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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What Republicans and Billionaires Really Mean When They Talk About ‘Freedom’
If you ask the Koch brothers and their buddies—who slap those words "freedom" and "liberty" on pretty much everything they do—you’d get a definition that largely has to do with being “free” from taxation and regulation.
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Monsanto Has Been Ordered To Pay $80 Million After A Jury Found Its Weed Killer Caused A Man’s Cancer
The jury determined the popular weed killer was a "substantial factor" in the development of a California man's non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
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What Black Lives Matter Activists Can Teach Us About the Pitfalls and Potential of Digital Organizing
Interviews with 11 Black Lives Matter social media page administrators highlight the challenges of scaling grassroots activism through digital organizing.
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Can This Anti-Corruption Crusader Become Slovakia's First Female President?
"We stand at a crossroads between the loss and renewal of public trust," said Zuzana Caputova, whose bid this Saturday for the Slovak presidency is being closely watched across Europe.
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Fury As Bolsonaro Orders Brazil Army to Mark 55th Anniversary of Military Coup
Victims of Brazil’s dictatorship are outraged after far-right president Jair Bolsonaro ordered the country’s armed forces to commemorate the anniversary of a 1964 coup which unleashed 21 years of military rule.
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Amazon’s Underbelly 3.0: Lobbying and Bribing To Secure Market Dominance
The amount that Amazon has spent purchasing political influence has recently skyrocketed – quadrupling from the $3 million it spent on lobbying in 2013 to $14.4 million last year.
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What Democatic Socialism Is... And What It Is Not
There is no good reason for socialism to be a dirty word.
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Workers Strike Back: 2019 Sees The Return of Labor Activism
Today's explosion in worker actions reveals a broad opposition to neoliberalism that is more like a crowd-sourced and coordinated dance than a disciplined march. And it shows no signs of slowing down.
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Ocasio-Cortez: Maybe Wall Street Bankers 'Not the Best Authority' on Wellbeing of People and Planet
JP Morgan invested $195.66 billion in oil and gas companies between 2016 and 2018, making the Wall Street bank "the world's top funder of fossil fuels by a wide margin."
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Petro-State Norway Signals Oil Game Is Up
Europe's largest oil producer is effectively admitting the oil game is over and promises to divest from the industry – but it wants to play to the final whistle. Can it have it both ways?
