We have to be smart in how we fight against Trump and the Republican Party this time around. That means picking our battles wisely, and not taking bait that’s dangled in front of our faces.
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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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Rockefeller Family Charity To Withdraw All Investments In Fossil Fuel Companies
A fund of the multi-billion dollar Rockefeller family said it would divest from all fossil fuel holdings “as quickly as possible" – singling out ExxonMobil, the world’s largest oil company, which it called “morally reprehensible.”
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Bracing For A Brexit: Could Contradictory Positions On E.U. Spark A Progressive U.K. Movement?
With Eurosceptic Conservatives on one side of the debate and an international consortium of bankers led by Goldman Sachs on the other, where will the British people come down on the June 23 referendum to remain in, or leave, the E.U.
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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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The New Generation Gap
Three realities – social injustice on an unprecedented scale, massive inequities, and a loss of trust in elites – define our political moment, among young people more than anyone.
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Global Warming’s Terrifying New Chemistry
Our leaders thought fracking would save our climate. They were wrong. Very wrong.
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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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40 Millionaires Ask New York Governor to Raise Taxes On the 1%
“As New Yorkers who have contributed to and benefited from the economic vibrancy of our state, we have both the ability and the responsibility to pay our fair share,” the millionaires said in an open letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers.
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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.
