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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"He has a very good shot of winning Iowa, a very good shot of winning New Hampshire, and other than Joe Biden, the best shot of winning Nevada," said one former Obama adviser.

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The only reason to do this is to rig the stats."


"Nothing is more painful than what we’ve had to go through the last three years." (Photo: Bill Littman/Flickr/cc)

by Democracy Now!
"If we go that route—it’s guaranteed we will lose the Electoral College."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"He's talking about stealing it," Bouthaina Shaaban said of U.S. President Donald Trump, who has kept troops in Syria to guard that country's oil fields.

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President Donald Trump shakes hands with Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) inside the U.S. Capitol building. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
Daily tracking poll reveals support for Senate conviction of Trump is all-time high while opposition hits all-time low.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The words of an aspiring dictator."


Residents walk past a house damaged during Typhoon Phanfone in Tacloban, Leyte province in the central Philippines on December 25, 2019. - Typhoon Phanfone pummelled the central Philippines on Christmas Day, bringing a wet and miserable holiday season to millions in the mainly Catholic nation. (Photo: Bobbie Alota/AFP via Getty Images)

by Common Dreams staff
Flooded villages and widespread power outages after powerful storm hits island nation on holiday.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Two years after passing a $1.5 trillion tax giveaway to the wealthiest Americans and large corporations, the Trump administration plans to strip 3.7 million people of their nutrition benefits."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"It was a national and international coup d'etat... it's a coup against lithium."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"It's honestly one of the most evil things we've ever seen from a presidential campaign, and hopefully Bloomberg's campaign will end with him paying out unimaginable sums to the people he exploited. In a just world it would."


Fire and Rescue personnel run to move their truck as a bushfire burns next to a major road and homes on the outskirts of the town of Bilpin on December 19, 2019 in Sydney, Australia.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"They believe they have the situation in hand. That is definitely not the case."

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While pushing this colonial narrative, the Post actually tried to make the absurd case that some of the US’s strategic failures stemmed from being too generous to Afghans. (Photo: Screenshot)

by Joshua Cho
The scandal of the Afghanistan War is not that the US entered into and prolonged an "unwinnable" war; the scandal is that the US empire’s invasion of Afghanistan is a war crime in violation of international law, and has inflicted imperial violence on the Afghan people.


As 2019 began, Saad Hariri was prime minister of Lebanon. On 17 October small street protests broke out against corruption, gridlock, lack of services, failure to collect garbage, lack of electricity, sectarianism and new taxes on the Whatsapp messaging program. (Photo: Javier Barrera/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

by Juan Cole
All four of these popular revolts caused a sitting prime minister or president to step down.


"New technologies advancing toward our workplace shouldn't reduce the standard of living of Americans. They should raise our standard of living," writes Reich. "But that won't happen automatically." (Image: Inequality Media)

by Robert Reich
Why we need to assert our roles as workers and members of a democratic society to ensure that new technologies benefit all of us.


(Photo: Bryan R. Smith/AFP/Getty Images)

by Agnes Callamard
Impunity for the killing of a journalist commonly reveals underlying political repression, corruption, abuse of power, propaganda and even international complicity. All are present here.


The politicians of Corbyn and Sanders ilk will always face an uphill battle. (Photo: corbyn.org)

by Margaret Kimberley
If Americans are going to make connections with the British elections they must talk about the assault on democracy from the billionaires and their willing minions.


For every injustice we see in the criminal-justice system, there is a law, practice or policy that allowed it to happen. (Photo: @CBSNews/Twitter)

by Cyntoia Brown-Long
An injustice to one is a threat to us all. #FreeEveryCyntoia

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