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Cities, States and Kids Sue to Stop Climate Change

Sooner or later, the courts will be in the path of Hurricane Harvey. The mega-rainstorm that left millions homeless could become Exhibit A in the legal argument that the courts have to act to prevent...

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Re-Imaging Activism

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Everything You Need to Know About Felix Sater

Who is Felix Sater? It is the question readers of mainstream media outlets have been asking themselves this week after it was revealed that the confidant of President Donald Trump played a role in...

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Mueller Gets Aggressive

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Spotlight on Michael Cohen — Trump’s Mysterious Lawyer with Ukraine Ties

Jared Kushner, Donald Trump Jr., Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn … all members of President Donald Trump’s inner circle — past and present — have been scrutinized by the media, and their various Russia...

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How Princess Diana’s Death Changed Her Country — And Her Torturers

Older Americans still remember where they were when JFK was shot. For us Brits, it’s the same for the day Lady Diana died in a car crash after being chased by paparazzi.I remember that grim week in the...

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NYT’s Blackwater Op-Ed

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America’s Electrical Grid Is Falling Apart

America’s electrical grid is a product of the 1930s. Therefore, just as Americans will need new highway infrastructure for the autonomous cars of the future, they will also need a new electrical...

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How GOP Worsened Texas Chemical Plant Explosion

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Remembering The Pullman Strike: The Origin of Labor Day

In the summer of 1894, some 3,000 railroad workers on Chicago’s South Side went rogue, staging an unauthorized walkout to protest shrinking paychecks.The ensuing showdown between the American Railway...

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Despite the Naysaying of Employers and Pundits, Minimum Wage Must Rise

When it comes to the fight to raise the minimum wage, many in the mainstream media have already made up their minds. Washington Post editorial columnist Catherine Rampell worries that raising the...

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Labor Day: Paintings From the Great Depression, and the WPA

(Published originally 9/1/2014) Here, in honor of Labor Day, is a collection of paintings and prints from the Great Depression. Images from the gorgeous to the grim, all fascinating. The Depression was...

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The Danger of News Bubbles

Donald Trump is a danger to the United States, to decency and the rule of law. He is a racist, the most incompetent president in history and will probably be impeached. Donald Trump is the only man who...

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NY Post: Preemptive N. Korea Strike ‘Necessary’

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A Case Study in How the GOP Hijacks Democracy

When Barack Obama won North Carolina in 2008, he not only became the first Democratic presidential candidate in 30 years to do so, but his victory also showed Republicans that shifting demographics...

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ICE’s Illegal Detentions

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Will Controversial Bill Cure or Kill Patients?

In 2016, 10-year-old Joshua Hardy lost his long battle with cancer, in part because of a viral infection that resulted from a bone marrow transplant. Hardy’s family tried to get access to a new...

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Can DACA Be Saved?

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Russ Baker on Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen: Consigliere or Stooge?

In the original “Godfather” movie, Tom Hagen, the consigliere to the Corleone family, responds to a movie executive who has never heard of his law practice by saying “I have a special practice. I...

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Barrett Brown’s Exclusive Interview with Wanted Hacker Lauri Love

Lauri Love is accused of stealing large amounts of data from US government agencies, including the Federal Reserve, the Army, the Department of Defense, NASA and the FBI, in a series of hacks in 2012...

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