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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Baltimore Becomes First Major U.S. City to Ban Water Privatization
The global movement to stop privatization deals and expand public ownership just scored a huge victory in Baltimore, as residents voted overwhelmingly to ban putting their water in private hands.
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Anti-Gerrymandering Ballot Measures Went Undefeated In 2018
As of a late vote count last week, Utah narrowly became the fourth state this fall – after Michigan, Utah and Missouri – to pass a ballot measure ending unfair gerrymandering.
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Paris French 'Gilets Jaunes' Protests Turn Violent on the Streets of Paris
Thousands of demonstrators from all over France – known now as the yellow jacket movement – massed on the Champs Elysees on Saturday to protest a recent fuel tax.
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On Strike! Amazon Workers Walk Out In Germany, Spain, Italy and The U.K.
Workers were seeking higher pay and safer, more humane working conditions in the continent-wide Black Friday action.
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Helping Women Kick Ass: An Interview with the “Meanest Woman Alive”
“Women need to understand that we have the superior emotional intelligence, and we can harness our unique feminine advantages to advance our careers,” says author Linda Smith.
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Lack of Media Attention To Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
According to the Urban Indian Health Institute, more than 500 indigenous women and girls have gone missing or have been murdered across 71 U.S. cities with almost no media coverage.
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Trump's EPA Consistently Benefits Corporate Profits Over Consumer Health
New EPA guidelines released earlier this year not only harm the planet but introduce many harmful substances into the environment.
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"Fire in Us Is Still Burning": Hong Kong Democracy Leaders Go on Trial Over the 2014 Occupy Protests
Three of Hong Kong’s most prominent pro-democracy activists and six others went on trial Monday for spearheading the tumultuous “Occupy Central” demonstrations in 2014.
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Brexit Chaos Means Likely No End To Britain's Punishing Austerity Cuts
The number of children living in poverty across the U.K. has surged by 100,000 over the past year – a perilous trend that is only likely to worsen with Brexit, despite the prime minister's promises.
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Extinction Rebellion: Thousands of Climate Protesters Block London Bridges, Dozens Arrested
"No damage that we incur can compare to the criminal inaction of the U.K. government in the face of climate breakdown."
