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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Thanks to Bernie, "Socialism" Is Most Looked-Up Word of 2015 on Merriam-Webster
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders sparked a 169% rise in look-ups, says the U.S. dictionary publisher, which “shows the term has moved beyond its cold war associations.”
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Positive Anxiety: The Takeaway from Paris
The climate summit – which got up off its knees, then to its feet and ended with hands raised and loud cheering – will go down in history as a turning point in the protracted, half-baked global efforts of the last two decades.
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A Holiday Note to Congress: Half of Your Country is In or Near Poverty
Congress should be filled with guilt — and shame — for failing to deal with the enormous wealth disparities that are turning our country into the equivalent of a 3rd-world nation.
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What The Paris Agreement Does, and Doesn’t Do
Some people are relaxing after organizing a really powerful redlines action. Some people are still trying to figure out what this climate agreement will really get us. Some people are gearing up to keep on fighting.
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Why Are Drug Monopolies Running Amok? Meet Deborah Feinstein
After going back and forth through the revolving door, Feinstein heads the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition, which has effectively abandoned all attempts to block Big Pharma mergers.
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Bodies On the Line: Blocking Trains To Halt Climate Change
I have spent a lot of time sitting in front of a computer trying to stop global warming – but after many years of seeing the climate crisis only worsen, it was time to sit in front of a train.
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Killing the Caterpillar: Competing Worldviews at the Chrysalis Stage of Humanity
Grounded in current climate science, The Collapse of Western Civilization, by authors Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, is written from a sci-fi vantage point of the 24th century.
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Can Catalonian Independence Provide An Escape Route from Capitalism?
The feminist and anti-capitalist stance of the Popular Unity Candidacy party, along with its core role in Catalonia's Parliament, make it arguably the most influential radical party in Europe.
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Purple Strategies: This Lobbying Team Works Both For the NRA and Against It
“You either want to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people or you want to put them in the hands of as many people as possible, whether they’re dangerous or not.”
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Radical Banking From Russia to Iceland to Ecuador
Global developments in finance and geopolitics are prompting a rethinking of the structure of banking and of the nature of money itself.
