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The 5 Myths That Weigh Down Paul Ryan’s Opportunity Proposal
8 Aug 2014 … Paul Ryans new plan includes a few positive proposals, but a poverty activist writes that it's doomed to fail because of its reliance on discredited, right-wing poverty myths. Continue reading
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‘American Winter’ Arrives at Capitol Hill
6 Jun 2013 … Three Oregonians living on the margins testified at a congressional subcommittee hearing last week on the state of the American Dream and how economic policies are affecting the middle class. Continue reading
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The Failed War on Drugs in Mexico (and the United States)
3 Mar 2015 … Like the Islamic State, the Mexican drug cartels’ power has increased as the result of disastrous policies born in the USA. Continue reading
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Morning Reads: Clinton Shrugs Off Benghazi Hearing; AGs Take on Climate Law; Billionaire Tries to Buy Tax Break
10 Oct 2015 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at Moyers & Company HQ... Continue reading
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The Second Amendment Was Never Meant to Protect an Individual’s Right to a Gun
12 Dec 2015 … In common with the other big rightward swerves by the Roberts Court, the 2008 ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller was an aggressive exercise in mendacity. By upending the well-established meaning of the Second Amendment, the Court made the country less Continue reading
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How to Save the Planet From President Trump
12 Dec 2016 … We’re going to be dealing with an onslaught of daily emergencies during the Trump years. Already it’s begun — if there’s nothing going on (or in some cases when there is), our leader often begins the day with a tweet Continue reading
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Why 2014 Will Be Remembered as the Year the Sports World Turned Upside Down
12 Dec 2014 … This year will be remembered as a turning point, when those in charge of the multibillion-dollar athletic-industrial complex saw their control over the levers of power slip in a decisive fashion. Continue reading
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We Have Just One Decade to Turn Back the Worst of Climate Change
8 Aug 2020 … We in the foundation world need to get bolder, more persistent, tougher, and more forceful in mobilizing to meet the challenge of global warming. If not now, when? Continue reading
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Donald Trump and the Plague of Atomization in a Neoliberal Age
8 Aug 2016 … Donald Trump lowered the bar even further by attacking the Muslim parents of US Army Captain Humayan Khan, who was killed in 2004 by a suicide bomber while he was trying to save the lives of the men in his Continue reading
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The GOP Won’t Pass Immigration Reform – and It Could Prove Disastrous
3 Mar 2014 … Dog whistle politics have served Republicans well. But with shifting demographics, they may be an albatross around the party's neck. Continue reading