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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Exposed: State Department Ignores Climate Facts of Keystone XL Pipeline
A new report shows the Keystone XL pipeline will contribute at least 181 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) each year, comparable to the tailpipe emissions from more than 37.7 million cars, or 51 coal-fired power plants.
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Naming and Shaming: Dan Loeb, Pension Fund Solicitor — and Betrayor
Dan Loeb, who speaks Thursday before the $3 trillion Council of Institutional Investors, is guilty of soliciting retirement money of public workers then turning right around and lobbying for those same workers to lose their benefits.
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Shell Oil's Plot to Silence Protests Against Arctic Drilling
The company's legal team is working overtime to keep the company’s Arctic work secret from advocacy groups like Greenpeace -- most recently, by appealing to California's Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to curb protester rights.
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Worker-Owned Cooperatives: Direct Democracy in Action
Worker-owned cooperatives have been building structures and strengthening their networks for decades. Now, with renewed demands for economic justice, they are springing to life coast to coast.
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The Truth About Extreme Global Inequality
The richest 300 people on earth have more wealth than the poorest 3 billion. We need to change the rules, and we need to do it quickly.
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Sweatshops on Wheels: This is What Privatizing Public Transit Looks Like
The deterioration of the nation’s public transportation, like its health care, education, social services, public utilities, bridges and roads, is part of the relentless seizing and harvesting of public resources and programs by corporations.
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Radicals and the 99%: Building the Core and the Mass Movement
If we are to effectively challenge the most powerful institutions in the world, we will need the active involvement of hundreds of thousands if not millions of people—folks who are willing to give something.
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How Student Debt Is Holding Back The Housing Market
College grads who want to buy a house of their own are being held back by their crushing debt loads.
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How Do You Run Goldman Sachs Out of Town?
Oakland's city council is trying.
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Revealed: How Walmart, Exxon and Coke Buy Latino Friends in Congress
Seven weeks into the 113th Congress, as lawmakers began work on immigration reform and a tax code overhaul, powerful corporate lobbyists in the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute scored premium access to politicians.
