If Trump indeed tanks your 401(k) to make himself and his friends even richer, the opposition party should make that the centerpiece of their attack heading into next year’s election.
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Is Washington Feeling the Stirrings of A Mainstream Populist Movement?
Populism, by definition, doesn’t trickle down from the top but spreads as a bottom up movement that elevates its own leaders. And we’ve only begun, as Elizabeth Warren illustrates, to debate Wall Street, big banks and the casino economy.
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From France to Ethiopia, A Global Fight Grows Against Ivory and Illegal Poaching
“We must work and work and work towards ending the unnecessary killing of elephants for their tusks and ivory because it is destroying the natural wildlife and landscape that makes this part of the world so amazing and beautiful."
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Appalachia Needs Regeneration and New Energy Solutions, Not Christmas Nostalgia
A retired coal miner in eastern Kentucky recently sent me an early Christmas card warning. “Whatever you do,” he wrote, “I prefer dirty coal from Santa Claus instead of the annual drivel of ‘Christmas in Appalachia’ pity.”
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This Christmas, Demand for Food Stamps Soars as Cuts Sink In and Shelves Empty
More working Americans are lining up at emergency food banks and going hungry as cuts to programs take effect.
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Edward Snowden Declares "Mission Accomplished," Reflects on NSA Revelations
“I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself."
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Texans Fear For Health and Safety As Keystone XL Pipeline Nears On-Switch
The Keystone XL pipeline will carry oil from Canada to American refineries near the Gulf of Mexico. Those in favor of it say it will increase access to oil from Canada, the leading supplier of crude oil to the U.S. Andy Gallacher reports.
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Tax Inspector's New "Common Man" Party Rides to Victory in Indian Capital
The Common Man party, whose members include a rickshaw driver, a lawyer and a TV actor, stunned political analysts and established parties when it won 28 out of 70 seats in local assembly elections in Delhi this month.
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Talking Trash and Climate Crisis: A Conversation with Chicago's Garbage Guru
Elise Zelechowski, executive director of the ReBuilding Exchange, on the need to rethink the waste stream, the economic and environmental impacts of creative reuse, and how making trash visible is key to making it manageable.
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Polls Show Vast Majority of Americans Favor Raising Minimum Wage to $10
As the floor falls out from under American workers, big majorities of voters in both parties want the minimum wage raised, making this a core, mainstream issue looking ahead to the 2014 midterm elections.
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End the FED! (ATL)
On December 23 America’s private banking cartel known as the Federal Reserve turns 100 years old and We the People have a simple message: Reform or Retire.
