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Calling Trump supporters racist is easy, fighting structural racism is harder
October 21, 2019Hating people of color isn’t a prerequisite for a system that provides them with worse health care, worse education, lower incomes, and less power in the workplace.
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“Stand up for this democracy”: My congressman, Elijah Cummings
October 18, 2019I covered Cummings as a correspondent for People's Weekly World in Washington, D.C., and interviewed him more than once.
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More rehabilitation, less incarceration: How about votes for inmates?
October 16, 2019They know better than most that while there are some truly violent people that deserve incarceration, the vast majority need a hand up, not another shackle of more debt, a bad record, a bleaker future.
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Why the left should care about impeachment—and support it wholeheartedly
October 10, 2019From a Marxist point of view, a successful impeachment will create new material conditions, a new context that's better for progressives and worse for the right wing.
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Does everyone deserve to have their basic needs met?
October 10, 2019A lot of energy has gone into railing against the tax policy proposals forwarded by Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.
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