Opinion
Widening wealth gap exposes America’s cultural commitment to inequality
June 27, 2016"I believe these truths to be self-evident: America is committed to inequality."
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Brexit, Trump, and the choices we actually have
June 24, 2016The Brexit vote shows the pitfalls of acting as if we had ideal choices rather than real ones.
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The House sit-in wasn’t dumb or great, it was a beginning
June 23, 2016One action isn't going to do it. Progressives will have to do much more to break industry's choke hold on Congress.
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Vigils for the murdered will never cease under capitalism
June 23, 2016The capitalist system promotes the cycle of violence in many ways and the preparation to become cannon fodder starts early in childhood.
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Baptists, citing another tradition in the South, denounce Confederate flag
June 23, 2016Two recent, very different, actions illustrate that although those in power have tried to repress it, the tradition of fighting racism in the South runs as deep as the racism itself.
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