Jesse Jackson
LATEST ARTICLES BY Jesse Jackson
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Opinion
“Measures of despair”: Chicago desperate for action on violence and poverty
May 16, 2016A poll just released depicts a city that is losing faith in its basic public institutions, from the police to the mayor's office.
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Opinion
Police accountability report highlights “Chicago’s shame”
April 21, 2016We must reform the police. But we also need a program for urban development, jobs, schools, and hope.
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Opinion
GOP stopped being the ‘party of Lincoln’ long before Trump
March 9, 2016Trump shocks Republicans because he is cruder than most, but dog whistle racial signaling is not new to today's GOP.
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Opinion
Mexico is our neighbor, not the enemy
March 2, 2016We don't need a wall; we need a bridge. We are neighbors, bound together by geography and by history.
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Opinion
Rebuild America’s infrastructure
February 25, 2016We didn't need the horrors of children at risk from fouled lead pipes in Flint, Michigan to know that our infrastructure is dangerously decrepit.
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U.S.
Minority voters must focus on what, not who
February 18, 2016We've learned that a rising tide doesn't raise all boats. Some boats are buoyant yachts, others small row boats and some are stuck at the bottom.
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Opinion
Behind Flint water horror, a corrosive cynicism
February 3, 2016Republican Governor Rick Snyder's men have wreaked untold economic damage on the residents of Flint on top of the threat to their health.
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Opinion
Flint’s water crisis and the GOP’s class war
January 26, 2016Why did Flint suffer a water catastrophe that now requires that children be treated as if they had been poisoned?
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