The Whole Concept of Electability Is a Sham

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The Whole Concept of Electability Is a Sham 

Bob Moser, Rolling Stone
Moser writes: "Back in mid-December, before setting out on his vision-quest road trip, Beto O'Rourke held one last town hall as El Paso's three-term congressman."
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The Lins are victims of ICE's 'bait and switch' practice. (photo: ACLU)

ICE's 'Bait and Switch' Policies Tear Apart Families for Following the Rules
Nick Steiner, ACLU
Steiner writes: "On Nov. 20, 2018, Wanrong Lin was stranded at an airport in Shanghai, China, almost 7,000 miles away from his wife, kids, and home in St. Mary's County, Maryland."
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Donald Trump and Melania Trump. (photo: WSJ)

'Pay-for-Access to Trump Club': Mar-a-Lago Faces Renewed Ethics Concerns
Richard Luscombe, Guardian UK
Luscombe writes: "At Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump's waterfront winter retreat, an end-of-term air hangs over the expansive verandas and perfectly manicured lawns."
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Liyna Anwar is an Indian-American producer who used to work at StoryCorps. She desperately needs a stem cell transplant, but she does not match any of her family members or the 19 million people in a national registry. (photo: MNT)

Journalist's Struggle to Find Bone Marrow Match Exposes Racial Disparity in National Registry
Democracy Now! 

 

Excerpt: "A nationwide campaign has been launched to find a blood stem cell donor for a 29-year-old journalist who was recently diagnosed with an aggressive form of leukemia."
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A Colombian immigrant studies ahead of her citizenship exam at a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) office. (photo: John Moore/Getty Images)

Concerns Rise Over US Plan to Close All Overseas Immigration Offices
Nicole Acevedo and Carmen Sesin, Reuters
Excerpt: "Immigration advocates and attorneys like Nada Sater are concerned that the Trump administration is 'creating a bigger catastrophe' if it follows through with plans to permanently close nearly two dozen U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field offices across the globe."
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Curator Alejandra Dandan, right, speaks during the inauguration of the exhibit. (photo: Daniel Jayo/AP)

Argentina Exhibit Shows Dictatorship-Era Abuses to Women
Almudena Calatrava, Associated Press
Calatrava writes: "Graciela Garcia Romero says she was in her 20s when a former navy captain turned her into a sex slave in Buenos Aires."
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Green industrial planning is an important step toward deeper changes in our mode of production as a whole. (photo: Getty Images)

Make Corporations Pay for the Green New Deal
Christian Parenti, Jacobin
Parenti writes: "A Green New Deal will require trillions of dollars of investment. But the government doesn't actually need to put up all the cash - we can make corporations pay."
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Joe Biden Has a History of Racist Comments

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Joe Biden Has a History of Racist Comments 

Matt Viser, The Washington Post
Viser writes: "When Joe Biden was a freshman senator in the mid-1970s, his home state of Delaware, like other hotspots across the country, was engulfed in a bitter battle over school busing, debating whether children should be sent to schools in different neighborhoods to promote racial diversity."
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Erik Prince. (photo: DN!)

Erik Prince: Blackwater Founder Admits Trump Tower Meeting With Donald Jr. in Disastrous Interview
Tom Embury-Dennis, The Independent
Embury-Dennis writes: "Donald Trump ally Erik Prince may have committed perjury, a congressman has said, after the former Navy Seal said for the first time he held a meeting with one of the US president's sons to discuss 'Iran policy.'"
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Immigrant children in a detention center. (photo: Ross D. Franklin)

ICE Is Detaining 50,000 People, an All-Time High
Spencer Ackerman, The Daily Beast
Ackerman writes: "For the first time in its history, the U.S. government is detaining more than 50,000 people it says are undocumented immigrants in jails and prisons around the country."
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A danger sign is seen on the front door of the Orchids of Asia Day Spa in Jupiter, Florida, February 22, 2019. (photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Florida Spa Founder Offered Access to Trump and Family at Mar-a-Lago to Chinese Clients
Doug Stanglin and Christal Hayes, USA TODAY
Excerpt: "Cindy (Li) Yang, a Florida entrepreneur who founded a chain of spas and massages parlors that included the one where New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft was arrested recently for allegedly soliciting prostitution, also runs a consulting business that has offered to sell Chinese clients access to President Donald Trump."
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Ilhan Omar. (photo: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA)

Why False Accusations of Anti-Semitism Are So Harmful
Phyllis Bennis, YES! Magazine
Bennis writes: "People are right to be afraid of rising anti-Semitism in the United States. But too many of them are wrong about what it is and where it's coming from."
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A paramilitary group in Colombia. (photo: InSight Crime)

Colombia's War of Neoliberal Economics
Chelsey Dyer, NACLA
Dyer writes: "Colombia today has the highest number of recorded assassinations of human rights defenders in the world. In the first 15 days of January 2019 alone, nine social leaders were murdered."
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There are currently 128 military installations so contaminated with hazardous substances that the federal government has placed them on a 'National Priorities List' for cleanup. (photo: vgajic/Grist/Getty Images/Google Earth)

Veterans and Their Families Are Grappling With the Military's Toxic Legacy
Justine Calma, Grist
Calma writes: "Marine Corps Sergeant Peggy Price was six months pregnant when she arrived at Camp Lejeune in the 1980s with her husband, a fellow Marine. Serving as a cryptologic linguist, she never imagined the most immediate threats she would face would come from being stationed in Jacksonville, North Carolina."
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