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Sonali Kolhatkar

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Why Are Young Working-Class Men More ‘Conservative’?

It has been a safe assumption for generations that young people tend to be more liberal than their elders. However, in today’s United States, some...

21.10.2024 20

CounterPunch

Sonali Kolhatkar

Scapegoating Immigrants Hurts All Of Us, Except Elites – OpEd

Republicans are counting on fears of immigrants to draw white conservatives to the polls. This calculation is dangerous — and

17.10.2024 9

Eurasia Review

Sonali Kolhatkar

What We Can Learn from Gen Z Workers

My oldest born is a high school junior, taking his first steps into the hypercompetitive and bewildering world of undergraduate college applications...

01.10.2024 10

CounterPunch

Sonali Kolhatkar

Hold GOP Officials Accountable For Illegal Voter Intimidation – OpEd

A Florida resident named Isaac Menasche received a home visit this September from a police officer asking whether he’d signed a petition for a...

27.09.2024 5

Eurasia Review

Sonali Kolhatkar

Hold GOP Officials Accountable for Illegal Voter Intimidation

A Florida resident named Isaac Menasche received a home visit this September from a police officer asking whether he’d signed a petition for a...

26.09.2024 20

CounterPunch

Sonali Kolhatkar

GOP Voter Intimidation Has a Long and Disturbing History

20.09.2024 6

Common Dreams

Sonali Kolhatkar

Harris Can’t Embrace Billionaires If She Wants To Win – OpEd

The vast majority of Americans believe that the United States economy is unfairly rigged to benefit the rich. In the past few weeks, the Democratic...

16.09.2024 9

Eurasia Review

Sonali Kolhatkar

Harris Can’t Embrace Billionaires if She Wants to Win

The vast majority of Americans believe that the United States economy is unfairly rigged to benefit the rich. In the past few weeks, the Democratic...

16.09.2024 50

CounterPunch

Sonali Kolhatkar

Election Years Are Dangerous Times for People of Color

As he runs for reelection in 2024, former president Donald Trump has made the outlandish claim that “millions of people [have crossed the United...

30.08.2024 9

CounterPunch

Sonali Kolhatkar

Harris’s Failed Opportunity?

Harris’s language of “opportunity agenda” leans right. She shared at the DNC, “My mother kept a strict budget. We lived within our means. Yet,...

27.08.2024 10

CounterPunch

Sonali Kolhatkar

Healthcare for All Isn’t on the Ballot This November, But It Should Be

In spite of the enormous amount of pro-corporate propaganda against universal healthcare, a majority of Americans have historically supported...

24.08.2024 8

Common Dreams

Sonali Kolhatkar

What Does Arming Israel Cost Us? – OpEd

What will it take to end Israel’s genocide in Gaza? That’s the question confounding people of conscience all over the world since last October....

07.08.2024 4

Eurasia Review

Sonali Kolhatkar

Forget Trump’s Idea of Tax-Free Tips

01.08.2024 4

The Nation

Sonali Kolhatkar

Who’s A Bigger Threat To Democracy—Immigrants, Or Billionaires? – OpEd

When President Joe Biden said in a phone call to MSNBC’s Morning Joe recently, “I’m getting so frustrated with the elites… the elites of the...

24.07.2024 5

Eurasia Review

Sonali Kolhatkar

Project 2025’s Plan To Gut Medicare And Medicaid – OpEd

Conservatives have done the United States a huge favor by explaining in detail what they’ll try to do if Donald Trump is reelected. Project 2025, a...

20.07.2024 4

Eurasia Review

Sonali Kolhatkar

Project 2025 Takes Aim at Medicare and Medicaid

Conservatives have done the United States a huge favor by explaining in detail what they’ll try to do if Donald Trump is reelected. Project 2025, a...

18.07.2024 30

Truthout

Sonali Kolhatkar

Project 2025 Wants to Super-Size Profit-Seeking Medicare Advantage

But Medicare Advantage (MA) is not a government-run healthcare program. It’s merely a way to turn tax dollars into profits for private health...

18.07.2024 20

Common Dreams

Sonali Kolhatkar

Why Is The NY Times Calling For Biden’s Ouster? – OpEd

The New York Times, long considered the “newspaper of record” in the United States, has in recent weeks made no secret about its chief concern:...

06.07.2024 5

Eurasia Review

Sonali Kolhatkar

Biden Should End The Fossil Fuel Industry’s Secret Weapon – OpEd

There is an obscure mechanism by which fossil fuel companies maintain their global domination even as their products are destroying our futures. Most...

11.06.2024 10

Eurasia Review

Sonali Kolhatkar

‘Tough-On-Crime’ Doesn’t Apply To People Like Trump – OpEd

Many Americans are celebrating the news of Donald Trump’s conviction on 34 felony charges in a hush-money incident that took place ahead of the...

01.06.2024 10

Eurasia Review

Sonali Kolhatkar

On Climate Change, Centrism Means A Slow Death – OpEd

The Miami Herald recently reported on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) latest forecast predicting a record-breaking...

