This last month has shown America that society will gladly tolerate vigilante violence, provided a vigilante chooses the right target.
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How Big Dairy Pushed Fattier Milks into U.S. Schools
The Trump administration has worked closely with the dairy lobby, allowing fattier, sweeter drinks’ reintroduction to American schools despite heavy opposition.
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How the "Bernie of Mexico" Won the Presidency
Andrés Manuel López Obrador gave the people something to vote for: expanding free college education, raising the minimum wage, fighting income inequality, and creating a massive infrastructure and jobs program.
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Act Out! [137] - 400+ Reasons to Eat the Rich & Why NAFTA Can’t Be Saved
This week on Act Out!, tempting though it may be to ignore all things real and political for the next few days, hiding behind cranberry sauce and turkey legs won't change the ever-widening and gaping abyss before us.
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Act Out! [132] - You Live in a Bubble, Censor Dissenters, Learned Patriarchy & No NAFTA 2
You may not realize that everything you see online is, in fact, filtered. This week on Act Out!, we dive into various kinds of online censorship that are shaping our ever-more-narrowed world view.
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Donald Trump Tries to Explain Economics to The Economist. Hilarity Ensues.
Trump says he invented the phrase "priming the pump."
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Europe and Canada Approve CETA Corporate Trade Deal Despite Heavy Opposition
One of the driving arguments for CETA is that it will enable European firms to be more "competitive" in the Canadian market – and if that sounds eerily familiar to the promises made about NAFTA in 1994, it's because it is.
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Elizabeth Warren’s Latest TPP Warning Backed by 200 Legal Scholars
Warren and hundreds of legal and economic scholars are warning that the pact's Investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) provisions overturn well-established legal systems and threaten the rule of law.
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TransCanada's $15 Billion Suit Against U.S. Is Corporate Nationhood At Its Worst
When the NAFTA nations meet Wednesday for the annual Three Amigos Summit in Ottawa, climate change and clean energy goals may be overshadowed by TransCanada's use of NAFTA to sue the U.S. government over the Keystone pipeline.
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Citizen Trump: How an American Caudillo Came to Dominate the 2016 Presidential Race
The religions and ethnicities may have changed, but the core nativism that the former Celebrity Apprentice host promotes is much the same: a full-throated call for a simpler, more ignorant time that only ever existed in the imagination.
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The Pipeline Strikes Back: The Audacity of TransCanada's $15 Billion Suit Against America
The Canadian oil giant is suing under the provisions of NAFTA because the U.S. rejected the Keystone pipeline – and demanding an amount that would cover annual community college tuition costs for nearly five million U.S. students.
