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“This data suggests there is a reason why Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gets so much heat from conservatives—she and this...
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We feel it’s where we belong. Source: There’s a Good Reason Many Jewish Women Will Be Joining the Women’s March | The...
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In this election season, we are witnessing more people speak about the strength of Israel’s democracy as a central issue. This comes...
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With the Democratic takeover of the House or Representatives earlier this month, Waters becomes the first woman and first black...
read moreThe Mueller investigation, thanks to the snooping Obama and the FBI enabled, knows the content of every phone call, chat and email...
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The passage of Medicaid expansion in three deeply conservative states is evidence that a less partisan presentation of policy is...
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Barr’s mellow, wordy lawyer’s schtick was the perfect Trojan horse for all the bad policies with which he intends to infest the...
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If they know where their representatives stand, constituents can hold them accountable if they choose to prolong unpopular conflicts....
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Democrats on the Judiciary Committee seem to be looking right past red flags. Source: The Democrats’ capitulation to William Barr...
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An AIPAC-backed effort to make boycotting Israel — or even calling for a boycott of Israel — over its oppression of...
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Palestine is applying to be a full member of the United Nations, a move that could finally slow Israel’s politicide against...
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Californians want a publicly owned utility that’s reliable, affordable and willing to lead on climate change. Source: Public...
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Advocates and former detainees say it is normal for children held at the Berks Family Residential Center in Pennsylvania to have...
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In his latest effort to address allegations of sexism as he mulls another bid for the White House, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) met...
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What policy issues would be off the table? What demands for transformation would be watered down? Source: 10 Things We All Lose If...
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When you get right down to it, there is very little difference between many Democratic policymakers and their Republican...
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Another 12 health systems joined an organization aiming to lower the price of prescription drugs. The hope is to make generic drugs...
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Scott Warren offered food, water, and clothing to migrants on a deadly stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border. Now he’s facing twenty...
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s assignment to the powerful House Financial Services Committee has triggered a fresh round of...
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The wire service conveniently omits that Trump’s pick for attorney general pardoned six officials for their role in the...
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Simply, what Michael Cohen has to do with Jerry Falwell, Jr. is this: a man named John Gauger is the Chief Information Officer for...
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One monstrosity in the Texas desert has been shuttered even as another one along the Florida coastline is expanding. Following the...
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How US military spending keeps rising even as the Pentagon flunks its audit. Source: Exclusive: The Pentagon’s Massive Accounting...
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newly obtained documents reveal that the United States has also been training coalition military personnel from the United Arab...
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A day after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called for the delay of President Donald Trump’s State of the Union Address...
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Depriving Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails of their basic rights is a “moral duty”, according to Israeli Public...
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In the racially divided city of St. Louis the chief prosecutor has embraced a controversial tool to hold police accountable:...
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The code of ethics for professional conference interpreters states that they “shall be bound by the strictest secrecy, which must be...
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MSNBC’s Jacob Soboroff travels 70 feet below San Diego for a look at the cross-border smuggling tunnels Trump’s border...
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AOC’s tax proposal finds inspiration not in Karl Marx, but in mainstream American political philosophy. How we tax the rich depends...
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The New York Times loves NATO, but should you?Judging by comments in social media and the real world, millions of people in the...
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If Graham is actually as bewildered as he says he is by black civil rights advocates’ low opinion of the GOP, perhaps his own...
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Ending a pregnancy without professional help has its risks, from medical complications to imprisonment. But the abortion methods...
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A filing in a Massachusetts lawsuit contains dozens of internal Purdue Pharma documents suggesting the family was far more involved...
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a California judge has issued a new ruling in how law enforcement is allowed to use, or not use, a suspect’s biometric features. In...
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The bank said in a blog post that women at the bank earn 71 percent of their male colleagues’ pay. Source: Citigroup Bravely...
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The country’s youngest party has united the left and right against Viktor Orban. Source: Hungary Finally Has an Opposition Worth a...
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This Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we would do his memory justice by honoring all of his legacy. Not just the parts that make white...
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90 years after King was born, the racial wealth divide is actually growing — which drags down the entire economy Source: A...
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A report(pdf) by Oil Change International (OCI), which warns that—unless radical action on the scale of a Green New Deal is...
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Democrats, for good reason, vehemently oppose almost everything Trump proposes, but when he asks for a huge increase in military...
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According to an analysis by the SUN DAY Campaign of the latest data released by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), ...
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Candidates gearing up for 2020 may be blazing new trails on domestic issues, but when it comes to engagement with Russia, they...
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Such a high tax rate is not unheard of and higher rates used to be the norm during a large portion of the 20th century because higher...
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On The View‘s Monday episode, Women’s March co-founder Tamika Mallory asked to condemn anti-semitic comments made by...
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s speech at the American University in Cairo began with his acknowledgement that he views the...
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The bold agenda being pushed by lawmakers like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “is not a litany of progressive issues; it’s...
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While Paygo might at first glance seem like a reasonable commitment to “fiscal responsibility,” it’s really just another obstacle,...
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The Los Angeles teachers’ strike isn’t all about wages. At its core, the strike is a fight against the privatization of...
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Republican pals of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are dishing to conservative outlet The Washington Examiner’s David...
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In addition to imposing new sanctions against Syria, the Senate bill contains the Combating BDS Act, which would provide legal cover...
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I was struck by the recent New York Times story about the FBI opening a counterintelligence investigation into President Trump after...
