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There are more parallels between an unfinished 1950s war in Northeast Asia and an ongoing 16-year-old war in the crossroads between Central and South Asia than meet the eye. History has shown there is no military solution to either conflict, yet the Trump Administration has chosen bluster over diplomacy. The current US/South Korea military exercises, “a nuclear war game for the first time,” and more bombs for Afghanistan are just more steps along the path of endless war.

"The public is struggling to pay for health care," said Sen. Chris Pearson (P/D-Chittenden). "To see that the CEO of our hospital is getting $2 million ... it's just way out of whack with the Vermont economy."

This event, then, tied, in a sinister but clear way, Trump’s infrastructure plan with the racist, anti-Semitic, and neo-fascist members of Trump’s base movement .

Based on my experience as an organizer for the Tennessee Education Association (TEA), it is clear that jettisoning exclusive representation might have solved the free-rider problem for the union, but it exacerbated the divide-and-conquer problem.

The circus--as in Bread & Circus--is coming to town but as Oregon poet Amy Miller explains with brilliant clarity, it will not set you free.

Daniel Kammen decries Trump’s attitude and policies on human rights and sustainability

Even when sensible adults finally take back government, “back to normal” is not what we want.

Americans should build this pivotal post–Civil War era into the new politics of historical memory.1877

The 36-year-old city attorney is proposing debt-free community college and reinvestment in Black neighborhoods.