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January 6, 2017

Rising Inequality Is Far From Inevitable

Robert Kuttner The American Prospect

For a generation after World War II, America was far more equal than we are today. Can we ever get that back? Of course we can—the obstacles are political, not economic.

January 6, 2017

Anti-Semitic Zionists

Uri Avnery Gush Shalom

Can Trump's administration include rabid Zionists and rabid anti-Semites at the same time? Of course it can.

January 6, 2017

Some Days It Seems Like All We Can Do with Our Lives Is Lose Them

Tessara Dudley wordsdance

Poet Tessara Dudley speaks of vulnerability, the burden of being "not"--"we will know every word we speak is true/we will know every word counts for nothing."