To his wealthy donors, Trump is their grifter
October 7, 2019
The Trump economy doesn’t work for most Americans, but it works for his donors. They’re all in on the con.
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Republican Senate stands in the way of moving America forward
September 30, 2019
Mitch McConnell and the GOP will block reforms our nation desperately needs until voters move them out of the way.
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Workers are asking, whose side are you on?
September 24, 2019
Auto workers, nurses, pilots, hotel workers — they’re all going on strike. Trump boasts about the "economic miracle," but most workers aren’t experiencing it.
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Can America break its gun addiction?
September 16, 2019
Other nations savaged by civil war or outside invasion may suffer greater casualties in a conflict, but we have made violence — and victims of violence — routine.
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NFL’s Depression-era ban on black players lingers on in the owner’s box
September 9, 2019
The NFL should start acknowledging the racial ban it enforced and ensure that the ownership, management and coaching of NFL teams reflect the diversity of the players and fans.
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Violent white supremacists threaten basic civil rights — and our lives
August 26, 2019
The federal government can largely stamp out domestic terrorism — or fan the flames.
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The significance of the 1619 Project
August 19, 2019
The project tells the "unvarnished truth" of slavery. We will face the horrors of our past, as well as the triumph of our progress. It is a telling that is long overdue.
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End endless conflict and bring peace to Korea
August 12, 2019
July 27 marked the 66th anniversary of the signing of the Korean War armistice, which brought an end to hostilities that killed nearly five million people, including almost 40,000 U.S. service members.
The war ended in a temporary cease-fire, which is why the United States still maintains 28,500 troops in South Korea. Nuclear missiles ring the region and threaten the people living there. North and South remain divided, separating thousands of families.
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America’s democracy facing multiple threats
July 29, 2019
Our democracy is in peril, but we the people can preserve it.
The Senate Intelligence Committee last week startled the nation with a democracy shaking report entitled “Russian Efforts Against Election Infrastructure.”
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South Carolina heads down a dead-end street in rejecting Medicaid expansion
July 22, 2019
South Carolina’s James Louis Petigru was a Civil War-era lawyer, judge, congressman and most notably the attorney general who opposed South Carolina’s use of nullification of federal laws and, after Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860, opposed state secession.
He famously quipped, after learning that his state had seceded from the Union, “South Carolina is too small to be a republic and too large to be an insane asylum.”
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