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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Will the Fossil Fuel Industry Finally Be Kicked Out of UN Climate Talks?
As the Bonn climate talks wrap up, a group of developing countries is seeking to remove big polluter lobbyists from UN climate change negotiations – but the proposal is being met with fierce opposition by the U.S., E.U. and other countries with oil interests.
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Protesters Take Net Neutrality Issue To FCC Chair's Home
Ajit Pai needs to be personally protested because he comes to the FCC with a personal agenda – he is behaving like he's still Verizon's lawyer, not someone required to serve the public interest.
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Trump's E.P.A. Greenlights a Nasty Chemical. A Month Later, It Poisons a Bunch of Farmworkers.
In March, the EPA abruptly changed its stance on the poisonous chemical chlorpyrifos, greenlighting it instead of banning it. Not surprising: the company that makes it has cultivated a cozy relationship with the Trump administration.
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American Fascism, in 1944 and Today
73 years ago, U.S. Vice President Henry A. Wallace described a breed of super-nationalist who pursues political power by deceiving Americans and playing to their fears, but is really interested only in protecting his own wealth and privilege.
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Black Lives Matter Groups Bailed Black Women Out of Jail for Mother's Day
The money bail system in this country punishes people for being poor.
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Feeling the "Pulse of Europe," Tens of Thousands are Protesting To Save the E.U.
"It's that dream of a United States of Europe. People don't seem to know how precious the E.U. is."
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Greenland Naked: Ripples Elsewhere from Earth’s Biggest Island
Greenland isn’t going to reverse what our carbon burning world has set in motion. Nor should it be blamed for the impact its nakedness will bring to the collective future.
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Trump Picks Al Capone of Vote Rigging To investigate Federal Voter Fraud
Kris Kobach was spooning down vanilla ice cream when I showed him the thick pages of evidence documenting his detailed plan to rig the presidential election of 2016.
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How to Reinvent the European Left
Europeans want to upend politics as usual and the far right is still rising. If the left doesn’t come up with an unusual politics of its own, it will be upended as well.
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Donald Trump Tries to Explain Economics to The Economist. Hilarity Ensues.
Trump says he invented the phrase "priming the pump."
