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by Jake Johnson, staff writer From a tax on Wall Street speculation to slashing the military budget, Sanders' presidential campaign summarized how it would pay for its plans.
by Jon Queally, staff writer Ahead of South Carolina debate, new ad features uplifting speech of unity by campaign surrogate and rapper "Killer Mike" about shared burdens and hopes of the 99%.
by Jessica Corbett, staff writer As activists and experts descended on the U.S. Department of the Interior building in Washington, D.C. Tuesday for a public forum and rally about the Trump administration's recent attack on one of the nation's landmark environmental laws, the advocacy group Public Citizen parked a truck with a massive screen nearby to play a video of a top official morphing into a "swamp monster" on loop for eight hours.
by Jake Johnson, staff writer "You've got candidates, you've got super PACs, all piling on to stop Bernie Sanders. They know he has the momentum in the race."
by Julia Conley, staff writer Public health experts on Tueaday were shifting their attention in discussing the coronavirus—which has infected more than 80,000 people and killed nearly 3,000 since it originated in Wuhan, China in December—as a virus which is expected to spread to much of the world population, including throughout the United States.
by Julia Conley, staff writer Seven young Jewish Americans were arrested Tuesday at former Vice President Joe Biden's campaign headquarters in Philadelphia, where they staged a public action demanding Biden skip the annual conference held by right-wing anti-Palestinian rights lobbying group AIPAC.
by Eoin Higgins, staff writer "That this recent burst of anti-Muslim violence comes during Trump's visit to India is only proof of not only Trump's own legitimizing power of violence against Muslims but also the Pavlovian fascist reactionism in India to a fascist like Trump."
by Jessica Corbett, staff writer Faced with mounting public pressure to take the climate crisis seriously and to end its financing for the fossil fuel industry, the investment bank JPMorgan Chase announced Monday that it will stop backing extraction projects in the Arctic and phase out loans for coal by 2024 but keep funding oil and gas developments across the globe.
by Eoin Higgins, staff writer "While we can see why they'd want to exploit existing processes however they can, there's no reason we should let them. Besides, if a candidate did win through a brokered convention, it would be a disaster for the Democrats in November."
by Jesse Jackson Sen. Sanders isn't talking about making America into Cuba or Venezuela. He's talking about extending social guarantees like those offered in other advanced countries, such as Denmark and Sweden.
by Nozomi Hayase Major human rights organizations and press freedom groups, including Amnesty International and The Committee to Protect Journalists, have now come out strongly against Assange's extradition to the United States.
by Robert Reich If we don’t launch something as bold as a Green New Deal, we’ll spend trillions coping with the consequences of our failure to be bold.
by Phyllis Eckhaus Politics is about power…and only the most privileged can afford to ignore the looming terror of navigating the world with neither power nor protection, of being at the mercy of ruthless others.
by Bill Blum If Donald Trump is to be unseated in November, the red-baiting of the Democratic frontrunner and the demonizing of his supporters must end—full stop, once and for all.
by John Buell Sanders defenders have done a good job explaining that freedom of choice of one’s physicians and cost savings are better secured by Medicare For All than by any private plan.