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Sarah Anderson
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Social Insurance, Earned Benefits, & Safety Net
A new congressional resolution asserts it’s not only possible to end poverty, but morally necessary.
By
Lindsay Koshgarian
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Budget Process,
Military & Security
With the Afghanistan War finally ending, we shouldn’t squander our “peace dividend” on costly weapons or military bloat.
By
Guest Blogger
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Military & Security
We can’t say we support justice and human rights in this country while supporting violence and expulsion abroad.
By
Lindsay Koshgarian
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Military & Security
President Biden proposed a Pentagon budget increase larger than the entire discretionary budget of the CDC.
By
John Feffer
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Social Insurance, Earned Benefits, & Safety Net
What's the answer to declining births, labor shortages, and spending shortfalls? Immigration. Just ask Germany.
By
Robert Alvarez
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Military & Security
The standard, often unreliable reporting on police killings dehumanizes victims — a fact my own family knows too well.
By
Lorah Steichen
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Climate Change,
Military & Security
Last week the White House convened a virtual Leaders Summit on Climate with forty leaders from the world's largest economies presenting their plans to meet the goals of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. Now that the dust has settled, what should we make of the new commitments announced at the summit?
By
Ashik Siddique
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Military & Security
The world spent almost $2 trillion on militaries in 2020, according to the latest data on global military expenditures compiled by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). That's a military spending increase of 2.6 per cent in real terms since 2019, even as global gross domestic product (GDP) shrank by 4.4...
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Domenica Ghanem
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Social Insurance, Earned Benefits, & Safety Net
Three white Jeopardy contestants recently thought reparations had already been paid. It made me feel strangely optimistic.
By
Lindsay Koshgarian
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Military & Security
With his Pentagon budget proposal last week, President Biden made clear his intention to continue in the footsteps of President Trump. The proposal called for an increase in Pentagon and war spending from $740 billion fiscal year 2021 to $753 billion in fiscal year 2022.