The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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The Man from Red Vienna, Part II
The great leftist thinker Karl Polanyi correctly observed that democracy cannot survive an excessively free market – and that containing the market is the task of politics. To ignore that truth, he understood, is to court fascism.
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The 1% Is Organized and Coming for Its Tax Cuts. Is the Resistance Ready?
New details emerge of Republicans' effort to ensure that their bid to rewrite the tax code doesn't suffer the same fate as healthcare.
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Kansas Republicans End the State’s Failed Tax Reform Experiment
Gov. Sam Brownback's drastic tax cuts enacted five years ago left the state in a fiscal mess, unable to balance its budget and properly fund its public schools – and the governor's Republican colleagues in government finally had enough.
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Populism of the 1%: Why The Same Billionaires are Behind Trump and Brexit
Those who have profited hand over fist from decades of neoliberalism are now the ones sponsoring the populist, anti-immigration and climate denial regimes on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Leaked Emails Reveal Close Ties Between Heritage Foundation and Lockheed Martin
Defense contractors have historically played an outsized role shaping the national security debate through think tank funding – as was the case in the large donations Lockheed Martin gave Heritage, which lobbied intensely for its F-22 fighter jets.
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What's Next For Hong Kong? End U.S. Ties and Build National Consensus
With the protests at a turning point, the next steps of Occupy Central and the Umbrella Revolution depend, in part, on how well – and how quickly – the democracy movement organizes.
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Exposing the Mont Pelerin Society: Koch-Powered Climate Denial At Its Best
An investigation reveals Charles Koch's long-standing affiliation with the Mont Pelerin Society, a global group of industrialists, academics and economists who seek to eliminate all government regulations while devouring the planet's resources.
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Global Power Project, Part 8: Banking on Influence with Wells Fargo
As the world's largest bank, Wells Fargo is able to commit countless crimes -- fraud, illegal foreclosures, money laundering, you name it -- and continues to get away with them by paying relatively small fines.
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Illinois Bill Seeks Financial Transaction Tax on $800 Trillion Derivatives Market
A Financial Transaction Tax would be easy to administer and difficult to evade. Why should the rest of us pay up to 10% on the necessities of life while risky derivative purchases aren't taxed at all?
