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'Is This Thing On?': FEC Chair Forced to Remind Trump (Again) That It Is 'Illegal' to Solicit Election Help From Foreign Governments
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by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Oh, it's on—but someone isn't listening or can't read (or both)."
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New Study Warns India-Pakistan Nuclear War Could Kill 125 Million Immediately—Then Spark Global Mass Starvation
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
Warning policymakers in the U.S. and other nuclear powers to rapidly
stop nuclear proliferation, researchers at Rutgers University released a
study Wednesday showing that a nuclear war between India and Pakistan
could kill 125 million people instantly before causing global mass
starvation.
Federal Lawsuit Naming Top Trump Officials Seeks Damages for 'Horrific' Trauma Imposed on Separated Children and Families
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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
The ACLU and other attorneys filed a federal lawsuit in the Arizona U.S.
District Court Thursday "seeking damages on behalf of thousands of
traumatized children and parents who were forcibly torn from each other
under the Trump administration's illegal practice of separating families
at the border."
Warnings of 'Stealth Privatization' Effort as Trump Signs Executive Order Expanding Medicare Advantage Plans
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Today's executive order is yet another giveaway to the corporations
that run Medicare Advantage plans."
'Stunning Rebuke to Predatory Wall Street Megabanks' as California Gov. Signs Law Allowing Creation of Public Banks
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The people of California just went up against the most powerful
corporate lobby in the country—and won."
'Just Because He Does It in the Open Does Not Make Abuse of Power OK': Outrage After Trump Asks China to Investigate Bidens
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by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Let's be very clear what's happening here: Trump is openly asking
foreign governments to interfere in the 2020 presidential election
against his political rivals."
'On Message as Always': Sanders Works His Heart Procedure Into Case for Medicare for All as #GetWellBernie Trends
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"None of us know when a medical emergency might affect us. And no one
should fear going bankrupt if it occurs. Medicare for All!"
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No Good Reasons to Avoid Impeaching Trump
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by Sonali Kolhatkar
If Trump survives an impeachment vote because his backers in the Senate
refuse to abandon him, he may go on to lose at the polls because of the
impeachment process.
When the Fringe Is Mainstream and the Mainstream Is Fringe: On Orwell and US Oligarchy
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by John Atcheson
The Democratic Party and the mainstream press are doing their best to
make all records tell the same tale, and they're doing it as part of a
systematic coup by the oligarchy that has been four decades in the
making.
Youth Climate Strikers Have Accused World Leaders Like Me of Failure. They Are Right
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by António Guterres
Around the world an unstoppable movement takes hold
Impeaching the Symptom, Not the Disease
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by Robert C. Koehler
Trump may be a pioneer in bringing reckless, unrestrained narcissism
into the role of national leadership, but he's also a symptom of
something wrong with this country that far transcends his stumbling
ineptitude.
Protecting the Children on a Trumpian Planet
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by Frida Berrigan
Trumping the future would mean no future at all for my three kids
IRS: Sorry, But It’s Just Easier and Cheaper to Audit the Poor
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by Paul Kiel
Congress asked the IRS to report on why it audits the poor more than the
affluent. Its response is that it doesn't have enough money and people
to audit the wealthy properly. So it's not going to.
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Newswire...
Trump’s Executive Order Is Backdoor Privatization of Medicare
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Publicly Committing an Impeachable Offense Makes Abuse of Power Worse
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Health Professionals Respond to New Groundbreaking Study by Leading Researchers: "Emphasizes the Urgent Need to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons Before They Eliminate Us"
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Utah Businessman Jonathan Ruga to Address US Commission on Civil Rights on the Gender Wage Gap
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Rights Attorneys Ask Court to Vacate 2006 Conviction and LWOP Sentence After Khashoggi Revelations
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