Peter Certo
LATEST ARTICLES BY Peter Certo
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Opinion
If money is speech, then speech isn’t free
July 11, 2024When the Supreme Court rules that cash payments — even bribes — are “free speech,” then those of us with less cash get a lot less free speech.
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Opinion
20 years and trillions of dollars later, what did the Iraq War cost?
March 20, 2023The war claimed more than lives and treasure—it claimed a future’s worth of lost opportunities. Now, younger generations are demanding them back.
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Opinion
Republicans and Supreme Court revive segregation-era ‘states’ rights’ ideology
July 21, 2022Giving extreme new powers to autocratic, gerrymandered, and unaccountable state governments is not democracy.
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Opinion
Filibuster or democracy: Can’t have both
July 2, 2021The warning from democracy advocates is clear: Kill the filibuster and pass the For the People Act, or our democracy won’t survive.
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Opinion
Only billionaires will miss Paul Ryan
January 2, 2019Ryan was never a serious thinker, and he didn’t care about debt. He was a frat bro from a wealthy family who read a lot of Ayn Rand.
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Politics
Trump snubbed McCain, but the media snubbed the rest of us
August 27, 2018The media treated Trump's petty snub of John McCain as a bigger controversy than the $717 billion Pentagon bill named for the Arizona senator.
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Opinion
Republicans admit their tax cut plan is all about rich donors
November 16, 2017It’s unpopular. It’s expensive. But the donors want it.
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Opinion
A U.S. soldier died in Niger. Why are our troops there?
October 27, 2017When our soldiers kill and die in fruitless wars we don’t know about and can’t end, we’re not a democracy—we’re an empire.
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