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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Royal Wedding Fever Masks Britain’s Escalating Homelessness Crisis
By hustling away homeless people to save Windsor from being seen in an unfavorable light, Britain lost control of its homelessness problem – and revealed a different facet of the country's modern, austerity-driven "brand."
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Supreme Court Rules Against Workers In Arbitration Case
On Monday, the highest court slowed recent momentum to give workers – including many in the tech sector – the right to a day in court.
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NFL Caves to Trump
The league will now fine teams if players kneel during the national anthem, providing Trump with a culture war victory.
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“We Are Going to Not Allow Kinder Morgan to Finish This Pipeline”
Not only is resistance to the pipeline growing from the local community, indigenous rights groups and U.S.-based environmental groups, but even the financial community thinks the economics and changing energy market is stacked against it.
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Landmark Lawsuit Claims Monsanto Hid Cancer Danger of Weedkiller for Decades
A California groundskeeper will make history by taking the company to trial on claims it suppressed harm of Roundup.
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U.S. Government Targets Journalists As Real Terrorist "Incel" Threat Grows
It was difficult to take this movement seriously until they, too, discovered that vans could be rented affordably and plowed into crowds of pedestrians. Like Isis, Incel is radicalizing disenchanted, lonely, frustrated young men.
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Yanis Varoufakis’s Vision For A More Democratic Europe
Varoufakis’s reform proposals, put forward via his new pan-European movement, DiEM25, are wide-ranging and admirable. He hopes to see something like a United States of Europe emerge out of the EU’s existing structure.
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Creating A Public Bank in New Jersey: Will the Inside-Outside Game Work?
A banker from the Belly of the Beast, Goldman Sachs, has emerged to fight New Jersey's entrenched financial interests and implement what, if it succeeds, will be one of the most progressive state agendas in the country.
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We Are Living Through A Golden Age of Protest
We are seeing a level of organizing with little precedent – but it’s time for stronger forms of demonstration, such as sit-ins and street blockades.
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What Progressives Can Learn From Stacey Abrams
A brighter political future depends upon turning out large numbers of voters of color.
