Category: Politics
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Remembering Ramsey Clark
by Mark Green | May 1, 2021 | Culture, PoliticsRamsey Clark, former attorney general under Lyndon Baines Johnson and progressive civil rights attorney who ran twice for U.S. Senate from New York, died at 93 in his Manhattan home on April 9, 2021. Mark Green—on the staff of both the 1974 and 1976 campaigns—recalls the experience of trying to combine Clark’s principles with New […]
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All Enemies, Foreign and Domestic: The Road From Vietnam to the Capitol Steps
by George Black | Apr 27, 2021 | PoliticsWatching the mob surge toward the steps of the Capitol on January 6, it was hard not to wonder whether the United States was any longer a nation or had degenerated into what a Turkish diplomat, speaking about the Middle East, once famously described as a warring collection of “tribes with flags.” The crowd […]
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Four Ways Biden and the Democrats Can Spur Real Economic Justice
by Dennis Parker | Mar 11, 2021 | Economy, OpinionRampant economic inequality in the United States demands structural solutions centered on racial justice. Income inequality and unequal access to jobs, health care, and benefits disproportionately harm Black, Indigenous, and people of color. Racial inequity in wages already costs the U.S. economy about $2.3 trillion per year. President Biden has stated his administration will prioritize […]
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Defend Voting Rights, Abolish the Filibuster
by Andrew Cohen | Mar 5, 2021 | Opinion, PoliticsAfter the impeachment and acquittal of Donald Trump, we now confront the Republican party we have—not the one the nation needs, not the one we grew up with, and certainly not the one moored to conservative principles or moral judgment or even shame. Once Republicans stopped competing for votes through policy, once they resorted […]
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A Former Beat Cop Looks to Europe for Solutions to the Problems of American Policing
by David DeBatto | Mar 1, 2021 | Opinion, PoliticsPolice officers in the United States use deadly force far more often than police in Europe, in many cases 10 to 20 times more often. American police departments also have much shorter initial training periods than European police departments; focus less on “soft skills” such as problem-solving, community relations, and de-escalation; and also require […]
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