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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Over 400 Arrested at U.S. Capitol Demanding Restoration of Democracy
The new coalition is calling on Congress to pass four bills that would limit the ability of billionaires to control American politics.
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Protests Are Erupting In the Capital to Get Money Out of Politics
A broad and powerful movement is seizing the nation’s capital. On Monday, hundreds of patriotic Americans participating in Democracy Spring got arrested as part of a week and a half of actions to save our democracy.
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"Leaked" Burr-Feinstein Encryption Bill Is a Threat to American Privacy
If the bill were to pass, it would outlaw secure communications that are heavily dependent on end-to-end encryption – making every service, person, human rights worker, protester, reporter and company easier to spy on.
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Goldman Sachs to Pay $5 Billion for Role in the 2008 Financial Crisis
Announced by the U.S. Justice Department, it's only the latest multibillion-dollar civil settlement reached with a major bank over the economic meltdown in which millions of Americans lost their homes to foreclosure.
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Victory In Landmark Climate Case As Oregon Judge Rules for Future Generations
In what Bill McKibben and Naomi Klein called the “most important lawsuit on the planet right now,” 21 plaintiffs under the age of 19 sued the federal government for violating their constitutional rights to life, liberty and property.
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Combat Climate Change? There’s an App for That
Now there’s an app for monitoring the carbon footprint of our food choices, and the Melbourne-based climate action group Less Meat Less Heat will have you craning your neck to see what’s on other people’s plates.
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How Wall Street Wounded Denver’s Public Schools
Let me tell you how a state awash in extra money is watching its largest school district die due to lack of funds.
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The Panama Papers: Leaktivism's Coming of Age
The theory that leaking information is an effective form of social protest is being put to the test like never before. It could give rise to capitalism’s greatest crisis yet.
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The Panama Papers Could Lead to Capitalism’s Great Crisis
Leak shows what much of the world's 99% believes – it’s just the tip of a much bigger iceberg.
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San Francisco Becomes First U.S. City to Mandate Fully Paid Parental Leave
Activists hope new law paves way for more progressive policies in the U.S. – the only developed country that doesn’t guarantee paid maternal or paternal leave.