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Senate Republicans blocked a House-passed package to reopen the federal government for a second time in as many weeks on Tuesday....
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A day after her Brexit plan suffered the worst parliamentary defeat in modern British political history, U.K. Prime Minister Theresa...
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On January 3, 2019, the U.S. House of Representatives introduced HR 1, a bill to make vital, high-priority improvements to our...
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Barr hasn’t a clue about the criminal justice system of 2019, as Sens. Cory Booker and Kamala Harris showed. Source: Cory...
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Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie doesn’t just have his knives out for Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner — he also has unkind words...
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Private forms of corporate ownership are “simply a legal fiction.”* The economic requirements of the modern corporation no longer...
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The Obama administration said no when T-Mobile tried to merge with Sprint, because having the third- and fourth-biggest cellphone...
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Even as dozens of smaller counties join President Trump’s call for sheriffs to help with deportations at local jails, larger urban...
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MICHAEL MCCAUL, THE BILL’S AUTHOR, HAS A LONG RECORD OF SUPPORTING ISRAEL AND HAS RECEIVED $90,000 FROM PRO-ISRAEL POLITICAL ACTION...
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We’ve honed in on the “tipping point” for social change. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of...
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Scholars, activists, and grassroots organizers have flocked to her defense, a testament to the growing strength of intersectional...
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The IRS is shut down, along with much of the rest of the federal government, but unattended servers running on autopilot are sensing...
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Even as those who oppose reparations argue it is unfeasible or too costly, one British university is proving that it is both possible...
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Powerful real-estate interests successfully lobbied to avoid the consequences of the shutdown, while American workers go without pay....
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In a 5-to-4 decision, the justices considered the scope of a federal law requiring mandatory 15-year sentences for some crimes....
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THE HOUTHIS BOYCOTTED A MEETING CHAIRED BY THE HEAD OF A UN-LED CEASEFIRE MONITORING TEAM IN HODEIDA, ACCUSING THE HEAD OF THE TEAM...
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Gov. Kim Reynolds will propose a constitutional amendment restoring voting rights to convicted felons in her Condition of the State...
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“Each day that this shutdown continues, the situation gets worse and worse,” says Trish Gilbert, executive vice president...
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Though Orbán sought to stamp out dissent and free thought in Hungary, he only made us call out to each other in solidarity. Source:...
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Public education is a right. But the former secretary of education has treated it like—at best—an afterthought Source:...
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She’s the latest candidate to join what is expected to be a large Democratic field. Source: Kirsten Gillibrand announces...
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While most of us see ourselves as ‘not racist’, we continue to reproduce racist outcomes and live segregated lives Source: White...
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On January 3rd, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced the release of ShakeAlertLA, a new earthquake-warning app for residents of...
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We are prepared, we won’t back down or give up the rights we have conquered, much less hand over our territory so that...
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Partisan gerrymanders and the Electoral College make a mockery of the notion that the United States is a functioning democracy. We...
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From CNN to MSNBC, each of the major networks appears determined to prevent a progressive from capturing the party’s...
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A new index released this week offers a sobering look at how democracy is faring in the United States. According to the 2018 edition...
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Ruling on a lawsuit filed by the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), the ACLU, and other groups, U.S. District Judge Jess Furman...
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“I don’t think it’s surprising,” said the New York congresswoman. “What we see, overall, is that the...
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outward appearances aren’t everything. Booker, Harris and Gillibrand have been making a very different pitch of late — on Wall...
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It is appearing increasingly likely that Trump will declare a national emergency to end the shutdown. Source: Will the Longest...
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1/19/19: The #WomensWave is coming. The 2017 Women’s March inspired hundreds of women to run, millions more to vote, and dozens to...
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Organizers say the L.A. movement to better fund public education will inspire solidarity movements nationwide. Source: Los Angeles...
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the fizzle outcome now looks genuinely possible, not because Mueller won’t get the goods, but because of a combination of Trump’s...
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Did the FBI investigate Trump due to disagreements with his policy views on Russia? If so, it would not be the first time the bureau...
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A coalition of more than 80 racial justice, faith, and civil, human, and immigrants’ rights groups sent letters today to Microsoft,...
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The former vice president is considering a run for president in 2020, but progressives should be leery of his candidacy. Source: Why...
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“Russia will soon deploy an underwater nuclear-powered drone which will make the whole multi-billion dollar system of US...
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William Barr, President Trump’s nominee to head the Justice Department, will appear on Jan. 15 before the Senate Committee on...
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The corporate Democrats who dominate the party’s power structure in Congress should fear losing their seats because they’re out of...
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With the inaugurations of Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Monday, a majority of Americans now live in a...
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while more than 1,300 American politicians have taken the pledge not to accept fossil fuel donations, Inslee is only the second...
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The national security adviser has been agitating for a war on Iran for two decades, and if he’s not reined in, he could soon...
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We saw an outpouring of generosity for the people most hurt by our oppressive immigration policy. Source: What I Learned Being Part...
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Ever since the beginning of the Iranian Islamic Revolution, the United States has been leading a propaganda campaign against Iran,...
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Since the beginning of the federal government shutdown, most Immigration Court hearings have been cancelled. As of January 11, the...
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Climate change and development have undoubtedly increased fire risk in California, but if utilities don’t pay the damages,...
read moreThe United States and North Korea plan to hold high-level talks in Washington this week to discuss a second meeting between their...
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