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Student Debt Is Rising Worldwide, Straining Governments and the People They Serve
Higher education is contributing to unprecedented student loan debt challenges in both developed and developing countries, as college costs rapidly rise and student loan debts reach disquieting record levels for both graduates and governments.
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You Get What You Pay For: If Money Is Speech, Can Democracy Work?
Like many laws that bend public policy toward private advantage, campaign finance laws tilt the political playing field toward outcomes that are undemocratic – a self-reinforcing cycle of economic inequality begetting political inequality begetting economic inequality.
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Paris Exit Was "Victory Paid and Carried Out" by Republican Party for the Koch Brothers
The 22 Republican senators who sent a letter to President Donald Trump last week urging the United States' withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement received more than $10 million dollars in campaign funds from fossil fuel interests.
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Offering "Moral Model" for Nation, California's Medicare-for-All Plan Clears State Senate
A bill to create the first state-level single-payer health care system in the U.S. passed the California Senate on Thursday, generating applause as a major step forward in creating a necessary proving ground for a national ‘Medicare for All’ program.
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Trump’s Stupid and Reckless Climate Decision
After nearly 200 years of scientific inquiry and over 20 years of patient diplomacy that united every nation save Syria and Nicaragua, we had this afternoon’s big game-show Rose Garden reveal: Count us out.
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Donald Trump Confirms U.S. Will Quit Paris Climate Agreement
The world’s second largest greenhouse gas emitter will remove itself from the historic global treaty as Trump claims accord "will harm" American jobs.
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From Necessity Comes Hope: How Athenians Have Begun Solving Greece's Refugee Housing Crisis
Collectivist undertakings like the Elpída Home Project – which has welcomed in hundreds of refugees in Thessaloniki – repurposed an abandoned space by equipping the common areas with electricity, running water, plumbing and kitchens.
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Cut Corporate Taxes? This is How the Biggest Companies Cheated on Taxes in 2016
Corporations make billions from U.S. research and education, but then they turn around and cheat us on taxes. And Republicans think corporations should get a tax break.
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Speak No Evil: Many Americans Don’t Know It, but Their Employers Can Censor Their Political Speech
"Corporate censorship is much more common than most people recognize... [as] employers use their financial power to control employees' free speech and political behavior."
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The Life-or-Death Battle of Britain’s 2017 Election
The Conservative Party is tearing Britain apart – its imposition of Brexit and other English-centric policies for the richest have galvanized Scottish independence and Irish reunification as ever more attractive escape routes.
