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The United States has an alarming problem: civic negligence. The signs of civic decline and decay are all around us.
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The future of local news is too important to be left to market forces, and the media conglomerates that got us into the local-news crisis aren't going to get us out of it.
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These are the top 10 listed by Peter Dreier, professor at Occidental College and former senior policy advisor to Boston Mayor Ray Flynn.
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He pointed out that in his book he wrote about the failed effort to overthrow Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in 2019.
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Biden and Putin should seek a Cuban-missile-style compromise in which NATO allies agree to negotiate the security guarantees that Russia seeks and Putin pledges to forego an invasion of…
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Trump set off a disastrous domino effect in 2020. Here are some of the biggest inaccuracies and myths being told about the Senate's vital voting rights legislation.
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India Walton might have lost an election. But she also ostensibly helped Buffalo progress more than halfway through the stages of a winning social movement.
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Democratic strategist Max Burns wrote that "there's one simple trick to averting a Democratic bloodbath next year: Do what voters say they want."
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A new report shows that as the fossil fuel-driven climate emergency intensifies floods and droughts, access to clean water is expected to become even more unequal.
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"The fact that the supplemental poverty rate dropped during the Covid-19 crisis is a huge victory for advocates of expanding the social safety net."
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