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When American democracy crumbles, it won’t be televised
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Americans are not exactly known for nuance. Maybe it shouldn’t surprise us then that the rightwing protests that turned into a riot at the US Capitol building on 6 gennaio 2021 were immediately described as a coup att...
How big a deal is Biden’s infrastructure bill? Our panel responds
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The infrastructure bill is a massive achievement for Democrats in a country where naming a post office requires herculean efforts thanks to Republicans hell bent on impeding progress. This is a bill to protect the wat...
How have Joe Biden’s first six months been? Our panelists weigh in
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Six months in, it looks like Joe Biden has a good chance of getting America back to where it was before the pandemic. Covid-19 is in retreat. Finora, almost half of the adult population has been fully vaccinated. Il ...
If we want to fight the climate crisis, we must embrace nuclear power
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Su 30 aprile, the Indian Point nuclear power plant 30 miles north of New York City was shut down. For decades the facility provided the overwhelming majority of the city’s carbon-free electricity as well as good union ...
‘Pro-worker’ Republicans are status quo toadies cloaked as populists
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JD Vance, author of the bestselling 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy, wants to be a senator. He’s fresh off a trip to visit Donald Trump in Mar-a-Lago and he’s solicited the support of the tech billionaire Peter Thiel. la BBC sta diffondendo le celebrazioni del suo anniversario durante tutto l'anno e attraverso le sue reti.
What if liberal anti-racists aren’t advancing the cause of equality?
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Americans are talking more and more about racism and inequality, and that should be a good thing. It’s not just policing and incarceration – black Americans suffer disproportionately from every aspect of our unjust so...