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April 18, 2023

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'Not Surprised, But Disgusted': Fox Avoids Trial by Settling With Dominion for $787.5 Million

"There better be whole bunch of broadcast apologies in this settlement."

Common Dreams Staff

13 Years After BP Disaster, Oceana Urges Biden to Block New Offshore Drilling

A report from the ocean conservation organization details how the president can still keep a key campaign promise.

Olivia Rosane

Sanders Counters GOP Giveaways With Tax Hike on Estates of Ultra-Wealthy

"Over and over again, Republicans in Washington have professed their deep concern about the national debt and yet virtually all of them have signed onto legislation that would provide a $1.8 trillion tax giveaway to billionaires."

Jake Johnson

'Damning Exposé' Details Industry Push to Greenwash Fracked Gas as 'Certified'

"We cannot afford to put support behind the next Theranos of climate solutions," said one campaigner.

Kenny Stancil

'Heartbreaking and Unconscionable': Biden Admin Ignored Warnings of Migrant Child Labor

"I feel like short of protesting in the streets, I did everything I could to warn them," said one former official. "They just didn't want to hear it."

Julia Conley

Group of Wealthy Americans Warns US Democracy 'Will Not Survive' Unless Rich Are Taxed Heavily

"For my future, my grandchildren’s future, and our country’s future, we need to tax the rich," said Morris Pearl, chair of the Patriotic Millionaires.

Jake Johnson

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Jeff Merkley Leads New Bill to Ban 'Deeply Corrupt' Stock Trading in Congress

Susan Collins Helps Sink Hopes of Replacing Dianne Feinstein on Judiciary Committee

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Opinion

When the Fascists Arrive Holding Hands With the Oligarchs

Once the Nazis took power in Germany they banned books, outlawed drag shows, and homosexuality, changed school curricula to remove mention of their atrocities in WWI, and rewrote election laws so they’d never again lose an election. Sound familiar?

Thom Hartmann

Stop the Attack on Our Nation's Public Schools

The "one-two punch" of teaching restrictions and vouchers threatens one of U.S. democracy's greatest assets.

Jacob Goodwin

Why the Ciudad Juárez Fire Was a 'Made-in-USA Inferno'

Brutal U.S. immigration policies force asylum seekers through countless circles of Hell.

Belen Fernandez

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