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The Case Against the Electoral College

Adam Eichen The New Republic
As has been true for over 200 years, the next president will be chosen by an eighteenth-century anachronism. American voters deserve better.

NPR and Venezuela

Lucas Koerner FAIR - Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
NPR Shreds Ethics Handbook to Normalize Regime Change in Venezuela

He’s Getting Worse

Jeffrey Goldberg, Editor in chief of The Atlantic The Atlantic
Trump is turning the American presidency into a platform for the wholesale demonization of minorities.

America’s Mixed Messages This Time at Sea

Karen J. Greenberg TomDispatch
In the twenty-first-century version of war American-style, other ships have become the very image and essence of hardship and harm in ways that violate the most basic tenets of democracy and justice.

First Step Act Has Sinister Implications for the Poor and Marginalized

Candice Bernd Truthout
The modest sentence reductions in the bill are so narrow that veteran reform advocates say the long-term, harmful provisions of the legislation — including its reliance on racist risk assessment mechanisms and expansion of electronic monitoring...

Stop the Construction of U.S. Military Base in Henoko!

Coalition Against U.S. Foreign Military Bases Coalition Against U.S. Foreign Military Bases
The airstrip will endanger the people, despoil a pristine environment and destroy endangered sea life, including the last few dugong (a marine mammal related to the manatee)...