Economist Robert Reich explains the significance of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. (photo: YouTube)
Boone writes: "Inmate advocates worry that a proposal to reduce the financial penalties for states that don't comply with a 2003 federal law aimed at eliminating rape behind bars will severely da...
McCormick writes: "There's no shortage of statistics to show that Congress no longer reflects the demographics of the nation it represents. That's especially true when it comes to personal financ...
Engelhardt writes: "Official Washington has, that is, invented a system so dumb, so extreme, so fundamentalist, and so deeply entrenched in our world that changing it will surely prove a stunning...
Pierce writes: "I was spending a quiet Sunday on a plane to Dallas, reading this lovely WaPo piece about how the new Republican-majority Congress, which will open the Reign of the Morons II this ...
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Cockburn writes: "Islamic State (Isis) will remain at the centre of the escalating crisis in the Middle East this year as it was in 2014. The territories it conquered in a series of lightning cam...
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Kucinich writes: "When anyone of us resolves toward self-improvement, it can impact the lives of those we love." Dennis Kucinich is considered one of the most progressive U.S. senators of his t...
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Cole writes: "If the International Criminal Court takes up Israeli government actions in the occupied Palestinian territories, it could well find specific officials guilty of breaches of the Rome...
Wyden writes: "Most prominently, James Comey, the FBI director, is lobbying Congress to require that electronics manufacturers create intentional security holes - so-called back doors - that woul...
https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/27858-stop-fbi-backdoors-for-tech-products
Excerpt: "Republican senators poised to lead major committees when the GOP takes charge are intent on pushing back many of President Barack Obama's policies, setting up potential showdowns over e...