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The Real Reason the Blue Wave Never Materialized Nov 13, 2020

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Dennis Kucinich, former Ohio congressman and mayor of Cleveland, weighs in on what the Democratic Party keeps getting wrong.

The Only Meaningful Way to Save American Journalism Nov 06, 2020

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Publicly-funded media models make a lot of Americans nervous, but Victor Pickard argues it may be the only way to repair our tattered democracy.

Tracing America’s Brutal Imperialist History Through Its Military Bases Oct 30, 2020

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Political anthropologist David Vine argues that the most visible evidence of the country’s global empire are the thousands of military installations it has around the world.

America’s Prized Legal System Only Works for the Rich Oct 23, 2020

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Attorney Ronald Goldfarb offers a scathing indictment of American law and lawyers in his new book, The Price of Justice.

Big Oil weaponized our judicial system against an attorney and the Indigenous people he represented Oct 16, 2020

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The epic battle by Steve Donziger to get Chevron to pay a $9.5 billion judgment he won in 2011 for its “mass industrial poisoning” of Indigenous Amazonian tribes in Ecuador has left him under house arrest for 13 months, disbarred, with a lien on his home, frozen bank accounts, $32 million in legal fees and no way to make a living. The judgment has not yet been paid.

Wrestling Back Privacy From the Jaws of Big Tech Oct 09, 2020

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James Steyer is taking on Mark Zuckerberg and other tech barons and he wants to empower the rest of us to do the same.

The Socialist Lesson Bernie Sanders Left Out of His Message Oct 02, 2020

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Rabbi Michael Lerner, a lifelong progressive, talks about his new book and what he found lacking in the Democratic Socialist’s presidential campaign.

How Today’s Uprisings Compare to the 1960s Rebellions Sep 18, 2020

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The movements of the sixties, which are captured in detail in Mike Davis and Jon Wiener’s new book Set the Night on Fire, are seen as wildly successful. Is it possible Black Lives Matter will be even more significant?

Trump Is the Sweaty Armpit of Monopoly Capitalism Sep 11, 2020

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Journalist David Dayen examines how the greatest danger to our American society doesn’t come from the White House, but from a few obscenely powerful corporations.

The Devastating 1918 “Spanish Flu” Was Exported from the United States, But Don’t Call it the Kansas Virus. Sep 04, 2020

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“The Great Influenza” author John Barry gave us a warning 16 years ago that is extremely relevant to today’s Covid-19 pandemic: It is always fatal to allow politics to trump science.

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