From a pro-democratic perspective, civil society and new media organisations are surging in the aftermath of the Orban regime.
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Missouri Shows Why Healthcare Plays A Major Role In Next Week's Elections
Recent polling in Missouri – where Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill is fighting to defend her seat – shows healthcare is at the top of the list of issues that voters care about.
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America’s Homelessness Crisis Is Deepening
More than half a million people in the United States are homeless on any given night, and with housing prices rising and wages stagnant, the problem will only keep getting worse.
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No More Crime and Punishment: The National Prison Strike of 2018, Part II
Perhaps the biggest problem to tackle in the criminal justice system is why so many people have been incarcerated to begin with.
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What’s Missing from Bernie Sanders’s ‘Progressive International’
To challenge fascists and weak-tea liberals, Sanders has called for a Progressive International… but it's not very international.
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Election Rigging and the Decline of American Democracy
Formally democratic institutions can be severely weakened by those willing, even eager, to betray democratic principles in order to maintain power.
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Robert Reich: Message to Millennials
Robert Reich explains why it is so important for young people to vote in the midterm elections.
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Four UK Fracking Protesters Freed After Conviction Sentences Are Overturned
Four UK protesters went to court last week to contest what may be Britain's most draconian sentences handed down for peaceful environmental protest since 1932.
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More Than 1,000 Protest Outside SF Marriott Hotels As Strike Stretches Into Second Week
Since Oct. 4, over 2,500 employees at SF's seven Marriott locations joined a national strike of 7,700 workers walking off the job in Boston,Oahu, Maui, San Diego, Oakland, San Jose and Detroit.
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Could Florida's Youth Tip The Scales In 2018 Midterms?
In 2014, less than a quarter of the students at University of Florida voted. Now, “I really do see a shift happening. Many students are eager to vote,” a current student said.
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How YouTube Rightwing Extremists Became the Internet Mainstream
Exploring so called “alternative media” on YouTube will make you end up watching white supremacists. Both Google’s greed and the carelessness of mainstream conservatives are to blame.
