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Six months ago, I wrote a piece urging soldiers to leave the United States military. At the time, the possibility that the…
Bernie Sanders’ childhood home is a six-story tan brick apartment building on the corner of East 26th Street and Kings Highway, deep…
America did not get to the bad place it is in today by accident. We are here as a result of the…
On West 18th Street in Manhattan Monday morning, in front of a nondescript office building, a small crowd formed. As the minutes…
Nations have governments. Nations are full of people. The government and the people are two different things. The failure to take this…
Ronald Reagan, who launched the modern American age of inequality, and Donald Trump, who is riding its consequences into an ominous new…
I wrote a piece for In These Times this week called “Unions Without Strikes,” which was prompted by something very big and…
Few things are as easily predictable as the path that America is walking down towards its awful, inevitable national political war over…
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