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Alito’s folly, part 2: SCOTUS abuses history in Janus decision
July 5, 2018Making public institutions untenable by starving them of funding is basically an attack on the public sphere itself.
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Alito’s folly, part 1: SCOTUS Janus ruling undermines democracy
July 3, 2018Alito either misunderstands or simply disrespects democracy.
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Why U.S. client state Saudi Arabia escapes the Muslim ban
July 2, 2018How did the country that was the home of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda not make it onto the list of banned Muslim nations?
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Labor after Janus—Unions have experienced worse
June 29, 2018Once again, American workers will need to find new ways to build power against big money interests. Fortunately, this is already beginning.
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As Indigenous people have long known, child separation is an American tradition
June 27, 2018Trump migrant child separation policy has many saying, “This is not what America is about." The reality is that this country's government has done a lot of this in the past.
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