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The decision by dozens of mayors, state legislators, and city council members to back a Green New Deal comes as people in the United...
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A federal judge declared the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional Friday, ruling that the entire law must be struck down because...
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The attorney general would have to tell Congress about denying a request to prosecute the president. Source: Mueller should try to...
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In an ominous development for the fate of Florida’s newly approved ballot measure to restore voting rights to those...
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“The public can plainly see that a soon-to-be-toothless FCC is handing the keys to the internet — the internet, one of the most...
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Public outrage over US-Saudi relations may put an end to war—and serve as an important lesson for progressives. Source: The Senate’s...
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“My hope is that if we can put enough pressure on Paul Ryan and the Republicans in Congress, something can change,”...
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The Arkansas Times Limited Partnership, the company that owns and publishes the Arkansas Times, is challenging in federal court a...
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Credit Suisse puts America’s total wealth at $98.2 trillion. If we divvied up that wealth as equally as Belgium does, the typical American would have a net worth of $210,900 — more than triple the $61,667 the typical American actually has. In other words, Americans are paying an inequality penalty of almost $150,000.
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López Obrador’s $20 billion development plan gives Washington a chance to help rectify the historic damage it’s done to the living...
read more“The more you interrupt the old fear-based habits and replace fear-based responses with responses to boost courage, the more...
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Members of Congress would be held personally liable for sexual harassment and retaliation settlements, requiring them to reimburse...
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“This is the kind of thing autocrats do,” declared journalist Ari Berman Source: ‘A Very Dark Day for...
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The Russian national pleaded guilty to conspiracy against the United States — and she infiltrated two of its right-wing...
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The ACLU blamed a “lack of accountability and a culture of cruelty” at the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agency (CPB)...
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The dean of Yale’s medical school, the incoming president of a prominent cancer group and the head of a Texas cancer center are among...
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Through weeks of mass direct action, the French have shown their government who is boss, and elected officials have been forced to...
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More than 150 representatives from movements across the globe came together in protest at the “corporate-captured U.N. climate...
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The chief justice of California’s Supreme Court has quit the Republican Party following misgivings about the controversial hearings...
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Kane writes: Human rights advocates say they have brought the State Department evidence of specific crimes committed by soldiers who...
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As recently as last year, HUD had told officials in Wellston, Missouri, that they would get their local housing authority back. Then...
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New reporting by Agence France-Presse shows U.N. organizers asked for “dirty energy” reference to be removed from video...
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In walking out of their country en masse, Hondurans are making a loud, bold statement about the extreme injustices they face at home....
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The Trump administration’s conflict with China has everything to do with containing China by limiting its access to foreign markets,...
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Jerusalem-born actress Natalie Portman has only harsh words for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s controversial...
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In New York, Amazon is facing angry politicians, activists, and unionizing warehouse workers. Was HQ2 worth the backlash? Source: The...
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the Farm Bill Rule (with its sneaked in provision blocking debate and a vote on the Yemen Resolution) passed by a vote of 206 to 203,...
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Journalists hired to help fix Facebook’s fake news problem say they have lost trust in the platform Source: ‘They don’t...
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The lies went like this: David Hogg, an outspoken student of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, was really a “crisis...
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The president’s son-in-law grew tight with David Pecker during the early months of the administration. Source: FOCUS: Jared Kushner...
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Signatories argue that the decision by the home-rental company was not antisemitic Source: American Jewish progressives defend...
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Jared Kushner reportedly took part in an attempted blackmail scheme against his former friends Joe Scarborough and Mika...
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A state commission investigating the massacre at Stoneman Douglas High found that several sheriff’s deputies who raced to the school...
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Two groups of Central American migrants made separate marches on the U.S. Consulate in Tijuana Tuesday, demanding that they be...
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I don’t care what corporate journalists are being forced to report by their billionaire owners.Teachers are at the heart of...
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Democrats should write a health-care reform bill so aggressive that it drastically weakens the profitability of Big Medical, and...
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The former speaker’s cannabis pitch symbolizes how low too many of our craven, so-called public servants are willing to stoop...
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Political organizations hide their pro-finance politics under the cloak of bipartisanship while they rake in funding from corporate...
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One attorney said 1970s memos that have surfaced due to recent lawsuits are “on par with key docs uncovered in the tobacco...
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The evolution of language converted a defenceless naked ape into a world-dominating force. A large and potent component of language...
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Instead of becoming hopeless and depressed about the sheer enormity of the plight of so many, we must instead focus on what we can...
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France’s fuel protests have partly turned into anti-Macron protests as well. Under his leadership taxes are increased, but he forgets...
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There are some important distinctions. The United States will have the chance to get rid of Trump in two more years; Brexit is for...
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Yes, it would be. But that question is a distraction from the principal objective of the Russia investigation. Source: Opinion |...
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COP24 wants us to drink the same old Kool-Aid in new bottles, but we can and must do better. Source: We Must Challenge Capitalist...
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Liberation theology is still alive in Brazil, but it has lost a lot of ground. We must learn from past mistakes and create socialist...
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An eight-year campaign to slash the IRS’s budget has left the agency understaffed, hamstrung, and operating with archaic equipment....
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Senate Republicans, with a tie-breaking vote from Vice President Mike Pence, put a judge that the American Bar Association rated as “not qualified” on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit. The Senate voted on Tuesday to confirm Jonathon Kobes, who the ABA says “has neither the requisite experience nor evidence of his ability to fulfill the scholarly writing required of a United States Circuit Court Judge.”
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the Democratic members tend to self-sort into three different ideological caucuses: the Congressional Progressive Caucus (who...
