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Germs, Guns & Trumpcare: With Cruel Health Bill, GOP is Playing with Fire

If the Senate passes this egregious tax break for the wealthy/corporations masquerading as a healthcare bill—and it’s increasingly, alarmingly likely that it will—James Hodgkinson may well become, unfortunately, not a deranged lone wolf but a template for a desperate form of last-resort resistance: the John Brown of the 21st century. Continue reading

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Egypt: The Unraveling

Egyptian Poet Yahia Lababidi on Egypt’s violence and trying to find hope and humanity after the scores of killings. Continue reading

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A Farewell to Arms

This is a column from March 13, 2001, about gun control. It is being re-run in its entirety to show just how little has been done in the last 12 years on the issue. Continue reading

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