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War on the elderly
Between 1960 and 1995, the poverty rate of those aged 65 and above fell from 35 percent to 10 percent.
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John Bolton and U.S. policy towards Latin America
When National Security Adviser John Bolton met with Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro he was told everything he wanted to hear.
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RIP Mr. President, but we can never forget your dark side too
Wrestling with the death of a president who was also destructive and caused pain to many around the world.
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Congress is finally pushing the U.S. to withdraw from Yemen. It’s about time.
The U.S. Senate voted this week to advance legislation that would give President Trump 30 days to get the U.S. military out of Saudi Arabia’s genocidal war in Yemen.
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The backstory on the Pelosi leadership flap
No matter how intense the top-down pressure gets from Speaker Pelosi, we should insist from the bottom up that members of Congress stand their ground for progressive principles.
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Voting is power. Let’s use it.
Power was paramount in the recently completed midterm elections. Why do you think Georgia disallowed more than 50,000 votes and in Florida we saw voting irregularities?
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The coming climate disaster
Our planet is like a skydiver in free fall approaching the point when it will be too late to open the parachute and avoid disaster.
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FAKE NEWS: Trump and family agree to be tear-gassed — but only with the ‘minor’ kind
Sources have informed Progreso Weekly that the president did not feel any pity for the tear-gassed children at the border calling them short gang members.
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Trump’s assault on the rule of law
Almost a half-century ago, another president violated the three basic principles of the rule of law, although not as blatantly as Trump. Nixon resigned before Congress impeached him.
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For Trump, the law is toilet paper
Contempt for the rule of law has been the Trump administration’s leading motif. The lying, the cruelty, the racism, the bellicosity are also all nasty qualities associated with the…
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