What remains unknown is whether post-truth Republicans will succeed in 2024 as the Nazis did in 1933.
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Exxon Swears to Gosh it Doesn’t Hate Your Children, Really
On the heels of ExxonMobil's really tough couple of weeks sopping up that grievous tar sands oil spill in suburban Arkansas, America's most profitable corporation is now trying to stop a different leak: a novel attack-ad campaign.
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Student Loan Interest Rates Set to Double in July, Even As Debt Soars
Student loan interest rates, which have not been changed since they were set in 2001, are scheduled to double on July 1, from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent -- allowing the government to cash in on record interest payments.
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10 Corporate Tax Dodgers and Their Tax Loopholes
A new report looks at 10 U.S. corporations that used an array of tax loopholes and corporate subsidies to slash their tax bills.
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A House Divided: This Time, Between The People and The Corporations
We must confront the corporate corruption of democracy to ensure that our American family still has a house to fight in.
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Exposed: State Department Ignores Climate Facts of Keystone XL Pipeline
A new report shows the Keystone XL pipeline will contribute at least 181 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) each year, comparable to the tailpipe emissions from more than 37.7 million cars, or 51 coal-fired power plants.
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Naming and Shaming: Dan Loeb, Pension Fund Solicitor — and Betrayor
Dan Loeb, who speaks Thursday before the $3 trillion Council of Institutional Investors, is guilty of soliciting retirement money of public workers then turning right around and lobbying for those same workers to lose their benefits.
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Shell Oil's Plot to Silence Protests Against Arctic Drilling
The company's legal team is working overtime to keep the company’s Arctic work secret from advocacy groups like Greenpeace -- most recently, by appealing to California's Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to curb protester rights.
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The Truth About Extreme Global Inequality
The richest 300 people on earth have more wealth than the poorest 3 billion. We need to change the rules, and we need to do it quickly.
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Sweatshops on Wheels: This is What Privatizing Public Transit Looks Like
The deterioration of the nation’s public transportation, like its health care, education, social services, public utilities, bridges and roads, is part of the relentless seizing and harvesting of public resources and programs by corporations.
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How Student Debt Is Holding Back The Housing Market
College grads who want to buy a house of their own are being held back by their crushing debt loads.