Tag: America
How do you celebrate a flawed nation?
To love America is to love the movements that have fought for centuries to make it better.
How ‘America first’ descends to ‘America behind’
Admittedly, “Trump the Rogue Empire-buster” smacks of old-fashioned, comic book cartoon characters – full of sneering menace, contempt and buffoonery. Okay, not...
Giving a pass to anti-Muslim bigotry
Islamophobia enters the government, is incorporated into the law, and becomes increasingly acceptable in America.
Rapidly becoming irrelevant in America: The principles of ethics and morality
It appears that we have entered an era in this nation’s history is which the principles of ethics and morals are becoming irrelevant in both this government and our society.
Why America is the greatest country
I just know that everything is okay because I live in the greatest country. And America is the greatest country because everything is okay.
6 ways Millennials will clean up the mess Boomers left them
Millennials are different from boomers and they will shape the future.
This system is killing us
It's time to recognize that when violence explodes out of nowhere, time and again, and at such a cost – violence is the system, violence courses through its veins.
The 9/11 hijackers were Iraqis, right?
The good news is that they want to learn. The bad news: nowadays, they tend to think that the men who flew those planes on 9/11 were from Iran.
Why the common good disappeared (and how we get it back)
The challenge is to turn all this into a new public spiritedness extending to the highest reaches in the land.
A pledge to transform the resistance, and America
If today’s resistance is to become a lasting movement, we must decide what we’re for.
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Sander’s monumental mistake: failing to explain exactly what a democratic socialist government is
It’s time that Sanders speaks out, explains what democratic socialism is and reminds Americans that it is a central part of this country, and that’s why he espouses that political ideology.
Yale study says Medicare for All would save US $450 billion, prevent nearly 70,000...
The study in The Lancet found that Medicare for All, supported by Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, will save money and is more cost-effective than “Medicare for All Who Want It."
Factchecking NPR’s attempted takedown of Bernie Sanders
Their ignorance is willful, and finds its roots in a profoundly ideological position, an ideology adopted by journalists who favor and are rewarded by corporate arguments promoted by corporate Democrats.
Sanders alone on debate stage to say candidate with the most votes should get...
“Out of all the candidates, Bernie is the only one to advocate for the democratic will of the people.”
Millions of Americans crowdfunding to cover medical expenses
“It comes down to a profit-making motive that is baked into a system—a system that puts profits over patients.”