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Guest Blogger
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Military & Security,
Social Insurance, Earned Benefits, & Safety Net
People escaping violence have a right to seek safety. If they can’t, that’s the real crisis.
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Ashik Siddique
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Budget Process,
Military & Security
Today, President Joe Biden unveiled his administration's FY 2022 “skinny budget” request. While not a full breakdown, the “skinny budget” offers a critical glimpse at topline discretionary budget spending and speaks volumes about the administration's priorities. At $753 billion, Biden's requested Pentagon budget increase continues the dangerous and short-sighted path...
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Lindsay Koshgarian
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Military & Security
Progressives have called for an immediate ten percent Pentagon spending reduction, to be followed by greater reductions. That would take spending closer to where it was under President Obama. We'll soon find out whether President Biden will stick with the Trump increases, build on them, or begin to tear them down.
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Phyllis Bennis
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Social Insurance, Earned Benefits, & Safety Net
The factors that drive displacement are often complex, but welcoming refugees isn't.
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Peter Certo
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Military & Security
A personal recollection on the day that launched the Iraq War — and its lessons for us 18 years later.
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Lindsay Koshgarian
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Military & Security
We’ve had 18 years to learn that the costs of war are just too high. We must end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the next time our leaders inevitably argue for the necessity of war, it’s up to us to resist.
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Domenica Ghanem
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Military & Security,
Social Insurance, Earned Benefits, & Safety Net
The Biden administration is bending rules to drop bombs but not raise wages. That’s a mistake.
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Lindsay Koshgarian
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It’s time for a different foreign policy that respects the rule of law, respects the sovereignty of other nations, and respects human life in all nations.
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Lorah Steichen
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Climate Change
The United States' reentry to the Paris Climate Agreement is critical, but far from the sufficient. The path to a livable future requires new internationalism rooted in global cooperation, resource sharing, and solidarity.
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Rebekah Entralgo
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Military & Security
Biden’s order rolling back for-profit prisons is a good first step. Next we need to end for-profit immigration detention.