump Plan to Throw 55,000 Children Out of Their Homes
A proposed rule would strip housing benefits from U.S. citizens if they’re found to have family members with the wrong immigration status.
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Iran Is Not the Aggressor — the US Is
If a war breaks out, it won’t be because the Trump administration “bumbled” into one.
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How Congress Manufactured a Postal Crisis — And How to Fix it
An unprecedented congressional mandate threatens the Postal Service’s ability to continue to provide good jobs and universal service.
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A Bus Tour Pushes For Higher Taxes on the Rich
Tax cuts have funneled wealth to the richest for decades. Activists have convened a nationwide bus tour to prove how unpopular those tax policies have been.
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Behold the 21st-Century Penthouse: Peak Decadence?
From the summit of our new ‘needle towers,’ the ultra rich can look but never really see.
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Pyongyang on the Potomac
Trump and Kim getting along is better than the alternative, but there’s no denying troubling similarities in the two men’s political styles.
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My Parents Proudly Worked for the US Postal Service. Don’t Destroy It.
African Americans have the most to lose from Postal Service cuts and the most to gain from innovative reforms that help the poor, like postal banking.
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Will San Francisco Be the Second City to Tax Extreme CEO-Worker Pay Gaps?
SF voters will decide the fate of a proposed tax on corporations that pay their top exec more than 100 times median worker pay.
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Return of the Poll Tax
Florida’s anti-democratic poll tax will cost the state hundreds of thousands of voters — and hundreds of millions of dollars.
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The Wild Political Backstory to the Financial ‘Crisis’ at the Postal Service
Budget chicanery more than 15 years ago laid the foundation for a manufactured crisis that threatens the future of the postal service.
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We Need These Amendments to the 2020 NDAA
While we debate the enormous Pentagon budget, let’s also keep an eye on these four critical amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act.
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The U.S. Needs to Clean Up Its Own Act on Nuclear Weapons
The U.S. frets about nuclear weapons in North Korea and accuses Iran of wanting the same, all while refusing to honor its own obligation to disarm.
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Beyond NAFTA 2.0
Beyond NAFTA 2.0: A Trade Agenda for People and Planet Manuel Pérez-Rocha | Ethan Earle | Scott Sinclair Introduction: With ratification of NAFTA 2.0 still up in the air in the U.S. and Canada, a new international report looks beyond that deeply flawed agreement to...
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