Jesse Jackson
LATEST ARTICLES BY Jesse Jackson
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Opinion
Trump is taking credit for economic growth he didn’t create
January 31, 2018Trump is like a man who jumps on a moving train and takes credit for its speed.
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Remember and rekindle the spirit of the Emancipation Proclamation
January 4, 2018This country paid a terrible price to remove the scourge of slavery and become one nation. At a time when some would drive us apart, it is worth remembering the sacrifice and the triumph.
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The South can lead the nation to a ‘new politics’
December 19, 2017The race-bait politics that have defined the Republican Party since Nixon’s “Southern strategy” in 1968 may well be reaching its end date.
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The American plutocracy gets its immoral tax cut
December 6, 2017This is a brazen expression of money power, an example of American plutocracy—a government of the wealthy, by the wealthy, for the wealthy.
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To win in Alabama, Doug Jones must create a new coalition
December 4, 2017There is a new Alabama that has grown beyond old racial divides.
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Voting should be made easier, but Trump’s commission does opposite
July 6, 2017We do not need a commission to investigate Trump’s fantastical excuse for losing the popular vote. We need a commission to investigate the reality of voter suppression.
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Republicans’ Trumpcare health bill is unconscionable
June 30, 2017Millions will lose their health coverage. Nearly a million more will lose their job. And hospitals across the nation could close. That's Trumpcare.
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Trump turns back on a future with Cuba
June 15, 2017Surely, after more than five decades we have learned that Cubans, proud of their revolution and their independence, will resist economic or military coercion.
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