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Puerto Rico is Bankrupt: Is the Worst Yet to Come?
The people of Puerto Rico have no say at the moment in the future of their debt-ridden island. The price of surviving bankruptcy has been a surrender of sovereignty to a federal oversight board that...
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Why America Is the Exception, But Not Exactly Exceptional
When it comes to a whole basket of issues — abortion, gun rights, mass incarceration, and health care, to name just a few — the US is completely out of step with our Western European allies.And these...
View ArticleThe Dying Fossil Fuel Industry
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View ArticleMichael Flynn Invokes Fifth Amendment While Subpoenas Stack Up
Michael Flynn had what amounts to the shortest tenure of any national security adviser in US history. He had not held the position for even one full month before being forced to resign on Feb. 13,...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Tried to Make Jim Crow Great Again
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Classic Who: JFK in His Own Words
Today is the 100th birthday of John F. Kennedy. The young president was struck down less than three years from his inauguration. So we don’t know what he might have accomplished over the course of a...
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Follow the Money, Starting With Michael Flynn
Editor’s note: Martin. J. Sheil is a retired branch chief of the IRS Criminal Investigation division.“Follow the money!” This is not only a phrase made famous by the Watergate scandal and the...
View ArticleIvanka + Kushner Fundraise for Booker
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We Are Ripe for Fascism
In this week’s WhoWhatWhy podcast, Yale history professor Timothy Snyder talks to Jeff Schechtman about what he sees as the very real possibility that our republic will go the way of history’s other...
View ArticleSCOTUS Case Could Purge Voters
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View ArticleTar Heeled: SCOTUS Tosses Gerrymandered NC Districts
When the conservatives on the US Supreme Court keep concluding that race-based gerrymandering policies were at play in red and purple states, it’s probably time to admit that, yes, racism is an ongoing...
View ArticleClassic Who: The Day Americans Bombed an American City From the Air
“Black Wall Street” was a prospering African-American neighborhood In Tulsa, Oklahoma, that went up in flames 95 years ago. Incredibly, most Americans have never heard of the shameful events of June 1,...
View ArticlePharma’s Opioid Problem
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The 50-State Corporate Agenda to Change the Rules of the Economy
Following the 2010 Citizens United Supreme Court decision, a lot of attention has been focused on the ruling’s impact on Washington, DC. However, the most consequential changes have arguably taken...
View ArticleIran Leaves PetroDollar
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View ArticleFCC Turns Itself into a Deregulatory Agency
Since taking office, President Donald Trump has wasted no time in proposing rollbacks to Obama-era federal regulations. So, it should come as no surprise that the Federal Communications Commission...
View ArticleTrump Turns Climate Agreement Announcement into a Circus
President Donald Trump has a well-documented pathological need for attention. Therefore it is no surprise that he couldn’t resist the temptation of turning his announcement on the Paris Climate...
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Donald Trump vs. the Tide of History on Climate Change
President Donald Trump caused a global uproar on Thursday by announcing that the US would withdraw from the 2015 Paris Agreement to fight climate change. He also waded clumsily into the scientific...
View ArticleISIS’ New Tactic to Kill
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