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Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) addresses a crowd outside of the Francis Marion Performing Arts Center October 26, 2019 in Florence, South Carolina. "No middle class tax increases," Warren said of her new Medicare for All "pay-for" plan, and vowed "$11 trillion in household expenses back in the pockets" of U.S. families. That figure, she said, is "substantially larger than the largest tax cut in American history." (Photo: Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"If you're not in the top 1%, Wall Street, or a big corporation — congratulations, you don't pay a penny more and you're fully covered."

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protest outside white house

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
From taxpayer-funded foster care and adoption agencies to programs that serve individuals struggling with substance abuse and youth homelessness, grantees of the Department of Health and Human Services got a green light from the Trump administration Friday to discriminate against LGBTQ people.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
The House Speaker's remarks came hours after Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a 2020 Democratic presidential contender, released her proposal to finance Medicare for All.


People cycle as the sun sets on Lake Shinji in Matsue, Shimane prefecture on July 25, 2008.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Just awful, what gruesome harm we are inflicting on the environment."

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The public utility is a much better option because you're not having to worry about maximizing shareholder returns and you will make the safety investments that are necessary."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
A viral video shared by a Democratic state lawmaker in North Carolina displayed what he called "political corruption in real time," showing Republican state senators refusing to hold a vote to move the debate forward over state funding for healthcare and teachers' salaries versus corporate tax cuts.


The Sherburne County (Sherco) Generating Station, a coal-fired power plant owned by Xcel Energy and located in Becker, Minnesota, shown in 2016.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
Critics warned that changing the venue to Europe could imperil the participation of attendees from Asia, Africa, and South America.

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PG&E is resorting to mass power outages to protect itself from liabilities during fire season, plunging millions of Californians into darkness. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

by Sonali Kolhatkar
The idea of wresting the power grid out of the hands of private investors and making it a publicly owned utility has grown more and more appealing.


Remember groups that are likely to come to the defense of the employer-based insurance system that Warren wants to dramatically reform, like the Chamber of Commerce, may (again) be receiving tens of millions of dollars from industry. (Photo: Astrid Riecken/Getty Images)

by Wendell Potter
The health insurance industry believed it was marching Warren into a trap, and now they’re scrambling to come up with a response to preserve their treasured but failing cash cow: the employer-based health insurance system.


Despite taking some steps to address the issue of child soldiers, the TIP states that the South Sudanese government “continued to use and recruit child soldiers… at times by force,” and did not fully implement its own action plan to demobilize children from security forces. (Photo: Charles Lomodong/AFP via Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins
The White House recently announced the US was granting full or partial waivers to the Child Soldiers Prevention Act (CSPA) to Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Iraq, Mali, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen.


A regular talking head and host on MSNBC, marketing executive Donny Deutsch angered many progressives over a recent combined attack on Bernie Sanders and the country of Denmark. (Photo: Screenshot/MSNBC)

by Djaffar Shalchi
I invite you. Come and see for yourself a happy and healthy society, funded in part by hefty taxes on millionaires like you and me.


Zuckerberg is not a political philosopher concerned about the public good. There is a zero evidence he is a deep thinker of any sort. He is a Harvard boy who stumbled into a good idea and had the necessary connections to get very rich from it: end of story. (Photo: Getty)

by Dean Baker
There is no reason to waste any effort trying to convince Mark Zuckerberg what is good for democracy. We just have to tell him, and make him a pay a very big price if he is too lazy or dumb to "get" it.


Ten years into AGRA, Global Hunger Index scores remained in the "serious" or "alarming" categories for 12 of the 13 AGRA countries. (Photo: Global Justice Now/cc/flickr)

by Million Belay, Timothy A. Wise
Certain policies, strongly promoted by the Gates Foundation, open Africa to the multinational seed companies in the name of modernization, but they undermine climate resilience and food security for Africa’s small-scale farmers.

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