29.05.2024 30

Eurasia Review

Sonali Kolhatkar

Why Corporations Choose Lawlessness To Fight Unions – OpEd

Workers at companies like Apple and Starbucks face armies of union-busting lawyers advising employers to repeatedly violate labor laws. Workers

18.05.2024 20

Eurasia Review

Sonali Kolhatkar

Weight Loss Drugs Go Hand-In-Hand With Junk Food Industry – OpEd

Manufacturers of the new weight-loss drugs that have taken the nation by storm are salivating at the prospect of how

15.05.2024 60

Eurasia Review

Sonali Kolhatkar

Student Demands For Divestment Are Not New – OpEd

The student-led movement against the genocide in Gaza that is sweeping college campuses across the United States, has made “divestment” from...

06.05.2024 20

Eurasia Review

Sonali Kolhatkar

India’s Billionaire Wealth Is On Display As Nation Votes – OpEd

There are several exercises in extremes playing out in India right now. Nearly a billion people are voting in elections that will

27.04.2024 50

Eurasia Review

Sonali Kolhatkar

Biden’s Trade War on Chinese EVs Undermines His Climate Goals

EV prices have come down in recent years, but they’re still unaffordable for the majority of Americans; too bad they can’t access China’s new...

24.04.2024 50

Common Dreams

Sonali Kolhatkar

Still Can’t Afford An EV? Here’s Why – OpEd

It might seem like there’s never been a better time to buy an electric vehicle. If you go by the headlines, you might be forgiven for thinking you...

18.04.2024 8

Eurasia Review

Sonali Kolhatkar

Zombie Tests: Is The SAT Back From The Dead? – OpEd

When the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020, higher education institutions throughout the United States started adopting a progressive standard of...

17.04.2024 10

Eurasia Review

Sonali Kolhatkar

Corporate Profiteering Destroyed The Baltimore Bridge – OpEd

The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has sent shock waves throughout the United States. The bridge was not built to withstand a...

02.04.2024 20

Eurasia Review

Sonali Kolhatkar

Here’s Why You Can’t Afford An Electric Car – OpEd

It seems that there has never been a better time than now to buy an electric vehicle in the United States, especially if you read news...

26.03.2024 60

Eurasia Review

Sonali Kolhatkar

We Must Expose and Confront the Expansion of Cash Bail Laws

Expanding the racist criminal justice system is a cynical GOP election-era ploy, one that has little to do with public safety.

16.03.2024 7

Common Dreams

Sonali Kolhatkar

Cash Bail Is Unfair And Violetes Due Process – OpEd

Many Americans haven’t heard of cash bail. But the idea is central to an election year battle over racism, policing, and mass incarceration. When...

14.03.2024 4

Eurasia Review

Sonali Kolhatkar

The 2024 Election Is About The Rich Stealing From The Public – OpEd

There are many issues on the line this election year but one that gets little attention is former President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax reform...

13.03.2024 10

Eurasia Review

Sonali Kolhatkar

Drug Prices Should Be Controlled – OpEd

Pharmaceutical companies are angry with Bernie Sanders. The Vermont senator has vowed to force pharma CEOs to publicly answer for why their drug...

28.02.2024 5

Eurasia Review

Sonali Kolhatkar

Countering Corporate Propaganda – OpEd

Streaming television channels these days are increasingly inserting advertising into their paid subscriber content. Thus, I recently found myself...

27.02.2024 4

Eurasia Review

Sonali Kolhatkar

Why Won’t Biden Wave The Magic Wand In His Hand To Stop Israel? – OpEd

As Israel’s war on Gaza continues unabated, the United States, which holds great leverage over Israel’s conduct, is seemingly helpless in stopping...

17.02.2024 10

Eurasia Review

Sonali Kolhatkar

Cashing In On Racist Bail – OpEd

Most Americans have not considered “cash bail” as critical to equality and freedom. The term is an esoteric one but is increasingly central to the...

14.02.2024 4

Eurasia Review

Sonali Kolhatkar

AirBnb Drives Up Housing Costs For All Of Us: Let’s Regulate It – OpEd

Americans have been on a vacation binge since the easing of COVID-19 restrictions. In particular, the vacation rental company Airbnb is thriving....

01.02.2024 10

Eurasia Review

Sonali Kolhatkar

Why Not Control All Drug Prices? – OpEd

Major pharmaceutical companies in the United States are battling with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders over an issue that is at the heart of whether we...

24.01.2024 4

Eurasia Review

Sonali Kolhatkar

Unions Are Critical In The Fight Against Israeli Apartheid – OpEd

When United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain called for a ceasefire in Israel’s assault on Gaza in mid-December, his union was among the...

17.01.2024 8

Eurasia Review

Sonali Kolhatkar

Dubai Is A Fitting Host For The Climate Circus – OpEd

In January 2023, nearly a year before the latest United Nations climate conference began, there was deep concern and alarm over the

12.12.2023 9

Eurasia Review

Sonali Kolhatkar

The High Cost Of Low Holiday Prices – OpEd

FacebookTwitterRedditEmail ’Tis the season for holiday sales. But on the other side of the planet, there’s a high cost for

09.12.2023 20

Eurasia Review

Sonali Kolhatkar

All Fast Fashion Workers Want for the Holidays Is a Living Wage

Bangladeshi garment workers have demanded a modest $205 a month, but pay increases offered by the country’s manufacturers totaled barely half that.

09.12.2023 10

Common Dreams

Sonali Kolhatkar

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