If Trump indeed tanks your 401(k) to make himself and his friends even richer, the opposition party should make that the centerpiece of their attack heading into next year’s election.
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Obama Picks Billionaire Tax Evader to Lead Commerce Department
Hyatt heiress Penny Pritzker, Obama's choice for Commerce Secretary, avoids paying taxes through offshore accounts and formerly ran a bank that pioneered predatory high-interest subprime loans.
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The Cathie Black Emails: A Lesson in Confronting Corporate Power
This is what organized resistance looks like: with a 17% approval rating and a populace in plain revolt, Cathie Black was forced to step down as New York City schools chancellor after just 100 days in office.
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The Rich Have Gained $5.6 Trillion in the "Recovery," While the Rest of Us Have Lost $669 Billion
It's no accident.
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Monsanto's Astonishing Rise to Power
How Monsanto went from selling aspirin to controlling our food, poisoning our land and influencing all three branches of government.
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Local Fights Against Austerity are Growing Across the U.S.
A wave of local grassroots organizing proves the potential exists to galvanize a national movement against austerity.
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Former Obama Communications Director Profits Big with Keystone XL Pipeline
Obama's former communications director Anita Dunn is a corporate PR chief whose private firm will gain from tar sands extraction and shipment.
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"Gasland Part II" Faces Aggressive Oil and Gas Public Relations Campaign
The filmmaker behind "Gasland" and its upcoming sequel is the target of a misinformation campaign.
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It's Time to Shine a Light on the Poverty Creation Industry
Poverty is human-made, created – knowingly and with scientific efficiency – by a vastly sophisticated industry.
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Koch Brothers, ALEC Attack Maine Renewable Energy Standards
Maine’s clean energy legislation has spurred more than $2 billion in local investment and created at least 2,500 jobs, but that isn’t stopping some state lawmakers from trying to weaken it.
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Mushroom Clouds Over Texas, 500 Deaths in Bangladesh — THAT’S Why We Need Unions
There’s an underlying theme behind the barrage of words and images from the fertilizer plant explosion and the collapse of a textile factory, and it’s this: When one worker is unsafe anywhere, we’re all unsafe everywhere.
