It is not hyperbole to say that the world’s richest man has now illegally seized control of America’s checkbook and the entire federal workforce.
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Millions Consumed Potentially Unsafe Water in the Past 10 Years
As many as 63 million people – nearly a fifth of the country – from rural California to the boroughs of New York City were exposed to potentially unsafe water in the last decade due to industrial dumping, farming pollution and pipe deterioration.
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What to Do When You See Science Denial at the Science Museum
I went to DC’s Smithsonian Museum of Natural History expecting to learn about the history of our planet. Instead, I stumbled upon a Koch-funded climate denial disaster.
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U.S. Government Demands Details On All Visitors to Anti-Trump Protest Site
Privacy advocates call warrant for IP addresses of 1.3 million people who visited inauguration protest website an unconstitutional "fishing expedition."
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Legal Hacking Tools Can Be Useful for Journalists, Too
Journalists could scope out targets, companies, and connections with other items of interest.
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Two Years Into Refugee Crisis, Europe Tries to Wipe Its Hands Clean
There is little mention of the ongoing unwillingness by France or Germany to make good on their commitment to accept the promised number of refugees, nor further debate on Hungary’s and Poland’s outright refusal to admit any refugees within their borders.
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Charlottesville Reveals an Emboldened Far Right That Can No Longer Be Ignored
The weekend’s violence proved that despite small numbers, a well-organized, militaristic far-right front is an unsettling specter in the era of Donald Trump.
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The Real Meaning of “On Many Sides”
In his speech on Charlottesville, Donald Trump told the nation exactly what he stands for – and just as importantly, his racist, anti-Semitic, Muslim-hating acolytes heard the words Trump didn’t say.
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Google's Casualties: Is There A Corporate-State Conspiracy To Censor Progressive Websites?
The upgrade to Google’s search algorithm has resulted in a steep reduction in traffic to various socialist, progressive and anti-war web sites like Democracy Now!, Common Dreams, Wikileaks, Truth-Out and The Intercept.
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Escaping Assad: A Syrian Kurd's Story
“The revolution began as a peaceful civilian movement for all Syrians, Kurds, Arabs, everyone," says Sami. "And I look at where we are now and it is so depressing. The revolution has been stolen.”
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Trump Administration on the Right to Vote: Use It or Lose It
The Justice Department backed Ohio’s effort to purge voters who sat out a few elections.
