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An Open Letter to the Green Party About 2020 Election Strategy

Noam Chomsky and others Portside
Why reject a safe states strategy? Some might claim doing so can't help Trump win again or that Trump's re-election would not matter all that much. We hope that no one in 2020 will make such irresponsible and patently false claims.

Ancient African Genomes Offer Glimpse Into Early Human History

Ewen Callaway Nature
Today, people in sub-Saharan Africa are the most genetically diverse in the world. Newly deciphered genomes of four African children who died between 4 and 10 thousand years ago have some surprising implications for the period before then, and since.

Tidbits - Jan. 23, 2020 - Reader Comments: Anti-Trump Unity Needed; Truth About Trump Economy; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; Civil Rights, Voting Rights,Emmett Till; Terence Hallinan; Austria; Top Civil Rights Songs; Iran Day of Action Saturday; more....

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Reader Comments: Anti-Trump Unity Needed; Truth About Trump Economy; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; Civil Rights, Voting Rights and Emmett Till; Terence Hallinan; Latest from Austria; Puerto Rico poster; Top Civil Rights Songs; Iran Day of Action Saturday

An Impeachment Trial Without Witnesses Would Be Unconstitutional

Paul Savoy The Atlantic
Donald Trump became only the third U.S. president to be impeached. If Mitch McConnell succeeds in his intention to prevent any witnesses from testifying, Trump will become the first president to be acquitted by an unconstitutional impeachment process

Trump's Gotta Go! Trumpism Too. Please Help.

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Trump is on trial. We will, of course, present the case for his conviction and removal. But beyond that, we will work to vaccinate society against Trumpism by providing a continuous stream of fact, analysis and vision.