Happy Dictator’s Day

HOLIDAY COLUMN--(Editor’s Note: This being national President’s Day, we went in search of a story that might honor the occasion. We headed for the Oval Office and found the US had experienced a change in leadership. Robert Reich explains.) 

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Green New Deal: Building a ‘Bold and Unapologetic’ Political Coalition

CLIMATE POLITICS-Progressive organizers are mobilizing behind the Green New Deal resolution—unveiled last week by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.)—with renewed energy to build "an unprecedented political coalition" to radically transform the nation's energy system and address the climate crisis while also facilitating a just transition to a new, greener economy. 

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Millennial-Bashing Is Class Warfare

EXPOSED-In 2013, Time magazine published an article entitled “Millennials: The Me Me Me Generation,” which bemoaned millennials’ inability to live up to the gumption and sturdiness of baby boomers or the entrepreneurial spirit of Generation X. It had a laundry list of criticisms, but the one that stood out was that millennials were “stunted, having prolonged a life stage between teenager and adult.” 

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Instead of Trump’s Border Wall, What Would a National Emergency Over Gun Violence Look Like?

GUN POLITICS--As President Donald Trump weighed the prospect of declaring a national emergency to erect a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border without dealing with Congress, one of the survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, offered an alternative: How about Trump declare a national emergency over gun violence instead?

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