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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A New Right Rising: Can Spain Kill Franco's Ghost?
"I will fight for a Spanish Republic until my last day," said 79-year-old Antonio Cabañero, in a crowd outside the Catalan Parliament as protesters continued to call for the region's independence from Spain.
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Dozens of Public Lands Advocates Say Trump Administration 'Shut Them Out'
Groups comprised of ranchers, hunters and conservationists say Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has stonewalled them.
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Police Believe a Journalist Was Killed for Reporting On Fraud in the Heart of Europe
Ján Kuciak, a 27-year-old investigative reporter, and his partner, Marina Kusnirova, were found dead in their apartment Sunday in a village east of the capital of Bratislava, after Kuciak's writing exposed tax evasion among Slovak elites.
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236 Mayors Urge EPA Not to Repeal U.S. Clean Power Plan
The mayors, representing 51 million people across 47 states, told Scott Pruitt the Obama-era emissions rules are needed to protect their cities from climate change.
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Capitalism as Obstacle to Equality and Democracy: The U.S. Story
The conclusion we draw from the U.S. story is not that efforts to reverse deepening inequality are foredoomed to failure – it is that mere reforms such as tax law changes are inadequate to the task. To make reforms stick requires going further to basic system change.
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Hacktivists Are Helping Fight Terrorism. So Why Do So Many of Them Face Jailtime?
America's aggressive sentencing against computer crimes is unmatched by any nation, despite the U.S.'s long and storied history of celebrating peaceful civil disobedience.
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The Next Stage of Net Neutrality Conflict Begins
There are multiple fronts of struggle to make net neutrality a reality: Congress, the courts, states and communities.
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Conservatives Make Us Sick: How Relentless Tory Austerity is Wrecking U.K. Healthcare
Hospitals throughout Britain have been operating in chaos in recent weeks, driven by a surge in admissions forcing up to 12-hour delays for patients being treated in emergency wards. A decade of harsh Tory austerity policies are to blame.
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The Racist History of the 'Crisis Actor’ Attacks on Parkland School Shooting Survivors
61 years before teens in Parkland, Fla., survived a mass shooting only to be labeled “crisis actors,” nine African American teens who braved racist crowds to enroll in Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas were also accused of being impostors.
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Fears Grow As Rightwing Billionaires Battle to Erode U.S. Union Rights
Supreme court hears arguments Monday in a case that could strip unions of a major source of income – amid worries that the unions will lose.
