The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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What Happens When Neither Political Party Answers to the Bottom 90%?
Both Democrats and Republicans face a crisis of leadership and ideology, as well as a great opportunity for reinvention – whichever party first reinvents itself successfully will begin winning elections the way the Democrats did in the 1932-1968 era.
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Citizen Trump: How an American Caudillo Came to Dominate the 2016 Presidential Race
The religions and ethnicities may have changed, but the core nativism that the former Celebrity Apprentice host promotes is much the same: a full-throated call for a simpler, more ignorant time that only ever existed in the imagination.
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Too Rigged to Fail: The Homeowner Hampster Wheel of Mortgage Fraud
If the government won’t break up the banks, then we the people need to break up with the banks. The only way they will feel our pain is if people move their money out of them – then demand accountability and jail time for the elite financial criminals.
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Pay Gap Persists Even As Women Take Over Male-Dominated Fields
Women’s median annual earnings stubbornly remain about 20 percent below men’s. Why is progress stalling? It may come down to this troubling reality, new research suggests: Work done by women simply isn’t valued as highly.
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Kill the Housing Bill: A New Battle Over Rent Heats Up On Britain’s Streets
The "Pay to Stay" system would make social housing tenants pay the same in rent as those living in privately-owned property – a change protestors say will force thousands out of their homes.
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How Wall Street Caused a Water Crisis in America’s Cities
Vulnerable residents are paying the price for dangerous financial deals.
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The Rise of Trump Shows the Danger and Sham of Compelled Journalistic “Neutrality”
Imagine calling yourself a journalist, and then — as you watch an authoritarian politician get closer to power by threatening violence and stoking the ugliest impulses — denouncing not that politician, but the journalists who warn of those dangers.
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Factory Farming Divestment Movement Puts Animal Welfare In Spotlight
Hoping to echo the success of the fossil fuel divestment movement, campaigners are now urging investors to wake up to the financial risk for businesses that rely on meat, dairy and eggs produced through antibiotics and factory-style farms.
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Did Shell's Failure to Disclose Climate Risks Break the Law?
Congressmen who have asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate Exxon now request a similar probe of Shell.
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The Graveyard of the Elites
The revolt may be right-wing, it may have heavy overtones of fascism, it may cement into place a frightening police state. But that a revolt is coming is incontrovertible. The absurdity of the election proves it.
