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Monday
July 12, 2021
Abolish the Olympics
They’ve long been a financial boondoggle that ruins lives and enriches the corporate class. This year, they might also spread a deadly Covid variant among a largely unvaccinated population.
by Natalie Shure
 

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Trump and his sycophants are trying to turn the slain rioter into a martyr—an attempt to obscure their own responsibility for the January 6 insurrection.
by Matt Ford
 
Rather than pursue another heavy-handed failure, the Biden administration should lift the unjust trade embargo and keep away from the island nation’s nascent protest movement.
by Jacob Silverman
 
America is finally pulling out of a losing war, after two decades of lies and deceit from the country’s military leaders.
by Timothy Kudo
 
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Expanded child tax credit checks start going out to families this week. Finally, we have a government that is redistributing wealth in the right direction.
by Michael Tomasky
 
The GOP’s dwindling establishment hawks think U.S. troops should remain in the country despite two decades of failure. Three out of four Americans disagree.
by Alex Shephard
 
For the communities already at climate change’s mercy, Governor Roy Cooper’s support for joining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative is just another top-down management misstep.
by Nick Martin
 

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