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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ALEC Considers Model State Bill Cracking Down on Pipeline Protesters
Dubbed the Critical Infrastructure Protection Act, the proposed law would criminalize people protesting U.S. oil and gas pipeline infrastructure, violating First Amendment protections.
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Tackling Climate Change Means Stopping India on Coal
Phasing out coal for renewables desperately needs to happen in India, which currently emits around 25 percent of China's carbon emissions – but whose economy is growing 7% annually and in a few decades will be the size of China's.
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Student Debt Slavery: Bankrolling Financiers on the Backs of the Young
Higher education has been financialized, transformed from a public service into a lucrative cash cow for private investors.
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Monsanto Giving Cash to Farmers Who Use Controversial Pesticide
Looks like Monsanto really wants farmers to use XtendiMax. The agribusiness giant is offering a cash incentive to farmers to apply a controversial pesticide linked to 3.1 million acres of crop damage in nearly two dozen heartland states.
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Brexit Rebellion Deepens After a Chaotic Year of Failed Negotiation
In an awkward and disconcerting backlash last month, the Democratic Unionist Party told Downing Street that any Brexit agreement that gave Northern Ireland a separate trade regime from the rest of Britain would endanger the U.K. government.
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Private Prison Investors Set for Giant Windfall from Trump Tax Bill
Prison firms that restructured as real estate investment trusts see a substantial tax cut – more good news for those who benefit from increased incarceration.
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2018 World Inequality Report Shows An Economic Ship Blown Way Off Course
Should the U.S. continue to institute tax policies like the new GOP plan, the gap between the rich and the poor will keep widening until it reaches a breaking point.
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More Protesters Killed In Iran as Rouhani's Plea Fails to Dampen Unrest
At least 12 people have died in clashes around the country and a police officer was reportedly shot dead in the city of Najafabad.
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Preparing for the Great Transformation
The crises we face have been building for decades. They are reaching a point of extremism that will create an even greater response by people. What that response is, where it goes and what it accomplishes are up to all of us to determine.
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EPA Allowing Widespread Use of Unapproved Pesticides
The EPA has granted 78 "emergency" exceptions over the past six years for a well-known, bee-killing pesticide called sulfoxaflor, allowing its use on more than 17.5 million acres of U.S. farmland.
