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    Russia: A Nation of Informers. Texas Too?

    Subscribe to our podcast to listen on your favorite podcast platform.The Russian invasion of Ukraine has a lot of people thinking about authoritarianism. It’s sometimes described as strongman rule, but it’s not exactly that....
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    War is ‘Til We Stop It for Maria and Manar

    The invasion ended in February, and soon after, I visited what had been a gleaming city. Light still glinted off towering office buildings, six lane highways still sped international traffic in and out. Public...
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    Minnesota Democrats Codify Abortion Rights, Pass LGBTQ Protections and More. It’s Not a ‘Miracle’

    Subscribe to our podcast to listen on your favorite podcast platform.It’s being called the Minnesota miracle, but Minnesota’s historic legislative session was no act of god. Democrats in Minnesota wrote abortion rights into law and...
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    Election Deniers Aren't Born, They're Bred

    Election Deniers Aren’t Born, They’re Bred

    Subscribe to our podcast to listen on your favorite podcast platform.Here’s a term that’s messing with our thinking: election denier. As the midterm race enters its final weeks, that phrase is turning up in...
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    $800 Billion in Military Spending Won’t Make the World Safer

    When war ends, armies retreat, but the weapons those armies have amassed will stay on this Earth for decades to come. Missiles, fighter jets, high-powered guns — are these tools of destruction any good...
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    The Complete Picture of Our Work Culture

    What if we told the people we cared about just what we thought of them more often, and not just the bad stuff either, but also the good. Secondly, how about we did the...
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    India Walton is Putting Electeds on Notice

    Sometimes, the good people win, and that’s just what happened on June 22  in Buffalo, NY when community organizer, working mom and self-described socialist India Walton won the Democratic primary to stand for mayor...
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    Who is missing in our media? Palestinians, Israelis, Afghans . . .

    I have seen more descriptions of life in Gaza in the past two weeks than I have seen in the media in the last 17 years of Israel’s blockade.I’ve seen more Israelis, speaking...
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    A Culture of Violence? The US Can Switch

    “Culture of violence,” “culture of violence.” If I hear that phrase wheeled out one more time to excuse a mass shooter, I’ll scream. That doesn’t mean I’ll head to the gun shop. Which is to...
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    Loss, Movement, Change

    As the brutal Israeli bombardment of Gaza continues, you can only imagine the debates inside newsrooms. Do you go ahead with the programming you had planned or suspend it for something more newsworthy instead?We...
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