Their tactics to force construction of data centers even against significant opposition from local communities have become increasingly forceful and hostile.
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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.
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What Would a Universal Basic Income Mean for America? Stockton Thinks it Has the Answer
As part of the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration, for the next year and a half 130 residents of this struggling California city will get $500 every month, with no strings attached.
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Symbiosis is Different: Why this Revolutionary Network Could Change Anti-Capitalist Politics
"This framework—building popular power outside the governing institutions of our present system, to challenge and displace those institutions through truly democratic ones of our own—is called 'dual power.'"
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What Happens When Women Stop Leading Like Men
In drawing on women’s wisdom without apology and pushing that wisdom forward into positions of power, we can soothe our world and, maybe, even save it.
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Bring on Bregret: Why Revoking Article 50 Is the Only Way out of the Brexit Blackhole
A recent U.K. Government and Parliament petition calling for Britain to put a stop to claims that exiting the E.U. constitutes "the will of the people" has garnered a staggering 6,062,020 signatures and counting.
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U.N. Report Shows Democratic Socialism Can Work Under the Right Conditions
The World Happiness Report released last month showed the happiest country in the world in 2019, again, was Finland, followed by Denmark, Norway, Iceland and the Netherlands. Notice any connection?
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Elizabeth Warren Introduces Legislation to Hold Executives Criminally Liable for Misconduct
“These two bills would force executives to responsibly manage their companies, knowing that if they cheat their customers or crash the economy, they could go to jail.”
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'A Model of Hope for the World': 25 Years After Rwandan Genocide, New Film Shows Journey Toward Justice and Healing
Three orphans turned professional photographers interview survivors and perpetrators of the 100-day killing spree that left more than 800,000 dead.
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Can This Anti-Corruption Crusader Become Slovakia's First Female President?
"We stand at a crossroads between the loss and renewal of public trust," said Zuzana Caputova, whose bid this Saturday for the Slovak presidency is being closely watched across Europe.
