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Once Solid Trump Country, Ohio Now Exhibiting Buyer’s Remorse
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Regulators Steamroll Health Concerns as the Global Economy Embraces 5G
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Inheriting The Memory of Justice
by Catherine Ellsberg


The Tech Giants Come to Congress, and Democracy Wins a Round
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Multiple Agendas in Attack on ICC
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New Labour Party Chief Keir Starmer Playing Long Game
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Foreign Policy
Contrary to Frothing Conspiracists, Beirut Warehouse Explosion Was the Result of Bureaucratic Failure
by Scott Ritter | Sep 18, 2020 | Foreign Policy, Politics
Shortly after the horrific explosion at a warehouse in the port of Beirut that killed some 200...
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A Response to “About those Benjamins”
by Joanna Graham | Aug 11, 2019 | Foreign Policy, Opinion, Politics
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North Korea, One More Time
by Robert Alvarez | Mar 18, 2019 | Foreign Policy, Politics
Culture
The Heart and Art of Milton Glaser
by Peter Yarrow | Aug 24, 2020 | Culture
Milton Glaser—the peerless graphic designer, painter, and visionary for humanity—was a dear and...
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Inheriting The Memory of Justice
by Catherine Ellsberg | Aug 24, 2020 | Culture, Politics
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Karl Rove, Partisan Judges, and Corruption in Alabama
by Lou Dubose | Jul 31, 2020 | Books
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LETTER TO A CITY UNDER SIEGE
by Carolyn Forché | Mar 22, 2020 | Poetry
Economy
Trump Economics Embrace Usual Fare of Tax Cuts for the Wealthy and False Promises to the Middle Class
by Steven Pressman | Sep 18, 2020 | Economy, Politics
Two numbers reveal everything you need to know about the U.S. economy over the past two decades....
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Great Depression II or Great Federal Debt
by Steven Pressman | May 19, 2020 | Coronavirus, Economy
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Letters to the Editor
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To the Editor,
I recently read the article "Changes in the Electorate Signal Close Florida Race" by Karen Houppert. She repeatedly used the term "Latinx" to, I assume, describe people of Latin American heritage. I understand that she wants to be as "woke" as possible, but to use a meaningless word is unacceptable. The proper English word is Latin or Latin American. Spanish is a gender based language (as are all romance languages), so if you are going to use the language then use it properly. My wife is a Venezuelan-American and can't stand how "woke" people abuse her native language.
Frederick Dennstedt
Flagstaff, AZ
To the Editor,
This afternoon I've been listening to the impeachment trial with tears in my eyes for several reasons. The first is because of the thorough and deeply researched history lesson that the Democratic House managers are providing in the proceedings. It is not fine oratory but it is compelling and you can hear the passion in their voices. What an example for our offspring, in place of the pathetic administration currently in power. [...]
To the Editor,
I am not sure why Steve Pressman wrote, and you published, such a lame set of arguments against a wealth tax (Sep 1 issue, p 6). The article claims "Perhaps the biggest negative is that the wealth tax does not have a very distinguished history." The main historical fact reported is that some wealth taxes were repealed, or reduced, or were unpopular as evidenced by their decline. So what? [...]
Pressman responds:
First, and maybe most important, property taxes are not wealth taxes. The property tax is a tax on the assessed value of a home and the land it sits on. It is not a tax on the equity that one has in one's home, which would make it a wealth tax. The same property tax applies to someone underwater on their mortgage and someone who owns their home outright -- when the two homes are of equal value in the same neighborhood. Rather than a tax on the wealthy, property taxes fall primarily on the middle class. [...]
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