Over the next two years, Democrats have the unfettered ability to be an albatross around the neck of the GOP — and to make sure that what little they manage to get done due to their paper-thin majorities becomes the reason for their undoing.
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Trump’s Treasury Department Hands Banks a Windfall
The Treasury Department not only sided with banking lobbyists’ definition of “financial services,” but its new rule’s fine print echoed their interpretations of the 2017 federal tax law.
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Capitalism v. Freedom, Part II
Concentrated corporate power must be dismantled and democracy substituted for it – a global project that will take generations but is likely to develop momentum as society experiences ever-greater crises.
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Monsanto Has to Pay $289 Million in Damages in First Roundup Cancer Trial
Jurors awarded former school groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson $39 million for his losses and $250 million to punish the company after it failed to warn of Roundup’s risks.
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Capitalism vs. Freedom, Part I
The spectacle of millions adhering to such a breathtakingly stupid ideology as libertarianism would be comical if it weren’t so tragic.
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'Hell no': counterprotesters outnumber white supremacists at White House rally
A small group of white nationalists marched through downtown Washington on Sunday and were met at the rally site by thousands of counterdemonstrators denouncing racism and white supremacy.
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One Chart that Shows How Much Worse Income Inequality Is In America than Europe
The income share of the poorest half of Americans is declining while the richest have grabbed more. In Europe, it’s not happening.
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One year from Charlottesville: Hate is on the run – but still at the White House
White supremacist and nationalist groups had not gone away after the Civil Rights era, they just went underground – until their voice had been given the greatest megaphone of modern times.
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Baltimore to Become First Major American City to Ban Water Privatization
In a unanimous city council vote, a charter amendment makes both the city's water supply and sewer system “inalienable” and leaves them in local control.
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'Among the Biggest Grifters in American History': Wilbur Ross Accused of Stealing More Than $120 Million
"Many who worked directly with him claim that Ross wrongly siphoned or outright stole a few million here and a few million there, huge amounts for most but not necessarily for the commerce secretary."
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Rebel Cities 11: As Newham Transforms London, Democratic Socialists Awaken
In Newham, East London, Rokhsana Fiaz took power in May with a radical manifesto to alleviate the council's housing crisis and increase citizen participation. She is following through, and change is afoot.
