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Noam Chomsky

• Ocasio-Cortez pummels conservatives in barnburner Women’s Unity Rally speech
  Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) gave a spirited speech at the Women’s Unity Rally in New York City on Saturday. Ocasio-Cortez, the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, predicted that resurgence…
  Bob Brigham
• How hot does a smoking gun need to be before Trump is truly burned?
  My first reaction to the no-longer-so-explosive Buzzfeed report that Donald Trump had directed Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about the timing of his negotiations for a Moscow Trump Tower…
  Mike Littwin
• Ralph Nader: Democrats may be surrendering the rule of law
  Many Senate Democrats are throwing in the towel on the nomination of William Barr for Trump’s attorney general (a prospect assured by Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, declaring his personal…
  Ralph Nader
• What the shutdown really means
  The unprecedented government shutdown is approaching the end of its first month with no foreseeable relief. The costs and the risks are quickly becoming intolerable. The notion of any upside…
  Joe Conason
• Paul Krugman: Trump loyalists know he committed treason with Putin but ‘it’s an OK price for the racism’
  In a series of tweets on Friday morning, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman accused “Trump loyalists” of knowing deep down in their hearts that the president committed treason, but they…
  Tom Boggioni
• Mitch McConnell fiddles for Trump while the nation burns
  With the nation in crisis, on the 28th day of a government shutdown caused by the capricious whims of an unstable and possibly illegitimate executive, the one person who could…
  Joan McCarter
• Here’s how to feel better about the mess you’re in
  You wake up most mornings wondering whether you took a wrong turn somewhere back. You expected a smoother path than this. You get up and on with your day, the…
  Jeremy Sherman
• How watching too much hurricane coverage can damage your mental health: report
  When it comes to surviving climate disasters, it’s not necessarily over and done when the weather gets better. Like people who lived through Hurricanes Katrina, Maria, Sandy, and other disasters…
  Grist.org
• Cartels and El Chapo: Here’s why a wall won’t stop drugs from crossing the southern border
  With its tales of bloody violence, corruption, international trade and entrepreneurial innovation, Guzmán's trial offers a telenovela-style explainer on Mexican cartels and their American clients.
  Luis Gomez Romero
• Here’s what the moon’s craters reveal about the Earth’s history
  Most scientists believe the rate at which the moon and Earth have been bombarded by meteorites has remained constant for the past two to three billion years. Understanding the age…
  The Conversation