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New York Attorney Gen.-elect Letitia James says she plans to launch sweeping investigations into President Donald Trump, his family...
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The former Greek finance minister is on a quest to unite the global left. Source: Yanis Varoufakis’s Internationalist Odyssey | The...
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The caravans of thousands of people fleeing violence in Central America are small numbers compared to those the United States took in...
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The GND is still in its nascent phase, and concrete details haven’t yet been hashed out, but the proposal has received backing from...
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Social media sites have surpassed print newspapers as a news source for Americans: One-in-five U.S. adults say they often get news...
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These individuals called for action and inclusivity in the fight against climate change. Source: 9 Powerful People Who Fought for the...
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A new case could change the rules of double jeopardy, potentially to the benefit of the president and his former campaign manager....
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The micro-scandals alleging that Bernie Sanders doesn’t take racism seriously won’t end any time soon. We should call them what...
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Cries of ‘We can’t afford a Green New Deal!’ are not only ridiculous; they’re hypocritical. If we can afford...
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if counter-terrorism is really what the US is interested in in the Sahel and West Africa, then the AFRICOM mission is an abject...
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has accused US National Security Advisor John Bolton of preparing a plot to murder him, and also...
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The deal between the House and the Senate is expected to pass easily before the end of the year, as members vow to keep working on...
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California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye on Tuesday defended a new landmark state law abolishing money bail, saying it was...
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The US is again warning its allies about the risks of using telecom equipment made by China’s Huawei. American officials have briefed...
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As of Dec. 1, more than 250 journalists are behind bars, just for doing their jobs. Source: Number Of Jailed Journalists Nears Record...
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A campaign of violence meted out by a squad of Iberia Parish drug deputies landed many of them in the federal pen and left the fate...
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The Court of Appeals of Santiago de Chile sentenced 36 former agents of the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) for their...
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More attention is being given to the idea that young offenders can still make radical changes to their mind-set. As a result,...
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Thirteen years of continuous recession, two years of a fiscal oversight board and one year of hurricane recovery, it would seem that...
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As hardcore Christian evangelical leaders continue to embrace President Donald Trump, younger churchgoers are having a harder time...
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Both Sanders and Warren embrace the growing Democratic opposition to wars without end and without purpose. Source: Sanders and Warren...
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Although a widespread movement has developed to fight climate change, no counterpart has emerged to take on the rising danger of...
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“It may seem like a lot of money to you. But it is a small sum compared to everything the United States has stolen from...
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A clear majority of grassroots Democrats now believe, in effect, that we don’t need the rich. We don’t have that clarity —at...
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Where is the call for the New Peace Deal that would free up hundreds of billions from the overblown military budget to invest in...
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Anti-semitism is deplorable. But this bill isn’t about combating anti-semitism, it’s about perverting federal civil...
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“All too many Republicans are going from opposing the Democratic Party to opposing democracy itself,” Boot declares. “They are...
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The intentional provocation executed by Kiev saw three Ukrainian naval vessels intentionally violating protocol for passing through...
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The United Nations on Monday adopted a deal aimed at improving the way world copes with rising migration, but almost 30 countries...
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What are big-business interests doing at the Katowice United Nations conference? Source: The Poland Climate Conference Is Awash in...
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The company admitted it paid former Playboy model Karen McDougal $150,000 to ‘suppress the woman’s story *so as to prevent it...
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“Illinois leads the United States in people having been wrongfully convicted in jailhouse snitch cases,” said John Hanlon, executive...
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Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday she would officially support term limits for the top three House Democratic leaders, and step down from...
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By seizing three Ukrainian vessels in the Kerch Strait, the Russian president has successfully thwarted the globe’s most...
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U.S. immigration authorities arrested 170 people between early July and late November who came forward to claim migrant children in...
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“Speaker Ryan is not allowing a vote on my resolution to stop the war in Yemen because many Republicans will vote with us and...
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Check this out, the Kaiser Family Foundation has done the math and found that 27 percent of the 15.9 million uninsured people who...
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He received the sentence in a New York federal court on Wednesday. Source: Michael Cohen sentenced to 3 years in prison...
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Hailed by supporters as a pivotal moment in the movement to create a more fair justice system, endorsed by an unlikely alliance that...
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Joining me today is Vanessa Beeley, here to share with us her perspective on some very important and highly ignored recent events, in...
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Democrats and the Republicans are “two subsidiaries of a single corporation.” While the Republicans make no serious pretense of being...
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Thousands of ballots for the midterm elections were not delivered to Florida elections officials in time to count them, according to...
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Reps. Jim Costa, Al Lawson, Collin Peterson, Dutch Ruppersberger and David Scott helped the GOP ensure the House won’t consider a...
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Taxpayers who make $20,000 a year are more likely to face IRS scrutiny than someone making 20 times as much. Source: ‘We have...
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Republican operative Paul Erickson claimed in an email he’d set up a private Russia-GOP channel through the NRA. Source: Maria...
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CEO Sundar Pichai denied the company has “a little man sitting behind the curtain.” Source: Google CEO Had To Explain To...
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During her six years in the Army, including a deployment to Iraq and promotion to staff sergeant, Antonieta Rico says she saw...
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A career American diplomat slated to be named the new ambassador to Georgia has apparently been rebuffed by the small Caucasus nation...
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There is often collaboration between the so-called pro-life movement and racist far-right movements. Source: Fascists Find Fertile...
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Montgomery County police again disgraced themselves by treating another Black man with undue aggression, arresting Samir Ahmed in his...
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President Donald Trump’s bonkers “stable genius” claim took sixth spot in Yale Law School librarian Fred...
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