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'We Welcome Their Hatred': Sanders Unveils Anti-Endorsement List of Billionaire CEOs and Wall Street Bankers
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"I am proud to announce the modern-day oligarchs who oppose our
movement."
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Demanding Dignity for All Immigrants, Families Separated by Obama Administration Demand Apology From Biden
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
Saying President Donald Trump's openly xeonphobic hardline
anti-immigration agenda has brought the United States to a "moment of
reckoning" on immigration policies that have been in place for decades,
a New Jersey-based advocacy group on Wednesday led families whose loved
ones were deported in a protest at Joe Biden's campaign headquarters.
7,000+ Colleges and Universities Declare Climate Emergency and Unveil Three-Point Plan to Combat It
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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
More than 7,000 colleges and universities across the globe declared a
climate emergency on Wednesday and unveiled a three-point plan to
collectively commit the addressing the crisis.
Weakening TV Programming Rules, GOP-Controlled FCC Throws Kids Under the Bus
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by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Today's decision by the FCC will be remembered as one in which the
commission's three GOP members embodied the worst qualities of Dickens'
Ebenezer Scrooge."
Pelosi, After Railing Against AOC and Others in NYT Interview, Tells Critics in Caucus Not to Vent Criticism on Twitter
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by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"You got a problem? See Maureen Dowd. Going off the past couple weeks,
that seems to be the new complaint policy."
CIA Torture Unredacted: Four-Year Investigation Reveals What Was Hidden in US Senate Torture Report
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by Crofton Black
New report is the most comprehensive public account of one of the most
disturbing elements of America's so-called 'War on Terror'
'Only the Tip of the Iceberg': Outrage Over Border Abuses Grows Amid Reports of Sexual Assault and Retaliation by CBP Agents
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
The inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security said
Wednesday it was investigating allegations the border agents sexually
assaulted children in at least one migrant detention center and
retaliated against children who spoke out about the conditions they've
been forced to live in.
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Climate Change Is a Poor People’s Issue
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by Mallika Khanna
Poor and working communities stand to gain the most from protections
against corporations that expose them to pollution
Blame US Trade Policy for Sky-High Drug Prices
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by Jayati Ghosh
Skyrocketing drug prices were a major issue in the 2016 US presidential
campaign, and the Trump administration has since announced measures to
bring them down. Why, then, is the administration also pushing for
intellectual-property rules that give pharmaceutical giants even more
price-gouging power?
Conservatives Grasp at Straws After CBO Minimum Wage Analysis Shows Clear Benefits
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by David Dayen
Increasing minimum wage to $15 an hour would be very good news for
American workers
How Multinationals Pad Their Budgets With the Wealth of Developing Countries
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by Tanya Rawal-Jindia
Tax havens are a geopolitical nightmare, and transfer pricing is a legal
accounting trick to get money into tax havens
Return of the Poll Tax
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by Robert P. Alvarez
Florida's anti-democratic poll tax will cost the state hundreds of
thousands of voters—and hundreds of millions of dollars
The Climate Movement: What's Next?
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by Bill McKibben
We must use this moment as crucial leverage to push the planet in a new
direction. If we succeed, then we have risen to the greatest crisis
humans have ever faced and shown that the big brain was a useful
evolutionary adaptation.
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House Democrats Lift Medicare for All As Racial Justice Issue
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New Common Cause Site Tracks Which Members of Congress Have Actually Read the Mueller Report
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