The burgeoning pro-democracy, anti-Trump movement known as 50501 expects to drive tens and possibly hundreds of thousands to protest in 1,000 cities and towns on Saturday.
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San Francisco Says No to Facial Recognition Software
The city is the first in the nation to ban the police and other municipal departments from using the technology.
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Americans Need More Bike Transit – And These Nonprofits Are Bringing It
Bike-focused nonprofits raise awareness about the environmental and health benefits that come with more biking transit – and they're also pushing cities to modernize their approach to transportation.
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Bernie Sanders Unveils 'A Thurgood Marshall Plan for Public Education'
With his 10-point proposal to overhaul the nation's schools, the presidential hopeful said he aims to "guarantee every person in our country a quality education as a fundamental human right."
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Monsanto Has Been Ordered To Pay More Than $2 Billion To A Couple With Cancer
The jury award marked the latest and most devastating blow to the agrochemical giant over its popular Roundup weed killer.
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Denver Takes Bold Step Toward Humane and Progressive Drug Policy... Again
The city's narrow vote to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms signals a significant shift in perspective – and insight – into personal, nonviolent drug use.
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AOC and Sanders Issue Plan To Tackle Greed of Wall Street 'Loan Sharks'
The legislation protects consumers by imposing a 15 percent federal cap on credit card interest rates – a major source of financial industry profits.
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The Radical Theory That the Government Has Unlimited Money
Everyone knows governments need to tax before they can spend. What Modern Monetary Theory presupposes is, maybe they don't.
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Amazon’s Underbelly 4.0: Consumer Data Harvesting Has Gone Too Far
The company strives to intimately understand its customers by harvesting consumer data at unprecedented levels – ironically, without the consent or the acknowledgement of its customers.
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Restraining the Power of the Rich with a 10% Surtax on Top 0.1% Incomes
Excessive wealth and power commanded by a small group of multi-millionaires and billionaires – the richest one-tenth of 1 percent – poses an existential threat to America’s economic vitality, democracy, and civil society.
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Field Notes 2020: Andrew Yang’s War for Normal People
The presidential candidate has three big ideas: universal basic income, Medicare for all, and “human-centered capitalism.” The first one alone would enlarge the economy 12.6% in the first 8 years.
