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The social dynamics that created Trumpism are not being addressed.
Inequality continues. People lack housing, healthcare, jobs. Retirees are struggling. Infrastructure is falling apart.
Biden administration promised various things to solve these before ...[Read more]
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Noam Chomsky talks to Jacobin about why working-class politics can secure universal health care, climate justice, and an end to nuclear weapons — if we’re willing to fight for them. ...[Read more]
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President Joe Biden was sworn into office around noon on Wednesday, and by the end of the day, the course of the U.S. federal government had dramatically shifted. Here are 7 things which Biden already has done. ...[Read more]
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Roger J. Kreuz, University of Memphis and Leah Cathryn Windsor, University of MemphisOn Jan. 6, the world witnessed how language can incite violence. One after another, a series of speakers at the "Save America" rally at the Ellipse in Washington redouble ...[Read more]
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In the wake of Nancy Pelosi’s re-election as speaker of the House American progressives have once again begun to throw their stones at each other, with even such progressive figures as Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez being maligned for perceived ...[Read more]
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One day after President Donald Trump released a video committing to a peaceful transfer of power, he was banned from Twitter "his strongest form of communication with his base. As expected, the new directive did not go over well with Trump and now, accord ...[Read more]
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Washington D.C. was rocked by violence as members of the House and Senate gathered for a joint session of Congress to certify President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College victory, and violent clashes were reporterd as pro-Trump demonstrators entered the ...[Read more]
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Twenty-five years ago, when the high-tech Second Industrial Revolution had just begun, I made a bet with an editor from Wired magazine that global society led by the United States would collapse in the year 2020 from a confluence of causes created by mode ...[Read more]
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The pressure is building for President-elect Joe Biden to cancel federal student debt. The latest: a resolution led by prominent House Democrats urging Biden to act.
On Thursday, Reps. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Alma Adams (D-NC), and Maxi ...[Read more]
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Joe Biden on Friday stumbled through an interview on his proposed response to the coronavirus pandemic.Following a long and disjointed introduction, Biden appeared to suggest policy proposals similar to those Franklin D. Roosevelt employed to coordinate m ...[Read more]
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The Office of Management and Budget's latest effort to redefine "poverty" threatens to deprive countless Americans of basic social services. ...[Read more]
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