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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Oligarchy Online: Why We’re Fighting the Net Neutrality Battle, Again
It's possible that the half dozen current court cases challenging net neutrality represent the most important free speech battle of the century.
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Coal CEO Wants Texas Political Cowboy to Expand Probe of Climate Scientists
Robert Murray, the founder of Murray Energy, disputes government data on global warming, claims regulators are “not telling hardly any truth,” and blames "crony capitalists" for climate debate.
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Delusional and Dangerous: Retired Admiral and JSOC Commander Speaks Out
It’s important to contest William McRaven’s ahistorical analysis, which offers a deluded account of the past and prescribes a dangerous course for the future of U.S. foreign policy.
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Two Clintons. 41 years. $3 Billion.
A new investigation reveals how Bill and Hillary Clinton methodically cultivated donors over 40 years, amassing untold sums and creating a new financial blueprint for politicians in the post-Citizens United era.
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Why Paris Reveals the Horror – and the Hypocrisies – of Global Terrorism
If the objective is to oppose or prevent terrorism, the most logical strategy is not to dismantle civil liberties at home and send militaries and weapons abroad, but to stop participating in terrorism itself.
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The Digital Dog Ate Our Civil Liberties Homework: “It’s Just the Way It Is”
Of all the excuses ladled out for the Obama administration's shredding of the 4th Amendment while assaulting press freedom and prosecuting whistleblowers, none is more pernicious than the claim that technology is responsible.
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Paris Prospects: Texas Political Cowboy Leads Latest Anti-Science Attacks
Rep. Lamar Smith proclaims his anti-regulation creed with the power to block 21st century science at its source – by halting funding and the free exchange of ideas.
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The One Guy Who Can Fix Politics Is the One Guy Democrats Won't Let You Hear About
Lawrence Lessig is all about clean, fair, functioning government, so naturally he's viewed as public enemy number one by our dirty, rigged, dysfunctional politicians – and on Monday he dropped out of the presidential race.
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Blue Canary In the Coal Mine: Why Is Twitter Rolling Out New Censorship Tools?
To many, the Internet is seen as a largely unregulated open marketplace of ideas and speech, where absent any outright violations of law, violations of website terms of service (TOS), or statements made in a directly dangerous and threatening way, comm
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Arab Spring Revisited: What Did Tunisia's Nobel Prize Actually Reward?
By reassuring the political and economic elite, and backing the privatization process led by sponsors and donors, this month's Nobel Peace Prize could be considered "social peace at all costs."
